Prague(praha)
Permanent communities were established around 4000 BC in the northwestern parts of
Prague, and the area was inhabited continuously by various Germanic and Celtic tribes before
the arrival of the Slavs. The name Bohemia came from a Celtic tribe called Boii, and is still
used today for the western part of the Czech Republic.
Foundation of Prague
In the 6th century, two Slav tribes settled on opposite sides of a particularly appealing stretch
of the Vltava River. The Czechs built a wooden fortress where the residential area Hradcany
stands today, and the Zlícani built theirs upstream at what is now Vysehrad. They had barely
dug in when nomadic Avars thundered in, to rule until the Frankish trader Samo united the
Slav tribes and drove the Avars out. Samo held on for 35 years before the Slavs reverted to
squabbling.
In the 9th century Prague was part of the short-lived Great Moravian Empire. Under its
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