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BOOTH BOMB BOOTHIA BOMBARD BOOTLE BOMBARDIER BOOTY BOMBARDMENT BOPP, FRANZ BOMBARDON BOPPARD BOMBAY CITY BORA BOMBAY FURNITURE BORACITE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY BORAGE BOMBAZINE BORAGINACEAE BOMBELLES, MARC MARIE BORAS BOMBERG, DANIEL BORAX BONA, JOHN BORDA, JEAN CHARLES BONA BORDAGE BONA DEA BORDEAUX BONA FIDE BORDEN, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM BONALD, LOUIS GABRIEL AMBROISE BORDEN, ROBERT LAIRD BONAPARTE BORDENTOWN BONAR, HORATIUS BORDERS, THE BONAVENTURA, SAINT BORDIGHERA BONCHAMPS, CHARLES ARTUS BORDONE, PARIS BOND, SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS BORE BOND BOREAS BONDAGER BOREL, PETRUS BONDE, GUSTAF BORELLI, GIOVANNI ALFONSO BONDED WAREHOUSE BORGA BONDU BORGHESE BONE, HENRY BORGHESI, BARTOLOMMEO BONE BORGIA, CESARE BONE BED BORGIA, FRANCIS BONE-LACE BOHEMIA[1] (Ger. _Bohmen_, Czech _Cechy_, Lat. _Bohemia_), a kingdom and crownland of Austria, bounded N.E. by Prussian Silesia, S.E. by Moravia and Lower Austria, S. by Upper Austria, S.W. by Bavaria and N.W. by Saxony. It has an area of 20,060 sq. m., or about two-thirds the size of Scotland, and forms the principal province of the Austrian empire. Situated in the geographical centre of the European continent, at about equal distance from all the European seas, enclosed by high mountains, and nevertheless easily accessible through Moravia from the Danubian plain and opened by the valley of the Elbe to the German plain, Bohemia was bound to play a leading part in the cultural development of Europe. It became early the scene of important historical events, the avenue and junction of the migration of peoples; and it forms the borderland between the German and Slavonic worlds. _Geography._--Bohemia has the form of an irregular rhomb, of which the northernmost place, Buchberg, just above Hainspach, is at the same time the farthest north in the whole Austro-Hungarian mona
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