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The Vítkovci ( la, Witikonides) were a Czech noble clan from southern
Bohemia Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...
descended from Witiko of Prčice. The clan includes the
House of Rosenberg The House of Rosenberg ( cs, Rožmberkové, sg. ''z Rožmberka'') was a prominent Bohemian nobility, Bohemian noble family that played an important role in Czech medieval history from the 13th century until 1611. Members of this family held ...
.''The Czech Reader: History, Culture, Politics''. Jan Bažant, Nina Bažantová, Frances Starn - 2010 p 151 "His last great novel, Witiko (1865–67), is set in the twelfth century in the south Bohemian domain of the Vítkovci and Rožmberks. The main hero, the German Witiko (in Czech, Vítek), entered the service of the Přemyslid king Vladislav II ..."


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