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Wola Piotrowa
Wola Piotrowa ( uk, Воля Петрова, ''Volia Petrova'') is a village in East Małopolska in the Bukowsko Upland mountains, Bukowsko rural commune, Latin parish in Bukowsko, Protestant parish ''in loco''. Wola Piotrowa is about 17 miles from Sanok in southeast Poland. It is situated below the main watershed at the foot of the Słonne Mountain, and has an elevation of 340 metres. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998) and Sanok district, (10 miles east of Sanok), located near the towns of Medzilaborce and Palota (in northeastern Slovakia). Twin cities * Topoľovka * Maizières-lès-Metz Literature *Tarnovich, Julian. Illustrated History of Lemkivshchyna. (Ukrainian Language Publication) Lviv, 1935, Reprinted in New York, NY 1964. *Iwanusiw, Oleh Wolodymyr. Church in Ruins/Церква в руїнi (English/Ukrainian Edition) A Publication of St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics in Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pogórze Bukowskie
The Pogórze Bukowskie (also ''Bukowskie Upland'', ''Bukowsko Upland'', ''Bukowskie Piedmont'', ''Bukowskie Plateau'', ''Bukowskie Foothills'') is one of the Beskids mountain ranges of the Outer Eastern Carpathians in southeastern Poland, part of the Central Beskidian Piedmont.Prof. Jerzy Kondracki. Geografia fizyczna Polski. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warszawa. 1988. Is a hilly region in Poland (Sanok County and Podkarpacie), between Beskid Niski and Bieszczady near the river Osława and San. Its name comes from the west Slavic dialect word ''buk'', meaning "beech". Important villages in the region include Bukowsko, Komańcza, Nowotaniec, Zagórz, Wola Sękowa, Wola Piotrowa, and Lesko. It is home to the Uniwersytet Ludowy, opened in 2005, which contains many artworks and effects of the folk handworks inspiration. Pogórze Bukowskie is situated in the poorest region of Poland. The region was a site of contention between Poland, Kievan Rus and Hungary starting as fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanok
Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — pl, Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok, rue, Санок, ''Sanok'', ua, Cянік, ''Sianik'', la, Sanocum, yi, סאניק, ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of south-eastern Poland with 38,397 inhabitants, as of June 2016. Located on the San River and around 52 km south of Przemyśl, Sanok lies directly by the Carpathian Mountains. Once settled by Poles, Jews and Lemkos, the town's history goes back almost 1000 years when it was part of a medieval trade route. The Museum of Folk Architecture as well as the refurbished Sanok Castle and Old Town are popular points of interest. The region also features a 70 km trail for hikers and cyclists. Geography The city of Sanok is the capital of Sanok County in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland. Previously, it was in the Krosno Voivodeship (1975–1998) and in the Ruthenian Voivodeship (1340–1772), which was part of the Red Ruthenia region, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Fastnacht
Adam Fastnacht (27 July 1913, in Sanok – 16 February 1987, in Wrocław) doctor hab., historian, editor.Anna Fastnacht-Stupnicka. Obecność przeszłości (''O Adamie Fastnachcie''). Rocznik Sanocki, Sanok, 2006 He was a Polish historian, researcher of the history of the town and the district of Sanok Land. Fastnacht was born to a German family who settled in the east. He studied in Sanok, in Lwów at Lviv University under Franciszek Bujak and at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 159 ..., where in 1946 he received his PhD. Fastnacht was a member of the Armia Krajowa. He was long-standing curator of the Ossolineum . Bibliography * ''Adam Fastnacht, Slownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziemi Sanockiej w Średniowieczu'' (Historic-Geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maizières-lès-Metz
Maizières-lès-Metz (, literally ''Maizières near Metz''; Lorrain: ''Mach'ire'') is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Anciently part of the Duchy of Lorraine, Maizières was within the Holy Roman Empire until 1766, when Lorraine was annexed by France. From 1871 to 1918, as part of Alsace-Lorraine, Maizières belonged to the German Empire as ''Maizières-bei-Metz''. Between 1915 and 1918 the town's name was briefly Germanized to ''Macheren''. During the German occupation from 1940 to 1944 it was known as ''Machern-bei-Metz''. The amusement park Walygator is located in Maizières-les-Metz. The town gives its name to the now German Maizière family which, being Huguenots, had to emigrate from the Duchy of Lorraine to Prussia in the 17th century. Preserving the name of their town up to the present, prominent members of the family include Lothar de Maizière, last Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic, the politician Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topoľovka
Topoľovka is a village and municipality in Humenné District in the Prešov Region of north-east Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1479. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of and covers an area of . It has a population of about 825 people. International relations Twin towns — Sister cities Topoľovka is twinned with: * Bukowsko, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ... External links * * *http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html Villages and municipalities in Humenné District {{Prešov-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palota
Palota ( rue, Палота) is a village and municipality in the Medzilaborce District in the Prešov Region of far north-eastern Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1330. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of and covers an area of . It has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using ... of about 190 people. Gallery File:Palota-kostely2015d.jpg, Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015e.jpg, Front facade of the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015c.jpg, Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady and belfry in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015h.jpg, Greek Catholic Church in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015g.jpg, Greek Catholic Church in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medzilaborce
Medzilaborce ( rue, Міджілабірцї, ''Midzhilabirtsyi''; uk, Міжлабірці, ''Mizhlabirtsi''; hu, Mezőlaborc) is a town in northeastern Slovakia close to the border with Poland, located near the towns of Sanok and Bukowsko (in southeastern Małopolska). Its population is approximately 6,500. Characteristics It is an administrative and cultural centre of the Laborec Region. A train line connects it with the town of Humenné to the south and with Poland to the north. The private sector and service industries are developing quickly in the town at the moment. It is home to the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, opened in 1991, which contains many artworks and effects of Andy Warhol and of his brother Paul and nephew James Warhola. Warhol's mother, Julia Warhola, was born and lived with her husband in the village of Mikó (today Miková), to the west. Medzilaborce is situated in one of the least developed regions of Slovakia. There are three churches in the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krosno Voivodship
Krosno Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975–1998, superseded by Subcarpathian Voivodeship (except Biecz Commune which is now a part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship). Its capital city was Krosno. Major cities and towns (population in 1995) * Krosno (49,400) * Sanok (41,400) * Jasło (38,900) See also * Voivodeships of Poland A voivodeship (; pl, województwo ; plural: ) is the highest-level administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries. The term has been in use since the 14th century and is commonly translated into English as ... 1975 establishments in Poland Former voivodeships of Poland (1975–1998) History of Lesser Poland Voivodeship History of Podkarpackie Voivodeship {{poland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subcarpathian Voivodship
Subcarpathian Voivodeship or Subcarpathia Province (in pl, Województwo podkarpackie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów. Along with the Marshall, it is governed by the Subcarpathian Regional Assembly. Historically, most of the province's territory was part of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and the Ruthenian Voivodeship. In the interwar period, it was part of the Lwów Voivodeship. The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Rzeszów, Przemyśl, Krosno and (partially) Tarnów and Tarnobrzeg Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local-government reforms adopted in 1998. The name derives from the region's location near the Carpathian Mountains, and the voivodeship comprises areas of two historic regions of Eastern Europe — Lesser Poland (western and northwestern counties) and Red Ruthenia. During the interwar period (1918-193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches from the far eastern Czech Republic (3%) and Austria (1%) in the northwest through Slovakia (21%), Poland (10%), Ukraine (10%), Romania (50%) to Serbia (5%) in the south. "The Carpathians" European Travel Commission, in The Official Travel Portal of Europe, Retrieved 15 November 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukowsko
Bukowsko (; yi, בוקאווסק, Bikofsk; uk, Буківсько, Bukivsʹko) is a village in Sanok County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland. It's in the Bukowsko Upland mountains, parish ''in loco'', located near the towns of Medzilaborce and Palota (in northeastern Slovakia). During the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth it was in Lesser Poland prowincja. Characteristics Bukowsko is the administrative and cultural centre of the Gmina Bukowsko. It is crossed by the rail road connecting it with Slovakia. It is especially the private sector and service industries that are developing rapidly at this time. It is home to the Uniwersytet Ludowy, opened in 2005, which contains many artworks and effects of the folk handworks inspiration. Bukowsko is situated in the poorest region of Poland. History Settled in prehistoric times, the southern-eastern Poland region that is now Podkarpacie was overrun in pre-Roman times by various tribes, including the Celts, Goths and Vandals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter (name)
Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new name Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona. An Old English variant is Piers. In other languagess The following names can be interpreted as ''Peter'' in English. * Afrikaans: Pieter, Petrus * Albanian: Pjetër, Prel * Amharic: ጴጥሮስ ("Ṗeṭros") * Arabic: بطرس (''Boutros''), بيار ("Pierre," mainly in Lebanon), بيتر ("Peter," exact transcription) * Aragonese: Pietro, Pero, Piero, Pier * Azerbaijani: Pyotr * Armenian: Պետրոս (''Bedros'' in Western dialect, ''Petros'' in Eastern dialect) * Asturian: Pedru * Basque: Peru, Pello (diminutive), Pedro, Piarres, Petri (Biblical), Kepa (neologism) * Belarusian: Пётр (''Piotr''), Пятро (''Piatro''), Пятрусь (''Piatrus'') * Bengali: পাথর (''Patho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
