Lech, Czech, and Rus
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Lech, Czech and Rus refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who founded three Slavic peoples: the Poles, the Czechs, and the Rus'. The three legendary brothers appear together in the Wiel
The brothers Lech and Czech, founders of West Slavic lands of Lechia (Poland) and Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) in "Chronica Polonorum" (1506)
Lech, Czech, Rus and the White Eagle, as painted by Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski (1841–1905)
Čech on Říp Mountain
Lech, Czech, and Rus oaks in Rogalin, Poland
Names of Poland
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The ethnonyms for the Poles and Poland include endonyms and exonyms. Endonyms and most exonyms for Poles and Poland derive from the name of the West Slavic tribe of Polans, while in some languages the
Lech, Czech, and Rus
…this particular version does not address the origin of the South Slavic peoples. The legend also attempts to explain the etymology of the ethnonyms: Lechia (another name for Poland including Silesia), the Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia, and also Silesia), and Rus. Jan Kochanowski, a prominent…
Poland of 11th century under Bolesław I the Brave
Name "Polonia" in the entry for 1002 in the 11th-century Annals of Quedlinburg, Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Q.113, fol 29v
11th century „Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Adam of Bremen note Polans "trans Oddaram sunt Polanos"
Depiction of the legendary ruler Lech, with the description: "Lech the first prince of Poland"