The present-day Czech Republic was settled 26,000 years ago. Lusitanian tribes settled it during the end of the second millennium BC. The Celts arrived in the 4th century BC, followed by the Boii tribe in the second and first centuries, who gave the region the name Bohemia. The Germanic people (the Marcomanni, or Quadi in modern Moravia) settled the region at the end of the first century BC. In the 5th and 6th century, the Avars arrived in Moravia, and the Slavs, mainly the Czech tribes, moved into Bohemia. From 623-659, the land belonged to the Slavic state of Samos, and from the second half of the 9th century until the beginning of the 10th century, it was a part of the Moravian Grand Duchy. During this period, feudal ties evolved, and Christianity expanded. The missionaries Cyril and Methodius came in Bohemia in 863, but Byzantine Christianity did not take root.
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