forefather �ech - a mythical figure Slavic Bishop, who led his tribe in a new homeland between the rivers Ohri Vltavou. According to legend, then after the country was named Bohemia.

Legend has it that long �ech traveled with his tribe, seeking the promised land. He came up to Rip, climbed to the top, looked around and said, "That's it, the Promised Land, flowing with milk and honey." Wandering the weary ground is named after its gratitude vojvoda.

Forefather �ech was first mentioned in written in Latin Cosmas Chronicle, which was created in the first half of the twelfth century. Then he was called Boemus. �ech name appeared only in verse written in Czech Dalimil's chronicle of the year 1325 and is mentioned for the first time, the legendary ascent of the mountain Rip. The reason for this departure from the original homeland of the Slavs, who allegedly found somewhere on the Vistula River, was murder, which should commit now Bishop of Bohemia. In a later story processed chronicler V�clav H�jek already mention of violent crime is missing a legend is described barvit�ji much as many other details. H�jek even gave the exact year �echa arrival into the country, which should be the year 644. But historians have described it as pure fiction.
Legend of the arrival of the Czechs played literary writer Alois Jirasek in their old Czech legends.