Boii (Bohemia)

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The Boii (Latin: Boii, sing. Boius; Ancient Greek: Βοῖοι) were a Celtic people of the La Tène Iron Age, associated in most scholarship with Bohemia and Moravia in Central Europe. The Latin name of the region, Boiohaemum, recorded by Tacitus and surviving as the modern Bohemia, is generally read as 'the home of the Boii'. Whether a La Tène people called the Boii actually lived in Bohemia is disputed, and several scholars place the Boian homeland further southeast, toward south-western Slovakia. On the reading that locates them in Bohemia, the Boii shared in the Celtic settlement of Northern Italy around 400 BC, built a network of oppida in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and gave way to the Marcomanni under Maroboduus near the end of the 1st century BC, after which only the name Boiohaemum survived.

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