Wiślica, the Glossary
Wiślica (Vayslits) is a town in Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.[1]
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- Cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Austro-Polish War
The Austro-Polish War or Polish-Austrian War was a part of the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809 (a coalition of the Austrian Empire and the United Kingdom against Napoleon's French Empire and allied states).
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Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (województwo świętokrzyskie), also known as Holy Cross Voivodeship, is a voivodeship (province) in southeastern Poland, in the historical region of Lesser Poland.
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Bohemia
Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.
Brick Gothic
Brick Gothic (Backsteingotik, Gotyk ceglany, Baksteengotiek) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resources of standing rock (though glacial boulders are sometimes available).
Busko County
Busko (powiat buski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland.
Busko-Zdrój
Busko-Zdrój is a spa town in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, southern Poland. Wiślica and Busko-Zdrój are cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Kielce Governorate and Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939).
Casimir II the Just
Casimir II the Just (Kazimierz II Sprawiedliwy; 28 October 1138 – 5 May 1194) was a Lesser Polish Duke of Wiślica from 1166 to 1173, and of Sandomierz after 1173.
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Casimir III the Great
Casimir III the Great (Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370.
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Centaur
A centaur (kéntauros), occasionally hippocentaur, also called Ixionidae, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse that was said to live in the mountains of Thessaly.
Collegiate Basilica of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wiślica
The Collegiate church in Wiślica (full name: Collegiate Basilica of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wiślica, Bazylika kolegiacka Narodzenia Najświętszej Marii Panny w Wiślicy) is a Gothic church, erected in 1350 in the southern Polish town of Wiślica, during the reign of King Casimir III of Poland.
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Congress Poland
Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw.
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Crypt
A crypt (from Greek κρύπτη (kryptē) crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building.
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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Duchy of Warsaw
The Duchy of Warsaw (Księstwo Warszawskie; Duché de Varsovie; Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Gmina
The gmina (Polish:, plural gminy) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality.
Gmina Wiślica
Gmina Wiślica is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.
Great Moravia
Great Moravia (Regnum Marahensium; Μεγάλη Μοραβία, Meghálī Moravía; Velká Morava; Veľká Morava; Wielkie Morawy, Großmähren), or simply Moravia, was the first major state that was predominantly West Slavic to emerge in the area of Central Europe, possibly including territories which are today part of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine and Slovenia.
Griffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; Late and Medieval Latin: gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
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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Helena of Znojmo
Helena of Znojmo (Helena Znojemská; Helena znojemska; c. 1141–1202/1206), was a Bohemian princess, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty.
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Henry of Sandomierz
Henry I of Sandomierz (Henryk) (1131 – 18 October 1166) was the duke of Sandomierz from 1138 until his death.
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History of Poland
The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars, communism, and the restoration of democracy.
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Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.
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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.
Jewish Cemetery, Wiślica
Jewish Cemetery in Wiślica is the cemetery of the Jewish community which lived in Wiślica, Poland, until 1942. Wiślica and Jewish Cemetery, Wiślica are Holocaust locations in Poland.
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Kielce
Kielce (Keltz) is a city in southern Poland and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Wiślica and Kielce are cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Holocaust locations in Poland, Kielce Governorate, Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939), Populated riverside places in Poland and Sandomierz Voivodeship.
Kozy
Kozy (German: Seiffersdorf, Seibersdorf, Kosy (1941–45); Wymysorys: Zajwyśdiüf) is a large village with a population of 12,457 (2013) within Bielsko County, located in the historical and geographical south-west region of Lesser Poland, between Kęty and Bielsko-Biała, and about 65 kilometres south-west of Kraków and south of Katowice.
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Kraków
(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Wiślica and Kraków are Holocaust locations in Poland.
Lesser Poland
Lesser Poland, often known by its Polish name Małopolska (Polonia Minor), is a historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland.
Lesser Poland Way
The Lesser Poland Way is one of the Polish routes of the Way of St. James, a medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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Mieszko I
Mieszko I (– 25 May 992) was Duke of Poland from 960 until his death in 992 and the founder of the first unified Polish state, the Civitas Schinesghe.
Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.
Mongol invasion of Europe
From the 1220s into the 1240s, the Mongols conquered the Turkic states of Volga Bulgaria, Cumania and Iranian state of Alania, and various principalities in Eastern Europe.
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Nida (river)
The Nida is a river in central Poland, a left tributary of the Vistula river, into which it flows near Nowy Korczyn). The Nida has a length of 154 kilometres and a basin area of 3,844 km2. This includes the protected area called Nida Landscape Park. The Nida itself is made up of two smaller rivers, the White Nida and the Black Nida, which merge in the village of Brzegi (near Checiny).
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Powiat
A powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (LAU-1) in other countries.
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
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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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Romanesque art
Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 12th century, or later depending on region.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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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. Wiślica and Sandomierz are cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Holocaust locations in Poland, Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939) and Sandomierz Voivodeship.
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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Starosta
Starosta or starost (Cyrillic: старост/а, Latin: capitaneus, Starost, Hauptmann) is a community elder in some Slavic lands.
Statutes of Casimir the Great
The Statutes of Casimir the Great or Piotrków-Wiślica Statutes (Statuty wiślicko-piotrkowskie) are a collection of laws issued by Casimir III the Great, the king of Poland, in the years 1346-1362 during congresses in Piotrków and Wiślica.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
Third Partition of Poland
The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polish–Lithuanian national sovereignty until 1918.
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Tree of life
The tree of life is a fundamental archetype in many of the world's mythological, religious, and philosophical traditions.
Vistulans
The Vistulans, or Vistulanians (Wiślanie), were an early medieval Lechitic tribe inhabiting the western part of modern Lesser Poland.
Vladimirko Volodarovich
Volodymyrko Volodarovych (Volodymyrko Volodarovych) or Vladimirko Volodarovich (date; 1104 – February 1153) was a Galician prince (from 1141, according to others from 1144), son of Volodar Rostyslavych.
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Voivodeships of Poland
A voivodeship (województwo; plural: województwa) is the highest-level administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries.
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Władysław I Łokietek
Władysław I Łokietek, in English known as the "Elbow-high" or Ladislaus the Short (c. 1260/12 March 1333), was King of Poland from 1320 to 1333, and duke of several of the provinces and principalities in the preceding years.
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Władysław II Jagiełło
Jogaila (1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło,He is known under a number of names: Jogaila Algirdaitis; Władysław II Jagiełło; Jahajła (Ягайла).
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Wiślica
Wiślica (Vayslits) is a town in Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. Wiślica and Wiślica are cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Holocaust locations in Poland, Kielce Governorate, Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939), Populated riverside places in Poland and Sandomierz Voivodeship.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
See also
Cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
- Bodzentyn
- Bogoria, Poland
- Busko-Zdrój
- Chmielnik, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
- Chęciny
- Daleszyce
- Działoszyce
- Gowarczów
- Iwaniska
- Jędrzejów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
- Kazimierza Wielka
- Kielce
- Klimontów, Sandomierz County
- Koprzywnica
- Końskie
- Kunów
- Małogoszcz
- Opatów
- Opatowiec
- Osiek, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
- Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
- Ożarów
- Piekoszów
- Pierzchnica
- Pińczów
- Połaniec
- Sandomierz
- Skalbmierz
- Skarżysko-Kamienna
- Starachowice
- Staszów
- Stopnica
- Stąporków
- Suchedniów
- Szydłów
- Sędziszów
- Wiślica
- Wąchock
- Włoszczowa
- Zawichost
- Ćmielów
- Łopuszno
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiślica
Also known as Ruthenian raid on Poland (1135), Sack of Wiślica, Wislica.
, Voivodeships of Poland, Władysław I Łokietek, Władysław II Jagiełło, Wiślica, World War I.