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Ostrów, Przeworsk County
Ostrów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gać, within Przeworsk County, Przeworsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Gać, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Gać, south-west of Przeworsk, and east of the regional capital Rzeszów. A prominent feature of Ostrów is the Roman Catholic parish of St. Fabiana and St. Sebastian which was founded in 1601. Until 1772 the town belonged administratively to the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1772-1918 the town belonged administratively to the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Habsburg crownland Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. From 1945 to 1975 the town administratively belonged to the Rzeszów Voivodeship, Rzeszów voivodship. In 1975–1998 the town belonged administratively to the Przemyśl Voivodeship, Przemyśl voivodship. History The village is situated on a frontal moraine headland, which cuts wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countries Of The World
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, 2 United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (2 states, both in associated state, free association with New Zealand). Compi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikulice, Podkarpackie Voivodeship
Mikulice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gać, within Przeworsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Gać, south-west of Przeworsk, and east of the regional capital Rzeszów. In 1975–1998 the town administratively belonged to the Przemyśl voivodship . History The name of the village likely derives from the renowned name of "Mikuła". In 1375 the village was mentioned for the first time as ''Myculicze'', when Otton from Pilcza gave it to the knight Wierzbięcie. In 1407 there was a stone manor house, and in 1447 the village was in the Kańczuga key. In 1515, the village was mentioned in conscripts as ''Mykulycze'', which had 3 peasant fields. Prior to 1598 it was part of Częstochowa. After 1589 Mikulice was a noble village, owned by Konstanty Korniakt (the father). It was administratively located in the Przemyśl county of the Ruthenian province. In the 1628 conscript records the village was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nogais
The Nogais ( Nogai: Ногай, , Ногайлар, ) are a Turkic ethnic group who live in the North Caucasus region. Most are found in Northern Dagestan and Stavropol Krai, as well as in Karachay-Cherkessia and Astrakhan Oblast; some also live in Chechnya, Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria), Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and a small Nogai diaspora is found in Jordan. They speak the Nogai language and are descendants of various Mongolic and Turkic tribes who formed the Nogai Horde. There are seven main groups of Nogais: the Ak Nogai, the Karagash, the Kuban-Nogai, the Kundraw-Nogai, the Qara-Nogai, the Utars and the Yurt-Nogai. Name For a long time it was believed that their namesake founder was Nogai Khan ( 'dog' in Mongolian), a grandson of Jochi. Nogai (d. 1299–1300) was the de facto ruler, kingmaker, and briefly self-proclaimed khan of the Golden Horde. Geographic distribution In the 1990s, 65,000 were still living in the Northern Caucasus, divided into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sośnica, Podkarpackie Voivodeship
Sośnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radymno, within Jarosław County __NOTOC__ Jarosław County ( pl, powiat jarosławski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a ..., Podkarpackie Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with . References Villages in Jarosław County {{Jarosław-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korniakt Palace
The Korniakt Palace ( uk, Палац Корнякта (Palats Korniakta), pl, kamienica Królewska we Lwowie) on Market Square in Lviv is a prime example of the royal '' kamienica'', or townhouse. The fabric of the palace is of various dates. It was originally built by Polish architect Piotr Barbon for merchant Konstanty Korniakt, a champion of Greek Orthodoxy and co-founder of the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood. Construction of this severely elegant Renaissance palazzo was completed in 1580. After Korniakt's death in 1603, King Władysław IV Vasa stayed at his palace. He got smallpox and recovered here. In 1640, the edifice was purchased by Jakub Sobieski and was later inherited by his son, King John III Sobieski. The Polish-Lithuanian ruler remodelled it into a palatial residence, with spacious rooms and an audience hall where he signed the Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686. In 1908, the Sobieski Palace became home tthe Jan III museum It is now part of the Lviv History Museum. The roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It was named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Białoboki, Podkarpackie Voivodeship
Białoboki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gać, within Przeworsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Gać, east of Przeworsk, and east of the regional capital Rzeszów. The location is in a narrow valley north of the main valley of the Markówka river with the communal pastures at the bottom of an old lake or drained swamp. At the other end of this basin, from the south-east, on the steep bank lies the village of Ostrów, which in Proto-Slavic language indicates a place located on a swamp island or a peninsula entering the lake. History The first traces of settlement in Przeworsk County were from the Stone Age (4000-1800 BC) and have been confirmed by objects of flint and stone. There are also traces from the Bronze Age (1700-650 BC). Cemeteries of Lusatian culture dating from 1000 to 650 BC were found at Białoboki and Grzęska at the site of the former settlement called Borek. An Iron Age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstanty Korniakt
Konstanty Korniakt ( gr, Κωνσταντίνος Κορνιακτός, Konstantinos Korniaktos; c. 1517 – 1 August 1603) was a merchant of Greek descent, active throughout Central and Eastern Europe; a leaseholder of royal tolls who collected customs duty on behalf of the king. During his lifetime he was the wealthiest man in Lviv (Lwów, in Polish) and even owned numerous villages. He was a wholesale merchant and founder of the Korniakt family dynasty. Biography Korniaktos, a Greek, was born in the city of Candia (today Heraklion) on Crete in 1517. He moved to Constantinople at a young age where already in 1540 he became a wealthy merchant. Later he moved to Moldavia where he lived for the rest of his life. Some time in the 1560s Korniakt settled in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) where he took over a business of his older brother Michael. Already at the time Moldavia in Lviv was closely associated with Walachia. The King of Poland Sigismund II Augustus granted him off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Władysław II Jagiełło
Jogaila (; 1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło ()He is known under a number of names: lt, Jogaila Algirdaitis; pl, Władysław II Jagiełło; be, Jahajła (Ягайла). See also: Names and titles of Władysław II Jagiełło. was Grand Duke of Lithuania (1377–1434) and then King of Poland (1386–1434), first alongside his wife Jadwiga until 1399, and then sole ruler of Poland. Born a pagan, he converted to Catholicism in 1386 and was baptized as Władysław in Kraków, married the young Queen Jadwiga, and was crowned King of Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło. In 1387, he converted Lithuania to Catholicism. His own reign in Poland started in 1399, upon the death of Queen Jadwiga, lasted a further thirty-five years, and laid the foundation for the centuries-long Polish–Lithuanian union. He was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland that bears his name and was previously also known as the Gediminid dynasty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The dynast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łańcut
Łańcut (, approximately "wine-suit"; yi, לאַנצוט, Lantzut; uk, Ла́ньцут, Lánʹtsut; german: Landshut) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 18,004 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), it is the capital of Łańcut County. History Archeological investigations carried out in the region of Łańcut confirm the existence of human settlements from about 4000 years B.C. The first owner of the town was Otton (''z Pilczy'') Pilecki, who was given the Łańcut estate by the Polish king, Casimir III the Great, in 1349, as a reward for his service. At the same time, the king also granted Łańcut its city rights according to Magdeburg law. In 1381 Łańcut was officially named a ‘town’ for the first time, by Otton Pilecki, in the foundation charter of the town. Łańcut remained under the ownership of the Pilecki family up to 1586. The city was then owned consecutively by aristocratic Polish families of Stadnic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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