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Sobotište
Sobotište ( hu, Ószombat, (til 1899) Szobotist) is a village and municipality in Senica District in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia. In 1845 it was the location of the establishment of the first cooperative in Europe by Samuel Jurkovič (Spolok gazdovský). Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of 252 metres and covers an area of 32.254 km2. It has a population of about 1536 people. Districts * Sobotište * Javorec History In history, historical records the village was first mentioned in 1241. People * Samuel Jurkovič :sk:Samuel Jurkovič, (sk) * Alois Kaiser, Austrian-US chazzan, composer * Bogoslav Šulek, Bogoslav Šulek (born Bohuslav Šulek), 1816 – 1895, Slovak-Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer. See also * 26401 Sobotište References External links Official page Villages and municipalities in Senica District {{Jewish-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogoslav Šulek
Bogoslav Šulek (born Bohuslav Šulek; April 20, 1816 – November 30, 1895) was a Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer. He was very influential in creating Croatian terminology in the areas of social and natural sciences, technology and civilization. Early career Šulek was a Slovak by birth. He was born in Sobotište (Hungarian: Ószombat, (till 1899) Szobotist), in the Nyitra County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia) where he attended primary school. He studied at the evangelical lyceum in Bratislava. He decided not to become a pastor, but was unable to continue his studies in Jena, so he came to his brother in the Croatian town of Brod na Savi in November 1838. Soon he made contact with Ljudevit Gaj, the central figure of the Croatian Illyrian movement, and in autumn 1839 started working as a printer for Franjo Župan in Zagreb. He started writing for Gaj's papers in 1841 and was the editor-in-chief of the illegal paper ''Branislav'', printed in Belg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senica District
Senica District (''okres Senica'') is a district in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia. The district is relatively rich in natural resources oil, gas, lignite. It is an industrial district, in the late period had been established here new industrial facilities. Senica District in its present borders had been established in 1996. Administrative, cultural, and economic center is its seat and largest town Senica. In Senica District is located spa Smrdáky and of cultural importance is also basilica in Šaštín. Municipalities * Bílkove Humence * Borský Mikuláš * Borský Svätý Jur * Cerová * Čáry * Častkov * Český Jánetý * Dojč * Hlboké * Hradište pod Vrátnom * Jablonica * Koválov * Kuklov * Kúty * Lakšárska Nová Ves * Moravský Svätý Ján * Osuské * Plavecký Peter * Podbranč * Prietrž * Prievaly * Rohov * Rovensko * Rybky * Sekule * Senica * Smolinské * Smrdáky * Sobotište * Šajdíkove Humence * Šaštín-Stráže Ša ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alois Kaiser
Alois Kaiser (November 10, 1840 - 1908) was an American ''chazzan'' and composer, considered to be the founder of the American cantorate. Kaiser was born in Szobotist ( sk, Sobotište), Hungary. He received his early education in the religious school of the Vienna congregation under Dr. Henry Zirndorf, and then studied at the ''Realschule'' and the Teachers' Seminary and Conservatory of Music in Vienna. From the age of 10, he sang in the choir of Salomon Sulzer, and in 1859, became an assistant cantor in Fünfhaus, one of the suburbs of Vienna (now a part of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, the 15th Viennese district). From 1863 to 1866, he was cantor at the ''Maisel Synagogue'' at Prague. Kaiser arrived in New York City in June 1866, and in the following month was appointed cantor of the Oheb Shalom congregation in Baltimore, Maryland. He was for several years president of the Society of American Cantors. From 1895, he was an honorary member of the Central Conference of American Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trnava Region
The Trnava Region ( sk, Trnavský kraj, ; hu, Nagyszombati kerület; german: Tyrnauer Landschaftsverband) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It was established in 1996, before which date most of its districts were parts of Bratislava Region which was established on the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1923. It consists of 251 municipalities, from which 16 have a town status. It is the second most densely populated region in Slovakia. Geography In the lower, west part of Slovakia, the Trnava region forms a territorial band between the Bratislava Region and the rest of Slovakia, between Austrian and Czech borders in the north and north-west and the Hungarian border in the south. The part north of the Little Carpathians is part of the Záhorie Lowland, with its two subdivisions: hilly Chvojnická pahorkatina and flat Borská nížina. In addition to these, the Myjava Hills and the White Carpathians reach into the area. The fertile Danubian Lowland is located south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strom Samuela Jurkoviče
Strom may refer to: Astronomy *8408 Strom (1995 SX12), a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 18, 1995 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak Geography * Strom, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States *Strom (Ucker), a river of Brandenburg, Germany * Strom Glacier, a steep valley glacier flowing from the north side of Mount Fridtjof Nansen to the head of the Ross Ice Shelf *Strom Lake, a lake in Minnesota Surname *Ström (surname) *Strøm, a surname People *Allen Axel Strom (c.1914–1997), Australian environmental educator and naturalist *Brent Strom (born 1948), a former baseball player who played as a pitcher in Major League Baseball *Brock Strom (born 1934), a former American football player *David M. Strom (born 1957), American experimental particle physicist at the University of Oregon * David Strom (born 1964), Research Director at the Emmer for Governor Campaign *Earl Strom (1927–1994), American professional basketball referee *Harr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chazzan
A ''hazzan'' (; , lit. Hazan) or ''chazzan'' ( he, חַזָּן , plural ; Yiddish ''khazn''; Ladino ''Hasan'') is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the congregation in songful prayer Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication. In the narrow sense, the term refers to an act of supplication or intercession directed towards a deity or a deified a .... In English, this prayer leader is often referred to as a cantor, a term also used Cantor (Christianity), in Christianity. ''Sh'liaḥ tzibbur'' and the evolution of the hazzan The person leading the congregation in public prayers is called the ''Shaliah, sh'liaḥ tzibbur'' (Hebrew language, Hebrew for "wikt:emissary, emissary of the congregation"). Halakha, Jewish law restricts this role to adult Jews; among Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jews, it is restricted to males. In theory, any lay person can be a ''s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Jurkovič
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His genealo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an Discipline (academia), academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the historiography, nature of history as an end in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area
Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape A shape or figure is a graphics, graphical representation of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external Surface (mathematics), surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, Surface texture, texture, or material type. A pl ... or planar lamina, while ''surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary (mathematics), boundary of a solid geometry, three-dimensional object. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat. It is the two-dimensional analogue of the length of a plane curve, curve (a one-dimensional concept) or the volume of a solid (a three-dimensional concept). The area of a shape can be measured by com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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