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Lech II
Lech II was a legendary ruler of Poland mentioned by 15th century chronicler Jan Długosz. He was the son of the alleged founder of the City of Kraków, Krakus I, and he was the brother of Krakus II. Bibliography * Jan Długosz, Roczniki, czyli kroniki sławnego Królestwa Polskiego, ks 1 - 2, Warszawa 1961, s. 191 - 192. * Aleksander Semkowicz Aleksander Semkowicz (born 7 February 1850 in Lwów, d. 2 April 1923 in Lwów) was a Polish historian, archivist, professor of Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, correspondent member of Polish Academy of Learning. He was also editor-in-chief of "K ..., Krytyczny rozbiór Dziejów Polski Jana Długosza (do roku 1384), Kraków 1887. {{Poland-noble-stub Legendary Polish monarchs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lech II
Lech II was a legendary ruler of Poland mentioned by 15th century chronicler Jan Długosz. He was the son of the alleged founder of the City of Kraków, Krakus I, and he was the brother of Krakus II. Bibliography * Jan Długosz, Roczniki, czyli kroniki sławnego Królestwa Polskiego, ks 1 - 2, Warszawa 1961, s. 191 - 192. * Aleksander Semkowicz Aleksander Semkowicz (born 7 February 1850 in Lwów, d. 2 April 1923 in Lwów) was a Polish historian, archivist, professor of Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, correspondent member of Polish Academy of Learning. He was also editor-in-chief of "K ..., Krytyczny rozbiór Dziejów Polski Jana Długosza (do roku 1384), Kraków 1887. {{Poland-noble-stub Legendary Polish monarchs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Długosz
Jan Długosz (; 1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first historian.Isayevych, Ya. Jan Długosz (ДЛУГОШ ЯН)'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2004 Life Jan Długosz is best known for his (''Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae'') in 12 volumes and originally written in Latin, covering events in southeastern Europe, but also in Western Europe, from 965 to 1480, the year he died. Długosz combined features of Medieval chronicles with elements of humanistic historiography. For writing the history of the Kingdom of Poland, Długosz also used Ruthenian (Russian) chronicles including those that did not survive to our times (among which there could have been used the Kyiv collection of chronicles of the 11th century in the Przemysl's edition around 1100 and the Przemysl episcopal collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, economic, cultural and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities, its Old Town with Wawel Royal Castle was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, one of the first 12 sites granted the status. The city has grown from a Stone Age settlement to Poland's second-most-important city. It began as a hamlet on Wawel Hill and was reported by Ibrahim Ibn Yakoub, a merchant from Cordoba, as a busy trading centre of Central Europe in 985. With the establishment of new universities and cultural venues at the emergence of the Second Polish Republic in 1918 and throughout the 20th century, Kraków reaffirmed its role as a major national academic and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krakus
Krakus, Krak or Grakch was a legendary Polish prince, king and founder of Kraków, the ruler of the Lechitic tribe of Vistulans. Krakus is also credited with building Wawel Castle and slaying the Wawel Dragon by feeding it a dead sheep full of sulfur. The latter is how Krak the cobbler became Krakus the prince, and later king. The first recorded mention of Krakus, then spelled ''Grakch'', is in the Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae from 1190. Historian J. Banaszkiewicz attributes Krak's name to a pre-Slavic word "krakula", meaning judge's staff. The same word-root is believed to have been used in Czech and Russian naming conventions. However, historians Cetwiński and Derwich suggest a different etymology, which seems more probable to some, with Krak, meaning simply an oak, a sacred tree, most often associated with the concept of genealogy. Krakus Mound, which exists to this day, was previously believed to contain Krakus' remains. It has been the subject of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krakus II
Krakus II ( lat, Gracchus; pl, Krak) was a mythological ruler of Poland. He was the successor of and son of the alleged founder of the City of Kraków, Krakus I, and he was the younger brother of Lech II, according to Wincenty Kadłubek. He ties the family to the national story of the dragon of Wawel. In this, their father Krak sent them to defeat the dragon, which they managed, after an unsuccessful battle, by stuffing the tribute animals with straw which suffocated the dragon. After this, Krak threw himself upon Lech and killed him, though their father pretended that the dragon was responsible. Eventually the story was found out, and Krak II was overthrown and replaced by his daughter Wanda. However, according to Jan Długosz Jan Długosz (; 1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first histor ..., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksander Semkowicz
Aleksander Semkowicz (born 7 February 1850 in Lwów, d. 2 April 1923 in Lwów) was a Polish historian, archivist, professor of Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, correspondent member of Polish Academy of Learning. He was also editor-in-chief of "Kwartalnik Historyczny ''Kwartalnik Historyczny'' is a Polish history journal. It was established in 1887 in Lwów and is the oldest extant national journal for history. The founder of ''Kwartalnik Historyczny'' was Ksawery Liske.''Encyklopedia Krakowa'', Warszawa-Krak ...". Around 1876 he was married to Maria Schier. They had four children: Władysław, a historian, Adam (b. 1880), Maria (b. 1882) and Zofia (b. 1888). Bibliography *Polski Słownik Biograficzny, Vol. 36, 1996-1997. 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers 1850 births 1923 deaths University of Lviv faculty People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Polish Austro-Hungarians Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery 19th-century Polish historia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
