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  The Commune of Bukowina Tatrzaсska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
From old storytellers in Bukowina you can learn where robbers' treasures may be found, and in Biaіka Tatrzaсska you can walk along the royal way, built to commemorate saving King John Casimir from the Swedes by the local people in the seventeenth century.
Biaіka Tatrzaсska, Bukowina Tatrzaсska and Czarna Gуra have swimming pools for those who are not fond of the ice-cold waters of the Biaіka.
The first settlers in the area of the present Commune of Bukowina were people from Wallachia shepherds who arrived from the south of Europe along the ridges of the Carpathian Mountains.
www.bialkatatrzanska.pl /obialce/ogminie_a.html   (1346 words)

  
 Selected Families/Individuals - pafg979 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Elisabeth Margarethe MANZ [Parents] was born on 18 Sep 1817 in Tereblestie, Bukowina.
Georg HEHN was born on 31 Mar 1811 in Tereblestie, Bukowina.
Ludwika MANG was born on 20 Dec 1875 in Saltumare.
perso.wanadoo.fr /barbara.schnubel/barbara-a/pafg979.htm   (556 words)

  
 Bukovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name has a Slavic origin and is derived from the word for beech tree; the German equivalent, das Buchenland, mostly used in poetry, means, literally, "beech land", or, more poetically, "land of beech trees".
The standard German name, die Bukowina, which was the official German-language name for the province under Austrian rule, is derived from the Slavic original, via the Polish form of the name which is exactly the same.
In the 16th century, Bukovina came under the control of the Ottoman Turks, after which it was occupied by the Russian Empire in 1769, and then by the Austrian Habsburgs in 1774.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bukovina   (1038 words)

  
 Bukovina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He is Government councillor with the province government of Bukowina.
In 1917 he became General Governor of Galicia and Bukowina and in 1918 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Government.
His father Jancu Flondor, was President of National Party of Bukowina and presided at the Union of Bukowina with Rumania in 1918.
dok.uni-lueneburg.de /memory/whoswho/Bukovina.HTML   (76 words)

  
 rysy-english   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
BUKOWINA TATRZAŃSKA is one of the most attractive tourist spots of the Podhale region.
Beautiful views, fresh air, vicinity of the highest parts of the Tatra Mountains, cultivated mountaineers' folklore are just few advantages of Bukowina for which it has been known for many years as an excellent summer resort and even better place for a winter vacation.
Bukowina is a good starting point for hiking in the Tatra Mountains.
www.regle.zakopane.pl /rysy/english.htm   (279 words)

  
 Ruthenians
In Austria they occupy the whole of Eastern Galicia and Bukowina, and in Hungary the northern and north-eastern counties of Hungary: Szepes, Saros, Abauj, Zemplin, Ung, Maramaros, and Bereg, and amount to about 4,500,000 more.
For this reason the word Ruthenian has been generally used to indicate those of the race who are Catholics, and Little Russian those who are Greek Orthodox, although the terms are usually considered as fairly interchangeable.
In late years a recession of the Russian alphabet in Galicia and Bukowina has provoked much dissension.
solejar.tripod.com /rizne/catholic_encyclopedia.htm   (1986 words)

  
 Bukovina Bibliography compiled by Dr. Sophie A. Welisch
Bibliographie zur Kultur und Landeskunde der Bukowina 1976-1990.
Ansiedlungswesen in der Bukowina seit der Besitzergreifung durch Österreich.
Bori, Karlsberg und andere deutschböhmische Siedlungen in der Bukowina.
www.bukovinasociety.org /bibliography.html   (1523 words)

  
 Old Homes of New Americans, Chapter 15
For two hundred and fifty years before I777, when it was ceded to Austria, it was ruled by the Turk and suffered the unspeakable horrors of frequent wars, its soil often being dyed red with the blood of its sons.
Bukowina is not by any means the least interesting part of Francis Joseph's dominions.
Bordering on the Bukowina and also on Roumania is Transylvania, the most picturesque of all the domains of Hungary: This is the Switzerland of southeastern Europe.
www.iarelative.com /oldhomes/chap_15.htm   (1261 words)

  
 In the Bukowina, James Baker
The Bukowina has also its own weather, and that is excessively independent.
There are other towns in the Bukowina that are full of interest, for the people and their history, and for the scenery.
If the Bukowina, this unknown land to Britons, is deeply interesting through its marvellously varied races, its history has also many points of fascinating study.
www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/Places/Czernowitz/Work/baker.htm   (1598 words)

  
 Jewish Web Index - Make it easier for you to do your personal research
Bucovina (Bukovina, Bukowina) in English this translates to Beech Wood - is located in northeastern Romania and is a region that is also located in southwestern Ukraine.
Nizhniye Stanovtsy - "Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina" http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html
In addition to the year of birth, the profession and town of residence in 1897 is given for each graduate.
jewishwebindex.com /bukovina.htm   (1162 words)

  
 Villa Marysin - Bukowina Tatrzańska, 35 Tatrzanska st.
Villa Marysin in Bukowina Tatrzanska is an renovated, typical for Zakopane area,wooden building from year 1930.
Due to its great location and superb climate, Bukowina Tatrzanska is one of the most famous polish spa resorts.
Villa Marysin is the last object in Bukowina Tatrzanska before borders of the Tatry National Park.
www.poland.hotele.net /bukowina_tatrzanska/villa_marysin_718.php   (155 words)

  
 RYSY - Bukowina Tatrzańska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bukowina Tatrzanska is one of the highest situated tourist place in Poland.
Large and long-lasting snow layer, wide ski slopes and a few dozen of ski lifts make Bukowina Tatrzanska one of the biggest ski resorts in Poland (especially family skiing).
The house of health called "Rysy" is a modern and the largest rest and recreation centre in Bukowina situated on so called "Wysoki Wierch" from which you can admire beautiful panorama of Tatra mountains and Bukowina, as well.
www.rysy.bukowinatatrzanska.pl /angielska/opispl.html   (279 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ruthenians
The Ruthenians along the borderland of the ancient Kingdom of Poland and the present boundary separating Austria from Russia proper are also called Ukrainians (u, at or near, and krai, the border or land composing the border), from the Ukraine, comprising the vast steppes or plains of Southern Russia extending into Galicia.
In the Austro-Hungarian Empire the Ruthenians are separated from one another by the Carpathian Mountains, which leave one division of them in Galicia and the other in Hungary.
The Ruthenians or Little Russians in Russia and Bukowina belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, whilst those of Galicia and Hungary are Greek Catholics in unity with the Holy See.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13278a.htm   (2076 words)

  
 SOLCA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Much mention is made of the beauty and healing powers of the air and water in and about the shtetl of Solka in the Bukowina.
In 1872 he was appointed as a progressive member to the Jewish Community Council of Radauti and participated in the bitter battle with the Orthodox over control of the Great Synagogue.
"Guide Book though the Bukowina 1907" has a fine example of the text that was used at the time.
www.poras.com /solka.htm   (343 words)

  
 Panorama Polskich Miast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When a folk ensembles festival was organized, the Bukowina highlanders living in Jastrowie announced they wanted to present general Polish folk music.
It is said that there are magical towns in Poland, the towns you will go back to because you feel a longing, sentiment and nostalgia, and these towns are known for their unique image and not only in Europe.
The festival in Poland and the visit of Polish organizers and Polish Bukowina ensembles to Bukowina showed that this ethnic and social phenomenon could not be presented without "Meetings" at the source.
www.panorama-miast.com.pl /47/HTML/pilaang.htm   (597 words)

  
 Bukovina - TheBestLinks.com - Bukowina, Austria, German language, Hungary, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bukovina - TheBestLinks.com - Bukowina, Austria, German language, Hungary,...
Bukowina, Bukovina, Austria, German language, Hungary, June 28, Ottoman Turks...
Map of Romania with Bukovina highlighted (the border between Romania and Ukraine is represented by a red line).
www.thebestlinks.com /Bukowina.html   (484 words)

  
 POKOJE GOCINNE
away from Zakopane, in Bukowina Tatrzańska and has during the whole year 15 guest rooms (40 places to spend the night) with a kitchen and full board.
The access road from Zakopane, Poronin or Nowy Targ by bus or by car in Bukowina from the roundabout, down the Olczański Wierch street to Buńdowy Wierch.
During the stay we organise the fires and meetings with the members of the folk group.
www.jolka.bukowinatatrzanska.pl /angielski.html   (232 words)

  
 Stetl: A.Lichtblau & M.John - Lemberg and Czernowitz
Leon Arie Schmelzer, Geschichte des Zionismus in der Bukowina in der Bukowina, in: Gold, Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina 1, p.
Gold, Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina 2, pp 34 f., 46.
Cited in Colin/ Kittner, Versunkene Dichtung der Bukowina, p.
www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/Tshernovits/Lichtblau/CAPETOWN-F.html   (836 words)

  
 German Genealogy: Bukowina
As a multi-ethnic province, its name has several spellings: Bukowina or Buchenland in German, Bukowina in Polish, Bucovina in Romanian, and Bukovyna in Ukrainian, all of which mean Land of Beech Trees.
Non land-owning individuals of many ethnic backgrounds brought their families to Bukovina in search of land, status, and self-respect.
Bori-Karlsberg - Bukowina, Rudolf Wagner, München 1982, Verlag: "Der Südost-Deutsche", Hans-Lang-Druck, Meitingen, 171 Seiten
www.genealogienetz.de /reg/ESE/bukowina.html   (846 words)

  
 Guide to the Papers of Moses Rosenkranz (1904-2003), 1930-1999 AR 25087   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Moses Rosenkranz was born as Edmund Hans Rosenkranz to a rather poor Jewish farmer family in the village of Berhometh in the Bukowina, Romania in 1904.
Materials pertaining to the Essay on Russia (series II, box 2, folder 40) are removed to series VI (Oversized), and so are the originals of the clippings on Moses Rosenkranz and the Bukowina poetry (series III.3, box 2, folder 52).
The testimonies are mainly affirmations in lieu of oaths stated by friends to help Moses Rosenkranz with his emigration efforts and compensation claims.
www.cjh.org /academic/findingaids/lbi/nhprc/MosesRosenkranz.html   (1879 words)

  
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A skier pulled by a horse loses control as she negotiates a turn during a competition marking the end of carnival in Bukowina Tatrzanska in the Polish Tatra Mountains, February 6, 2005.
A driver of a sleigh pulled by a horse tries to keep balance as they negotiate a turn during traditional sleigh competition marking the end of carnival in Bukowina Tatrzanska in the Polish Tatra Mountains, February 6, 2005.
Hundreds of highlanders arrive in Bukowina Tatrzanska every year in mid-February to take part in the traditional highlander festival.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8676902&postID=110770868706366134   (197 words)

  
 FUNDACJA BUKOWINA
The Bukowina Foundation was created as initiative of Michal Kruszona, the reporter of "Glos Wielkopolski", that convinced to collective effort a group of devoted persons.
Because of spontaneous activity of this group, from 2000 we organize expeditions helping Poles in Romania several times a year.
The statutory aim of Foundation is arranging help in various forms, directed to Polish Diaspora living in former post-communist countries.
www.bukowina.org.pl /en   (132 words)

  
 Excursion in the Bukowina, Sept. 16 - Oct 1, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Excursion in the Bukowina, Sept. 16 - Oct 1, 1996
The Bukovina Society of the Americas has arranged for a bus trip from Germany to Bukovina, in the fall of 1996.
Study trip with illustrations and lectures on history during the tour, guides at all sights, care of the group by experienced experts of East Europe.
feefhs.org /bukovina/trip-96.html   (783 words)

  
 Pensjonat Litka. Bukowina Tatrzańska (małopolskie), Poland - Discounted rates at www.travel-hotels-honolulu.com
Bukowina Tatrzańska (małopolskie), Poland - Discounted rates at www.travel-hotels-honolulu.com
Pensjonat Litka was build in 1937 in the pitoresque area of Bukowina on an altitute of 1020 meters.
Maintained in mountain style with wooden architecture elements.
www.travel-hotels-honolulu.com /hotel/pl/pensjonatlitka.html   (365 words)

  
 History of Jews in Bukowina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
History of the Jews in the Bukowina until the year 1919
History of the Jews in the Bukowina (1914-1919)
The oldest societies, institutes and organizations in the Bukowina
www.jewishgen.org /yizkor/Bukowinabook/Bukowina.html   (368 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians)
In the different states of Italy, where the princes of the House of Bourbon reigned, life was no longer an easy matter for religious communities.
In Austria there are two centres of activity for the Lazarists, one at Gratz for the houses of Austria and Hungary, the other, Polish in language, at Krakow for the establishments of Galicia and Bukowina, and for the colonies of Polish emigrants to America.
In Spain, where the works of the Lazarists are in a flourishing condition, the houses are divided into two provinces, Madrid and Barcelona.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10357a.htm   (11767 words)

  
 16.1 View of the High Tatras from Bukowina village   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pencil, watercolour on paper, 143 x 1123 mm; part 1: 143 x 181 mm; part 2: 143 x 472 mm; part 3: 143 x 466 mm
Bukowina (present-day Bukowina Tatrzańska) village was founded in the 17th century.
The first mountain guides came from here and the adjacent villages.
ender.mtak.hu /english/16/1601.html   (115 words)

  
 Genealogy Data
Marriage: 1 AUG 1895 in Manisterisk Bukowina Austria
Marriage: 6 NOV 1838 in Rosch Bukowina Austria
Marriage: 31 JAN 1836 in Rosch, Bukowina Austria
members.shaw.ca /putneys/dat45.html   (197 words)

  
 Amy Colin - University of Pittsburgh: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Im Gegenlicht des Todes: Poetik der Vielvölkerkoexistenz und jüdischen Identität in der Bukowina (In the Counter-Light of Death: Poetics of Multi-Ethnic Coexistence and Jewish Identity in the Bukovina), Munich: W. Fink Verlag, forthcoming 2006.
Versunkene Dichtung der Bukowina: Anthologie deutschsprachiger Lyrik, anthology and handbook of poetry, co-edited with the Shoah poet Alfred Kittner (1907-91).
Jüdische Autorinnen der Bukowina im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, An der Zeiten Ränder: Czernowitz und die Bukowina—Geschichte—Literatur—Verfolgung—Exil, ed.
www.pitt.edu /~germanic/people/colin.html   (625 words)

  
 Mihai Iacobescu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To the Brothers-Peasants of Bukowina of November 5
The Project for the Constitution of the Duchy of Bukowina, of September 5
• Documents of the Archives of Bukowina: the Oath Imposed to the Priests by the Imperial Administration,
www.usv.ro /istgeo/iacobescu.htm   (1224 words)

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