Bohemia

[Oralee]

1. A community of persons with artistic or literary tastes who adopt manners and mores conspicuously different from those expected or approved of by the majority of society.

2. The district in which bohemians live

A historical region and former kingdom of present-day western Czech Republic. The Czechs, a Slavic people, settled in the area between the 1st and 5th centuries A.D. A later [principality] was independent until the 15th century, when it passed to Hungary and then to the Hapsburg dynasty of Austria. [Bohemia] became the core of the newly formed state of [Czechoslovakia] in 1918.