Editing Bohemia (section)

===Přemysl dynasty===
{{main|History of Bohemia in the High Middle Ages}}
[[File:Přemyslovci erb.svg|thumb|upright|The coat of arms of the [[Přemyslid dynasty]] (until 1253–1262)]]

Bohemia was made a part of the early Slavic state of [[Great Moravia]], under the rule of [[Svatopluk I]] (r. 870–894). After Svatopluk's death Great Moravia was weakened by years of internal conflict and constant warfare, ultimately collapsing and fragmenting because of continual incursions by invading nomadic [[Magyars]]. Bohemia's initial incorporation into the Moravian Empire resulted in the extensive [[Christianization of Bohemia|Christianization of the population]]. A native monarchy arose, and Bohemia came under the rule of the [[Přemyslid dynasty]], which ruled the Czech lands for several hundred years.

The Přemyslids secured their frontiers after the Moravian state's collapse by entering into a state of semivassalage to the [[List of Bohemian monarchs|Frankish rulers]]. The alliance was facilitated by Bohemia's conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. Continuing close relations were developed with the [[East Francia|East Frankish Kingdom]], which devolved from the [[Carolingian Empire]], into [[East Francia]], eventually becoming the [[Holy Roman Empire]].

After a decisive victory of the Holy Roman Empire and Bohemia over invading Magyars in the 955 [[Battle of Lechfeld]], [[Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia|Boleslaus I]] of Bohemia was granted [[Moravia]] by German emperor [[Otto the Great]]. Bohemia remained a largely autonomous state under the Holy Roman Empire for several decades. The jurisdiction of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] was definitively reasserted when [[Jaromir, Duke of Bohemia|Jaromír of Bohemia]] was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor [[Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor|King Henry II]] of the Holy Roman Empire, with the promise that he hold it as a vassal once he reoccupied Prague with a German army in 1004, ending the rule of [[Bolesław I of Poland]].

The first to use the title of "King of Bohemia" were the Přemyslid dukes [[Vratislav II of Bohemia|Vratislav II]] (1085) and [[Vladislaus II, Duke and King of Bohemia|Vladislaus II]] (1158), but their heirs returned to the title of [[duke]]. The title of king became hereditary under [[Ottokar I of Bohemia|Ottokar I]] (1198). His grandson [[Ottokar II of Bohemia|Ottokar II]] (king from 1253 to 1278) conquered a short-lived empire that contained modern [[Austria]] and [[Slovenia]]. Substantial German immigration began in the mid-13th century, as the court sought to replace losses from the brief [[Mongol invasion of Europe]] in 1241. Germans settled primarily along Bohemia's northern, western, and southern borders, although many lived in towns throughout the kingdom.
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