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Shmankivtsi School
Shmankivtsi ( uk, Шманьківці, pl, Szmańkowce) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Zavodske settlement hromada. It is the administrative center of the former Shmankivska village council. Shmankivtsi includes the hamlet of Strusivka, a former village. Geography It is located on the right bank of the river Nichlavka (right tributary of the Nichlava, Dniester basin), from the district center and from the nearest railway station Shmankivchyky. Its geographic coordinates are 48° 59' north latitude and 25° 55' east longitude. The average height above sea level is . The territory is . Yards - 268. Near the village flows the stream Samets, which flows into the river Nichlava. Toponymy Leading specialist in Ukrainian onomastics, Doctor of Philology, Professor of Lviv University in his monograph "Origin of Ukrainian Carpathian and Carpathian names of settlements (anthroponymic formations)" noted that the original meaning was ''Shmaykivtsi'', mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shmankivtsi Castle
Shmankivtsi Castle ( uk, Шманьківський замок) is a lost defensive structure in the village of Shmankivtsi, Zavodske settlement hromada, Chortkiv District, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The remains of the castle were discovered by archaeologist Volodymyr Dobrianskyi in the early 1990s during archeological excavations of antiquities in the Nichlava Nichlava (medieval name - Sarnik) is a river in Ukraine, within the Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast. Left tributary of the Dniester ( Black Sea basin). Description and location Length 83 km. The catchment area is 871 km. The slope of ... river basin. The castle site is included in the List of newly discovered cultural heritage sites (protection number 2088). History On November 26, 1624, the Dominican monks from Chortkiv, together with Pavel Kelpinsky ( pl, Paweł Kełpiński), a neighbor of the village of Shmankivtsi, decided to build a castle to defend against the Tatars,''Barącz S.'Rys dziejów zako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gáva-Holigrady Culture
The Gáva-Holigrady culture was a late Bronze Age culture of Eastern Slovakia, Western Ukraine (Zakarpats'ka Oblast and Dnister river basin), Northwestern Romania, Moldova, and Northeastern Hungary. It is considered a subtype of the Urnfield culture. Gava-Holigrady culture is named after an archaeological settlement Gava in Northeastern Hungary and an archaeological site Holigrady (Голігради) in Ukrainian Ternopil Oblast. In Slovakia, the culture originated in the early 12th century BC. Gáva people lived in settlements and castles that they built in the Slovakian and Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...n uplands. Gava-Holigrad people are considered to be of Thracian ethnicity. Lăpuş Group The Lăpuş Group is considered to be a Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okopy, Ternopil Oblast
Okopy ( uk, Окопи) is a selo in western Ukraine. It is located in Chortkiv Raion ( district) of Ternopil Oblast ( province), and had its origins as a Polish fortress at the meeting of the Zbruch and Dniester rivers. It belongs to Melnytsia-Podilska settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The current estimated population is around 557 (as of 2005). Name The settlement was previously referred to as Okopy Svyatoyi Triytsi (Ukrainian: Окопи Святої Трійці; pl, Okopy Świętej Trójcy; Russian: Окопы Святой Троицы), translated as the ''Ramparts of the Holy Trinity''. History The stronghold and the neighbouring town were built in 1692, by Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, Grand Hetman of the Crown. The site was chosen by King Jan III Sobieski of Poland, as a measure to stop a possible attack from the nearby Turkish-seized fortresses of Kamieniec Podolski, twenty kilometers away, and Chocim, eight kilometers away. The fortress was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Of The Hunt (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
Master of the hunt (Polish: ''łowczy''; Lithuanian: ''medžioklis''; Latin: ''venator'') was a Polish royal court official from the 13th century with responsibility for organising hunts and guarding royal forests against poachers. Masters of the Hunt also served at the regional courts of magnates in various provinces. From the 15th century, "Master of the Hunt" was an honorary court title and a district office in the Kingdom of Poland and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of .... * ''Łowczy wielki koronny'' - Crown Grand Master of the Hunt * ''Łowczy wielki litewski'' - Lithuanian Grand Master of the Hunt * ''Łowczy wojewódzki'' - Voivodship Master of the Hunt * ''Łowczy ziemski'' - D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łuków
Łuków is a city in eastern Poland with 30,727 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2005). Since 1999, it has been situated in the Lublin Voivodeship, previously it had belonged to the Siedlce Voivodeship (between 1975–1998). It is the capital of Łuków County. The town has an area of 35.75 km2, of which forests make up 13%. Łuków is located on the Southern Krzna river, at approximately 160 meters above sea level. The name of the town first appeared in documents in 1233 (''Castelani nostri de Lucow''). Łuków comes from Old Slavic word ''łuk'', which means "a place located in a wetland". For 500 years Łuków, together with neighboring towns Siedlce and Radzyń Podlaski, was part of Lesser Poland, and was located in the extreme northeastern corner of the province. After Partitions of Poland (late 18th century), it belonged to Russian-controlled Congress Poland. Some time in the 19th century, it became associated with another historical region of Poland, Podlasie. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Koniecpolski
Stanisław Koniecpolski (1591 – 11 March 1646) was a Polish military commander, regarded as one of the most talented and capable in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also a magnate, a royal official (''starosta''), a castellan, a member of the Polish nobility (''szlachta''), and the ''voivode'' (governor) of Sandomierz from 1625 until his death. He led many successful military campaigns against rebelling Cossacks and invading Tatars. From 1618 he held the rank of Field Crown Hetman before becoming the Grand Crown Hetman, the military commander second only to the King, in 1632. Koniecpolski's life was one of almost constant warfare. Before he had reached the age of 20, he had fought in the Dymitriads and the Moldavian Magnate Wars. Later, in 1620, he took part in the Battle of Cecora, during which he was captured by Ottoman forces. After his release in 1623, he defeated the Ottomans' Tatar vassals several times between 1624 and 1626. With inferior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Shmankivtsi
The Battle of Shmankivtsi took place between the troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire near the village of Shmankivtsi (now Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast ( uk, Тернопі́льська о́бласть, translit=Ternopilska oblast; also referred to as Ternopilshchyna, uk, Терно́пільщина, label=none, or Ternopillia, uk, Тернопілля, label=none) is an obl ..., Ukraine). It ended with the victory of the combined forces of the Commonwealth. Sources * ''Тимів І.'' Напад татар на Поділля і Прикарпаття взимку 1624 р. // Наукові записки з української історії: збірник наукових статей. — 2015. — Вип. 37. — С. 13—16. * Diariusze o walkach z Tatarami. Rozprawa szczęśliwa z Tatary Jego Mości Pana Stanisława Koniecpolskiego Hetmana Polnego Koronnego na Podolu pod Szymańkowcami w roku 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goraj, Lublin Voivodeship
Goraj is a town in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Goraj. It lies in historic Lesser Poland, approximately north of Biłgoraj and south of the regional capital Lublin. The village has a population of 1,048. It was granted town rights in the 14th century, lost them in 1869 and it granted them again in 2021. The name of the town probably comes from the Polish language word ('mountain'), and is related to the location of Goraj, among the hills of the Roztocze. In a 1377, Goray. The document was issued by King Louis I, mentions that two members of local nobility, were granted "". The medieval Goray Castle, which was also called Lada Castle, probably was surrounded by a village, where servants and artisans dwelled. It is not known when the village was granted Magdeburg rights, it probably happened in the early 1370s, as in a 1373 document, a person named Demetrio de Goray is mentione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chortkiv
Chortkiv ( uk, Чортків; pl, Czortków; yi, ''Chortkov'') is a city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Chortkiv Raion (district), housing the district's local administration buildings. Chortkiv hosts the administration of Chortkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Chortkiv is located in the northern part of the historic region of Galician Podolia on the banks of the Seret River. In the past Chortkiv was the home of many Hasidic Jews; it was a notable shtetl and had a significant number of Jews residing there prior to the Holocaust. Today, Chortkiv is a regional commercial and small-scale manufacturing center. Among its architectural monuments is a fortress built in the 16th and 17th centuries as well as historic wooden churches of the 17th and 18th centuries. History The first historical mention of Chortkiv dates to 1522, when Polish King Sigismund I the Old granted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Stanislaus Church In Chortkiv
Saint Stanislaus church ( uk, Костел святого Станіслава) is a Roman Catholic Church (RCC) in Chortkiv of the Chortkiv urban hromada of the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast. History On February 22, 1610, the Rus' voivode and owner of the town Stanislav Holskyi brought to Chortkiv oo. Dominicans and founded a church and monastery for them. The first church was built together with the monastery. Dominicans in 1619. After his death, the founder was buried in the crypt of the church. The temple was visited by Polish kings, including Jan II Casimir (in 1663) or Jan III Sobieski (in 1673).Jan K. Ostrowski: Kościół pw. św. Stanisława biskupa i męczennika oraz klasztor dominikanów w Czortkowie. Materiały do dziejów sztuki sakralnej na ziemiach wschodnich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej. Cz. I : Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie dawnego województwa ruskiego. T. 17. Kraków: Antykwa, drukarnia Skleniarz 2009, 508 s., 806 il. ISBN 978-83-89273-71-0. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folwark
''Folwark''; german: Vorwerk; uk, Фільварок; ''Filwarok''; be, Фальварак; ''Falwarak''; lt, Palivarkas is a Polish word for a primarily serfdom Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which develo ...-based farm and agricultural enterprise (a type of ''latifundium''), often very large. History Folwarks ( pl , folwarki) were operated in the Crown of Poland from the 14th century; in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 15th century; and in the joint Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the second half of the 16th century. Folwarks also developed in the Commonwealth-controlled Ukrainian lands. The institution survived after the 18th-century Partitions of Poland, partitions of the Commonwealth until the early-20th century. Folwarks aimed to produce surplus produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdank Coat Of Arms
Abdank is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Blazoning Gules '' łękawica'' argent, crest: łąkawica as in arms. History According to Kasper Niesiecki the beginning of this shield dates from the time of Krakus, a mythological Polish monarch who founded and gave his name to the city of Kraków. On Wawel Mount, where Kraków's castle stood, from the Wisła (Vistula) river side, a man-eating dragon showed up. One day a man called Skuba, a young shoemaker, took the skin of a flayed sheep, put tar and sulphur and fire-brand into it and threw it into the dragon's lair. The dragon, not recognizing the deception, assumed it was a sacrifice from the people of Kraków and ate the fake sheep. The fire in his belly ignited it and as a result the dragon became very thirsty. He drank and drank the water from the Wisła river until he finally exploded and died. For his heroic deed K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
