Bohaddin, or BOHA-EDDYN, 1145-1235

Arabian scholar and statesman: author of Laws and Discipline of Sacred War and Life of Salad in. Bohemia. Country of central Europe, named from the Boii, who settled there in 2d century B.C., finally occupied by a Slavic race, the Czechs, ab. 570; christian i zed ab. 880 from Moravia; ruled till 1306 by dukes of Prague, with title of King, as a state of German Empire; then by the House of Luxemburg till 1437. THE HUSSITE WARS (q. v.) ended in making the monarchy elective. After the battle of Mohacz, 1526, B. was merged in Austria. Severe persecutions, chiefly 1616-37, suppre ed Protestant ism and nearly ruined the country. Area, 20,065 sq. m.; pop., 1890, 5,843,094, nearly two-thirds Czech.