Vancura
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Vančura is an old aristocratic family of Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

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Its famous members are
  • Vladislav Vančura
    Vladislav Vancura
    Vladislav Vančura was one of the most important Bohemian writers of the 20th century...

  • Jiři Mahen
    Jirí Mahen
    Jiří Mahen was a Czech novelist, playwright and essayist.- Life :He was born Antonín Vančura, in Čáslav, to an old noble family of the Moravian Brethren faith. In his grammar-school years he became an anarchist. He later studied linguistics of the Czech and German languages at Prague University...

     (pseudonyme of Antonín Vančura)
  • Arnošt Vančura (? - 1802) is Bohemian and Russian composer


It may also refer to:
  • The Vančura position in chess.
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