From the seventeenth century until the early twentieth century, Bohemia, which was populated mostly by ethnic Czechs, was part of the Habsburg Austrian Empire. Following the Revolutions of 1848, Bohemians began to leave the Austrian Empire in large numbers, many coming to the United States. The first significant numbers of these Bohemian immigrants came to Cleveland in 1852. On the map above, Bohemia is the light-blue colored territory.Download Original File
