The Czech Republic is divided into 14 regions (Higher Territorial Self-governing Units – Vyssi uzemne-spravni celky - VUSC in Czech), which came into effect on 1st January 2000.
The following eight of these regions constitute the territory of Bohemia, which represents a geographic region, but does not have any administrative status: Central Bohemia (capital: Prague), Hradec Kralove (Hradec Kralove), Karlovy Vary (Karlovy Vary), Liberec (Liberec), Pardubice (Pardubice), Plzen (Plzen), Praha (Prague), South Bohemia (Ceske Budejovice) and Usti (Ustí nad Labem).
NOTE: Old German names of Bohemian localities can be found here (if not given in the database):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Bezeichnungen_tschechischer_Orte
References:- Pošepný, F. (1894): Das Goldvorkommen Böhmens und der Nachbarländer. Freiberg in Sachsen, 454 pp. (in German)
- Hibsch, J. E. (1934): Minerale des Böhmischen Mittelgebirges. Verlag G. Fischer, Jena, xx pp. (in German)
- Hibsch, J. E. (1937): Minerale des Böhmischen Mittelgebirges. Ein Nachtrag. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, Mineralogie und Petrographie, issue 6 (in German).
- Haake et al. (1999): Geologie und Mineralfundstellen des Ceske Stredohori (Böhmisches Mittelgebirge). Mineralien-Welt 10 (5), 37-52.
- Žák, J., Holub, F.V., and Verner, K. (2005) Tectonic evolution of a continental magmatic arc from transpression in the upper crust to exhumation of mid-crustal orogenic root recorded by episodically emplaced plutons: the central Bohemian plutonic Complex (Bohemian Massif). Int. Journal Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundsch.): 94, 385-400.
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5204 entries listed. 882 valid minerals. 79 type localities (valid minerals). 1 type locality (other).
