- Bohemia by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... Boiohaemum, “land of the Boii”). (1) The original name of the territory on which the Czech state was formed.(2) From 1526 until 1918 the official name (German, Böhmen) of the Czech land (Cechy), which was then a part of the Hapsburg Empire.
- Fabricius by Cody Robbins
... (282 B.C.), defeated the Boii and the Etruscans. While negotiating with Pyrrhus for the ransom of prisoners captured at Heraclea (281) he rejected a bribe. When consul again (278), he negotiated terms of peace with Pyrrhus and subsequently defeated the Samnites, Lucani, and Bruttii.
- Celt by Mya Hansen
... Empire as Britons, Gauls, Boii, Galatians, and Celtiberians. Early archaeological evidence ( C. 700 BC) comes from the Hallstatt site in Austria. People of this Iron Age culture controlled trade routes along the Rhône, Seine, Rhine, and Danube rivers. As they moved west, Hallstatt warriors introduced the use of iron, which helped them dominate other Celtic ...
- Bologna by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... B.C. It was captured by the Boii tribe, from whom it derives its name. In 189 B.C. It became a Roman colony (Bononia). At the beginning of the 12th century Bologna acquired the status of a city commune. At the end of the 11th century the university was founded, which was renowned in the Middle Ages for its school of law. In the 13th century Bologna began to ...
- Germans by Dalton Henderson
... the country of the Celtic Boii and probably expanded into Bavaria, where they seem to be the Baiuoarii, or Boiarii, ancestors of the Bavarians.The Suebi, or Suevi, mentioned by Tacitus as a central German people, gave their name to Swabia. They probably included a number of smaller tribes, of whom the Alemanni and the Marcomanni were two. Others were the ...