Editing Bohemia (section)

===Žitava===
[[Zittau]] ({{langx|cs|Žitava}}) and [[Ostritz]] ({{langx|cs|link=no|Ostřice}}) in modern south-eastern [[Saxony]] were initially a part of Bohemia in the [[Middle Ages]]<ref name=gmm>{{cite journal|last=Metzig|first=Gregor M.|year=2010|title=Sigismund I. und der Oberlausitzer Sechsstädtebund in den Hussitenkriegen (1419–1437)|journal=Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung|volume=59|issue=1|page=5|issn=0948-8294}}</ref> (and briefly [[Lower Silesia]] in 1319–1346).<ref name=hk>{{cite book|last=Knothe|first=Hermann|title=Geschichte des Oberlausitzer Adels und seiner Güter|year=1879|language=de|publisher=Breitkopf & Härtel|location=Leipzig|pages=546–547, 643}}</ref> Žitava was a Bohemian royal city, granted city rights by King [[Ottokar II of Bohemia]] in 1255.<ref name=hk/> In 1346, it co-formed the [[Lusatian League]] along with five most dominant [[Upper Lusatia]]n cities, which were also under Bohemian rule, and had closer economic interests with those cities since.<ref name=gmm/><ref name=hk/> Žitava was not formally annexed from Bohemia to Upper Lusatia, however, it shared the history of Upper Lusatia since,<ref name=hk/> and was annexed from the Kingdom of Bohemia by the [[Electorate of Saxony]] in 1635. The coat of arms of Zittau is a remnant of the city's ties to both Bohemia and Lower Silesia, as it contains the [[Bohemian lion]] and the Lower Silesian [[Piast Eagle]].

In 1945, some 4000 Czechs were registered in Zittau, and formed a Czech National Committee.<ref name=hra>{{cite web|url=https://www.hradek.eu/page4.aspx?zaz=533-374|title=20. století|website=Hrádek nad Nisou|access-date=5 November 2023|language=cs}}</ref> The Czechs made an attempt to reintegrate the city with Bohemia, and thus Czechoslovakia, but the efforts were decisively rejected in 1948.<ref name=hra/>
[[File:Zittau Panorama.jpg|thumb|upright=2.7|center|A panorama of [[Zittau]]]]