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: ''Sas'', Hungarian: ''Szász'',

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: ''Saș'',

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: ''Сас'') is a Central European coat of arms. It was borne since the

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by several Transylvanian-Saxon Hungarian, Ruthenian,

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Volume 3 (1993). Published by University of Toronto. and Polish-Lithuanian noble families.Kasper Niesiecki – HERBARZ POLSKI Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J. (English ''Polish Armorial – Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J.''), Author:

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, Publisher:

Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz Jan Nepomucen (de) Bobrowicz (12 May 1805 – 2 November 1881) was a Polish virtuoso guitarist, composer, music editor, and publisher. Franz Liszt called him "the Chopin of guitar". Life Bobrowicz was born in Kraków. He studied the guitar in ...

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, Lipsku (Leipzig), 1841, Vol. 8, p. 284-285, (in Polish)

/ref>Herby rycerstwa polskiego (English ''Coat of Arms of Polish Nobility''), Author: Bartosz Paprocki, Publisher: Biblioteka Polska, 1584 Kraków, reprinted 1858 Kraków, reprinted 1982 Warsaw, p. 695-697 (in Polish)

/ref>ORBIS POLONUS, Tom III, (Simple English ''Armorial of Polish nobility, Volume 3''), Author:

Szymon Okolski Szymon Okolski (1580–1653), also known as Simon Okolski, was a well-known Polish–Lithuanian historian, theologian, and specialist in heraldry. His own clan and coat of arms were that of Rawicz. He was born in Kamieniec Podolski, died in L ...

, 1641–43, Kraków, p. 195-202 (in Latin), p. 207-214 digital

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and

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house with origins in Saxony, Transylvania, Hungary and Ruthenia.

History

Ancient Polish-Lithuanian historians like

say that the origin of these arms is derived from

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, where during the mid-12th century King

Géza II of Hungary Géza II ( hu, II. Géza; hr, Gejza II; sk, Gejza II; 113031 May 1162) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1141 to 1162. He was the oldest son of Béla the Blind and his wife, Helena of Serbia. When his father died, Géza was still a child a ...

invited

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of Saxony to settle in, establish trading centres and defend relatively sparsely populated

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in the

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, upon which the Transylvanian Saxons were later given a privileged status in the "

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" (Golden Charter of Transylvanian Saxons) issued by King

Andrew II of Hungary Andrew II ( hu, II. András, hr, Andrija II., sk, Ondrej II., uk, Андрій II; 117721 September 1235), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1205 and 1235. He ruled the Principality of Halych from 1188 ...

(see

Transylvanian Saxons The Transylvanian Saxons (german: Siebenbürger Sachsen; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjer Såksen''; ro, Sași ardeleni, sași transilvăneni/transilvani; hu, Erdélyi szászok) are a people of German ethnicity who settled in Transylvania ( ...

). The origins of the

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House of Sas or Szász vary depending on the source. According to the

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s of Albertus Strepa; the outstanding military leader ''

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Huyd of Hungary'' (a Transylvanian-Saxon), entered Galicia in 1236 with his mighty army of allied mounted warrior

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s to the service of

Daniel of Galicia Daniel of Galicia ( uk, Данило Романович (Галицький), Danylo Romanovych (Halytskyi); Old Ruthenian: Данило Романовичъ, ''Danylo Romanovyčъ''; pl, Daniel I Romanowicz Halicki; 1201 – 1264) was a King ...

King of

Ruthenia Ruthenia or , uk, Рутенія, translit=Rutenia or uk, Русь, translit=Rus, label=none, pl, Ruś, be, Рутэнія, Русь, russian: Рутения, Русь is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin as one of several terms ...

, and each was rewarded with lands in

Red Ruthenia Red Ruthenia or Red Rus' ( la, Ruthenia Rubra; '; uk, Червона Русь, Chervona Rus'; pl, Ruś Czerwona, Ruś Halicka; russian: Червонная Русь, Chervonnaya Rus'; ro, Rutenia Roșie), is a term used since the Middle Ages fo ...

that Huyd and his allied noble knights settled, being referred to as the ''Sas/Szász'' (Saxon) due to their

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and origin. According to the chronicles of Wojciech Strepa; ''Comes Huyd ujdof Hungary'', having come with his mighty army of allied mounted warrior knights to the service of

Lev I of Galicia Leo I of Galicia ( ua, Лев Дани́лович, translit=Lev Danylovych) (c. 1228 – c. 1301) was a king of Ruthenia, prince (Kniaz) of Belz (1245–1264), Peremyshl, Halych (1264–1269), and grand prince of Kiev (Kyiv, 1271–1301). ...

(1269–1301) the son of Daniel of Galicia King of Ruthenia, and having allied himself with

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, drove the Eastern barbarians out of

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. In reward for his knightly deeds, he was given, among other gifts, Lev's widowed sister-in-law N.N. of Galicia Princess of Kholm as a wife (the widow of Lev's brother

Shvarn Shvarn, Shvarno ( lt, Švarnas, uk, Шварно Данилович, translit=Shvarno Danylovych; c. 1230 – c. 1269), was the kniaz of western parts of Ruthenia (1264 – c. 1269) and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1267 – c. 1269). An influential l ...

Daniilovich, sister of

Vaišvilkas Vaišvilkas or Vaišelga (also spelled as ''Vaišvila'', ''Vojszalak'', ''Vojšalk'', ''Vaišalgas''; killed on 18 April 1267) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania (1264–1267). He was son of Mindaugas, the first and only Christian King of Lithuan ...

, daughter of King

Mindaugas Mindaugas (german: Myndowen, la, Mindowe, orv, Мендог, be, Міндоўг, pl, Mendog, c. 1203–1263) is the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the only crowned King of Lithuania. Little is known of his origins, early life, or r ...

of Lithuania from the

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) and along with his allied knights lands in the territory of Red Ruthenia that they settled. Count Huyd, who bore on his coat of arms the blue (azure) escutcheon with the gold (or) crescent, gold stars and gold arrow, and the knights who allied under his battle

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, are said to have been the progenitors of the House of Sas (Szász). Early origins also point to the Hungarian Transylvanian-Saxon ''

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s'' Dragoş I de Bedeu (Bedő) voivode of

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Prince of

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and his successor son Sas de

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(Hungarian ''Szász de Béltek'') Prince of Moldavia, who bore the blue (azure) escutcheon with the gold crescent, gold stars and gold arrow on their coat of arms. Other notable scions of Dragoş I were Bartolomeu Drágfi of Beltiug (Béltek), '' Comes Perpetuus'' of Middle

Szolnok Szolnok (; also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, in the heart of the Great Hungarian Plain, wh ...

(1479–1488),

Voivode of Transylvania The Voivode of Transylvania (german: Vojwode von Siebenbürgen;Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 77. hu, erdélyi vajda;Zsoldos 2011, p. 36. la, voivoda Transsylvaniae; ro, voievodul Transilvaniei) was the highest-ranking official in Transylvania wit ...

and ''Comes'' of the Székely people (1493–1499), who had distinguished himself earlier as a royal knight of the Hungarian

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defeating the

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at the

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(1479) together with

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and

Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân Basarab III cel Bătrân ("the Old"), also known as Laiotă Basarab or Basarab Laiotă (? – 22 December 1480) was Voivode of the principality of Wallachia in the 1470s, repeating the achievement of Dan II in being elected by the boyars as ...

.Joan cavaler de Puscariu – Date istorice privitoare la familiile nobile române (English ''History of the Romanian Noble Families''). Editura societății culturale Pro Maramures "Dragoș Vodă", Cluj-Napoca, 2003 (in Romanian).Prof. Alexandru Filipascu de Dolha și Petrova – Istoria Maramureșului (English ''History of Maramureş''), Editura "Gutinul" Baia Mare, 1997 (in Romanian).Wyrostek, Ludwik – Rod Dragow-Sasow na Wegrzech i Rusi Halickiej (English ''Clan Dragow-Saxon in Hungary and neighbouring Galicia''). RTH t. XI/1931-1932 (in Polish). At the time of King

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' death, Bartholomew Drágfi of Beltiug (Béltek) was among the wealthiest landowners of the country, three castles, two manor houses, eight market towns and about 200 villages were in his property. His estates in Middle Szolnok and

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included the castles of Chioar and

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together with the large lordships surrounding them, and further, the castles of

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and the ''

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'' of Ceheiu. Another important family member, among others, was Ioan Drágfi of Beltiug (Béltek) ''Comes'' of

Temes County County of Temes ( Hungarian: ''Temes'', Romanian: ''Timiș'', Serbian: ''Тамиш'' or ''Tamiš'', German: ''Temes'' or ''Temesch'') was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in southwestern Roma ...

in 1525, who died 1526 in the

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. Written descriptions of the Sas/Szász coat of arms in classical heraldic references, such as in "Herby rycerstwa polskiego" (1584), "Korona Polska/Herbarz Polski" (1728–1846) and Siebmacher's armorial book on the Hungarian and Transylvanian nobility, describe the arms in blue ( azure)

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, as borne by the families Drágfi (Hungarian

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for "son of Drag") of Beltiug (Béltek) scions of Dragoş I of Bedeu,

Jan Daniłowicz Jan Daniłowicz (1570–1628) was a Polish nobleman, voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodeship and grandfather of King Jan III Sobieski. He was voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodship since 1613, castellan of Lviv since 1612, Great Krajczy of the Crown s ...

herbu Sas, Dziedoszycki (Dzieduszycki) h. Sas and Berlicz-Strutynskių (Strutyński) h. Sas. Some families, however, bear this coat of arms on a red (

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) tincture field, in "Orbis Polonus" (1641–43) the Sas clan arms is described as being of "sanguineus"

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for "blood red" tincture, such as borne by the Counts Komarnicki herbu Sas family in the

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In 1843 the former palace became the property of

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Seweryn Uruski Seweryn may refer to: * Seweryn Berson (1858–1917), Polish lawyer and composer * Seweryn Bialer (born 1926), emeritus professor of political science at Columbia University, expert on the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Poland * Seweryn ...

herbu Sas (1817–1890),

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of the nobility of Warsaw Province, privy counselor of the Imperial Court and president of the College of Arms of the Polish Kingdom, who demolished the former palace and commissioned architect Andrzej Gołoński to design and raise a new palace in its place with

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. The sculptor Ludwika Kaufman was commissioned to carve the Sas coat of arms in reverence of the great progenitors of the Sas (Saxon) house. After the death of Seweryn Uruski in 1890 the palace became the property of his wife Countess Ermancja Tyzenhauz h. Bawół, then his youngest surviving issue Countess Maria Uruska h. Sas (1860–1931) who married Vladimir Światopełk- Czetwertyński. Burned during World War II by the occupying German forces in the

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, the palace remained in the ownership of the Światopełk-Czetwertyński family until 1947, then passed into the possession of the University of Warsaw. During the years 1948–1951 the palace was restored by the architect

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. Today it houses the Department of Geography and Regional Studies.

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courtyard, first university of Poland, the oldest building of

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. Quarterly coat of arms of

h. Sas, Duke of the Duchy of Ruthenia (

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), and landowner of

Olesko Olesko ( uk, Олесько; ; pl, Olesko; yi, אַלעסק, Alesk; ) is an urban-type settlement in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine. It belongs to Busk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . It w ...

in 1605 File:POL COA Sas.JPG, Coat of arms of the Transylvanian-Saxon family Drágfi de Beltiug (Hungarian '' Drágffy de Béltek'') scions of Dragoş I of Bedeu File:Herb Sas - Berlicz Strutynski 1797.jpg, Sas coat of arms 1797 document of the ''Berlicz-Strutynskių (Strutyński) h. Sas'' family of

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(document held at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives). File:POL COA Komarnicki.svg, Sas coat of arms in red "Gules" tincture of the ''Komarnicki herbu Sas'' house File:POL COA Błażowski.svg, Baron Błażowski h. Sas coat of arms

Bearers, family members of the House of Sas

The following family names are listed in the classical genealogical and heraldic reference "Korona Polska/Herbarz Polski (Crown of Poland/Polish Armorial) 1728–1846" authored by

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: ''Baczyński, Bandrowski, Baraniecki, Bereznicki, Biliński, Błazowski, Bojarski, Bratkowski, Bryliński, Brześciański, Buchowski, Chodakowski, Czołhański, Czolowski/Czolowscy, Daniłowicz, Długopolski, Dobrzański, Dubrawski, Dziedoszycki, Dziedziel, Hoszowski, Hrebnicki, Huhernicki, Jamiński, Jasiński, Jaworski, Kłodnicki, Komarnicki, Kropiwnicki, Kruszelnicki, Kulczycki, Lityński, Łucki, Mańczak, Manesterski, Matkowski, Mikulski, Mściszewski, Nowosielski, Odrzechowski, Orłowski, Podwysocki, Raszkowski, Rosźniatowski, Rudnicki, Siemiasz, Skotnicki, Strutyński, Strzelbicki, Sulatycki, Świstelnicki, Tarnawski, Tatomir, Terlecki, Tesmer, Tyssarowski, Uniatycki, Winnicki, Wisłocki, Witwicki, Wołkowicki, Wołosiecki, Woryski, Wysoczanski (Wytag z metryk Stanow Krol.Galic i Lodom.) , Zapłatyński, Zawisza, Zeliborski, Zesteliński, Zurakowski, Żukotyński.'' According to

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added to "Herbarz Polski" by the 19th-century editor and publisher Bobrowicz, other authors, like Duńczewski, Kuropatnicki, Małachowski, Wielądek, assign the Sas coat of arms to the following noble families:" ''Brzuski, Charewicz, Husarzewski, Kumarnicki, Nechrebecki, Obertynski, Olewnicki, Pochorecki, Popiel, Sasimowski, Sasowski, Tyzdrowski.'' Bearers mentioned in other sources include: ''Uruski'' and ''Knihinicki''. According to Aleksander Czolowski as well as Kasper Niesecki and Bobrowicz, Nanowski.

Notable individuals

Notable bearers of this coat of arms include: *

House of Dragoș The House of Dragoș, also known as the House of Drăgoșești ( hu, Drágfy, Drágffy, Drágffi, Drágfi), was founded by Dragoș (also known as ''Dragoș Vodă''Brezianu, Andrei and Spânu, Vlad (2007) "Dragoş Vodă (?–ca. 1353)" ''Histori ...

Baczewski family Baczewski is a name of a Polish szlachta family, founders of the J. A. Baczewski vodka company. The factory, dating back to late 18th century, was based in Lwów (Lviv) and until 1939 was one of two most popular Polish export goods. The family of ...

Leon Biliński Chevalier Leon de Biliński (15 June 1846 in Zalischyky, Galicia, now Ukraine – 14 June 1923 in Vienna) was a Polish-Austrian statesman of the Biliński family. He had several important political functions in the Habsburg monarchy and indep ...

* Daniłowicz family **

Roman Danylovich Roman Danylovych (c. 1230 – c. 1261), Prince of Black Ruthenia (Navahradak) 1254–1258, Prince of Slonim?. He was born as a younger son of Danylo of Halych, a powerful prince of lands east from Poland and later king of those regions, w ...

(Prince of

Black Ruthenia Black Ruthenia ( la, Ruthenia Nigra), or Black Rus' ( be, Чорная Русь, translit=Čornaja Ruś; lt, Juodoji Rusia; pl, Ruś Czarna), is a historical region on the Upper Nemunas, including Novogrudok (Naugardukas), Grodno (Gardinas) a ...

) **

, grandfather of King

Jan III Sobieski John III Sobieski ( pl, Jan III Sobieski; lt, Jonas III Sobieskis; la, Ioannes III Sobiscius; 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696. Born into Polish nobility, Sobie ...

Teofila Zofia Sobieska Teofila Zofia Sobieska, née Daniłowicz (Polish: ''Daniłowiczówna'') (1607 – 27 November 1661) was a Polish noblewoman (''szlachcianka''), mother of Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland. Zofia Teofila was the daughter of Voivode of Ruthenia Ja ...

née Daniłowicz, mother of King Jan III Sobieski ** Mikołaj Daniłowicz *

Albin Dunajewski Albin Dunajewski (born 1 March 1817 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Stanisławów - 19 June 1894 in Kraków) was a Bishop of Kraków, Poland, as well as charitable patron and high-profile social activist. Highlights In 1882, Albin Dunajewski ordained Brothe ...

* :pl:Józef Dwernicki * Jadwiga Dzieduszycka *

Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki Count Włodzimierz Ksawery Tadeusz Dzieduszycki (; 22 June 1825 – 18 September 1899) was a Polish noble, landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts of Ruthenian heritage. Włodzimierz became the first Ordynat of t ...

Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki of the Sas coat of arms (german: Georg Franz Kolschitzky, uk, Юрій-Франц Кульчицький, translit=Yurii-Frants Kulchytskyi; 1640 – February 19, 1694) was a Polish nobleman, diplomat, and spy during t ...

Jan Sas-Zubrzycki Jan Sas Zubrzycki (25 June 1860 in Tłuste – 4 August 1935 in Lwów) was a Polish architect known for his work in the neo-Gothic styleBolesław Klimaszewski. ''An Outline history of Polish culture''. Interpress. 1984. p. 209. and originator ...

* :pl:Seweryn Uruski * Józef Sas-Czułowski, Polish captain who fought in the Battle of Somosierra and was Adjutant to Jan Nepomucen Dziewanoski. * Dr Mieczyslaw Jan de Sas Kropiwnicki (1912-1971): The first Polish veterinarian to perform a caesarean section on a brood mare http://www.medycynawet.edu.pl/archives/423/6495-summary-med-weter-77-02-6495-2021 Note: as name spellings were fairly fluid between local

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s spoken and written in past history throughout the Slavic-speaking states or central Europe region, so differences in name spellings exist from one place to another.

Related coat of arms

Frampol Frampol is a town in Poland, in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship. It has 1,431 inhabitants (December 2021), and lies in eastern Lesser Poland, near the Roztocze Upland. Frampol is surrounded by the '' Szczebrzeszyn Landscape Park'' and the ...

town in

Lublin Voivodeship The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province (Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, Che� ...

(the eastern part of the province was historically part of

) *

Sasiv Sasiv (Ukrainian: /, Polish: , Yiddish: , Russian: /) is a Selo in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, since 1945. Until 1772 the town was located in the historical territory of Ruthenia, in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingd ...

(Polish ''Sasów/Sassów'') town in

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

(historically in the

of the

Crown of the Kingdom of Poland The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland ( pl, Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Latin: ''Corona Regni Poloniae''), known also as the Polish Crown, is the common name for the historic Late Middle Ages territorial possessions of the King of Poland, includ ...

) * Biliński coat of arms

Literature

* * * * HERBARZ POLSKI Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J. (English ''Polish Armorial – Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J.''), Author:

, Publisher:

, Lipsku (Leipzig), 1841, Vol. 8, p. 284–285. (in Polish) * ORBIS POLONUS, Tom III, (Simple English ''Armorial of Polish nobility, Volume 3''), Author:

, 1641–43, Kraków, p. 195–202. (in Latin) * Herby rycerstwa polskiego (English ''Coat of Arms of Polish Nobility''), Author: Bartosz Paprocki, Publisher: Biblioteka Polska, 1584 Kraków, reprinted 1858 Kraków, reprinted 1982 Warsaw, p. 695–697 (in Polish) * * Ludwik Wyrostek: ''Ród Dragów – Sasów na Węgrzech i Rusi Halickiej'', Kraków, 1932. (in Polish) * Franciszek Piekosiński: Heraldyka polska wieków średnich, Kraków, 1899. (in Polish) *

Tadeusz Gajl Tadeusz Gajl (born 1940 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian-born Polish artist and graphic designer, notable for his contemporary illustrations on the coats of arms borne by the historical nobility (''szlachta'') of Poland. After graduating fro ...

: Herbarz polski od średniowiecza do XX wieku : ponad 4500 herbów szlacheckich 37 tysięcy nazwisk 55 tysięcy rodów. L&L, 2007. . (in Polish)

References

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