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Weriand, 1st Prince Of Windisch-Graetz
Weriand Alois Leopold Ulrich Johann Paul, Prince of Windisch-Graetz (31 May 1790 – 27 October 1867), was a Slovenian-Austrian prince and landowner. Early life He was the third, but second surviving, son of Duchess Maria Leopoldine Franziska of House of Arenberg, Arenberg (1751–1812) and Count Joseph Nicholas of Windisch-Graetz. His elder sister, Countess Sophie Luise Wilhelmine of Windisch-Graetz, married Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Prince Karl of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (the son of Dominic Constantine, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort).Harald Stockert: ''Adel im Übergang. Die Fürsten und Grafen von Löwenstein-Wertheim zwischen Landesherrschaft und Standesherrschaft'', Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2000, His elder surviving brother was Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, who married Princess Marie Eleonore Philippine Luise of House of Schwarzenberg, Schwarzenberg (daughter of Prince Josef Johann of Schwarzenberg), and was raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Serene Highness
His/Her Serene Highness (abbreviation: HSH, second person address: Your Serene Highness) is a style (manner of address), style used today by the reigning families of Liechtenstein, Monaco and Thailand. Until 1918, it was also associated with the princely titles of members of some German ruling and German mediatisation, mediatised dynasties and with a few German nobility, princely but non-ruling families. It was also the form of address used for cadet (genealogy), cadet members of the dynasties of France, Italy, Russia and Ernestine duchies, Ernestine Saxony, under their monarchy, monarchies. Additionally, the treatment was granted for some, but not all, princely yet non-reigning families of Bohemia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania and Russia by emperors or popes. In a handful of rare cases, it was employed by non-royal rulers in viceregal or even Republicanism, republican contexts. Belgium The following Belgian nobility, titleholders or families are authorised by the Crown to use t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Schwarzenberg
The House of Schwarzenberg () is a German (Franconian Circle, Franconian) and Czech (Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemian) aristocratic family, formerly one of the most prominent European noble houses. The Schwarzenbergs are members of the German nobility, German and Czech nobility, and they once held the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. The family belongs to the high nobility and traces its roots to the Lords of Seinsheim during the Middle Ages. The secundogeniture branch of the Schwarzenbergs was among the foremost Czech patriotic houses. The current head of the family is (born 1967), son and heir of the late Karel Schwarzenberg, Karel, 12th Prince of Schwarzenberg (1937–2023), a Czech politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (Czech Republic), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. The family owns properties and lands across Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Switzerland. History Origin The family stems from the Lords of Seinsheim, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planina, Postojna
Planina () is a village in the Municipality of Postojna in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Geography Planina includes the hamlets of Gornja Planina (in older sources ''Gorenja Planina'', ), Dolnja Planina (in older sources ''Dolenja Planina'', ), and Grič in the main settlement; Pod Gradom () and Kačja Vas (or Kačje Ride) to the southwest; and Malni (in older sources ''Malini'', ) and Hasberg (in older sources ''Planinski Grad'', ) to the south.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1968. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 1. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, pp. 257–258. The hamlet of Mačkovec (a.k.a. ''Planinski vrh'', ), formerly considered to belong to Planina, is now part of neighboring Postojna. Name Planina was attested in written sources in 1300 as ''Mounç in foro'' (and as ''Renç miles de Albinus'' in 1321, ''czu der Alben'' in 1333, and ''pey der Albn'' in 1341). The Slovenian name of the settlement is derived from the common noun ''planina'' 'treeless mountain; mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inner Carniola
Inner Carniola ( ; ) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica (plateau), Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral (the Goriška, Gorizia region) in the west. Its administrative and economic center of the region is Postojna, and other minor centers include Vrhnika, Logatec, Cerknica, Pivka, and Ilirska Bistrica. Name The English name ''Inner Carniola'', like the Slovene name ''Notranjska'', is a translation of German ''Innerkrain'', referring to the southwest part of Carniola. The name was created by analogy with ''Inner Austria'' (), referring to the southwestern Habsburg hereditary lands. History Inner Carniola was a ''Circle (administrative division), kreis'' of the Duchy of Carniola, ruled by the archducal House of Habsburg within the Inner Austrian lands starting in the 14th century. The territorial arrangement was described by the scholar Johann Weikhard von Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, which is part of the Mediterranean Sea. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of approximately 2.1 million people. Slovene language, Slovene is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. Ljubljana, the capital and List of cities and towns in Slovenia, largest city of Slovenia, is geographically situated near the centre of the country. Other larger urban centers are Maribor, Ptuj, Kranj, Celje, and Koper. Slovenia's territory has been part of many different states: the Byzantine Empire, the Carolingian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Republic of Venice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grad Hošperk
Grad or grads may refer to: Places * Grad (toponymy) (Cyrillic: Град) is a Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement" that appears in numerous Slavic toponyms ;Specific places named Grad: * Grad (Dubrovnik) - colloquial name for Grad (Ragusa) and present-day Dubrovnik by its inhabitants, neighboring and hinterlands population. * Grad, Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Grad, Delčevo, North Macedonia * Grąd, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland * Grąd, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland * Grad, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia * Municipality of Grad, Slovenia ** Grad, Grad, a village, the seat of the municipality * Grad, Split, an administrative division of Split, Croatia People * Grad (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Grad'' (EP), a Cactus Jack EP * Grad, the dragon in ''Ral Grad'' Education *Grad, short for a graduate, one who has successfully completed an education program Geometry and measurement * Gradian, a unit of angular mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of La Marck
The House of La Marck () was an ancient German nobility, German noble family, which from about 1200 appeared as the Counts of Mark. History The family history started with Count Adolf I, Count of the Mark, Adolf I, scion of a cadet branch of the Rhenish Berg (state), Berg dynasty residing at Altena Castle in Westphalia. In the early 13th century Adolf took his residence at his family's estates around Mark, a settlement in present-day Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamm-Uentrop. Adolf had inherited the Mark fortress from his father Count Frederick I of Berg-Altena (d. 1198) together with the older county around Altena and began to call himself count de La Mark. Originally liensmen (a type of vassal) of the Electorate of Cologne, archbishops of Cologne in the Duchy of Westphalia, the family ruled the County of Mark, an Imperial immediacy, immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire, and, at the height of their powers, the four duchies of Duchy of Jülich, Julich, Duchy of Cleves, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Marie Raymond, 5th Duke Of Arenberg
Charles Marie Raymond d'Arenberg (Enghien, 1 April 1721 – Enghien, 17 August 1778) was the fifth Duke of Arenberg, 11th Duke of Aarschot and an Austrian field marshal. Biography Charles Marie was the eldest son of Duke Leopold Philippe of Arenberg and Duchess Maria Francesca Pignatelli-Bisaccia (1696–1766). His sister was Marie Victoire d'Arenberg, wife of Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden. Charles Marie joined his father's 1743 campaign in the War of Austrian Succession, first as lieutenant-colonel and later as colonel of the second Walloon Infantry Regiment, which he had raised personally. He commanded this regiment in the 1744 and 1745 campaigns, until he became colonel of the Baden-Baden Regiment. One year later he became major general. In 1748, he played an important role in the defence of Maastricht against the French. Charles Marie also became ''Grand-Bailli'' of Hainaut and Mons in 1740. In the first years of the Seven Years' War, he was active in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Austria
Lower Austria ( , , abbreviated LA or NÖ) is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Major cities are Amstetten, Lower Austria, Amstetten, Krems an der Donau, Wiener Neustadt and Sankt Pölten, which has been the capital city, capital of Lower Austria since 1986, replacing Vienna, which became a separate state in 1921. With a land area of and a population of 1.7 million people, Lower Austria is the largest and second-most-populous state in Austria (after Vienna). Geography With a land area of situated east of Upper Austria, Lower Austria is the country's largest state. Lower Austria derives its name from its downriver location on the river Enns (river), Enns, which flows from the west to the east. Lower Austria has an international border, long, with the Czech Republic (South Bohemian Region, South Bohemia and South Moravian Region, South Moravia) and Slovakia (Bratislava Region, Bratislava and Trnava Regions). The state has the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trautmannsdorf An Der Leitha
Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha is a town in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust .... Geography Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha lies in the industrial area of Lower Austria. The Leitha River crosses the municipality. It is the third-largest municipality of the district. About 9.56 percent of the municipality is forested. The municipality contains the following villages: * Gallbrunn (population 736 as of 1 January 2017) * Sarasdorf (population 568 as of 1 January 2017) * Stixneusiedl (population 580 as of 1 January 2017) * Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha (population 979 as of 1 January 2017) References Cities and towns in Bruck an der Leitha District Populated places on the Leitha {{Austria-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Bohemia
The South Bohemian Region () is an administrative unit (''kraj'') of the Czech Republic, located mostly in the southern part of its historical land of Bohemia, with a small part in southwestern Moravia. The western part of the South Bohemian Region is former Prácheňsko, a huge archaic region with distinctive features with its capital, Písek. In 2011, there were 624 municipalities in the region, whereof 54 had a status of a town. The region borders (from the west clockwise) the regions of Plzeň, Central Bohemian, Vysočina and South Moravian. To the south, it borders Austria (Lower Austria and Upper Austria) and Germany (Bavaria). Until 30 May 2001, the region was named as or , after its capital, České Budějovice. Due to its geographical location and natural surroundings the region belongs to the first settlements that appeared in the distant past. Over the past centuries, the South Bohemian region has been known for fishpond cultivation and forestry. The region has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Červená Lhota Castle
Červená Lhota () is a Renaissance architecture, Renaissance castle in the South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. It lies in the village of Červená Lhota in the Pluhův Žďár municipality, about northwest of Jindřichův Hradec. It stands at the middle of a lake on a rocky island. There is also a park, where the Chapel of the Holy Trinity is located. Etymology The village where the castle is located was originally called just Lhota. In the 16th century, it was called Nová Lhota ("new Lhota"). From the 17th century, it was called Nová Červená Lhota ("new red Lhota") after the castle, and then just Červená Lhota ("red lhota"). The castle's name Červená Lhota is explained by the colour of the castle's bright-red roof tiles. History The existence of an original fortress on the site of today's castle is assumed from sometime around the middle of the 14th century. It was built on a rocky granite outcrop, which, after the damming of a stream and the filling up of a fishpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
