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This study emerged with the aim of confronting the picture of the Bohemians in the early medieval Czech sources before 1200 AD with the perceptions in documents which originated outwith the territories of Bohemia and Moravia. It is evident that the picture of the Bohemians in Imperial documents developed from that of the image of a tributary ethnic group, living beyond the boundaries of the Empire up to the concept of the Czech Prince as one of the Princes of the Holy Empire, who stood at the head of a specific ethnic group which is always placed alongside the „Teutones“, yet sometimes at the same level as the Bavarians and Saxons.