ABSTRACT
The name Bohemia was the Latin appellation for Czech territory from the 2nd to the 1st centuries BC. The Romans named the area after the Celtic tribes of
Boii, also called Bohemians, who had settled there. At the tum of the epoch, the Celts gave way to the Germanic tribes (Marcomans) coming in from the west. From the 6th century, Slavic tribes, coming from the northeast, began flowing into Bohemia. By the beginning of the 7th century, members of German tribes either left or merged with the Slavs, who became the sole inhabitants of the land. In their new home, a part of the Central European Slavs became dependent on the nomadic A vars; but in 623-624, the united Slavic tribes under the ruler Sarno succeeded in repulsing the A vars. For the next 35 years, the western Slavs formed an extensive realm. However, it crumbled after Sarno's death.
