GamerGate - A Man in Black vs. Daniel Vavra

"History doesn't fit my narrative so I'll just change it so it does." – No sane man ever

Yeah, I looked and I can't find much evidence of the Moors making their way into medieval Bohemia (which is in central Europe, in the modern Czech Republic). I mean, it's possible that they had an occasional presence there through trade, but it probably wasn't huge.

But in terms of "POC presence in medieval Bohemia," a much more interesting question is their relation to the Ottoman Empire.

See, Bohemia in this period was a part of the Holy Roman Empire, which was constantly at risk of being invaded by the Ottomans for centuries, to the point where someone being a "Turk" was treated as synonymous with them being a Muslim. (And from this point of view, it's very interesting that one of the first things that Othello does at the start of the Shakespeare play is help defend against a Turkish attack on Cyprus.) In any case, the most famous moment of the conflict was in 1529, when the Ottomans made it all the way to Vienna and laid siege to the city for about two and a half weeks. The siege failed, but it began a period of war between the two empires lasting roughly 150 years.

So yeah, central Europe absolutely had contact with non-white people in the middle ages (not to mention during the Renaissance, when the slave trade was gearing up). The problem is that it wasn't particularly nice contact.

I just thought this would be some interesting history to talk about.