Bohemian Forest

American

noun

a wooded mountain range in central Europe, on the boundary between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak, Arber, 4,780 feet (1,455 meters).

Bohemian Forest British

noun

Czech name: Český Les. German name: Böhmerwald. a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)

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Overnight temperatures in the border area of the Bohemian forest had fallen to near freezing.

From BBC

He lived with his family in a remote town in what was then Czechoslovakia, nestled in the mountainous Bohemian Forest.

From Science Magazine

But state authorities, “worried about his influence and pastoral activity, forced him” in 1971 to leave Ceske Budejovice and sent him to isolated parishes in the mountains of the Bohemian forest, the Vatican said.

From Seattle Times

A small castle in the Bohemian forest?

From Washington Post

To christen the new space, Jacques decided to exhibit ceramics produced between 1893 and 1910 in the Bohemian Forest of what is now the Czech Republic.

From Architectural Digest

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