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  2. Lech, Czech, and Rus - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Lechites - Wikipedia

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    The legend describes three brothers, Lech, Čech, and Rus – who founded three Slavic nations: Poland (also known as Lechia), Bohemia (Čechy, now known as the Czech Republic), and Rus . In this legend Lech was the founder of Gniezno. Three brothers Lech, Czech and Rus were exploring the wilderness to find a place to settle.

  4. Ancient Bohemian Legends - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Bohemian legends (Czech: Staré pověsti české) is a book by Alois Jirásek written in 1894. It describes events from Czech history based on folk literature and some historical facts. The model was based on Chronicle of Hájek , Cosmas Chronicle of Bohemia and Chronicle of Dalimil , other old Czech chronicles and many other sources ...

  5. Gniezno - Wikipedia

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    According to the Polish version of a legend, three brothers went hunting together but each of them followed a different prey and eventually they all traveled in different directions. Rus went to the east, Čech headed to the west to settle on the Říp Mountain rising up from the Bohemian hilly countryside, while Lech traveled north. There ...

  6. Category:Czech legends - Wikipedia

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    Category: Czech legends. ... Lech, Czech, and Rus This page was last edited on 16 April 2023, at 13:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  7. ‘Medieval’ Review: A Czech Folk Legend Turns Action Hero

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    Czech folk hero Jan Zizka’s story has been dramatized — and mythologized — in various forms many times, including a mid-1950s celluloid trilogy by Otakar Vavra that was arguably the local ...

  8. Category:Polish legends - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Polish legends" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Lech, Czech, and Rus; M. Mermaid of Warsaw; N. Nazi gold train; P.

  9. Lech (Bohemian prince) - Wikipedia

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    Lech ([lex]; died 805) was a Bohemian tribal ruler, one of the earliest named rulers in early Slavic Bohemia.The first reference to him is in the 805 entry of Annales Regni Francorum when Charles, son of Charlemagne, was sent to Bohemia to pacify the Slavs and according to the chronicle "laid waste to the country and killed their leader named Lecho". [1]