Editing Gniezno (section)

===Legend of Lech, Czech and Rus===
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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, while hunting, he followed his arrow and suddenly found himself face-to-face with a fierce, white eagle guarding its nest from intruders. Seeing the eagle against the red of the setting sun, Lech took this as a good omen and decided to settle there. He named his [[Gord (Slavic settlement)|settlement]] Gniezno (from [[Polish language|Polish]] ''gniazdo'' – 'nest') in commemoration and adopted the [[Coat of Arms of Poland|White Eagle]] as his [[coat-of-arms]]. The white eagle remains a symbol of Poland to this day, and the colors of the eagle and the setting sun are depicted in Poland's coat of arms, as well as its flag, with a white stripe on top for the eagle, and a red stripe on the bottom for the sunset. According to ''[[Wielkopolska Chronicle]]'' (13th century), Slavs are descendants of [[Pan (prince)|Pan]], a [[Pannonia]]n prince. He had three sons – Lech (the youngest), Rus, and Čech (the oldest), who decided to settle west, north, and east.<ref>[[Czesław Łuczak]], Kazimierz Tymieniecki, ''Europa, Słowiańszczyzna, Polska.'' 1970. p. 296.</ref><ref>Brygida Kurbisówna, ''Studia nad Kroniką wielkopolską'', Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań 1952.</ref><ref>Adam Fałowski, Bogdan Sendero, ''Biesiada słowiańska'', Universitas, Kraków 1992, p. 40.</ref><ref>''Kultura polski średniowiecznej XIV-XV w.'' pod red. B. Geremka, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, Warszawa 1997, p. 651.</ref><ref>''Kronika wielkopolska'', wstęp i tłum. K. Abgarowicz, Warszawa 1965; UNIVERSITAS, Poznań 2010, {{ISBN|978-83-242-1275-0}}.</ref><ref>[http://www.litdok.de/cgi-bin/litdok?lang=pl&t_multi=x&v_0=PER&q_0=dalimil Kronika Dalimila] [in:] LitDok ''Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia'', Herder-Institut, Marburg.</ref>