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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hrodna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is the capital of Hrodna voblast (province) and Hrodna raion (district).
Along with Navahradak, Hrodna was regarded as the main city on the far west of the historical area so-called Black Rus, that was neighbouring the original Duchy of Lithuania.
Hrodna was occupied by Germany in 1915 and ceded by Russia in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hrodna   (4371 words)

  
 Hrodna
From the second half of the XII Century Hrodna was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and in 1569 it merged with the Kingdom of Poland to form Rzech Pospolita Polsko-Litewska - the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.
Hrodna was occupied in 1812 as Napoleon's Army marched toward Moscow.
In the subsequent turmoil caused by the end of the war and the onset of the Russian Revolution Hrodna was captured by the Pilsudski Army in 1920, was ceded to Poland by the Treaty of Riga and remained part of Poland until 1939.
www.belarusguide.com /cities/hrodna/index.html   (1342 words)

  
  Hrodna, Belarus
The modern city of Hrodna originates with a small fortress and a fortified trading outpost founded by Ruthenian princes at the end of the 11th century.
Located on the crossing of numerous trading routes, the settlement flourished and in 12th and 13th centuries it was a capital of a separate principality.
Hrodna was occupied by Germany in 1915 and ceded by Russia in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
www.creekin.net /c1348-n17-hrodna-belarus.html   (891 words)

  
 Hrodna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hrodna ist eine Stadt in Weißrussland an der Memel, nahe der Grenze zu Polen und Litauen.
Hrodna hat etwa 300.000 Einwohner, darunter eine große polnische Minderheit (Vor dem 2.
Früher ging durch Hrodna eine der wichtigsten Eisenbahnverbindungen der Sowjetunion von Vilnius nach Warschau.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/de/wikipedia/h/hr/hrodna.html   (69 words)

  
 Belarus News and Analysis | Lukashenko destroying Belarus' historical architecture
Hrodna is 820 years old and is considered to be one of the most European cities in this country.
In defiance of the protests of the intelligentsia of Hrodna, the city authorities refused not to destroy the old town.
Hrodna is a unique city for which it was easier to survive the two World Wars than for other Belarusian cities.
www.data.minsk.by /belarusnews/082006/72.html   (649 words)

  
 Grodno Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hrodna is known as a center of apanage principality.
As early as in the 12th century the town had its original architectural school that is well-represented by the S.S. Boris and Gleb (Kalozha) Church, a true gem of the ancient Russian architecture.
Hrodna stands out among other towns of Belarus for unique and harmonized urban development, thereby enabling us to speak about it as about a museum town with its specific charm.
www.belarustourism.by /en/leisure/regions/grodno   (338 words)

  
 Hrodna Apartments for rent Hrodna apartment rentals, Hrodna furnished apartments to rent.
Hrodna Apartments for rent Hrodna apartment rentals, Hrodna furnished apartments to rent.
Hrodna apartment rentals and houses for rent are posted daily by Hrodna owners, property managers and roommates.
Hrodna apartment rentals, sublets, rooms and potential Hrodna renters have not been screened, verified or evaluated.
www.sublet.com /city_rentals/Hrodna_Rentals.asp   (181 words)

  
 What & Where Minsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Stefan Batory donated 10,000 zlotys (zloty is monetary unit of Poland) for the foundation of the Church and Jesuit Collegium (a kind of ecclesiastical college).
Hrodna Church is not exception here as the central place in main altar is occupied by the figure of Saint preacher Francisk Ksawery.
For five centuries Hrodna citizens check their watches against the main city clock which is the most aged clock among those remained in Belarus till now.
www.minskreview.com /n7/hrodna-e.html   (1898 words)

  
 hrodna province - Information from Reference.com
There are no dictionary entries for hrodna province, but hrodna, province are spelled correctly.
Hrodna is known from 1128, here on the right steepen river bank two...
Province (Hrodna); Mahilyow Province (Mahilyow); Minsk Province (Minsk)...
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 Belarus Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
Hrodna, 280km (175mi) west of Minsk, is probably the most picturesque city in all of Belarus, simply because it survived the war better than anywhere else and has more historic buildings intact to prove it.
Settled since ancient times, Hrodna was absorbed by Lithuania in the 14th century, when it became a major defensive fort, and later by Poland, which built a palace and several churches.
Hrodna fell easily during WWII, suffering little structural damage but losing most of its population.
www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/europe/belarus?att=44043   (164 words)

  
 Belarus » Blog Archive » Vandalism in Hrodna (Grodno)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Nowadays the regional capital of western Belarus, Hrodna, used to be among the most important cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In the late 16th century and the late 18th century it was one of the de facto capitals of the Commonwealth, where the country’s Sejms, the parliament sessions, were held.
Those times left their trace in Hrodna in the shape of numerous landmarks, some of them of international importance.
These days Hrodna local authorities, with the consent of the central government, are trying to erase what is left.
www.tolblogs.org /belarus/en/?p=70   (538 words)

  
 Riot Police Dispersed Businessmen Meeting In Hrodna :: Charter'97 :: News :: 04/05/2004
The woman was taken to a hospital by an ambulance.
They were brought by more than a hundred of workers of the largest plant of the city, “Hrodna Azot”.
After them went about two thousands of small traders from Hrodna markets, who carried posters with slogans: “Everybody is equal for the law”, “Long live Labor”, “Lukashenka Must Resign”.
www.charter97.org /eng/news/2004/05/04/omon   (503 words)

  
 Hrodna Buildings, Real Estate, Architecture, Skyscrapers and Construction Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hrodna (Grodno) is one of the oldest cities in Belarus and the capital city of Hrodna region.
Hrodna was founded in the end of the 10th century at the junction of Gorodnichanka and Neman rivers.
In 1576-1586 Hrodna was the residence city of King Stephen Bathory of Poland.
www.emporis.com /en/wm/ci/?id=100980   (243 words)

  
 CPJ News Alert 2003
Markevich will be allowed to reside with his family, but he will now have to register with Hrodna law enforcement authorities and find employment.
He is also obligated to give 15 percent of his earnings to the state and sign a pledge not to leave Hrodna's city limits.
On June 24, 2002, Hrodna's Leninsky District Court found Markevich and Paval Mazheika, a reporter with Pahonya, guilty of libeling President Aleksandr Lukashenko.
www.cpj.org /news/2003/Belarus07march03na.html   (363 words)

  
 Human Rights Center "VIASNA".   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
On 1 September the secondary school in the village of Milkaushchyna (Hrodna district) was named after the well-known Polish writer Eliza Ozheszko.
The celebration of this event as well as the opening of the new curriculum year was attended by the graduates of this school, its friends from Lithuania, representatives of the Union of Poles in Belarus and the General Consul of Poland in Hrodna Andrzej Krentowski.
‘On 4 September I was summonsed to Hrodna, where the deputy chair of Hrodna District Executive Committee Valery Klimovich and the chair of the education department Aliaksandr Sautsou stated that as a result of the consul’s presence at the celebration they had many problems.
www.spring96.org /viewn.php?id=4247&pagelang=en   (321 words)

  
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The magistrate books, materials of magnate archives, publications of townspeople, inventories of Hrodna catholic convents and the press of that time were examined.
The analysis of collected material once again proves that apart from general tendencies inherent to the development of the Polish literary language, the Polonisms used in Grand Duchy of Lithuania town chancelleries, were characterized by certain conservatism.
The analysis of documents evidences of inflexion declinations of nouns (grammatical gender declination, Ruthenian gradation of γ/ź or appearance of nouns of masculine gender with –a ending in nominative case), which might be re­lated to Ruthenian language standard.
txt.knihi.com /bha/10/har_e10.htm   (470 words)

  
 IPI (International Press Institute) :: Editor sentenced to seven days in jail
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the prison sentence handed to Pavel Mazheyka, head of the Hrodna branch of the Belarusian Association of Journalists and chief editor of the banned Pahonya newspaper.
According to information before IPI, Mazheyka was sentenced to seven days in jail by a district court in Hrodna on 1 November for participating in an unauthorised demonstration.
On 4 October, Mazheyka, along with four other journalists, protested in Hrodna against the pressures on the independent media.
www.freemedia.at /cms/ipi/statements_detail.html?ctxid=CH0055&docid=CMS1144403760888&year=2004   (489 words)

  
 Kazakhstan Votes RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Alyaksandr Milinkevich was born on 25 July 1947 in Hrodna, western Belarus.
In 1969, he graduated with honors from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of the Hrodna Teacher Institute.
In 1990-96, Milinkevich was deputy mayor of Hrodna, responsible for education, culture, sports, mass media, and international contacts.
www.rferl.org /specials/belarus_votes/bios/Milinkevich.aspx   (711 words)

  
 SS. Boris and Gleb (Kalozha) Church in the city of Hrodna - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Boris and Gleb (Kalozha) Church in the city of Hrodna
Boris and Gleb (Kalozha) Church in the city of Hrodna was built in 1180s by architect Pyotr Milaneh on the high right bank of the river Nieman, opposite the Castle Hill, in the territory of the former Kalozha settlement.
In the 16'h and17t' centuries it was restored, in 1853 it was partially destroyed by a landslide, in 1889 the southern apse collapsed.
whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/1895   (495 words)

  
 Belarus: Suppressing the last voices of peaceful dissent - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
On 7 September 2004 Valery Levonevsky, the president of the national strike committee of market traders, and Alyaksandr Vasiliev, the deputy president, were sentenced to two years in prison by the Leninsky District Court in Hrodna for publicly insulting the President under Article 368(2) of the Criminal Code.
The judge also decreed that computers and other equipment that had earlier been taken from Valery Levonevsky and Alyaksandr Vasiliev would be confiscated "in the interests of the state" and both men were ordered to pay fines of 643,278 Belarusian roubles (300 USD) each.
Pavel Mazheika, head of the Hrodna branch of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, was sentenced to seven days' detention on 1 November 2004 for a picket that he organized to protest against the conviction of Elena Rovbetskaia.
web.amnesty.org /library/index/engeur490042005   (7804 words)

  
 Hrodna Region Map: Abramovshchina — Zygmuntsyshki | Belarus Google Satellite Maps
You are in Hrodna (Belarus), administrative region of level 1.
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 Amazon.com: Hrodna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Catholics’ Protest in Hrodna (Photo) :: Charter'97 :: News :: 24/11/2006
Today more than 100 parishioners of a Catholic church of the Holiest Virgin Mary, Mother of Compassion in Hrodna have gathered in front of Hrodna regional executive committee.
The Catholics demand the authorities to authorize construction of a new church in Hrodna.
Remember, please, you are expected to refer to the Charter`97 Press Center when using the site materials.
charter97.org /eng/news/2006/11/24/photo   (233 words)

  
 Hrodna - MSN Encarta
Hrodna, also Grodno, city in Belarus, near Poland.
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 Sites near Hrodna - GeoURL (2.0)
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 Europe for Belarus
The architecture of this city closely resembles Vilnius, which was built along similar lines.
Those houses became the pride of our city.
Anna Pawłowska, an active defender of the historical centre, of Hrodna talks about the plans of the local authorities.
www.wolnabialorus.pl /news.php?nr=451   (649 words)

  
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The Court denied his request to have the trial conducted in his native Belarusian language (see 2.c.).
On 1 November, a Hrodna district court sentenced Pavel Mazheyka, head of the Hrodna branch of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, to seven days in jail for taking part in an unauthorised demonstration on 27 October.
Mazheyka and four other journalists staged a demonstration in Hrodna to protest the fine given Elena Ravbetskaya.
www.lycos.com /info/belarus--supreme-court.html   (247 words)

  
 Belarusian Review :: Belarus-Poland Borderland and the European Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The study consists of two parts, one in this issue dealing with the Bialystok region in Poland, the other, in the next issue, with the Hrodna region in Belarus.
The study was supported technically by the Hrodna branch of Lew Sapeha Foundation (Hrodna, Belarus), and the Educational Center "Poland-Belarus" (Bialystok, Poland).
Intergovernmental conflict between Poland and Belarus connected with change of leadership of the Union of Poles of Belarus.
www.belreview.cz /articles/3057.html   (2183 words)

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