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The Czech Wikipedia is the Czech language edition of Wikipedia. This Wikipedia contains 401,231 articles, 2,205 active users, and 30 administrators. It was created on May 3, 2002 on a request of a Czech editor of the Esperanto Wikipedia.
The traditional English name "Bohemia" derives from Latin "Boiohaemum", which means "home of the Boii". The current English ethnonym Czech comes from the old Czech ethnonym associated with the area, which was used in English by Peter Heylyn in the form Czechian in 1621.[23] The name comes from the Slavic tribe (Czechs, Czech: Češi, Čechové) and, according to legend, their leader Čech, who brought them to Bohemia, to settle on Říp Mountain. The etymology of the word Čech can be traced back to the Proto-Slavic root *čel-, meaning "member of the people; kinsman", thus making it cognate to the Czech word člověk (a person).

The country has been traditionally divided into three lands, namely Bohemia (Čechy) in the west, Moravia (Morava) in the east, and Czech Silesia (Slezsko; the smaller, south-eastern part of historical Silesia, most of which is located within modern Poland) in the northeast. Known as the lands of the Bohemian Crown since the 14th century, a number of other names for the country have been used, including Czech/Bohemian lands, Bohemian Crown, Czechia [25] and the lands of the Crown of Saint Wenceslas. When the country regained its independence after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918, the new name of Czechoslovakia was coined to reflect the union of the Czech and Slovak nations within the one country.
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