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  History of Grodno
The Grodno Charters of 18 June 1389 and 1408 grant privileges to a community engaged in a variety of occupations including handicrafts and agriculture in the town that was the residence of the ruling Grand Duke.
Prince Alexander Juryevich, vice-regent of Vilna and Grodno, was to oversee the restoration of property and settlement of debts owed to them; however, they were required to repurchase their former property, pay for all improvements and mortgages, and equip annually a 1,000 horse cavalry regiment at their own expense.
Grodno’s capital was Vilna in the Lithuanian Principality
www.jewishgen.org /belarus/info_history_of_grodno.htm   (4500 words)

  
 ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Recipients
In the eighth year of this program, the American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the awarding of Short-term Grants in the Humanities and Publication Support Grants in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.
Awards were made to individuals doing exemplary work in the humanities in the region.
Regional elite discourse in the Russian Empire: The case of the Ukrainian Steppe from the late 18th to the 19th Century.
www.acls.org /humanities-byruuk-recips.htm   (1201 words)

  
 Welcome to the Kovno Site
In 1795, Lithuania was annexed by Russia, and Kovno became a regional central town in the Vilna Gubernija in 1796.
He recognized that the Jews were numerous in the city’s population, and their part is taxation was significant, and this blind hatred toward them could lead to a destruction of the town from a financial point of view.
Spektor was born in 1817 in the town of Rus, in the region of Grodno.
www.eilatgordinlevitan.com /kovno/kovno.html   (11460 words)

  
 Study of distribution of the icon-painting topics in the ancient Belorussian art
The number of icons in 16 century is 20 items and this period was not examined in the analysis.
In relative units this subject is that most ordinary in Mogilev region and less in Gomel and Grodno regions.
The relative number of icons of this subject are represented mostly in Mogilev and Gomel regions and less in Grodno region.
www.artinfo.ru /eva/EVA2000M/eva-papers/200007/Karelin-E.htm   (1264 words)

  
 EFRON FAMILIES
Israel Efron, son of Abraham Jacob of Grodno, and a relative with the same name and father's name.
This seems strange, but according to gravestone research that was done, they both had the same given names and the same father's name.
Pauline was married to Morris Efron, the son of Yehuda Leib Efron of Grodno (below).
mysite.verizon.net /vzeeg8yu/id1.html   (3958 words)

  
 enews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Heraldry Council of Belarus adopted official heraldic symbols for the administrative units of Grodno Region - the towns of Dyatlovo and Smorgon, and the townships of Korelichi and Krasnoselsky.
The Committee for Archives and Records Management of Belarus held a republic-level workshop "Documentation in Information Society: the role of a record in government process" for the senior officials of government agencies.
The collection of historical records held by the Archives includes records dating from the 16th century to the present.
www.archives.gov.by /enews/enews23.htm   (304 words)

  
 Manorial Jurisdictions
Rhuzhany Palace in Ruzhany, Grodno region is the castle that was built first for Leo Sapieha, the father-in-law of Anna Chodkewicz.
An article on Bereza in Grodno in the Jewish Encyclopedia also claims it for the Sapieha family in the time of Leo Sapieha.
An art gallery of Sapieha princes of the 18th century is among the holdings of the Polish National Museum of the Przemzyl region.
www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /lyakhovichi/Manorial.htm   (2808 words)

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