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Potok Cave - Potočka Zijalka (Slovenia)
Potok may refer to: Places Bulgaria *Potok, Bulgaria, a village in Gabrovo Province Croatia * Potok, Sisak-Moslavina County, a village Poland * Potok, Gmina Sobienie-Jeziory in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland), a settlement * Potok, Kutno County in Łódź Voivodeship (central), a village * Potok, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-central), a village * Potok, Lublin Voivodeship (east), a village * Potok, Lubusz Voivodeship (west), a village * Potok, Opatów County in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central), a village * Potok, Podkarpackie Voivodeship (south-eastern), a village * Potok, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north), a settlement * Potok, Sieradz County in Łódź Voivodeship (central), a village * Potok, Subcarpathian Voivodeship (south-east) * Potok, Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central), a village Romania *Potok, the Hungarian name for Potoc village, Sasca Montană Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania Serbia * Potok (Prijepolje) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potok, Bulgaria
Potok is a village in Gabrovo Municipality, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria. In 2020 it had a population of 3. References Villages in Gabrovo Province {{Gabrovo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potok, Ružomberok District
Potok ( hu, Patak) is a village and municipality in Ružomberok District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1286. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of 554 metres and covers an area of 1.499 km². It has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ... of about 115 people. External links *http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html Villages and municipalities in Ružomberok District {{Žilina-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bijeli Potok Massacre
The Bijeli Potok massacre refers to the mass killing of 675 Bosniak civilians by Serbs on 1 June 1992 in the settlement Bijeli Potok within the village Đulići, located in the municipality of Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. About 675 Bosniak men and boys, from the multiple villages around Zvornik, were separated from their families by Serb forces, and slaughtered within a week at Bijeli Potok and their bodies hidden in mass graves throughout the Drina Valley. As of May 2020, the remains of about 245 of the victims have yet to be found. Background and overview The Bosnian War started in spring of 1992. On 8 April 1992, Serbs (of the Army of Republika Srpska and Serbian volunteer soldiers) occupied the city of Zvornik and began occupying and ethnically cleansing surrounding villages of the Bosnian Muslim inhabitants. Bosnian Muslims were ethnically cleansed from all villages between April and May 1992, including Hajdarevići, Dardagani, Đulići, Bijeli Potok, Kučić Kula, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. His first book ''The Chosen'' (1967), was listed on ''The New York Times’'' best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies. Biography Herman Harold Potok was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Benjamin Max (died 1958) and Mollie (née Friedman) Potok (died 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland. He was the oldest of four children, all of whom either became or married rabbis. His Hebrew name was Chaim Tzvi (חיים צבי). He received an Orthodox Jewish education. After reading Evelyn Waugh's novel ''Brideshead Revisited'' as a teenager, he decided to become a writer (he often said that the novel ''Brideshead Revisited'' is what inspired his work and literature). He started writing fiction at the age of 16. At age 17 he made his first submission to the magazine ''The Atlantic Monthly''. Although it was not published, he received a note from the editor complimenting his work. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Potok
Anna Maximilian Potok (4 June 1897 – 22 April 1987) was a Polish-born fur designer and, with her brother, Maximilian Apfelbaum (later Michael Maximilian) co-founder of the New York furriers Maximilian. Biography Potok was born Anna Apfelbaum on 4 June 1897 in Warsaw, Poland, the third generation of a family of furriers. After her father died when she was 19, she joined her brother Maximilian in the business in 1922. She married Leon Potok (d.1965), an engineer and stock market investor, on 7 July 1930, and they had one son, the author and disabled rights advocate Andrew Potok, born 1931. In 1934 she was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta. The Apfelbaums survived the 1903–06 pogroms due to their supplying furs to the highest levels of Polish society, including the President of Poland and the Mayor of Warsaw. Even after the Russian Revolution, they were safe because they supplied furs to Communist leaders who traveled there from Leningrad and Moscow. At first, following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potok (company)
Potok (Rus. Flow) is a Russian investment and development company with the head-office in Moscow. Its activities include mixed-use development, construction, managing and selling of real estate in Moscow and abroad. The projects, which were previously under the control of the Mirax Group corporation, now are being developed by this brand. Owners and management ''Potok'' was founded on December 1, 2011, by Sergei Polonsky, and this company has inherited all the structures and liabilities of Nazvanie.net (former Mirax Group). As reported earlier, the Mirax Group brand was officially closed on 3 March 2011, at a special press-conference for media representatives, who received the official statement of the Board of Directors of the investment and development company MIRAX GROUP. It stated that all the obligations of the group on completion of the objects would certainly be fulfilled. All public debt сommitments of the group (denominated bonds, CLNs and LPNs), said the statement, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potok Cave
Potok Cave ( sl, Potočka zijalka or ''Potočka zijavka'') is a cave in northern Slovenia, declared a high-elevation archaeological and paleontological site, occupied approximately 35,000 years BP (before present) by anatomically modern humans of the Aurignacian culture during the Upper Paleolithic. The cave is named after the Potok Farm in Podolševa.SlovLit: Potočka zijalka The Slovene term ''zijalka'' or ''zijavka'' refers to a flat-bottomed cave with a gaping mouth on a cliff face. Systematic excavations were carried out from 1928 through 1935 by Slovenian archaeologist Srečko Brodar. Location The cave is located in the eastern |
Potok, Železniki
Potok (, in older sources ''Farji Potok'' or ''Farjev Potok'', german: Pfaffenbach) is a settlement in the Municipality of Železniki in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Name The name of the settlement, ''Potok'', literally means 'creek, stream'. The older Slovene name, ''Farji Potok'' (literally, 'Parish Creek'), as well as the semantically equivalent German name ''Pfaffenbach'', refers to land in the village that was owned by Saint Anthony's parish church in Železniki Železniki (; german: Eisnern''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 66–67.) is a small town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipali .... The village lies at confluence of Šturm Creek (''Šturmova grapa'') with Matevžek Creek (''Matevžkova grapa''), where they create Parish Creek (''Farji potok''), a tributary of the Davča River. References External links *Potok on Geopedia Populate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potok, Vodice
Potok () is a former settlement in the Municipality of Vodice in central Slovenia. It is now part of the village of Šinkov Turn. The area is part of the traditional region of Upper Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. Geography Potok lies in the Skaručna Basin The Skaručna Basin (; sl, Skaruško polje) is part of the Ljubljana Basin in Slovenia. Geography The Skaručna Basin has a characteristic mixed cultural landscape, with meadows, tilled fields, pastures, watercourses, vegetation corridors, hedger ... east of the center of Šinkov Turn. It consists of two parts: Zgornji Potok ('upper Potok') and Spodnji Potok ('lower Potok').''Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine''. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 209. A tributary of Graben Creek flows west of Potok. Name The name ''Potok'' comes from the Slovene common noun ''potok'' 'creek'. Toponyms containing the element ''potok'' 'creek' are common in Slovenia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potok, Trebnje
Potok () is a small settlement northwest of Šentlovrenc in the Municipality of Trebnje in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an .... The municipality is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. Name The name of the settlement literally means 'creek, stream'. Toponyms containing the element ''potok'' 'creek' are common in Slovenia. The village stands on the right bank of Potok Creek, a tributary of the Temenica River. Potok Creek is usually dry, but during heavy rain it is fed by Škavba Spring at Mačji Dol Cave (''Marovška zijalka'') and the water then flows south through the Mačji Dol Valley (''Marovška dolina''). References External linksPotok on Geopedia Populated places in the Munic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potok, Straža
Potok () is a settlement on the right bank of the Krka River in the Municipality of Straža in the historical region of Lower Carniola of Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an .... The municipality is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. Name The name of the settlement literally means 'creek, stream'. Potok Creek, a tributary of the Krka River, flows through the village. The name of the settlement was changed from ''Potok'' to ''Potok pri Gorenji Straži'' in 1953. The name was changed back to ''Potok'' in 1988.''Spremembe naselij 1948–95''. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS. References External linksPotok on Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Straža {{Straža-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potok, Nazarje
Potok () is a small village on the right bank of the Dreta River in the Municipality of Nazarje in Slovenia. The area belongs to the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region The Savinja Statistical Region ( sl, Savinjska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest town in the region is Celje. It is named after the Savinja River. The region is very diverse in natural geography; it mainly com .... Name The name of the settlement literally means 'creek, stream'. ''Mostni graben'', a tributary of the Dreta River, flows through the village. References External linksPotok on Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Nazarje {{Nazarje-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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