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Dunajec river castles, the Glossary

The Dunajec river castles is a chain of thirteen medieval castles (some of which do not exist any longer), built in southern Lesser Poland, along the Dunajec river.^[1]

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Bar Confederation

The Bar Confederation (Konfederacja barska; 1768–1772) was an association of Polish–Lithuanian nobles (szlachta) formed at the fortress of Bar in Podolia (now Ukraine), in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian political influence and against King Stanislaus II Augustus with Polish reformers, who were attempting to limit the power of the Commonwealth's wealthy magnates.

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Battle of Mohács

The Battle of Mohács (mohácsi csata, Mohaç Muharebesi or Mohaç Savaşı) was fought on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, Kingdom of Hungary, between the forces of the Kingdom of Hungary and its allies, led by Louis II, and those of the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman the Magnificent.

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Białawoda, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Białawoda is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łososina Dolna, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Bodzanta

Bodzanta or Bodzęta of Szeliga coat of arms (Bodzęta; 1320–1388), was a Polish nobleman, governor of Kraków–Sandomierz lands (1350, 1357–1370, 1372–1379, 1381) and the archbishop of Gniezno (1382–1388).

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Bolesław V the Chaste

Bolesław V the Chaste (Bolesław Wstydliwy; 21 June 1226 – 7 December 1279) was Duke of Sandomierz in Lesser Poland from 1232 and High Duke of Poland from 1243 until his death, as the last male representative of the Lesser Polish branch of Piasts.

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Bona Sforza

Bona Sforza (2 February 1494 – 19 November 1557) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right.

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Casimir IV Jagiellon

Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; Kazimierz Andrzej Jagiellończyk; Lithuanian:; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492.

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Castellan

A castellan, or constable, was the governor of a castle in medieval Europe.

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Chełmiec, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Chełmiec is a village in Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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Czchów

Czchów (טשיכוב-Chekhoiv, Weißenkirchen) is a town in Brzesko County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,288 inhabitants as of December 2021.

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Czorsztyn

Czorsztyn (German: Schorstin) is a village in Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Nowy Targ County.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Deluge (history)

The Deluge (potop szwedzki; švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Domosławice

Domosławice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czchów, within Brzesko County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Dunajec

The Dunajec (Goral dialects: Dónajec) is a river running through northeastern Slovakia and southern Poland.

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Dunajec River Gorge

The Dunajec River Gorge (Przełom Dunajca; Prielom Dunajca; Dohnst-Schlucht) runs through the Pieniny Mountains in the south of Poland and the north of Slovakia (as Dunajec is the border river between the two countries in the area).

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Epidemic

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.

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Feliks Jan Szczęsny Morawski

Feliks Jan Szczęsny Morawski (15 May 1818, in Rzeszów – 10 April 1898, in Stary Sącz) was a Polish historian, writer, painter and ethnographer.

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Gmina

The gmina (Polish:, plural gminy) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality.

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Gord (archaeology)

A gord is a medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, usually built on strategic sites such as hilltops, riverbanks, lake islets or peninsulas between the 6th and 12th centuries in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Gródek nad Dunajcem

Gródek nad Dunajcem ("Little Town on the Dunajec") is a village in southern Poland situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999 (it was previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship from 1975-1998).

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Gryf coat of arms

Gryf (Polish for "Griffin"), also known as Jaxa, is a Polish coat of arms that was used by many noble families in medieval Poland and later under the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, branches of the original medieval Gryfita-Świebodzic family as well as families connected with the Clan by adoption at ennoblement or even by error.

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Hetman

reason is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders (comparable to a field marshal or imperial marshal in the Holy Roman Empire).

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Highwayman

A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers.

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History of Poland during the Piast dynasty

The period of rule by the Piast dynasty between the 10th and 14th centuries is the first major stage of the history of the Polish state.

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Hussites

Catholic crusaders in the 15th century The Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Hussite Wars. The movement began in Prague and quickly spread south and then through the rest of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Eventually, it expanded into the remaining domains of the Bohemian Crown as well. The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus (fl.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

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Jan Długosz

Jan Długosz (1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków.

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Jan Matejko

Jan Alojzy Matejko (also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history.

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Jan Muskata

Jan Muskata (1250 – 7 February 1320) was bishop of Kraków from 1294 to 1309.

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Jan Tarnowski

Jan Amor Tarnowski (Latin: Joannes Tarnovius; 1488 – 16 May 1561) was a Polish nobleman, knight, military commander, military theoretician, and statesman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

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Keep

A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility.

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Kinga of Poland

Kinga of Poland or Kinga of Hungary, also Saint Kinga (also known as Cunegunda; Święta Kinga, Szent Kinga, Šv.) (5 March 1224– 24 July 1292) is a saint in the Catholic Church and patroness of Poland and Lithuania.

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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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Krościenko nad Dunajcem

Krościenko nad Dunajcem is a village in southern Poland situated in the Nowy Targ County in Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999 (previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship, from 1975 to 1998).

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Kurów, Nowy Sącz County

Kurów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełmiec, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Lanckoroński

The House of Lanckoroński (plural: Lanckorońscy) was an old and wealthy Polish aristocratic family.

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Leliwa coat of arms

Leliwa is a Polish coat of arms.

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Lesser Poland

Lesser Poland, often known by its Polish name Małopolska (Polonia Minor), is a historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland.

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List of castles in Poland

This is a list of castles in Poland in alphabetical order, based on similar lists compiled by various sight-seeing societies.

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Ludźmierz

Ludźmierz is a village in Poland in the Lesser Poland voivodeship, in the county of Nowy Targ.

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Lusatian culture

The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1300–500) in most of what is now Poland and parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, eastern Germany and western Ukraine.

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Marcinkowice, Nowy Sącz County

Marcinkowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełmiec, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Maszkowice, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Maszkowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łącko, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Matthias Corvinus

Matthias Corvinus (Hunyadi Mátyás; Matia/Matei Corvin; Matija/Matijaš Korvin; Matej Korvín; Matyáš Korvín) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and adopted the title Duke of Austria in 1487.

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Melsztyn

Melsztyn is a village on the left bank of the Dunajec river in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Myślenice

Myślenice is a town in southern Poland, situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

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Napoleon Orda

Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda (Напалеон Орда; Napoleonas Orda; 11 February 1807 – 26 April 1883) was a Polish-Lithuanian musician, pianist, composer, and artist, best known for numerous sketches of historical sites of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Naszacowice

Naszacowice (also Naszczowice) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Podegrodzie, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Niedzica

Niedzica (Nedeca, Nedec) is a resort village in Nowy Targ County of Lesser Poland province, Poland, located on the banks of Lake Czorsztyn.

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Nowy Sącz

Nowy Sącz (Újszandec; Tsanz; Nový Sonč; Neu Sandez) is a city in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Piast dynasty

The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland.

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Pieniny

The Pieniny (sometimes also the PieninsSzafer, Władysław. 2013. The Vegetation of Poland: International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology. Warsaw: Pergamon Press, pp. 156, 388. or the Pienin Mountains, Pieninek) is a mountain range in the south of Poland and the north of Slovakia.

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Pieniny National Park (Poland)

Pieniny National Park (Pieniński Park Narodowy) is a protected area located in the heart of the Pieniny mountains in the southernmost part of Poland.

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Podegrodzie, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Podegrodzie is a village in Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Polish Golden Age

The Polish Golden Age (Polish: Złoty Wiek Polski) was the Renaissance period in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, roughly corresponding to the period of rule of the King Władysław II Jagiełło (1386–1434) and Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellonian Dynasty monarchs, until his death in 1572.

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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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Poprad (river)

The Poprad (Poprád, Popper) is a river in northern Slovakia and southern Poland, and a tributary of the Dunajec River near Stary Sącz, Poland.

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Rawicz coat of arms

towns.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Rożnów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Rożnów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gródek nad Dunajcem, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Sandomierz

Sandomierz (pronounced:; Sandomiria, Tsouzmer, Tsoyzmer) is a historic town in south-eastern Poland with 23,863 inhabitants, situated on the Vistula River near its confluence with the San, in the Sandomierz Basin.

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Second Mongol invasion of Poland

The second Mongol invasion of Poland was carried out by General Boroldai (Burundai) of the Golden Horde in 1259–1260.

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Seniorate Province

Seniorate Province, also known as the Senioral Province, was a district principality in the Duchy of Poland that was formed in 1138, following the fragmentation of the state. Dunajec river castles and Seniorate Province are history of Lesser Poland.

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Sigismund I the Old

Sigismund I the Old (Zygmunt I Stary, Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548.

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Spycimir

Spycimir, also Spyćmier, Spyćmir, Spyćmierz, Spićymierz, etc., is an old Polish masculine given name.

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Starosta

Starosta or starost (Cyrillic: старост/а, Latin: capitaneus, Starost, Hauptmann) is a community elder in some Slavic lands.

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Szaflary

Szaflary is a village in southern Poland situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999 (it was previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998).

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Szczyrzyc

Szczyrzyc (formerly Szczyrzyce) is a village in Poland, located in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Limanowa County, Jodłownik Commune.

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Szlachta

The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunajec_river_castles

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Castles in Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Tourist attractions in Lesser Poland Voivodeship

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