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Jan Jelínek (legionnaire)
Jan Jelínek (8 April 1893 – 5 July 1974) was a Czechs, Czech legionnaire and writer. He is author of a book about legionnaires from the Boskovice region. He wrote about legionnaires in Russian language, Russian, Italian language, Italian, and French language, French from 1931 to 1938. Military career On 10 August 1915, during the First World War, Jelínek was enlisted into the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian 8th field regiment (Moravian). He joined the Czechoslovak Legions at Menzelinsk on 22 August 1917 after being captured by the Imperial Russian Army. He served in the 9th Czechoslovak Rifle Regiment Legion, 3rd troop, and stated that he had been in the 9th company of the 3rd regiment of Karel Havlíček. His legionary service ended on 2 August 1920 with the rank of private (rank), private. Writing career After the war Jelínek moved to Boskovice, worked as a revenue clerk, and wrote for a newspaper. He also became a leading member of the Czechoslovak legionnaires' syndi ...
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Boskovice
Boskovice (; ) is a town in Blansko District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. The area of the historic town centre, Jewish quarter, château complex and castle ruin is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Administrative division Boskovice consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Boskovice (11,026) *Bačov (81) *Hrádkov (212) *Mladkov (353) *Vratíkov (247) Geography Boskovice is located about north of Brno. It lies on the border of the Boskovice Furrow and Drahany Highlands. The Boskovice Reservoir is largely located in the municipal territory. The reservoir lies on the river Bělá which flows through the eastern part of the town and the southern part of the territory. History Boskovice was probably founded in the 13th century as a market village. The first written mention of Boskovice is from 1222, when the lord Jimram of Boskovice was listed as a wi ...
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