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 | | The most famous is the colourful, much read Bohemian chronicle of Václav Hájek z Libočan (1541), material from which was incorporated in the Latin chronicle Historiae regni Bohemiae (1552) of Jan Dubravius (Jan Skála z Doubravky, 1486-1553). |
 | | Another account of such a journey, with famous sea descriptions, was written in the 16th century by the observant and scientifically minded Oldřich Prefát z Vlkanova, and a further account was written at the end of that century by Kryštof Harant z Polžic. |
 | | Turkey was also visited by Václav Budovec z Budova, remembered for his Antialkoran of 1614, on Islam, and his correspondence with his Moravian friend Karel starší z Žerotína. |
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