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Salzberg (other)
Salzberg may refer to: * Bochnia, Sivac * Praid, Harghita County, Romania * Salzberg, a formerly independent municipality in Bavaria, now part of Berchtesgaden * Salzberg, a district of Neuenstein, Hesse, Germany People with the surname *Barry Salzberg (born 1953), American businessman, accountant, and lawyer *Sharon Salzberg (born 1952), American author and Buddhist meditation teacher See also * Salzburg (other) * Salsburg (other) Salsburg may refer to: * David Salsburg (born 1931), an American author ;Variant spelling of: * Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. * Salzburg (other) Salzburg is a city in Austria. Salzburg may also refer to: Places Austria *Salzbu ... * Saltzberg (other) {{disambig, geodis, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bochnia
Bochnia (german: Salzberg) is a town on the river Raba in southern Poland. The town lies approximately halfway between Tarnów (east) and the regional capital Kraków (west). Bochnia is most noted for its salt mine, the oldest functioning in Europe, built in the 13th century, a World Heritage Site and a Historic Monument of Poland. Since Poland's administrative reorganization in 1999, Bochnia has been the administrative capital of Bochnia County in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. From 1975 to 1998 it was a part of Tarnów Voivodeship. As of December 2021, Bochnia has a population of 29,317 and an area of . History Bochnia is one of the oldest cities of Lesser Poland. The first known source mentioning the city is a letter of 1198, in which Aymar the Monk, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, confirmed a donation by the local magnate Mikora Gryfit to the monastery of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Miechów. The discovery of major deposits of rock salt at the site of the present min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praid
Praid (, Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Salzberg) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, and is composed of six villages: Demographics The commune has an absolute Hungarian ( Székely) majority. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 6,502, of which 91.68% are Hungarian and 2.65% Roma. The 2002 Census reported 69.36% of the total population belonging to the Protestant Hungarian Reformed Church, while Roman Catholicism is professed by 22.46% of the respondents. retrieved on June 25, 2010 Natives *Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon
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Berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden () is a municipality in the district Berchtesgadener Land, Bavaria, in southeastern Germany, near the border with Austria, south of Salzburg and southeast of Munich. It lies in the Berchtesgaden Alps, south of Berchtesgaden; the Berchtesgaden National Park stretches along three parallel valleys. The Kehlstein mountain (), with its ''Kehlsteinhaus'' (Eagle's Nest) is located in the area. Etymology ''Berchtesgaden'', Upper Bavaria (Achental), earlier ''Perchterscadmen'', ''Perhtersgadem'', ''Berchirchsgadem'', ''Berchtoldesgadem''; the word underwent a Latin distortion of Old High German ''parach'', Romance ''bareca'' 'hay shed'. After the basic meaning was forgotten, a variant word of Old High German ''gadem'' 'room, one-room hut' was added, implying the same meaning: 'hay shed'. Cf. Old High German ''muosgadem'' 'spice room'. There was a folk etymology that supported a derivation based on the legendary figure of ''Frau'' Perchta (Berchta), a woman (''Holle'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuenstein, Hesse
Neuenstein is a municipality in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district of northeastern Hesse, Germany. Geography Location The community lies in the Knüllgebirge (range) in the drainage basin of the Geisbach, which rises here and only 10 km from here, in Bad Hersfeld, empties into the Fulda. Neighbouring communities Neuenstein borders in the north on the community of Knüllwald (in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis), in the east on the community of Ludwigsau, in the south on the towns of Bad Hersfeld and Kirchheim (all in Hersfeld-Rotenburg), in the southwest on the community of Oberaula, and in the west on the town of Schwarzenborn (both in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis). Constituent communities Neuenstein's ''Ortsteile'' are Aua, Gittersdorf, Mühlbach, Obergeis, Raboldshausen, Saasen, Salzberg and Untergeis. History The first documentary mention of any of the constituent communities came in 852 when Aua (''Owe'') was named in one of the Hersfeld Abbey’s donation documents. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Salzberg
Barry Salzberg (born October 1953) is an American businessman, accountant, and lawyer. Salzberg is full-time Professor at Columbia University and former global Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a position he held from June 2011 until May 2015. Biography Salzberg is Jewish, and grew up in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn, the youngest of five siblings. His parents were clerks, and he and his older sister were the first in his family to attend university. His father died while Salzberg was in high school, so he worked to help his family financially, and continued to live at home and work while he attended college. He is the father of Matt Salzberg co-founder of Blue Apron. Salzberg earned an undergraduate B.S. degree in accounting from Brooklyn College in 1974, a JD from Brooklyn Law School (1977), and an LLM in tax from the New York University School of Law. Salzberg joined Deloitte Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (), commonly referred to as Deloi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg (born August 5, 1952) is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her emphasis is on vipassanā (insight) and mettā (loving-kindness) methods, and has been leading meditation retreats around the world for over three decades. All of these methods have their origins in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Her books include ''Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness'' (1995), ''A Heart as Wide as the World'' (1999), ''Real Happiness - The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program'' (2010), which was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011, and the follow-up ''Real Happiness at Work'' (2013). She runs a Metta Hour podcast, and contributes monthly to a column On Being. Early life Born in New York City to a Jewish family, Salzberg had a troubled early life after her parents divorced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salzburg (other)
Salzburg is a city in Austria. Salzburg may also refer to: Places Austria *Salzburg (federal state), an Austrian federal state *Duchy of Salzburg * Archbishopric of Salzburg, 1278 – 1803 *Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg, Austria Germany *Salzburg Castle, in Franconia, Germany * Salzburg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany *A part of Neufahrn in Niederbayern in Bavaria, Germany Other places *Ocna Sibiului, Romania *Château-Salins, France Other uses * FC Red Bull Salzburg, an Austrian football club based in Wals-Siezenheim *Salzburg Protestants, exiled in the 1700s * Salzburger emigrants to Georgia, now in the USA * Honduras Salzburg, a Honduran football club See also *Salzberg (other) *Saltzberg Saltzberg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *David Saltzberg David Saltzberg is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Saltzberg received a Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salsburg (other)
Salsburg may refer to: * David Salsburg (born 1931), an American author ;Variant spelling of: * Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. * Salzburg (other) Salzburg is a city in Austria. Salzburg may also refer to: Places Austria *Salzburg (federal state), an Austrian federal state *Duchy of Salzburg * Archbishopric of Salzburg, 1278 – 1803 *Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg, Austria Germany *S ... See also * Salzberg (other) * Salisbury (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
