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Jałowicze
Jałowicze, (uk: Яловичі, pl: Jełowicze) is a village in Volhynia, Western Ukraine in the Dubno Raion, Rivne Oblast. It lies 15 km south east of Lutsk, on the right bank of the Styr river. History The village's origins were as a Ruthenian settlement within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Jełowicze together with the neighbouring hamlet of Bożeniec, belonged through the 14th and 15th-centuries to the Ruthenian Jełowicki family, whose name dates from the 14th-century and recalls their ownership of the domain. With the signing of the Union of Lublin in 1569, it became part of the Lithuanian-Polish commonwealth. The village baroque church built in 1669, was founded by a Lutsk judge, for the Dominican Order.Wolski, Marian (ed.) ''Urzędnicy wołyńscy XIV-XVIII w.'', Kórnik, 2007, p. 164. (in Polish) Following the Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, the territory was occupied by the Russian Empire and the religious oder was suppressed, turning the abb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jełowicki Family
The Jełowicki family, sometimes called Jałowiecki, (feminine form: Jełowicka, plural: Jełowiccy) is a Princely Houses of Poland, Polish princely family of Ruthenian nobility, Ruthenian-Lithuanian nobility, Lithuanian origin, bearing the ''Jełowicki'' arms. They use the prefix Bożeniec. Their estates were originally in Volhynia to the east of the Kingdom of Poland (1300–1320), Kingdom of Poland. As Ruthenian nobility, they held the title of ''kniaz'' (prince). By the late 16th century, the family converted from Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox to Catholicism and became polonized. They eventually left their original settlements at Jałowicze, Jałowicze/Jełowicze and Bożeniec. Following their victorious exploits against the invading Tartary, Tartars King Casimir IV Jagiellon rewarded them in 1444 with the domain of Lanivtsi, Łanowce in present day Ukraine. They remained on the same land from father to son from 1444 to 1865. Across the centuries, the family produced many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volhynia
Volhynia or Volynia ( ; see #Names and etymology, below) is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between southeastern Poland, southwestern Belarus, and northwestern Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but in Ukraine it is roughly equivalent to Volyn Oblast, Volyn and Rivne Oblasts; the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast. Volhynia has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among competing powers. For centuries it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the Russian annexation during the Partitions of Poland, all of Volhynia was made part of the Pale of Settlement on the southwestern border of the Russian Empire. Important cities include Rivne, Lutsk, Zviahel, and Volodymyr (city), Volodymyr. Names and etymology *, ; * ; *, ; * or ; *; * ; *; *; * or (both ); Volhynian German: , , or (all ); *, or . The alternative name for the region is Lodomeria after the city of Volodymyr (city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, partitions of Poland–Lithuania. The state was founded by Lithuanians (tribe), Lithuanians, who were at the time a Lithuanian mythology, polytheistic nation of several united Baltic tribes from Aukštaitija. By 1440 the grand duchy had become the largest European state, controlling an area from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south. The grand duchy expanded to include large portions of the former Kievan Rus' and other neighbouring states, including what is now Belarus, Lithuania, most of Ukraine as well as parts of Latvia, Moldova, Poland and Russia. At its greatest extent, in the 15th century, it was the largest state in Europe. It was a multinational state, multi-ethnic and multiconfessionalism, multiconfessional sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Invasion Of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Second Polish Republic, Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west. Subsequent military operations lasted for the following 20 days and ended on 6 October 1939 with the two-way division and annexation of the entire territory of the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This division is sometimes called the Fourth Partition of Poland. The Soviet (as well as German) invasion of Poland was indirectly indicated in the "secret protocol" of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed on 23 August 1939, which divided Poland into "spheres of influence" of the two powers. German and Soviet cooperation in the invasion of Poland has been described as co-belligerence. The Red Army, which vastly outnumbered the Polish defenders, achieved its targets, encountering only limited resistance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Republic Of Poland
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I. The Second Republic was taken over in 1939, after it Invasion of Poland, was invaded by Nazi Germany, the Soviet invasion of Poland, Soviet Union, and the Slovak invasion of Poland, Slovak Republic, marking the beginning of the European theatre of World War II, European theatre of the Second World War. The Polish government-in-exile was established in Paris and later London after the Battle of France, fall of France in 1940. When, after several regional conflicts, most importantly the victorious Polish-Soviet war, the borders of the state were finalized in 1922, Poland's neighbours were Czechoslovakia, Weimar Republic, Germany, the Free City of Danzig, Lithuania, Latvia, Kingdom of Romania, Romania, and the Soviet Union. It had access to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
