Belz, the Glossary
Belz (Белз; Bełz; בעלז) is a small city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, located near the border with Poland between the Solokiya river (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream.[1]
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- Belz Voivodeship
- Cities in Lviv Oblast
- Populated places in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Acharonim
In Jewish law and history, Acharonim (אחרונים Aḥaronim; sing., Aḥaron; lit. "last ones") are the leading rabbis and poskim (Jewish legal decisors) living from roughly the 16th century to the present, and more specifically since the writing of the Shulchan Aruch (Hebrew:, "Set Table", a code of Jewish law) in 1563 CE.
Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski
Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski (1666–1726) was a Polish nobleman, aristocrat and military leader.
See Belz and Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski
Aharon Rokeach
Aharon Rokeach (19 December 1880Israel, Yosef (2005). "Rescuing the Rebbe of Belz". NY:Mesorah Publications, Ltd.. – 18 August 1957) was the fourth Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty.
Ami Magazine
Ami Magazine (עמי, "My people") is an international news magazine that caters to the Orthodox Jewish community.
Andrew of Galicia
Andrew (translit) (unknown – 1323) was the last king of Ruthenia in 1308–1323 (according to other sources since 1315).
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Andrzej Kokowski
Andrzej Kokowski (born 1953) is a Polish archaeologist who is a Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.
Antoni Malczewski
Antoni Malczewski (3 June 1793 – 2 May 1826) was a Polish romantic poet, known for his only work, "a narrative poem of dire pessimism", Maria (1825).
See Belz and Antoni Malczewski
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.
See Belz and Auschwitz concentration camp
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.
Bălți
Bălți is a city in Moldova.
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Belles-lettres
Belles-lettres is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing.
Belz (Hasidic dynasty)
Belz (בעלזא) is a Hasidic dynasty founded in the town of Belz in Western Ukraine, near the Polish border, historically the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.
See Belz and Belz (Hasidic dynasty)
Belz, Morbihan
Belz (Belz) is a commune in the Morbihan département in Brittany in northwestern France.
Bessarabia
Bessarabia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west.
Biłgoraj
Biłgoraj (בילגאריי, Bilgoray, Білґорай) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 25,838 inhabitants as of December 2021.
Black Madonna of Częstochowa
The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Czarna Madonna z Częstochowy; lit), also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa (Matka Boska Częstochowska) is a venerated icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary housed at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, Poland.
See Belz and Black Madonna of Częstochowa
Boykos
The Boykos (boiky; Bojkowie; Pujďáci), or simply Highlanders (verkhovyntsi or, goraly), are an ethnolinguistic group located in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
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Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Bug (river)
The Bug or Western Bug is a major river in Central Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland, and Ukraine, with a total length of.
Buzhans
The Buzhans were a tribal union of Early Slavs, which supposedly formed the East Slavs in southern Russia and the Volga region.
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Casimir II of Belz
Casimir II of Belz (pl: Kazimierz II bełski; 1401/03 – 15 September 1442), was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast from the Masovian branch.
See Belz and Casimir II of Belz
Celtic languages
The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.
Cherven Cities
The Cherven Cities or Cherven Gords (Grody Czerwieńskie, Ukrainian: Червенські Городи), often literally translated as Red Cities, Red Forts or Red Boroughs, was a point of dispute between the Kingdom of Poland and Kievan Rus' at the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries, with both sides claiming their rights to the land.
Chervonohrad Raion
Chervonohrad Raion (Червоноградський район) is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
See Belz and Chervonohrad Raion
Civitas Schinesghe
Civitas Schinesghe (Państwo Gnieźnieńskie), alternatively Duchy of Poland or Principality of Poland is the historiographical name given to a polity in Central Europe, which existed during the medieval period and was the predecessor state of the Kingdom of Poland.
See Belz and Civitas Schinesghe
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).
Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Corona Regni Poloniae) was a political and legal idea formed in the 14th century, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state.
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Daniel of Galicia
Daniel Romanovich (1201–1264) was Prince of Galicia (1205–1207; 1211–1212; 1230–1232; 1233–1234; 1238–1264), Volhynia (1205–1208; 1215–1238), Grand Prince of Kiev (1240), and King of Ruthenia (1253–1264).
See Belz and Daniel of Galicia
Duchy of Belz
Duchy of Belz or Principality of Belz was a duchy, formed in the late 12th century in Kievan Rus.
Dulebes
The Dulebes, Dulebs, Dudlebi or Dulibyh (Дуліби) were one of the tribal unions of Early Slavs between the 6th and the 10th centuries.
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Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki
Prince Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki (1631–1682) was a Polish magnate and szlachcic.
See Belz and Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki
Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Galicia (. Collins English Dictionary Galicja,; translit,; Galitsye) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
See Belz and Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Gas chamber
A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced.
General Government
The General Government (Generalgouvernement; Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Генеральна губернія), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II.
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Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland
The Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Countries (Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich) is a monumental Polish gazetteer, published 1880–1902 in Warsaw by Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski and others.
See Belz and Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland
German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty
The German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty was a second supplementary protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939.
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Goths
The Goths (translit; Gothi, Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
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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–Lithuania.
See Belz and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.
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Hasidic Judaism
Hasidism or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Eastern Europe.
Hromada
A hromada (translit) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality.
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Hrubieszów
Hrubieszów (Hrubeshiv; Hrubyeshov, or label) is a town in southeastern Poland, with a population of around 18,212 (2016).
Jakub Sobieski
Jakub Sobieski (5 May 1590 – 23 June 1646) was a Polish noble, parliamentarian, diarist, political activist, military leader and father of King John III Sobieski.
Jan Firlej
Jan Firlej (c. 1521, Dąbrowica, Lublin County – 1574, Kock) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), and Calvinist activist.
Jan Zamoyski
Jan Sariusz Zamoyski (Ioannes Zamoyski de Zamoscie; 19 March 1542 – 3 June 1605) was a Polish nobleman, magnate, statesman and the 1st ordynat of Zamość.
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish novelist, journalist, historian, publisher, painter, and musician.
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Joel Sirkis
Joel ben Samuel Sirkis (Hebrew: רבי יואל בן שמואל סירקיש; born 1561 - March 14, 1640) also known as the Bach (an abbreviation of his magnum opus BAyit CHadash), was a prominent Ashkenazi posek and halakhist, who lived in Central Europe and held rabbinical positions in Belz, Brest-Litovsk and Kraków, and is considered to be one of the greatest Talmudic scholars of Poland.
Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe.
See Belz and Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia, was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349.
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Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.
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Kingdom of Poland
The Kingdom of Poland (Królestwo Polskie; Latin: Regnum Poloniae) was a monarchy in Central Europe during the medieval period from 1025 until 1385.
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Kraków
(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.
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Lendians
The Lendians (Lędzianie) were a Lechitic tribe who lived in the area of East Lesser Poland and Cherven Cities between the 7th and 11th centuries.
Leo I of Galicia
Leo I of Galicia (translit; – c. 1301) was King of Ruthenia, Prince of Belz (1245–1264), Peremyshl, Galicia (1264–1269), and Kiev (1271–1301).
List of cities in Ukraine
There are 461 populated places in Ukraine that have been officially granted city status (misto) by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament, as of 1 January 2022.
See Belz and List of cities in Ukraine
Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.
Louis I of Hungary
Louis I, also Louis the Great (Nagy Lajos; Ludovik Veliki; Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian (Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370.
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Lublin Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship (województwo lubelskie) is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part of the country, with its capital in Lublin.
See Belz and Lublin Voivodeship
Lugii
The Lugii (or Lugi, Lygii, Ligii, Lugiones, Lygians, Ligians, Lugians, or Lougoi) were a group of tribes mentioned by Roman authors living in ca.
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Luke the Evangelist
Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels.
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Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast (translit), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (Львівщина), is an oblast in western Ukraine.
Lwów Voivodeship
Lwów Voivodeship (Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939).
Magdeburg rights
Magdeburg rights (Magdeburger Recht, Prawo magdeburskie, Magdeburgo teisė; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted by the local ruler.
Maggid
A maggid (מַגִּיד), also spelled as magid, is a traditional Jewish religious itinerant preacher, skilled as a narrator of Torah and religious stories.
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Malka Rokeach
Malka Rokeach (מלכה רוקח) was the first rebbetzin of the Hasidic dynasty of Belz.
Marcin Zamoyski
Marcin Zamoyski (c. 1637–1689) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic).
Menucha Publishers is an Orthodox Jewish English-language publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Mikołaj Sieniawski
Mikołaj Sieniawski (c. 1489 – 1569) was a notable Polish magnate, military commander and a prominent politician of his times.
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Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans.
See Belz and Moldova
Moldovan language
Moldovan or Moldavian (Latin alphabet: limba moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: лимба молдовеняскэ) is one of the two local names for the Romanian language in Moldova.
See Belz and Moldovan language
Morbihan
The Morbihan (Mor-Bihan) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France.
Mordechai Rokeach
Mordechai Rokeach (1902 – 17 November 1949), also known as Mordechai of Bilgoray, was a scion of the Belzer Hasidic dynasty and the right-hand man to his half-brother, Rebbe Aharon of Belz, the fourth Belzer Rebbe.
See Belz and Mordechai Rokeach
Oblasts of Ukraine
An oblast (oblast) in Ukraine, sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative division of the country.
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Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language.
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Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic (traditionally also Old Russian) was a language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages.
Oleg the Wise
Oleg (Ѡлегъ, Ольгъ; Helgi; died 912), also known as Oleg the Wise, was a Varangian prince of the Rus' who became prince of Kiev, and laid the foundations of the Kievan Rus' state.
Opole
Opole (Oppeln; Ôpole) is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper Silesia.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
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Poland–Ukraine border
The Polish–Ukrainian border is the state border between Poland and Ukraine.
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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Polish–Soviet border treaty
Polish-Soviet border treaty may refer to.
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Polish–Ukrainian War
The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic).
See Belz and Polish–Ukrainian War
Proto-Indo-Europeans
The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a hypothetical prehistoric ethnolinguistic group of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Rabbi
A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.
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Rafał Leszczyński (1579–1636)
Rafał Leszczyński (October 1579 – 29 March 1636) was a Polish–Lithuanian noble and Imperial count.
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Raions of Ukraine
A raion (raion), often translated as district, is the second-level administrative division in Ukraine.
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Rebbe
A Rebbe (translit) or Admor (אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.
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Rebbetzin
Rebbetzin (רביצין) or Rabbanit (רַבָּנִית) is the title used for the wife of a rabbi—typically among Orthodox, Haredi, and Hasidic Jews—or for a female Torah scholar or teacher.
Red Ruthenia
Red Ruthenia, or Red Rus' (Chervona Rus'; Ruś Czerwona; Ruthenia Rubra; Russia Rubra; Chervonnaya Rus' or Krasnaya Rus'; Rutenia Roșie), is a term used since the Middle Ages for the south-western principalities of the Kievan Rus', namely the Principality of Peremyshl and the Principality of Belz.
Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
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Rus'–Byzantine War (907)
Siege of Constantinople It is a military raid of the fleet of Rus' against Byzantium, a huge army landed in the Thrace and began to plunder it, after that the Byzantines offered peace to Rus.
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Sarmatians
The Sarmatians (Sarmatai; Latin: Sarmatae) were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD.
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
Second Polish Republic
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.
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Sholom Rokeach
Sholom Rokeach (1781 – September 10, 1855), also known as the Sar Sholom (שר שלום, "Angel of Peace"), was the first rebbe (hereditary hasidic leader) of the Belz dynasty.
Shtetl
Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.
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Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia
Siemowit IV (Ziemowit IV), also known as Siemowit IV the Younger (pl: Siemowit IV Młodszy; ca. 1353/1356 – 21 January 1426), was a Polish prince, member of the Masovian branch of the House of Piast and from 1373 or 1374 Duke of Rawa, and after the division of the paternal inheritance between him and his brother in 1381, ruler over Rawa, Płock, Sochaczew, Gostynin, Płońsk and Wizna, after 1386 hereditary Polish vassal, after 1388 ruler over Belz.
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Sobibor extermination camp
Sobibor (Sobibór) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard.
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Sokal Raion
Sokal Raion (Сокальський район, Sokal’s’kyi raion) was a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (region) in western Ukraine.
Spokesperson
A spokesperson, spokesman or spokeswoman, is someone engaged or elected to speak on behalf of others.
Stanisław Mateusz Rzewuski
Stanisław Mateusz Rzewuski (1662–1728) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic).
See Belz and Stanisław Mateusz Rzewuski
Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki
Count Stanisław Szczęsny Feliks Potocki (1751–1805), of the Piława coat of arms, known as Szczęsny Potocki was a member of the Polish szlachta and a military commander of the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and then Poland.
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Stefan Aleksander Potocki
Stefan Aleksander Potocki (born; died 1726 or 1727), was a Polish nobleman, the voivode of Belz.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
Treaty of Warsaw (1920)
The Treaty of Warsaw (also the Polish-Ukrainian or Petliura-Piłsudski Alliance or Agreement) of April 1920 was a military-economical alliance between the Second Polish Republic, represented by Józef Piłsudski, and the Ukrainian People's Republic, represented by Symon Petliura, against Bolshevik Russia.
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Tsargrad
Tsarigrad or Tsargorod, also Czargrad and Tzargrad, is a Slavic name for the city or land of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
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Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a major archiepiscopal sui iuris ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine.
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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.
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Vasylko Romanovych
Vasylko Romanovych (1203–1269), Prince of Belz (1207–1269), Prince of Brest (1231–1269), and Prince of Volhynia (1231–1269).
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Vladislaus II of Opole
Vladislaus II of Opole (Władysław Opolczyk, Wladislaus von Oppeln, Oppelni László, Владислав Опольчик; ca. 1332 – 18 May 1401), nicknamed Naderspan, was Duke of Opole from 1356, Count palatine of Hungary (1367–1372), Duke of Wieluń (1370–1392), Governor of Ruthenia (1372–1378), Count palatine of Poland (1378) as well as Duke of Dobrzyń, Inowrocław (1378–1392), Krnov and Kuyavia (1385–1392).
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Voivodeship
A voivodeship or voivodate is the area administered by a voivode (governor) in several countries of central and eastern Europe.
Vsevolod Mstislavich of Volhynia
Vsevolod Mstislavich was a son of Mstislav II of Kiev and Agnes, the daughter of King Boleslaus III of Poland.
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West Ukrainian People's Republic
The West Ukrainian People's Republic or West Ukrainian National Republic (translit; abbreviated, also WUNR or WUPR), known for part of its existence as the Western Oblast of the Ukrainian People's Republic (label or), was a short-lived polity that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919.
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White Croats
The White Croats (Bijeli Hrvati; Biali Chorwaci; Bílí Chorvati; Bili khorvaty), also known simply as Croats, were a group of Early Slavic tribes that lived between East Slavic and West Slavic tribes in the historical region of Galicia north of the Carpathian Mountains (in modern Western Ukraine and Southeastern-Southern Poland), and possibly in Northeastern Bohemia.
Yehoshua Rokeach
Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach (1825 – February 3, 1894), known as the Mitteler Ruv, was the second Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty.
Yiddish
Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.
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Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe)
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (born 19 January 1948)Landesman, Yerucham.
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Yissachar Dov Rokeach (third Belzer rebbe)
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (1854 – 29 October 1926)A World That Was, Hamodia Magazine, 12 November 2009, p. 15.
See Belz and Yissachar Dov Rokeach (third Belzer rebbe)
Yuri I of Galicia
Yuri I of Galicia (translit, 24 April 1252 (1257?) – 18 March 1308) was King of Ruthenia and Prince of Volhynia.
See Belz and Yuri I of Galicia
Yuri II Boleslav
Yuri II Boleslav (translit; Bolesław Jerzy II; c. 1305/1310 – April 7, 1340), was King of Ruthenia and Dominus of the lands of Galicia–Volhynia (1325–1340).
Zbruch
The Zbruch (Збруч; Zbrucz) is a river in Western Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dniester.
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1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange
The 1951 Polish-Soviet territorial exchange, also known as the Polish-Soviet border adjustment treaty of 1951, was a border agreement signed in Moscow between the Republic of Poland and the Soviet Union.
See Belz and 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange
See also
Belz Voivodeship
Cities in Lviv Oblast
- Belz
- Bibrka
- Boryslav
- Brody
- Busk, Ukraine
- Chervonohrad
- Dobromyl
- Drohobych
- Dubliany, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast
- Hlyniany
- Horodok, Lviv Oblast
- Kamianka-Buzka
- Khodoriv
- Khyriv
- Komarno, Ukraine
- List of cities in Lviv Oblast
- Lviv
- Morshyn
- Mostyska
- Mykolaiv, Lviv Oblast
- Novoiavorivsk
- Novyi Kalyniv
- Novyi Rozdil
- Peremyshliany
- Pustomyty
- Radekhiv
- Rava-Ruska
- Rudky
- Sambir
- Skole
- Sokal
- Sosnivka
- Staryi Sambir
- Stebnyk
- Stryi
- Sudova Vyshnia
- Truskavets
- Turka, Ukraine
- Uhniv
- Velyki Mosty
- Vynnyky
- Yavoriv
- Zhovkva
- Zhydachiv
- Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast
Populated places in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Baligród
- Baranów Sandomierski
- Belz
- Bestwina
- Biecz
- Bielsko-Biała
- Bolekhivtsi
- Brody
- Chortkiv
- Gdów
- Gorlice
- Grybów
- Głogów Małopolski
- Haczów
- Iwonicz-Zdrój
- Jodłowa
- Lesko
- Lubaczów
- Lutowiska
- Maków Podhalański
- Mielec
- Muszyna
- Narol, Poland
- Radłów
- Ternopil
- Ugartsthal
- Łańcut
- Żywiec
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belz
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