Bohemian Premyslid Empire

''This page is about fictional nation of King Otakar XXI. of Bohemian Premyslid Empire  , you can see his youtube channel here. '

Bohemian Premyslid Empire (Czech: Česká Přemyslovská Říše), officialy named "Empire of United Slavic Lands of Central Europe" is a nation in Central Europe.

It is bordered by 4 countries: Aztec Empire from the west, Republic of Yugoslavia from the south, UPRUPR from the east and The United Scandinavia from the north.

Its population is almost 200 million people, yet, they are 5th in the world. Its government is Absolute Monarchy, ruled by King Emperor. Dynasty that ruled on the throne through absolute most of existence of this nation, was Premyslid. This dynasty started somewhere at the beginning of 8th century. They shortly gained hereditary right to the throne, and from small group of tribes risen a big kingdom.

National and most loved sport is ''swordplay. But not the one like we know today, swordplay with real, big swords ''and with real iron armor. Second most-loved sport is Ice hockey.

Flag
The flag of Bohemian Premyslid Empire is made of three parts:

Upper part:
White lion with two tails in the red field.

This symbolizes Czech people.

Lower part:
Red chalice in the black field.

This symbolizes blood of Slavic people (in our timeline, this symbolized Christian receiving from the chalice, but since BPE is not christian, I changed it). Its meaning is also: "All slavs stand united"

White triangle:
Black burning eagle in the white isosceles triangle

This symbolizes Premyslid Dynasty, the Burning Eagle was originally the symbol of Premyslid house, it later got on the flag and coat of arms.

Coat of Arms:
Background: In the background of the coat of arms is big medium blue symbol representing Slavic faith.

Foreground: In the middle is a shield. On the shield is a black burning eagle, which is coat of arms of Premyslid dynasty, this represents it.

On the top of the shield is a crown. This is crown of the 'King Emperor'. Head of House Premyslid and King of Bohemian Premyslid Empire.

The shield holds two white double-tailed lions with crowns on their head as symbol of Czech people.

Under the shield is a big red chalice. This was formerly flag of Hussites during hussite wars. (These wars actually existed in our timeline.) But here, it symbolized Czech blood and blood of Slavic people. It was actually saying: Alls slavs must stand together.

Under the chalice is a parchment with national words on it. The motto is writen by blood

Motto:
"Burn as one, Bite as one, Bleed as one"

These words are derived from the flag.

"Burn as one" reffers to the burning eagle of house Premyslid. It means that all members of House Premyslid are one blood and one family.

"Bite as one" reffers to the double-tailed lion. It means that all soldiers of the army and even common people resolved to fight for their nation are the best soldiers in europe, who stands together and never runs from a fight.

"Bleed as one" reffers to the chalice. It means that all slavs are brothers and they need to stand together, not against each other.

Anthem:
The anthem is called "Burn eagle burn"

The anthem has no words, it was composed sometime after forming Dutchy of Bohemia.Today it is played during inter-national sport events or, in war, before a battle, to scare of the enemy.

History
*You can watch full history of this country in my videos on my channel HERE 

(right now, only first part is finished, I will do more.)

7th Century
Only some papers survived three world wars about this early history of the kingdom. In these times, there were only small tribes across central Bohemia, which was not even a country. At the end of this century, new leader of those tribes was born.

8th Century
New leader, founder of House Přemyslid: Oráč has married to Princess Libuše, and together, they united most of bohemian tribes.

Some time after, they declared a conquest of Moravia. They have won and fully subjugated it, executing main leader: Mojmír I. of Moravia.

Later, they together attacked Silesian tribes. Quickly annexing them all.

Nezamysl, son of High Chief Oráč received annexed land of Silesia and his brother, Krestomysl, gained Moravia.

Brotherly war
After Oráč died sometime in 740, Nezamysl became new High Chief. Soon after it, his brother, Krestomysl, declared Independence war.

At the beginning, Krestomysl was winning, but Nezamysl married princess of Greater Poland, and she came help with her army.

Together, allies of Bohemia and Greater Poland defeated Krestomysl and Nezamysl gained Moravia.

He later transferred it to his son, Mnata, together with heir-to-the-"throne" title. (There was no throne, there were only tribes in bohemia during that time)

Dutchy of Bohemia
Some time after 755, High Chief Nezamysl decited to reform government from tribe federation to monarchy. It got name "Duchy of Bohemia"

Not long after, many tribal rebellions occured, but all of them were suppressed.

Personal union over Greater Poland
Son of Polish king dies in battle like his father, thus, Greater Poland has no heir, new heir to the throne becomes Mnata, son of Nezamysl and his wife, Polish princess Angelika Popielids.

Not long after, Nezamysl declared holy war on Bavaria, with objective to convert its religion to slavic.

Holy war is won only three years after it started.

Kingdom of Bohemia and Poland
After Nezamysl died, Mnata becomes new king of Bohemia, but, since he's already heir to Polish throne, he formes united Kingdom of Bohemia and Poland.

War for uniting Poland
5 years after creating new kingdom, war for uniting Poland was declared.

Forces of KoBaP quickly invaded most of northern lands of Lesser Poland, but southern armies were fighting heavily. Even with that, after conquering its capital and most of its land, Lesser Poland was forced to retreat, because common folk of Bohemia and Moravia attacked them. Most of Lesser Poland armies invading Moravia was killed by that, the rest ran back home, but there was captured by KoBaP armies.War of uniting Poland was successful and Poland was united under one nation and ruler.

Splitting of KoBaP
After death of King Mnata Premyslid of Kingdom of Bohemia and Poland, the kingdom splitted.

Kingdom of Bohemia was established.

Holy war on Avaria
Sometime in 820 King Vojen Premyslid declared a holy war on Avaria. It resulted in a victory, Avaria was forced to become Slavic religion and Kingdom of Bohemia gained two provincies as vassals; Sopron and Pressburg.

Subjugation of Sorbia
In 847 king Kresomysl II attacked and subjugated dutchy of Sorbia.

The first big reformation
After king Kresomysl II died, his son, Diepold changed kingdom's religion to christianity shortly after he became the king.

This resulted in a massive revolution, king Diepold was executed and kingdom's religion was changed back to Slavic.

Attack of East Francia
In 869, King Ludvik II of East Francia attacked the Kingdom. His forces were succesfully approaching through east bohemia. They were stopped at the river called Berounka. After two months of defending, East Francia forces had to retreat, Bohemian armies forced them to retreat to East Francia. After that, it was eazy to siege down most of East Francia's land. East Francia surrendered under the tearms of giving Bohemia war reparations and some castles and farms in their east provincies.

The great rebellion
In 888, almost the devil year, Duke Vladislav of Moravia rebelled against Borivoj, king of Bohemia and declared independence.

Year after, Duke Karel (Carl) of Sopron declared independence too.

Four years after, in 893, duke Ota of Silesia also declared independence. The kingdom splitted and became Dutchy of Bohemia, Dutchy of Silesia, Dutchy of Moravia and Dutchy of Sopron.

In 899, King Borivoj declared a unification war on all three dutchies.

Regions
There are 15 different regions in the country. Most of them are czech-speaking and most populated by Slavic religious people.

Holy slavic Realm
Almost independent nation, similar to Vatican, main centre of Slavic faith in europe, has its own church and "Son of Gods", aka Pope.

Primary language there is Czech and Polish, but you can also find people who speaks old slavic languages there.

It is the most Slavic religious region in the country. (98.6%People are Slavic-worshipping.)

Its capital is small town on the island Rógen (Originaly: Rügen, in german).

Western-Eastern Poland
Both of these regions are established because of their past in middle ages, they were connected to the empire permanently sometime in 11th century.

Primary language there is Polish, religion is Slavic. Capital city is Warsaw.

Silesia
Region which was part of the empire since the early years. Czech culture, Slavic religion and primary language is Czech and in some places Polish. Its capital is Vroclav. (Originaly Wroclaw located in Poland)

Moravia
Region of the empire considered as its main part. Loyal to the crown, mainly agricultural, Czech culture, slavic religion and again, primary language is Czech. Capital is Brno.

Husitov
This region is war machinery.

Created during Hussite Holy wars (which actually existed in our timeline, but here, they were a bit different, I will write about them in History part of this page, you can see for real Hussite wars here.) it was main region of Czech armies, it was land of forts and castles, where they could easely defeat attacking christian armies. After winning the wars, this region got a big amount of land from Austria.

This region has the biggest and most effective war machinery in the country. Its main purpose is to defend the nation from enemies. But, in the past (and rarely even today) it was used as a holy Inquisition, which had to imprison/kill anyone, who preached against Slavic faith.

It is second most Slavic religious region in the country, Its capital is fort Tábor and its primary language is Czech.

Slovenia
Practically almost the same as Slovenia in our timeline, it was given to BPE after third world war by Yugoslavia. Purely because of its mainly Czech citizens.

Mainly agricultural, primary language is Czech and Slovene, capital is Ljubljana, religion is Slavic.

Czech Italy
Italy was annexed by BPE and Yugoslavia after WW3, sixty years after that, the religion of this region was almost converted to Slavic and many slavs moved there after war.

Its capital is Venice, main language is Czech, but there is still a lot of people speaking Italian, however, it is not an official language of the region.

Czech Switzerland
Despite the name, this region is now purely Czech, with Slavic religion and mix of Czech/Swiss culture. Despite the bad relations with Germany, Czechs always had good relations with Switzerland. In middle of 15th century, Swiss part of United German Nation was transferred to Bohemia because of revolts. German nation later tried to take it back, but Swiss and Czech People forced them to retreat.

The main language is Czech, but somewhere, you still can find people speaking german, in this region, it is completely legal. Capital city is Bern.

Southern Slavic Germany
Formerly part of United German Nation, this land was annexed by BPE in WW3. After the war many Czech and generaly slavic people moved in here, mainly because it was a big land where they could live, instead of squeezing in overpopulated Bohemia.

Thus, the region changed from german to slavic quite quickly, in sixty years, most of its religion changed to Slavic. Spreading of christianity is forbidden there, as well as speaking german. (I have no offense against Christians or Germans in general, this is purely fictional!) You can actually be imprisoned for one month for speaking german publicly. For spreading christianity, you can be either: Imprisoned for a year, Imprisoned until the end of your life, or, if you're spreading Christianity publicly in a big city, you can be even publicly executed, or rather: Sacrifised to the Slavic gods. (This was retaken from Aztecs, which are main allies of BPE) '''[Again, I have no offense against Christians or Christians generally. Same with Germans, do not hate me for that, please.]'''

Main language of the region is Czech. However, many people speak German, but not publicly. The capital of the region is München.

Northern Slavic Germany
Almost same as its southern brother, but more populated by slavs.

Capital is Berlin, official language is Czech, but many people speak German, religion is mainly Slavic, second is Atheism, third is Christianity.

Czech Benelux
Area populated by Dutch and Belgians, it is an economic powerhouse of the coutry, similar to our timeline.

Despite bad relations with germany, United Republic of Benelux was kind of "ok" with its annexation by BPE after world war 3. The workers there are loyal to the Empire, main religion is Atheism, second is Slavic and third is Christianity.

Main language is Dutch, but many people speak Czech and German. Its capital is Amsterdam.

Czech Denmark
Split into two parts, south is purely German and north is Danish. South is relatively poor, mainly German-speaking and Slavic-religious, because of close borders with Holy Slavic Realm.

North is ritcher, mainly industrial. Its "South-Swedish" part was transferred to BPE after annexing one of smaller states of enemy Scandinavian Federation in WW3.

Main language in this region is Danish, second most used is German, next Czech and rarely Swedish. Capital is Copenhagen.

If you're curious:
Ole Kirk Christiansen actually lived there and he founded his Lego company. Today, BPE is world's biggest exporter of Lego bricks in the world, however, it is not as popular as in our timeline.

Protectorate of Exiled Germans
This is one of sadder parts of the nation.

This is a protectorate or rather big prison colony created for German enemies and leaders who fought in WW3 against the empire.

After the war, this big prison was established and soon after the war, it already had almost 45 million inhabitants.

However, the children of those people were not in this prison until end of their lives, they were set free and added to foster families across the empire. Now, this part has only about 500,000 inhabitants, because the rest of them already died, some because of poor living conditions, most of them because of old age. (It's already 60 years since the WW3 ended.)