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Kozova Castle
The Kozova Castle () is a defensive castle built in Kozova, Ternopil Oblast on the Koropets River in the early 16th century. Location The site for the fortification was chosen because of the natural conditions favorable to military defense. The castle was built on a hill, at the confluence of the Koropets River and its small tributary. History The castle was built when the town was owned by the noble Potocki family. In 1575, 1589, 1621 and 1626 the castle was attacked by Tatars. Between 6-16 October 1667, during the Battle of Podhajce, Tatar and Turkish troops burned and destroyed the town and the castle. After this event the fortress was not rebuilt again. On 28-29 November 1671, the locality of Kozova was visited by the traveler Ulrich von Werdum, a Frisia,Ksawery Liske Franciszek Ksawery Liske (18 October 1838 in Śląskowo – 27 February 1891 in Lwów) was a Polish historian, a founder of the Lwów's historical school (''lwowska szkoła historyczna''), a founder and first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kozova
Kozova (; ; ) is a rural settlement in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in the historical region of Galicia, east of Berezhany, some west of Ternopil, and southeast of Lviv. It hosts the administration of Kozova settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The settlement is situated beside a lake on the Koropets River (“little carp”). There is presumption that the name Kozova comes from the Ukrainian word ''koza'' (goat), though other possible sources exist. Population: History From 1350 to 1772 and again from 1919 to 1939, it was part of Poland. The first partition of Poland in 1772 attributed Galicia to the Habsburg monarchy. See more details in the article Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. The Polish name ''Kozowa'' was used until 1939. During the Kerensky Offensive the Armoured Car Expeditionary Force of the British Royal Navy Air Service established their forward operating base here, close to the headquarters of the 41st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ternopil Raion
Ternopil Raion () is a raion in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Ternopil. It has a population of On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast was reduced to three, and the area of Ternopil Raion was significantly expanded. Six abolished raions, Berezhany, Kozova, Pidhaitsi, Pidvolochysk, Terebovlia, and Zboriv Raions, a part of one more abolished raion, Zbarazh Raion, as well as Berezhany Municipality and the city of Ternopil, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Ternopil Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Subdivisions Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 25 hromadas: * Baikivtsi rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Baikivtsi, retained from Ternopil Raion; * Bila rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Bila, retained f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ternopil Oblast
Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tributary of the Dniester. Population: One of the natural wonders of the region are its cave complexes.Tell about Ukraine. Ternopil Oblast . 24 Kanal (youtube). Although Ternopil Oblast is among the smallest regions in Ukraine, over 100 caves have been discovered there. Scientists believe these are only 20% of all possible caves in the region. The biggest cave is Optymistychna Cave. Measuring in total length, it is the longest cave in Eurasia and the list of longest caves, fifth-longest in the world. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koropets (river)
Koropets () is a river in Ukraine which flows within the Ternopil and Chortkiv Raions of Ternopil Oblast.Коропець / Л. П. Царик // лектронний ресурс/ Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк а ін.; НАН України, НТШ. – К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2014. Details The left tributa ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potocki Family
The House of Potocki (; plural: Potoccy, male: Potocki, feminine: Potocka) was a prominent szlachta, Polish noble family in the Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), Kingdom of Poland and magnates of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Potocki family is one of the wealthiest and most powerful aristocratic families in Poland. History The Potocki family originated from the small village of Potok Wielki, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Potok Wielki; their family name derives from that place name. The family contributed to the cultural development and history of Poland's Eastern Borderlands (today Western Ukraine). The family is renowned for numerous Polish statesmen, military leaders, and cultural activists. The first known Potocki was Żyrosław z Potoka (born about 1136). The children of his son Aleksander (~1167) castelan of Sandomierz, were progenitors of new noble families such as the Moskorzewski, Stanisławski, Tworowski, Borowski, and Stosłowski. Jakub Potocki (c. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Podhajce (1667)
The Battle of Podhajce (October 6–16, 1667) was fought in the town of Podhajce in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (nowadays Pidhaitsi, western Ukraine), and the area surrounding it as part of the Polish–Tatar War. The army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under John III Sobieski, totaling around 9,000 men, defeated Tatar and Cossack forces under Petro Doroshenko and Adil Giray, which totaled around 35,000 men. Background On January 31, 1667 the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia signed the Treaty of Andrusovo. Russia gained the control of Left-bank Ukraine, while the commonwealth maintained the rule of Right-bank Ukraine, which would be defended by Polish-Lithuanian and Russian forces. The end of the war gave time to commonwealth armies for reinforcement. In the same period Petro Doroshenko, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine, in order to establish his rule in Right-bank Ukraine, signed a treaty with Sultan Mehmed IV that recognized the Coss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Von Werdum
Ulrich von Werdum (1 January 1632 – 20 March 1681) was a German traveler and diplomat. The author of the family chronicle "Series familiae Werdumanae" (1667) and books on the history of East Frisia.Paul Wagner: Werdum, Ulrich von'. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, S. 486 f. Biography Born on 1 January 1632 in the in Werdum, East Frisia.Walter Deeters. Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland (BLO) 997–2001 Band 1Ulrich von Werdum S. 362–364. He studied at the universities of Franeker (1652) and Heidelberg (1655). After the death of his parents, he became a co-owner of his parents' estate and set out on a journey. In 1670–1672, he traveled to western Ukraine and Podillia as an agent of the French government, Abbé Pommier. Ulrich von Werdum's memoirs were published in German by J. Bernoulli in 1786–1788. In 1876, Ksawery Liske published this work in Polish.''Кулинич І. М.'Вердум Ульріх ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frisia
Frisia () is a Cross-border region, cross-border Cultural area, cultural region in Northwestern Europe. Stretching along the Wadden Sea, it encompasses the north of the Netherlands and parts of northwestern Germany. Wider definitions of "Frisia" may include the island of Rømø, Rem and the other Danish Wadden Sea Islands. The region is traditionally inhabited by the Frisians, a Germanic peoples, West Germanic ethnic group. Etymology The contemporary name for the region stems from Latin , an ethnonym used for Frisii, a group of ancient tribes in modern-day Northwestern Germany, possibly being a loanword of Proto-Germanic wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/frisaz, *''frisaz'', meaning "curly, crisp", presumably referring to the hair of the tribesmen. In some areas, the local translation of "Frisia" is used to refer to another subregion. On the North Frisian islands, for instance, "Frisia" and "Frisians" refer to (the inhabitants of) mainland North Frisia. In Saterland Frisian, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ksawery Liske
Franciszek Ksawery Liske (18 October 1838 in Śląskowo – 27 February 1891 in Lwów) was a Polish historian, a founder of the Lwów's historical school (''lwowska szkoła historyczna''), a founder and first chairman of the Polish Historical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne), director of the Archiwum Krajowe Aktów Grodzkich i Ziemskich we Lwowie. In 1879-1880 he was Rector of the Lviv University. He was buried in the Łyczakowski Cemetery. His students were Oswald Balzer, Wiktor Czermak, Ludwik Finkel, Stanisław Lukas, Saturnin Kwiatkowski, Antoni Prochaska, Adam Szelągowski. Publications * ''Marcin Kromer, biskup warmiński — dziejopis wieku XVI''. Poznań 1869; * ''Bolesław Chrobry i Otto III w Gnieźnie''. Lwów 1869; * ''Austria wobec trzeciego rozbioru Polski''. Lwów 1870; * ''Szczerbiec i złote wrota kijowskie''. Kraków 1869; * ''Konstytucja 3 maja i mocarstwa niemieckie''. Lwów 1873; * ''Cudzoziemcy w Polsce''. Lwów 1876; * ''Elekcja w Rzeszy r. 1519' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zavaliv
Zavaliv () (formerly ) is a village (formerly a town) in the western part of Ternopil Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) of Ternopil Oblast (Oblasts of Ukraine, province) of western Ukraine. The village is situated on the right bank of Zolota Lypa (stands for "Golden Lime Tree") river, 18 km away from the district center of Pidhaitsi. Zavaliv belongs to Pidhaitsi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Hamlet Kamiana Hora was united with the village. Due to the resettlement of people, hamlet Zamche was removed from the registration data. * Population of Zavaliv is 472 people * Founded in 1395 * Telephone code is +380 3542 * Postal code is 48023 History In 1725 Zavaliv was granted Magdeburg rights. In the second half of the 19th century, there were 191 houses and 1285 inhabitants (698 Ukrainian Greek-Catholics, 587 mainly Polish (some Ukrainian) Roman Catholics, 12 Germans, 17 Jews and a few Armenians) in the village. Zavaliv had a stone-built Polish Roman Catholic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
