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    The Chronica Boemorum (Chronicle of the Czechs, or Bohemians) is the first Latin chronicle in which the history of the Czech lands has been consistently...
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    sometime in the 8th century. It first appeared in the twelfth-century Chronica Boemorum of Cosmas of Prague, and later in the fourteenth-century Dalimil's...
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    Seville's encyclopedia Etymologiae, the chronicle of Cosmas of Prague (Chronica Boemorum), and medical works: an early version of the Ars medicinae compilation...
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    but also omitting parts of Chronica Boemorum. This is evident already in the beginning, replacing the Chronica Boemorum description of the desolated...
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    Esztergom, Hungary. His magnum opus, written in Latin, is called Chronica Boemorum. The Chronica is divided into three books: The first book, completed in 1119...
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    1120–1177), in his Chronica Slavorum, alluded to the widespread worship of penates among the Elbe Slavs. In the Chronica Boemorum of Cosmas of Prague...
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    ran him through with a lance. According to Cosmas of Prague, in his Chronica Boëmorum of the early 12th century, one of Boleslav's sons was born on the...
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  • historical prince Bořivoj. The names of the princes were first recorded in Chronica Boemorum and then transmitted into historical books of the 19th century including...
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    is called Fuldaha; from 1113 AD it is attested as Wultha. In the Chronica Boemorum (1125 AD) it is attested for the first time in its Bohemian form,...
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    (writing in the early twelfth century), included a letter in his Chronica Boemorum and claimed that Matilda had sent it to her future husband, but now...
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    mountains. Still another is in 1125, where the Kosmas chronicles (Chronica Boemorum) mention the name Tatri. Machek in 1931 favored the theory of the...
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    Opava (c. 1250), later versions of the Mirabilia Urbis Romae, and the Chronica Boemorum of Giovanni de' Marignolli (1355) make Janus (the Roman deity) the...
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    fishponds. The first written mention of a castle named Hradec is in Chronica Boemorum written in 1119–1125, when the record of the castle is associated...
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  • various Bohemian authors who wrote continuations in Latin of the Chronica Boemorum of Cosmas of Prague, which ends with Cosmas's death in 1125. They...
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  • was involved here. Cosmas of Prague describes Czech paganism in his Chronica Boemorum through the Interpretatio Romana: "Therefore, sacrifice to your gods...
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    the Polish nation. Zdeněk Nejedlý argued that Cosmas of Prague's Chronica Boemorum (12th century) described Čech's arrival from Northeastern Bohemia...
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    Emperor in Rome. The name of the dynasty, according to Cosmas in his Chronica Boemorum (1119), comes from its legendary founder, Přemysl, husband of duchess...
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    recounted in detail in the 12th century by Cosmas of Prague in his Chronica Boëmorum. Another early account was included in Jan Dubravius' 1552 chronicle...
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    legend is further described in the Cosmas Chronicle (Latin title: Chronica Boemorum) written between 1119 and 1125, Short writing about Cyril and Methodius...
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    Gaudentius by another woman (probably a concubine). According to Chronica Boemorum, Slavník was a happy man all his lifetime. Charvát, Petr (2010). The...
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    may be identical with Bořivoj. According to the early 12th-century Chronica Boëmorum, Bořivoj was a son of the legendary Bohemian prince Hostivít, thus...
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    settlements were discovered. The first written mention of Rokycany is in Chronica Boemorum from 1110. At that time, the village was owned by the Bishop of Prague...
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    He was assassinated by one of the Vršovci clan. According to the Chronica Boemorum, "Kochan sent his executioner, and when the blind man was sitting...
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    SetOut. p.139 Daughter Maria of Uroš I of Rascia Cosmae Pragensis Chronica Boemorum III.15, p. 176-177 The Cronicle of the Czech (English by Wolverton)...
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    along with Olomouc and Znojmo. Brno was first mentioned in Cosmas' Chronica Boemorum dated to the year 1091, when Bohemian king Vratislaus II besieged...
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    the year in his chronicle. Cosmas of Prague wrote in Latin in his Chronica Boëmorum ("Chronicle of Bohemians") that Bolesław was born three days before...
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    Perhaps the earliest mention of the Duke (as "Crocco") is in the Chronica Boëmorum, which was originally written in Latin. Cosmas describes the manner...
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    "[be] clear" in Old Czech. The river is first documented in 1125 in Chronica Boemorum. The Svitava originates in the territory of Svitavy in the Svitavy...
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    from Chronica Boemorum (12 century), two sons and daughter (Krakus II, Lech II, and Princess Wanda) of Krakus legendary founder of Kraków from Chronica seu...
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    youngest daughter of the Bohemian prince Boleslav I. The 12th-century Chronica Boemorum by Cosmas of Prague describes her as an educated woman; she studied...
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