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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Aleksandra Lisowska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Aleksandra Lisowska aka Khourrem wife of Suleyman the Great This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
Her name was Aleksandra Lisowska and she was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest, kidnapped by slave hunters on the Polish border.
She would be converted to Islam and given a new name — Hurrem, the Laughing One.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aleksandra-Lisowska   (1023 words)

  
  Selim II - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Selim II Selim II (May 28, 1524 – December 12, 1574) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death.
He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and his favourite Aleksandra Lisowska (also Hurrem or Roxelana).
Little can be said of this degenerate son of Suleiman, who during the eight years of his reign never girded on the sword of Osman, and preferred the clashing of wine-goblets to the shock of arms, save that with the dissolute tastes of his mother, Aleksandra Lisowska, he had not inherited her ferocity.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Selim_II   (448 words)

  
 Roxelana@Everything2.com
Hence, for a 16th century girl, finding the right slave-owner was not only important, it represented about all of the choices open to her.
Roxelana was born around 1510, probably in the Ukrainian village Rohatyn, as Aleksandra Lisowska.
In the 1520's she was captured by Turkish forces and taken as a slave to Constantinople.
www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1507476   (903 words)

  
 Aleksandra Lisowska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Aleksandra Lisowska is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Aleksandra Lisowska: Encyclopedia II - List of Poles - Science
Aleksandra Lisowska: Encyclopedia II - List of Poles - Legendary persons
www.experiencefestival.com /aleksandra_lisowska   (300 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Roxelana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sixteenth century sources are silent as to her maiden name, but later Ukrainian and Polish traditions give it as Aleksandra or Anastasia (diminutive: Nastia) Lisovska.
Probably Khourrem was born to a father who was an Ukrainian, or Ruthenian, Orthodox priest{{fact}}, in the town of Rohatyn which is located 68 km, south east of Lviv, the capital city of Galicia which was then part of Poland.
Lisovska, Anastasia Lisovska, Anastasia Category:Ukrainian people Lisovska, Anastasia Lisovska, Anastasiabg:Александра Лисовска de:Roxelane eo:Roksolana es:Roxelana hu:Aleksandra Lisowska nl:Roxelana pl:Roksolana ru:Роксолана tr:Hürrem Sultan uk:Роксолана
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Roxelana   (572 words)

  
 Polish Music Journal 4.2.01 - Konieczna: Style and Drama in Paderewski's Manru.
Original publication data: Aleksandra Konieczna, "Manru Ignacego J. Paderewskiego - Kilka uwag o stylu i dramaturgii" [Manru of I.J. Paderewski - Some remarks about the style and drama] in Warsztat kompozytorski, wykonawstwo i koncepcje polityczne Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego [Composers workshop: Performance and political conceptions of Ignacy Jan Paderewski].
Giuseppe Verdi's Othello, a lyrical drama in four acts to a libretto by Arrigo Boito, was completed in 1887 and premiered at Milan's La Scala.
Wanda Lisowska, Teresa Mogilnicka (Kraków: PWM, 1986, 6th ed); cited from vol.
www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/4.2.01/koniecznamanru.html   (7427 words)

  
 Interesting TV & Radio Programmes - Topic Powered by eve community
Deemed the property of the sultan, hundreds of women were captured and brought to the Imperial Palace situated in the capital.
But one woman, Aleksandra Lisowska, the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest, managed to steal the heart of the greatest sultan of all.
Prunella Scales is both presenter and star of this two-part dramatised documentary portrait of Queen Victoria.
community.channel4.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/8896096411/m/2296090021/p/7   (7854 words)

  
 History Channel primetime evening listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the 16th centur y, Istanbul was the capital of the Ottoman Turks whose conquests stretched from Baghdad to Budapest and included hundreds of women brought as slaves to the imperial harem at Topkapi Palace.
But at the imperial palace, sex could equal power, and one woman was about to prove it--Aleksandra Lisowska, or Hurrem, the Laughing One.
This is her story and of the closed world of the Ottoman harem and the century-long Sultanate of Women who followed in her footsteps.
www.angelfire.com /wa/laidlaw/zHistory2003jan.html   (9140 words)

  
 Acta Biochimica Polonica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The 35 kDa acid metallophosphatase of the frog Rana esculenta liver: studies on its cellular localization and protein phosphatase activity Regular paper
Agata Szalewicz, Barbara Strzelczyk Miroslaw Sopel and Aleksandra Kubicz 555-566
Wanda Dobryszycka, Janina Kwiatkowska-Korczak and Elwira Lisowska IX-X
www.actabp.pl /2_2003.html   (785 words)

  
 Wetlina-Draft
List of families who lived in Wetlina before the expulsion
2 In 1669 they were already married 3 His first wife was Aleksandra Bolowna, and his second was Justyna Fredro 4 Teresa was a daughter of Justyna Fredro and Aleksander Lipski
In his report written in 1790 a local priest mentioned 24 children, who, in his opinion, were capable of going to school.
www.members.tripod.com /warholic/wetlina-draft.htm   (8214 words)

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