
	Where results make sense

Topic: Gniezno

Related Topics

Meeting in Gniezno

Gniezno Congress

Gniezno County

Gniezno, Poland

Cathedral of Gniezno

Royal coronations in Gniezno cathedral

In the News (Wed 22 May 13)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Gniezno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the administrative capital of the Gniezno powiat (district or county).
		Gniezno was hit by heavy fires in 1515, 1613, was destroyed during the Swedish invasion wars of the 17th-18th centuries and by a plague of 1708-1710.
		Gniezno's Roman Catholic archbishop is traditionally the Primate of Poland (Prymas Polski).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gniezno (774 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gniezno, Poland (Polish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The legendary cradle of the Polish nation, Gniezno was the first capital of Poland.
		The kings of Poland were crowned at Gniezno until 1320.
		the archbishops of Gniezno acted as protectors of Poland.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Gniezno.html (206 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Gniezno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gniezno (pronounced (additional info and facts about pronounced) :) is a town in central Poland (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II), some 50 km east of Poznan (additional info and facts about Poznan), inhabited by about 73,000 people.
		The cities of Gniezno and nearby Poznan (additional info and facts about Poznan) were captured, plundered and destroyed in 1038 by the Czech duke Bretislav, what pushed the next Polish rulers to move the Polish capital to Cracow (An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula).
		Gniezno's Roman Catholic (The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy) archbishop (A bishop of highest rank) is traditionally the Primate of Poland (Prymas Polski).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gn/gniezno.htm (838 words)

	GNIEZNO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is here that the Gniezno Congress took place in the year 1000 AD, during which Boleslaus I the Brave, the first king of Poland, received Otto III, the Emperor of Germany.
		The two monarchs celebrated the foundation of the Polish ecclesiastical province in Gniezno, with newly established bishoprics in Kolobrzeg for Pomerania; Wroclaw for Silesia; Krakow for Little Poland and already existing since 968 bishopric in Poznan for western Greater Poland.
		Gniezno's Roman Catholic archbishop is traditionally the Primate of Poland.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/gn/Gniezno.htm (204 words)

	Poviat Gniezno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gniezno Powiat is situated in the central-western part of Poland in Wielkopolskie Province and covers the area of about 1254 km2.
		Gniezno Powiat lies on Gniezno Upland which is a part of Wielkopolska Lowland, in a very convenient region in such aspects as communication and strategy.
		Gniezno, the first capital of Poland is located at the crossroads of international and local roads and railway lines, 50 km east of Poznañ.
	www.powiat-gniezno.pl /en (648 words)

	Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gniezno is believed to have been founded as the Piast capital by Leszek, the ruler of Great Poland who made the former stronghold of the Polanie tribe his residence.
		He was baptised at Gniezno in 966 and established a church there.
		The status of Gniezno as a royal capital was short lived.
	www.heritagesites.eu.com /poland/gniezno.htm (208 words)

	Congress of Gniezno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Congress of Gniezno is one of the most important events in Polish history, though scholars disagree over the details of the decisions made at the meeting, especially whether the Polish prince was pledged the king's crown or not.
		His body, bought by Boleslaus I for its weight in gold, was put into the tomb in Gniezno, contemporary capital of Poland.
		While on a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Adalbert at Gniezno in 1000 A.D., Otto III, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, invested Boleslaus I of Poland with the title Frater et Cooperator Imperii ("Brother and Partner of the Empire").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meeting_at_the_tomb_of_Saint_Adalbert (313 words)

	Gniezno - Poland 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As early as mid-10th century, on a naturally defensible hill stood a fortified settlement, the center of the Polanie tribe, around which the Piast dynasty was forming the Gniezno state, later known as Poland.
		In 1038 Gniezno lost to Cracow its role as the country's capital.
		Gniezno attracts crowds of tourists who mainly come to see the cathedral, the one thousand year old temple, with St. Adalbert's relics.
	www.math.uiuc.edu /~polkowsk/old/album/trip2001/gniezno/gniezno.html (96 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Commemorating a Royal Meeting in Gniezno
		Church celebrations of the Gniezno millennium include the veneration of St. Adalbert, one of the Catholic patrons of Europe.
		Gniezno authorities are hoping that the presidents of Poland and Germany will lay the cornerstone of the Collegium Europeanum building, a branch of Poznań's Adam Mickiewicz University Center of European Studies.
		Gniezno is to be the site of another meeting April 28, this time of the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and-according to the organizers-France.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1271 (689 words)

	Gniezno - Gniezno Poland
		Gniezno is located in the south-east of Wielkopolska Plain, about 50 km from Poznan.
		Gniezno is the place where the ceremony of baptism (of Prince Mieszko I and the whole nation) took place in 966.
		That act made Emperor Otto III come to Gniezno, and on pope's demand, crown Boleslaw with his own crown, confirming Poland's status as a kingdom and Boleslaw's as a king.
	www.staypoland.com /about_gniezno.htm (637 words)

	Gniezno, Poland : Gnesen
		It is here that the Gniezno Congress took place in the year 1000 AD, during which Boleslaw Chrobry received Otto III, the Emperor of Germany.
		In 1025 AD, Boleslaw Chrobry became the first King of Poland, and is nowadays commonly referred to as Boleslaus I of Poland.
		External links: Gniezno homepage (http://www.gniezno.home.pl/index_gb.html) (in English), from which all of the above was taken and adapted.
	www.fastload.org /gn/Gnesen.html (125 words)

	Gniezno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gniezno line has its origins in a 900mm gauge railway 18km long serving the sugar factory at Gniezno.
		Similarly, the coal for Goslawice sugar works had to be transhipped from standard gauge to 600mm wagons at Gniezno and again to 750mm wagons at Anastazewo.
		After the Second World War the Gniezno system became part of PKP’s Kujawy system, and it was converted to 750mm gauge in the early 1950s.
	www.cleeve.com /gniezno (336 words)

	Johan Uphagen residence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gniezno Door was cast in bronze and placed in the south gate of the Cathedral in 1175.
		He composed his poem Gniezno Door in Polish in 1956 and wrote the English version of the poem on the thousandth anniversary of Adalbert's martydom.
		The bi-lingual edition of Gniezno Door was published by PIW last year and will be available at our presentation.
	www.polishculture.org.uk /archive_history/events_hist_gniezno.html (306 words)

	Polish culture: Museum of the Origins of the Polish State
		Gniezno was the capital city of the first few of the Piast dynasty rulers of Poland, and from 1000 onwards it has been a seat of an archbishopric, too.
		The Medieval Gniezno shows models of the town as it was in the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, pewter vessels and other exhibits as well as early and late medieval documents.
		The Gniezno in Modern Times spans the sixteenth through nineteenth century and presents decorative arts and crafts, with the precious collection of Renaissance stove tiles, liturgical vessels, military objects, ironwork, tableware and a collection of sixteenth through eighteenth century table knives.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/in_mu_gniezno (372 words)

	[No title]
		Cardinal Józef Glemp, Archbishop of Warsaw, Primate of Poland, and Ordinary for the faithful of the Oriental Rite residing in Poland, was born on 18 December 1929 at Inowroclaw, in the Archdiocese of Gniezno, the son of a salt miner.
		He finished his elementary school after the outbreak of WWII and only after the war in 1945 he was able to begin studying in the secondary school of Jan Kasprowicz at Inowroclaw, earning his diploma on 25 May 1950.
		He worked as Secretary of the Seminary of Gniezno and as notary for the Curia and the metropolitan tribunal and also as defender of the bond.
	www.vatican.va /news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_glemp_j_en.html (534 words)

	Gniezno
		Legend has it that Gniezno was founded by Lech who was wandering over the countryside with his two brothers, Czech and Rus, to find a suitable place for settlement.
		Set in the south portal is the bronze Gniezno Door from c.a 1170 - one of the peak achievements of Romanesque metalworking.
		Gniezno cathedral id the official state cathedral and the seat of the Primate of Poland.
	www.polandguangzhou.com /en/content/355.htm (592 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gniezno
		A motto is a phrase or a short list of words meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization.
		Gniezno is a town in central Poland, some 50 km east of
		Gniezno Congress (Meeting at the tomb of Saint Adalbert) took place in the year 1000 AD, during which
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gniezno (838 words)

	Welcome to "The Europe of the Spirit" (euroforum.pl - Forum św. Wojciecha)
		The Congress – drawing upon the thousand-year-old tradition of Congresses of Gniezno during which were discussed the fate of our part of the continent – will be a venue of debate and reflection on the involvement of Christians in public life and their responsibility for Europe.
		The Gniezno Congress of the laity – taking place under the patronage of the Primate of Poland and the Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno – will be one of the major religious events in this part of Europe on the eve of another stage of the continent’s integration.
		I wish the idea of the Congress of Gniezno to be an inspiration for contemporary people for seeking the paths of unity and mutual understanding and constructing a stable civilisation of love on the foundations of the Gospel.
	www.euroforum.pl /euroforum?MID=6607 (770 words)

	inSPEYERed \| Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Polish nation that was being formed, then known as the Gniezno Nation to which a document of oblation from the end of the 10th century is a testimony, Gniezno fulfilled the role of a capital and a center, associated with the Piast dynasty - innate lords of Poland.
		The medieval city of Gniezno was witness to quite a few coronations: Mieszko II, Boles³aw Smialy, Przemyslaw II and Walclaw II the Czech (in 1300).
		Gniezno, however, remained the main worship center of Poland for a long time, and in the period of the regional division, the residence of the archbishopric here symbolized the unity of the country.
	www.inspeyered.de /home/participants/poland (2685 words)

	BIOGRAPHY OF CARDINAL JÓZEF GLEMP, PRIMATE OF POLAND
		Then, in accord with the existing structure of studies and seminary preparation in the Archdiocese of Gniezno, he went on to the Archiepiscopal Seminary in Poznań on September 30th 1952.
		Upon completion of the full philosophical and theological course, he was ordained to the priesthood in the primatial basilica of Gniezno on May 25th 1956.
		He also led courses for priests of the Archdiocese of Gniezno in postconciliar studies and in the academic year of 1966-67 was prosynodal examiner in this area.
	www.spp.episkopat.pl /bio/biography.htm (2259 words)

	gniezno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To the east of Poznań lies Gniezno, the first capital of Poland, a city that stretches across seven hills and is surrounded by lakes.
		In the year 1000 Gniezno witnessed a meeting between German emperor Otto III and Bolesław the Brave, the first King of Poland.
		Gniezno's many historical sights include the bronze Gniezno Door, made about 1170, which portrays 18 scenes from the life and death of St. Adalbert.
	www.orbis.incoming.pbp.com.pl /gniezno.html (154 words)

	Catholic Poland
		By 1945 it included : - the archdioceses of Gniezno and Poznan, Krakow, Lwow, Warszawa and Wilno, - the bishopric for the Polish Armed forces.
		In 1918 all of Gniezno and most of Poznan were transferred to the restored Polish state.
		In 1466 it was transferred to the jurisdiction of Gniezno.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Catholic_Poland.html (2375 words)

	Mieszko I and Boleslaw Chrobry: The Origins of the Polish State
		Serving as the center of Polanie power were Gniezno and the territory extending eastward along the length of the Warta river.
		The Saint's cult, however, was quickly renewed in Gniezno and the arm, which in the interim had been given to the papacy, was brought back, thus insuring that there is a genuine relic of the Saint in Gniezno cathedral.
		Patron for the doors was Jakób of Żnin, the archbishop of Gniezno and a descendent of the family of Adalbert.)
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/orig/mieszko.html (3400 words)

	LMP-place content
		Municipal rights were given to Gniezno in 1239 (the coat of arms contains the white Piast eagle with golden crown in the red background).
		It is necessary to mention that in 1295 here in Gniezno cathedral shortly after division of Poland into petty dukedoms two Poland's kings were crowned Przemysław II in 1295 and Wacław II in 1300.
		In 1918 - 1919 Gniezno was one of the main centres of national uprising against the Germans.
	www.euroatlas.pl /place/place_info.asp?lang=e&placeID=9372&categoryID=32 (824 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)