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Yaroslav Pasternak
Yaroslav Pasternak (; 2 January 1892 – 22 November 1969) was a Ukrainian archaeologist. He was Doctor of Philosophy, Professor. Biography Yaroslav Pasternak was born on 2 January 1892 in Khyriv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now in Ukraine).Pasternak Yaroslav Ivanovych / V. M. Petehyrych // nline/ Eds. : I. М. Dziuba, A. I. Zhukovsky, M. H. Zhelezniak t al.; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Shevchenko Scientific Society. – Kyiv : The NASU institute of Encyclopedic Research, 2023. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyriv
Khyriv (, ; ) is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine with a population of around It hosts the administration of Khyriv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It became known principally for the celebrated eponymous Jesuit secondary boys school founded there in 1886. The institution, which produced 6,000 alumni during its existence, ceased all activity when the then Polish town fell to Soviet forces in 1939. History Khyriv is first mentioned in documents from 1374. At that time, it was the private property of the noble Polish family of Herburt, and was part of the Kingdom of Poland. Administratively it was located in the Przemyśl Land in the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province. For over 400 years Chyrów was a private town of the powerful landowning Ossoliński and Mniszech families. In 1528 Chyrów, as it is called in Polish, received Magdeburg rights, and three years later, the first Roman Catholic church was founded there b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberec
Liberec (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 108,000 inhabitants, making it the fifth largest city in the country. It lies on the Lusatian Neisse River, in a basin surrounded by mountains. The city centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Liberec was once home to a thriving textile industry and hence nicknamed the "Manchester of Bohemia". A symbol of the city and the main landmark of the panorama of Liberec is the Ještěd Tower. Since the end of the 19th century, the city has been a conurbation with the suburb of Vratislavice nad Nisou and the neighbouring city of Jablonec nad Nisou. Administrative division Liberec consists of 33 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Liberec I-Staré Město (9,793) *Liberec II-Nové Město (2,979) *Liberec III-Jeřáb (5,657) *Liberec IV-Perštýn (3,117) *Liberec V-Kristiánov (5,312) *Liberec VI-Rochlice (17,268) *Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a Warsaw metropolitan area, greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises List of districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Alpha 2, alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Galicia–Volhynia
The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia, Kingdom of Rus', or Kingdom of Russia, also Halych–Volhynian Kingdom was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349. Its territory was predominantly located in modern-day Ukraine, with parts in Belarus, Poland, Moldova, and Lithuania. Along with Novgorod Republic, Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal, it was one of the three most important powers to emerge from the collapse of Kievan Rus'. Roman the Great united the principalities of Principality of Galicia, Galicia and Principality of Volhynia, Volhynia at the turn of the 13th century. Following the destruction wreaked by the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' (1239–1241), Prince Daniel of Galicia and the other princes of Rus' pledged allegiance to Batu Khan of the Golden Horde in 1246. The Polish conquest of the kingdom in 1349 led to it being fully absorbed by Catholic Poland.Michael B. Zdan – The Dependence o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaroslav Osmomysl
Yaroslav Osmomysl (, ''Osmomyslŭ Jaroslavŭ''; , ''Yaroslav Volodymyrovych Osmomysl'') ( – 1 October 1187) was a knyaz of Halych (now in western Ukraine). He is best-known for appearing in ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign''. His sobriquet, meaning "Eight-Minded" in Old East Slavic, was granted to him in recognition of his wisdom. Some scholars even assert that Yaroslav was fluent in eight foreign languages. Also a great reformer. Biography Son of Volodymyrko of Halych by his wife, a daughter of King Coloman of Hungary, he assumed the throne in 1153. His foreign policy tended towards the alliance with the kings of Hungary and Poland, and against the Grand Princes of Kiev, who supported Yaroslav's cousin Ivan Berladnic in his attempts to take possession of several towns bordering Volynia. After many years of warfare, Yaroslav managed to ensure Berladnic's expulsion to Byzantium. In 1164/65, Andronikos the cousin of Manuel I Komnenos, the Byzantine emperor, escaped from capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halych
Halych (, ; ; ; ; , ''Halitsch'' or ''Galitsch''; ) is a historic List of cities in Ukraine, city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The city gave its name to the Principality of Halych, the historic province of Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia (Halychyna), and the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, of which it was the capital until the early 14th century, when the seat of the local rulers moved to Lviv. Nowadays, Halych is a small town located only on one part of the territory of the former Galician capital, although it has preserved its name. It belongs to Ivano-Frankivsk Raion (Administrative divisions of Ukraine, district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Administrative divisions of Ukraine, region). It hosts the administration of Halych urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Halych lies north of the oblast capital, Ivano-Frankivsk. Population: Name The city's name, though spelled identically in modern East Slavic languages (Галич), is pronounced ''Halych'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plisnesk Archaeological Complex
Plisnesk archaeological complex is a group of archaeological sites located near the khutir of Plisnesk (now part of Pidhirtsi, Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast), at the source of the Buzhok river.'' Филипчук М. А''Plisnesk Пліснеськ// Енциклопедія історії України : у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН України, Київ : Наукова думка, 2011, Т. 8 : Па — Прик, s. 274. : іл., ISBN 978-966-00-1142-7. The early medieval settlement had a big area of 400-450 ha which could inhabit tens of thousands of people, surrounded by several rows of fortifications, smaller settlements, more than 142 burial mounds, and included a fort with a pagan center. Part of the Luka-Raikovetska culture, it was a Polis-like city and one of the centers of early medieval tribe of Croats. The city's downfall and layers of burning are considered to be r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Przemyśl
Przemyśl () is a city in southeastern Poland with 56,466 inhabitants, as of December 2023. Data for territorial unit 1862000. In 1999, it became part of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It was previously the capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship. Przemyśl owes its long and rich history to the advantages of its geographic location. The city lies in an area connecting mountains and lowlands known as the Przemyśl Gate (Brama Przemyska), with open lines of transport, and fertile soil. It also lies on the navigable San River. Important trade routes that connect Central Europe from Przemyśl ensure the city's importance. The Old Town of Przemyśl is listed as a List of Historic Monuments (Poland), Historic Monument of Poland. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Przemyśl has been a point of refuge for many Ukrainians, as it is located near the Poland–Ukraine border and serves as the end point of the Lviv–Przemyśl railway jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvenyhorod
Zvenyhorod () is a village in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, in the western part of Ukraine. It belongs to Davydiv rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Zvenyhorod was the capital of the former Principality of Zvenyhorod (11th and 12th centuries). Until 18 July 2020, Zvenyhorod belonged to Pustomyty Raion Pustomyty Raion () was a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the city of Pustomyty. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of .... The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Pustomyty Raion was merged into Lviv Raion. References Archaeological sites in Ukraine Villages in Lviv Raion {{Lviv-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belz
Belz (, ; ; ) is a small city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, located near the border with Poland between the Solokiya River (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream. Belz hosts the administration of Belz urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately Origin of name There are a few theories as to the origin of the name: * Celtic – ''belz'' (water) or ''pelz'' (stream), * German – ' (fur, furry) * Old Slavic and the Boyko dialect – «белз» or «бевз» (muddy place), * Old East Slavic – «бълизь» (white place, a glade in the midst of dark woods). The name occurs only in two other places, the first being a Celtic area in antiquity, and the second one being derived from its Romanian name: * '' Belz'' (department Morbihan), Brittany, France * '' Bălți'' (/''Beljcy'', also known in Yiddish as ''Beltz''), Moldova (Bessarabia) History Early history Belz is situated in a fertile plain which tribes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shevchenko Scientific Society
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (), founded in 1873, is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication. Unlike the government-funded National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the society is a public organization. It was reestablished in Ukraine in 1989 during the fall of the Soviet Union, after being exiled from Ukraine since 1940. The society now has branches in several countries around the globe, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and France. The organisation is named after the famous Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, Taras Shevchenko. History It was founded in 1873 in Lemberg (today Lviv), at that time the capital of the Austrian crown land of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, as a literary society devoted to the promotion of Ukrainian language literature initially under the name Shevchenko Society. It was established soon after another cultural society, better known as Prosvita (Enlight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague Castle
Prague Castle (; ) is a castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic serving as the official residence and workplace of the president of the Czech Republic. Built in the 9th century, the castle has long served as the seat of power for List of rulers of Bohemia, kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire, Holy Roman emperors, and List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia, presidents of Czechoslovakia. As such, the term "Prague Castle" or simply the "Castle" or "the Hrad (politics), ''Hrad''" are often used as metonymy for the president and his staff and advisors. The Bohemian Crown Jewels are kept within a hidden room inside it. According to the ''Guinness Book of Records'', Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle in the world, occupying an area of almost , at about in length and an average of about wide. The castle is among the most visited tourist attractions in Prague, attracting over 1.8 million visitors annually. History Přemyslid fort The history of the castle began in 870 when it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
