The story goes that Lech encountered a white eagle, and followed it all the way to its nest where it sat down on sunset. It sitting in the nest against the red sky is what is supposed to be the inspiration behind the Polish coat of arms, and our first capital city, Gniezno, is called after the word “gniazdo”, meaning nest.
Czechs have their own version of the story which is a little different and doesn’t feature Rus (who founded Ruś/Ruthenia, which became Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine), while, as far as I know, there’s no equivalent to this in the eastern Slavic countries.
Lechia -> Legia
jakim cudem mi sie to skojarzyło?
nie wiem
Wdym allegedly. That’s literally how it was smh. Get out of here with your “Uhhh slavs came from steppes and ackschually there were many clans of warriors fighting with eachother on the lands of modern Poland”. That’s some nerd bs. All the real ones know Poland (descendant of Great Lechia) started with Lech smh. Literally why we were called “Lechici” by other countries.
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source: Knowledge Raiders [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo-jOVO2T8E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo-jOVO2T8E)
*Rus* is for “Rusini” – Ruthenians, not Russians
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The story goes that Lech encountered a white eagle, and followed it all the way to its nest where it sat down on sunset. It sitting in the nest against the red sky is what is supposed to be the inspiration behind the Polish coat of arms, and our first capital city, Gniezno, is called after the word “gniazdo”, meaning nest.
Czechs have their own version of the story which is a little different and doesn’t feature Rus (who founded Ruś/Ruthenia, which became Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine), while, as far as I know, there’s no equivalent to this in the eastern Slavic countries.
Lechia -> Legia
jakim cudem mi sie to skojarzyło?
nie wiem
Wdym allegedly. That’s literally how it was smh. Get out of here with your “Uhhh slavs came from steppes and ackschually there were many clans of warriors fighting with eachother on the lands of modern Poland”. That’s some nerd bs. All the real ones know Poland (descendant of Great Lechia) started with Lech smh. Literally why we were called “Lechici” by other countries.
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