>>> <[email protected]> 04/14/06 10:22 AM >>> wrote: > In previous generations, in Texas, to call a Moravian a Bohemian could easily >provoke a fight (although not all Moravians had this objection). >. . . > I am wondering to what extent Moravians in Moravia objected to being >called Bohemians. Moravia, while it became part of the Czech crownlands in the middle ages, was never part of Bohemia and had a separate administration. The german name for it was "Maehren." It was technically ruled by the King of Bohemia in his capacity of Duke of Moravia. Later ruled by the Austrian Habsburgs in the same capacity. Moravians were referred to as "maehrisch" on official Austrian documents. The term Bohemian or "boehmisch" was not used for them. So I don't think the issue would have come up, except perhaps in the border areas, as there were some border adjustments here and there when administrative boundaries were redrawn at various times. This is one place where Bohemian and Czech are not overlapping terms, Czech being broader and including the Moravians.