Egerland
The Egerland (Czech: Chebsko; German: Egerland; Egerland German dialect: Eghalånd) is a historical region in the far north west of Bohemia in the Czech Republic at the border with Germany. It is named after the German name Eger for the city of Cheb and the main river Ohře. Recently the northern parts around the town of Aš are also called Böhmisches Vogtland (Fojtsko) related to the adjacent German Vogtland region in Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria, today constituent parts of the Euroregion initiative.
The Egerland forms the northwestern edge of the Czech Republic. Originally, it was a small region of less than 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi) around the historic city of Cheb, roughly corresponding with the present-day Cheb District of the Karlovy Vary Region, originally with the exception of Aš, but including the headwaters of the Ohře river and the area of Marktredwitz in today's Upper Franconia.
In contrast, after the beginning of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, Cheb and the historic Egerland were incorporated as part of the "Sudetenland" into an extended area of 7,466 km2 (2,883 sq mi). Though the seat of the administration was established at Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) the entity was officially named Regierungsbezirk Eger in order to reduce territorial claims. It included large Bohemian territories up to the outskirts of Plzeň, comprising cities like Falknov (today Sokolov), Kraslice, Chodov, Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad) and Tachov, which never belonged to historical region.
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