(Čechy, Česká Republika)
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).
Refs.:
- Pošepný, F. (1894): Das Goldvorkommen Böhmens und der Nachbarländer. Freiberg in Sachsen, 454 pp.
- Series "Acta Musei Moraviae"
- http://www.czechinvest.org/web/pwci.nsf/pages/F7AFE07BD0EA59E3C1256EC3005F0559?OpenDocument.
- http://www.statoids.com
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
General Refs.:
- 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 Cmplex (Bohemian Massif). Int. Journal Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundsch.): 94: 385-400.
