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Nevytske Castle
Nevytske Castle (; ) is a semi-ruined castle in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. It is located north of Uzhhorod near the villages Nevytske and Kamianytsia, Uzhhorod Raion along the . The castle is located in the woods on a hill of volcanic origin with a relative elevation of and a few hundred meters to the east of a road and river that flows along. This location of the castle gave it a good opportunity to control the Transcarpathian route over the Uzhok pass (Bieszczady Mountains). The castle was first mentioned in 1274 belonging to the King of Hungary Laszlo IV as a donjon (keep). Completely rebuilt in the early 15th century, the castle, towering over the Uzh River, was the mighty citadel of the Drugeth family which supervised its continuous modernisation over the centuries. The keep, rebuilt in its present form in the early 16th century, passed from hand to hand during the internecine strife that convulsed Hungary in the early 17th century. In 1644, Prince of Transylvania Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drugeth
The House of Drugeth was a powerful noble family (of French origin) of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 14th to 17th centuries whose possessions were located in the northeastern parts of the kingdom. The ancestors of the family left Apulia (Southern Italy) for Hungary during the reign of King Charles I. Several members of the family held high offices in the first half of the 14th century and later, when the Drugeth estates were the largest in all of Hungary.Paul Robert Magocsi, Ivan Pop. ''Encyclopaedia of Rusyn History and Culture''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. . Page 99. The family continued to be important until the male line died out in 1691. Origin The Drugeths (or Drugets) originated from the Kingdom of France. They belonged to the escort of Charles I of Anjou, who conquered the Kingdom of Sicily in 1266. In contemporary Italian records, they were referred to as "de Druget", "Rugeth", "Truget", "Drugetus" and "de Druetto", among others. 19th-century Hungarian historian J� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Zakarpattia Oblast
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building pract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castles In Ukraine
This is a list of castles in Ukraine. A * Akkerman Fortress in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast B * Bar Castle in Bar, Vinnytsia Oblast * Bavoriv Castle in Bavoriv, Ternopil Oblast * Berdychiv Castle in Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast * Berezhany Castle in Berezhany, Ternopil Oblast * Bilche-Zolote Castle in Bilche-Zolote, Ternopil Oblast * Borky Castle in Velyki Birky, Ternopil Oblast * Borshchiv Castle in Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast * Brody Castle in Brody, Lviv Oblast * The ruined Bronka Castle in Bronka, Zakarpattia Oblast * Buchach Castle in Buchach, Ternopil Oblast * Budaniv Castle in Budaniv, Ternopil Oblast C * The ruined Chervonohorod Castle in Nyrkiv, Ternopil Oblast * Chembalo fortress in Balaklava, Sevastopol * Cherkasy Castle * The ruined Chernelytsia Castle in Chernelytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast * The ruined fortress around Chernihiv Val in Chernihiv * Chernykhivtsi Castle in Chernykhivtsi, Ternopil Oblast * Chervonyi Castle in Kopych ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RBK Ukraine
RBC-Ukraine () is a Ukrainian news agency. Founded in 2006 as a division of the Russian media holding RBC Group (short for RosBusinessConsulting), it left in 2010 and in 2015 it completely came under the control of Ukrainian media businessman Yosyp Pintus. On January 29, 2016, the Russian holding "RBC" tried to challenge the use of the "RBC" brand in court, and lost the case. Since April 2014, IARBC-Ukrain positioned itself as an independent company with no relation to the Russian structure. From August 1, 2016, to June 2017, RBC-Ukraine was managed by Valeriy Kalnysh, the former chief editor of Radio Vesti and the magazine ''Kommersant Ukraine''. From July 2017 to 2022 the chief editor was Serhiy Shcherbyna. Company overview RBC-Ukraine is a Ukrainian information portal specializing in financial, economic, and political news of Ukraine and the world. "RBC-Ukraine" was created in 2006 as the Ukrainian division of the Russian information agency RosBusinessConsulting (RBC). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George II Rákóczi
George II Rákóczi (30 January 1621 – 7 June 1660), was a Hungarian nobleman, Prince of Transylvania (1648-1660), the eldest son of George I and Zsuzsanna Lorántffy. Early life He was elected Prince of Transylvania during his father's lifetime (19 February 1642). On 3 February 1643, he married Sophia Báthory, a granddaughter of Stephen Báthory IX. Their son was Francis I Rákóczi. War with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Preparation On ascending the throne (October 1648), his first thought was to realize his father's ambitions in Poland. With this object in view, he allied himself, in the beginning of 1649, with the Cossack hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and the hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia, ( Vasile Lupu and Matei Basarab), but took no action for several years. On 6 December 1656, by the Treaty of Radnot, he also allied with King Charles X Gustav of Sweden against King John II Casimir of Poland. Rákóczi was to seize the provinces of Lesser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Of Transylvania
The Prince of Transylvania (, , , Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 77.) was the head of state of the Principality of Transylvania from the late-16th century until the mid-18th century. John Sigismund Zápolya was the first to adopt the title in 1570, but its use only became stable from 1576. Origins The integration of Transylvania into the newly established Kingdom of Hungary began around 1003. The province became subject to intensive colonization, leading to the arrival and settlement of colonists of diverse origin, including the Hungarian-speaking Székelys and the Ethnic Germans. The territory of Transylvania was divided for administrative reasons within territorial units known as "counties" and "seats". The seven Transylvanian counties ( Doboka, Fehér, Hunyad, Kolozs, Küküllő, Szolnok, and Torda County) were institutions primarily run by local noblemen. However, their heads or '' ispáns''Makkai 1994, p. 207. were subject to the authority of a higher official, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uzh River
The Uzh (; translit. ''Uzh''; ; , ) is a river in Ukraine and Slovakia. Etymologists disagree about the origin of the name of the river. The Uzh is a tributary of the Laborets River, a river that flows in the Tysa Lowland in Zakarpattia Oblast of western Ukraine. The river feeds numerous industries and is a source of drinking water and irrigation. It also has a hydropower station on it. Several important cities lie along its course, including Uzhhorod. It is long, of which are in Slovakia. It flows into the Laborec river near the city of Drahňov in the Michalovce District (okres). The Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod and the semi-ruined Nevitske Castle are situated by the Uzh. The river forms part of the Slovakia–Ukraine border for about near the village of Pinkovce. Regions The Uzh is located in the Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine and in the districts of Michalovce and Sobrance in eastern Slovakia. Geography The largest tributaries are, Right: , Strychavka, Uly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakarpattia Oblast
Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Закарпатська область), also referred to as simply Zakarpattia (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Закарпаття; Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Kárpátalja'') or Transcarpathia in English, is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast located in the Carpathian Mountains in west Ukraine, mostly coterminous with the historical region of Carpathian Ruthenia. Its Capital (political), administrative centre is the city of Uzhhorod. Other major cities within the oblast include Mukachevo, Khust, Berehove, and Chop, Ukraine, Chop, the last of which is home to railroad transport infrastructure. Zakarpattia Oblast was established on 22 January 1946, after Third Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovakia gave up its claim to the territory of Carpathian Ruthenia, Subcarpathian Ruthenia (Czech language, Czech and also Slovak language, Slovak: Podkarpatská Rus) under a treaty between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep
A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary. The first keeps were made of timber and formed a key part of the motte-and-bailey castles that emerged in Normandy and Anjou during the 10th century; the design spread to England, Portugal, south Italy and Sicily. As a result of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, use spread into Wales during the second half of the 11th century and into Ireland in the 1170s. The Anglo-Normans and French rulers began to build stone keeps during the 10th and 11th centuries, including Norman keeps, with a square or rectangular design, and circular shell keeps. Stone keeps carried considerable political as well as military importance and could take a decade or more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
