[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Lessismore]

Bohemian Celts? Frequented coffee houses, drinking expresso, listening to poetry readings, discussing socialist politics and practicing free love?

[muawiyah]

The folks presently inhabiting Czech Republic's "Bohemia" are not, of course, descendants of the Boii tribe. Those fellows moved out of Bohemia in Julius' Caesar's time. In fact, Caesar fought a war against them, and won, and also against another Celtic tribe, the Hal, and won. He relocated many of them to the Northern part of Gaul on the Alle River. I believe this is in what is now called Wallonia. Others among the Hal were also resettled in what is now called Switzerland, also known as Helvetia, after the Hal.

Since Caesar didn't see fit to drive the Slavic invaders back out of Bohemia, the invaders moved in and after several centuries the area became known as the Czech Kingdom.

Kind of hard to believe the folks in Wallonia used to conduct raiding parties against Greeks in Bulgaria, but there you have it!

[Albion Wilde]

Archaeology bump!

[Mike Darancette]

You Rang? - Maynard was a Bohemian but I don't know about being a Celt.

[PAR35]

Bohemian Celts

Sounds like a good name for a band.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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