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The brothers Lech and Czech, founders of West Slavic lands of Lechia and Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) in "Chronica Polonorum" (1506). Lech, Czech and Rus (Czech pronunciation: [lɛx tʃɛx rus], Polish pronunciation: [lɛx t͡ʂɛx rus]) refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who founded three Slavic peoples: the Poles, the Czechs, and the Ruthenians [1] (Belarusians ...
Bohemian-Saxon War Duchy of Bohemia: Holy Roman Empire: Defeat 975-978 War against Otto II. Duchy of Bohemia: Holy Roman Empire: Victory 988-990 Polish-Czech War: Duchy of Bohemia: Duchy of Poland Holy Roman Empire: Defeat 995 War against Slavník dynasty: Duchy of Bohemia: Zlicans: Victory 1002-1005 Polish-German War Duchy of Bohemia Holy ...
The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (Russian: Полное собрание русских летописей, romanized: Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei [1] [2], abbr. PSRL [1] [2]) is a series of published volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federation.
A new stage in the study of Russian chronicles was begun by Alexey Shakhmatov (1864-1920). His comparative textual method compared lists and analyzed text. Shakhmatov sought to learn about the circumstances of the creation of each chronicle through chronology, printing and language errors, and dialectic.
Initially, a force of four companies was raised. Russian victories over Austria-Hungary, particularly early in the war, soon yielded a pool of prisoners of war , and in 1916, Russian authorities began to recruit from Austro-Hungarian POW to grow the Czechoslovak Legion, adding two regiments. [6]
It is the second book in the Winternight trilogy, which is inspired by various Russian folktales. In Alix E. Harrow‘s novel, The Once and Future Witches, Koschei the Deathless appears as a wicked witch in an old Russian witch tale. "Koschei" appears as the real name of the Master in the Doctor Who spin-off novels, Divided Loyalties and The ...
The creation of the document, officially the Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation by its Provisional Government (Czech: Prohlášení nezávislosti československého národa zatímní vládou československou), was prompted by the imminent collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, of which the Czech and Slovak lands had been ...
The remaining rump state of Ichkeria (Chechnya) declared full independence in 1993. That same year the Russian language stopped being taught in Chechen schools and it was also announced that the Chechen language would start to be written using the Latin alphabet (with some additional special Chechen characters) rather than Cyrillic in use since ...