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	Polish Archaeology
		Giecz appeared then to be one of the most powerful strongholds in the times of the early Piast period in Poland.
		The strength and importance of Giecz in the 12th century is witnessed by the extensive building projects of the 2 churches.
		The 13th century witnessed the slow decline of Giecz, caused by the in trade routes and the emergence of another political/administrative city nearby.
	home.columbus.rr.com /mdog/polish_archaeology.htm (1245 words)

	Artykuł B. Kostrzewskiego (1964 r.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We do not possess convincing proofs, confirming that the development of Giecz had reached the mentioned level, and no reference shows that the town was endowed with German Law, some indications, however, allow to believe that already in the 11th century a market settlement was open here.
		The enterprise may have exceeded their means, or maybe Giecz had already lost the meaning it used to have in the time of their predecessors.
		One of them, connecting the borough with the Giecz settlement ran right through the bot tom of the former lake, which is proved by traces of a strong dike, 16 m.
	www.giecz.obywatel.pl /Kostr64b/Ko64b.html (2884 words)

	Giecz -- gród pierwszych Piastów -- strona główna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Giecz -- gród pierwszych Piastów -- strona główna
		As the outcome of the research, an impressing stone mantle facing from the outside the embankment of the phase 2, which was distinguished in the previous year, was uncovered.
		Bogdan Kostrzewski, The Duke's Borough in Giecz, Środa district, „Archaeologia Polona”, vol.
	www.giecz.obywatel.pl /Varia/English.html (1552 words)

	Poles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As to the ethnicity, the name of the nation comes from a western Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with Poland and the Polish language.
		The Polans were one of the most influential tribes of the Greater Poland, inhabitated the areas around the towns of Giecz, Gniezno and Poznań, and managed to unite most of other Slavic clans in the area under the rule of what became the Piast Dynasty, thus giving birth to a new state.
		Ironically, the term "Polak" (pronounced like "Poe lock", also spelled "Polack") is sometimes seen as derogatory for Poles (in English, at least) yet the Polish name for Pole is Polak, and the ordinary words for Pole in other languages such as Spanish ("polaco") are derived from Polak.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poles (470 words)

	Archaeological Institute of America
		Contemporary Giecz is a Medieval archaeological complex lost among the fields of Wielkopolska.
		It includes a walled stronghold with adjacent cemetery and dike connecting the stronghold and trade settlement on the remains of which is located the contemporary village of Giecz.
		The magnificence of Giecz lasted to the 11th century, after which, it began to lose its significance to be finally abandoned in the 12th century.
	www.archaeological.org /webinfo.php?page=10037&entrynumber=169 (392 words)

	Humbul Record : Slavia
		The site is in English and focuses on the archaeological work being carried out at Lednica and Giecz in Wielkopolska.
		The work concentrates on the period of the tenth and eleventh centuries when Lednica and Giecz were significant settlements.
		It is thought that Ostrów Lednicki was where Mieszko (the first Polish ruler to accept Christianity) built a fort and a residence.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full3.php?id=11236 (216 words)

	Polish culture: Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica
		Poland's largest open-air museum, the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica includes the archeological reservation at Ostrow Lednicki (Lednicki Island) - a Historical Monument of the Polish Nation; a similar reservation in Giecz; the Lednicki Landscape Park; and the Wielkopolski Ethnographical Park.
		A division of the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica, the Piasts Fort Archeological Reserve in Giecz preserves relics as old as those at Ostrow Lednicki, though in an inferior condition.
		The local findings, including farming tools, wooden vessels, weapons, with one of Poland's two identified nosed helmets, and coins, are displayed in glass cases in the so-called Little Treasury, the building which is a copy of the historical church.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/instytucje/muzea/in_mu_piastow_lednica (399 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Searching for Poland's Foundations
		The prince traveled around his dominion staying in one of a ring of equally important cities, where he resolved local problems.
		Kóćka-Krenz mentions Gniezno, Poznań and Giecz in this context.
		She also points out that there was a number of smaller cities and towns in the system, such as Ostrów Lednicki, which served as "intermediate stations," which were needed as the prince with his court could only travel up to 20 kilometers per day.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1121 (1067 words)

	MIDDLE AGES by Michael J. Mikoś
		Today, the crypt of Saint Leonard is the only representative of a host of buildings on the Wawel Hill in Cracow that at one time included the churches of Saint Gereon, Saint Michael, Saint George, and the cathedral, all originally erected on the ruins of pre-Romanesque structures.
		The Cathedral of Płock, built in 1144, is one of the best known examples of Polish Romanesque architecture, and other churches, usually round or square with semicircular apses, can be found in Ostrów Lednicki, Giecz, and Cracow.
		The stone columns adorned with carved figures in the Church of Holy Trinity in Strzelno, the cloister garth in Tyniec, and the tile floor in the collegiate church in Wiślica remain among the masterpieces of Romanesque art.
	www.staropolska.gimnazjum.com.pl /ang/middleages/Mikos_middle/Cultural_m.html (1594 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Berger (Director of Fundraising) has worked with the preservation of cultural artifacts in the anthropological collection of the Field Museum in Chicago and the pictures of Pittsburgh photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris.
		He has done archaeological fieldwork with the Slavia Project in Giecz, Poland and taught science to 6-12 year olds for the innovative non-profit, the Pittsburgh Voyager.
		David has been a research assistant for the Chicago Oriental Institute's Demotic Dictionary Project and a writer and researcher for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and has successful experience in grant-writing.
	qvarts.org /jewpain/davebio.htm (117 words)

	Pilot Guides.com: Flying without wings in Quito By Emily Kerry
		I filed the necessary papers then left with Marek, director of the volunteer program.
		He worked at a site in Giecz as an archaeobotanist, a specialist in ancient plants.
		The two of us drove through the Wielkopolska region, an area of grassy farmland filled with meandering cows, oversized chickens and nesting storks.
	www.pilotguides.com /community/travel_writers/peas_in_poland.php (444 words)

	THE PIASTOWSKI TRAIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One can see some of its attractions, or follow it through, going in a loop from Poznań, through Ostrów Lednicki, Gniezno, Trzemeszno, Mogilno, Strzelno, Kruszwica, Inowrocław, than back through Biskupin to Gniezno to end up in Giecz.
		Kruszwica and Inowrocław, with their Romanesque temples, are also worth a visit, not to mention Biskupin, where the main attraction is a restored Lusatian settlement from the 8th century, which was discovered in the 1930's.
		On the way back, the place to stop is Giecz, which, alongside Poznań, Gniezno, and Ostrów Lednicki, was one of the largest cities of Poland under the early Piasts.
	www.city.poznan.pl /ang/strony_new/piastowski?lang=en (505 words)

	Wrzesnia - Origins
		The Grzybowo stronghold cannot be traced on any written documents.
		Yet its imposing dimensions and location in the vicinity of Gniezno, Giecz, and Ostrow Lednicki might suggest that it played a vital role during consolidation of Polish statehood.
		A definition of that role is the main object of archaeological research started in 1989 on my initiative.
	www.interlog.com /~wrzesnia/IdW/Wrzesnia/Wrz_fr_grzy_eng.htm (975 words)

	Waxed Tablets from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
		The scribe in the lower left-hand corner uses a stylus on a wax tablet.
		A bronze stylus found in Giecz, in Poland, dates to the 11th or 12th centuries.
		Contemporary illustrations of Hildegard von Bingen depict her using a waxed tablet.
	moas.atlantia.sca.org /wsnlinks/link.php?id=2213 (668 words)

	Poviat Gniezno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The main part of the route leads from the important city of Poznañ created in the early medieval period of the Polish State, via Pobiedziska, Ostrów Lednicki, Gniezno - the first capital of Poland, Trzemeszno, Mogolno, Strzelno, Kruszwica to Inowroc³aw.
		Its side routes run in the east from Poznañ via Swarzêdz, Kostrzyn, Giecz, Wrze¶nia, Czerniejewo to Gniezno; in the north from Gniezno via Rogowo, Biskupin, ¯nin, Lubostroñ, Barcin and Pako¶æ to Inowroc³aw; in the south from Trzemeszno via Orchowo to Strzelno; in the north from Trzemeszno via Mogilno to Strzelno.
		All places listed above possess precious monuments of the past connected with the beginnings of Polish statehood as well as later ones, representing all styles and epochs of Polish architecture.
	www.powiat-gniezno.pl /en/piastroute.html (2405 words)

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		The early medieval archaeology at Giecz and other nearby sites told the story of the birth of a nation.
		Christianity, one of the unifying factors of the Polish state, was evident in the east-west orientation of the burials I helped to excavate at Giecz.
		Just north of Giecz, on an island in
	www.unm.edu /~jsecrest/Paper_1.htm (342 words)

	[No title]
		The 6th Field School in Mortuary Archaeology is to be held in the summer months of 2004 in Giecz, Poland.
		Contact: Dr. Marek Polcyn The Giecz Project Coordinator, First Piasts Museum, Dziekanowice 32, 62 ‑261 Lednogora, Poland, tel.
		Southwestern Archaeology field school at the Bluff, Utah and Canada Alamosa, New Mexico site is sponsored by the University of Colorado and an opportunity to learn the archaeology of the four corners area.
	www.umass.edu /anthro/megamemos/Mega020304.htm (4349 words)

	Stone Mill's Guderian Blitz at 200 - www.ezboard.com
		I really don't know what to expect, but I do know it will be fun.
		They had been told that they were to face an enemy totally ill equipped and unprepared; yet something stirred feelings of uncertainty in them as the dawn broke over Giecz.
		Their rosters were shortened significantly; most of the stellar leaders were called back to Deutschland for instructor duty and replaced with NCOs and Brass nearly as green as the Carpathian hills.
	p090.ezboard.com /fjpspanzersfrm103.showMessage?topicID=9.topic (5668 words)

	Genealogical records of Greater Poland: Sroda
		Giecz (Sroda) 5219 1722 PO 1170 souls (in 1888)
		Includes: Dominowo, Giecz, Maryanowo, Michałowo, Orzeszkowo, Poświętne, Rusiborek, Rusiborskie Huby, Rusiborz, Szrapki
		Grodziszczko (Sroda) 5219 1721 PO Now part of Giecz
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/records/sro_r.htm (1552 words)

	PolishRoots - Surnames: Origins & Meanings
		What, if anything, could that surname be derived from, assuming it was from a Polish root?
		I notice the Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames edited by A. Vanagas mentions Polish Giec or Giecz as a possible source of the name.
		If that's so, the only info I can find is that giec is a dialect variant of kiec, meaning "corncrake," a kind of bird (Latin name Crex crex).
	www.polishroots.org /surnames/surnames_18.htm (9094 words)

	CC#1 as a JP Special @ 120 - Dig In - Defeated - www.ezboard.com
		Re: CC#1 as a JP Special @ 120 - Dig In
		Move four ground units up the road leading west from Giecz or Veseli.
		This may still happen but since I've passed Leningrad I should at least end as a Gumshoe!!!!
	p090.ezboard.com /fjpspanzersfrm103.showMessage?topicID=20.topic (2096 words)

	Lux et Lapis 2002 - programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bus departure to Prague, expected arrival to the Ruzyne airport at 17.30, then transport to the hotel (for those participants staying in Prague longer)
		Ludwik Domka, Maciej Kozak, Anna Kozak: Physicochemical and microbiological studies of mortars of St. Nicholas church in Giecz (Poland)
		Anthimos Georgiadis, Elena Sergeev: New intelligent machining technology for customer oriented production of natural stone
	www.natur.cuni.cz /asc/ugmnz/luxetlapis.html (699 words)

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