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Niedzica Castle, the Glossary

Niedzica Castle, also known as Dunajec Castle (Castrum de Dunajecz, Nedec Váralja / Nedec-Vár, Sub-Arx Unterschloss, Nedecký hrad), is located in the southernmost part of Poland in Niedzica (Nowy Targ County in Lesser Poland).^[1]

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Berzeviczy family
Buildings and structures completed in 1326
Castles in Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Gothic Revival architecture in Poland
Historic house museums in Poland
Museums in Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Nowy Targ County

Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Czorsztyn Castle

The ruins of Czorsztyn Castle (Sub-Arx Oberschloss, Arx Czorstein) are located in the southernmost part of Poland in Czorsztyn (Nowy Targ County in Lesser Poland), at Czorsztyn Lake within Pieniny National Park borders. Niedzica Castle and Czorsztyn Castle are castles in Lesser Poland Voivodeship and nowy Targ County.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Dracula

Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897.

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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 castles

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. Niedzica Castle and Dunajec river castles are castles in Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

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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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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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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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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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John Zápolya

John Zápolya or Szapolyai (Szapolyai/ Zápolya János; Ivan Zapolja; Ioan Zápolya; Ján Zápoľský; 1487 – 22 July 1540), was King of Hungary (as John I) from 1526 to 1540.

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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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Lake Czorsztyn

Lake Czorsztyn (Jezioro Czorsztyńskie) is a man-made reservoir on the Dunajec river, southern Poland, between the Pieniny and the Gorce Mountains. Niedzica Castle and Lake Czorsztyn are nowy Targ County.

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Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca; Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru.

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Legend

A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.

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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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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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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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Marl

Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt.

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Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland)

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego) is a ministry within Polish government led by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage responsible for national heritage preservation and Polish culture promotion.

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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 Targ County

Nowy Targ County (powiat nowotarski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border.

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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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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. Niedzica Castle and Pieniny National Park (Poland) are nowy Targ County.

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Plaveč, Stará Ľubovňa District

Location of Stará Ľubovňa District in the Prešov Region. Plaveč (Plautsch; Palocsa; Плавеч; Pławiec) is a village and municipality in Stará Ľubovňa District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Protectorate

A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.

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Quipu

Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Sigismund of Luxembourg (15 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 until his death in 1437.

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Spiš

Spiš (Latin: Cips/Zepus/Scepus/Scepusia/Scepusium, Spisz, Szepesség/Szepes, Zips) is a region in north-eastern Slovakia, with a very small area in south-eastern Poland (more specifically encompassing 14 villages).

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Stratum

In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.

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References

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

Also known as Dunajec Castle.

Niedzica Castle, the Glossary

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See also

Berzeviczy family

Buildings and structures completed in 1326

Castles in Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Gothic Revival architecture in Poland

Historic house museums in Poland

Museums in Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Nowy Targ County

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