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	POLAND - LoveToKnow Article on POLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Poland, indeed, was far less able to cope with the Turks than compact, wealthy Hungary, which throughout the 15th century was one of the most efficient military monarchies in Europe.
		Poland had established a sort of suzerainty over Moldavia as early as the end of the I4th century; but at best it was a loose and vague overlordship which the Hospodars repudiated whenever they were strong enough to do so.
		Poland, as the next neighbor of Hungary, was more seriously affected than any other European power by this catastrophe, but her politicians differed as to the best way of facing it.
	7.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POLAND.htm (18908 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Poland revolted from the empire, and the Polish Church began a reform in accordance with Gregory's decrees.
		The Church of Poland took part, it is true, in the Synod of Constance, at which Hus was burnt, but had not the strength to oppose effectively the reactionary tendency of the nobility, which sought to use heresy as a counterpoise to the influence of the Church.
		The head of the Catholic Church in Poland was the Archbishop of Gnesen, primate of the kingdom and legatus nalus.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12181a.htm (17027 words)

	KAMENETS PODOLSKIY - LoveToKnow Article on KAMENETS PODOLSKIY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kamenets is the see of a Roman Catholic and a Greek Orthodox bishop.
		Kamenets was laid waste by the Mongol leader Batu in 1240.
		Restored to Poland by the peace of Karlowitz (1699), it passed with Podolia to Russiain 1795.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KA/KAMENETS_PODOLSKIY.htm (350 words)

	Kamianets-Podilskyi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1352 it was annexed by Polish King Kazimierz the Great and became the capital of Podole Voivodship and the seat of local civil and military administration.
		The ancient castle was reconstructed and substantially expanded by the Polish kings to defend Poland from the southeast against Ottoman and Tatar invasions.
		From the Second Partition of Poland (1793), the city belonged to the Russian Empire, where it was the capital of Podol'skaya Guberniya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kamianets-Podilskyi (626 words)

	Białowieża Forest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Puszcza Białowieska in Poland, is an ancient virginal forest straddling the border between Belarus and Poland, located 70 km north of Brest.
		After the Partitions of Poland tsar Paul turned all foresters into serfs and handed them over along with parts of forest which they lived in to various Russian aristocrats and generals.
		After the war part of the forest was devided between Poland and the Belarusian SSR of the USSR.
	www.nethider.com /cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/010110A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belovezhskaya_Pushcha (1371 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lemberg
		In 1372 Louis of Hungary entrusted the administration of the city to Wladislaw, Prince of Oppeln; in 1387 it was given as dowry to the Princess Hedwig, by whose marriage with Jagellon it became a possession of the Polish Crown.
		The university, founded in 1660 by Casimir of Poland, suffered especially from the withdrawal of the Jesuits and the political changes which culminated in Galicia becoming an Austrian province.
		By a Brief of 20 September, 1819, Pius VII conceded to the new sovereign, the Emperor of Austria, the choice of an archbishop from three candidates presented by the Armenian clergy of Lemberg.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09144a.htm (2067 words)

	This Month in Jewish History: November
		In Poland, Casimir IV revoked the Jewish charter, at the insistence of Bishop Zbignev.
		Kamenets is one of the first, with thousands killed in the first few days.
		Poland, bitter over the forced Catholicism of the Jesuits and the unscrupulous taxes collected by some Jews for the nobles, set the stage for the Cossack uprising.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=261 (2748 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Subsequently, the princes of Poland eagerly sought immigrants from the west, mainly from Germany, and gave them energetic assistance to settle in the villages and towns.
		The foundations of the legal status of the Jews in the grand duchy of Lithuania were laid by Grand Duke Vitold in writs of law granted to the Jews of Brest-Litovsk in 1388 and to the Jews of Grodno in 1389.
		In Poland, the whole conception was medieval to the core: legally and formally the attitude to the Jews remained unchanged from their first arrival from the west and southwest.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=107 (2559 words)

	BTE TRAVEL & STUDY TOURS - Incoming Tour Operator to Poland and Eastern Europe
		The visitors of the church are impressed by the majesty and beauty of its decoration with plenty of colors and golden iconostasis.
		The castle was a strategic point on the southern boarder of Poland.
		It was built around the XIIIth century to protect Poland and consequently Western Europe from the attacks of Turks and Tartars.
	www.travel-study.pl /prog10.html (805 words)

	Bialowieza Forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After the Partitions of Poland tsar Paul turned all forresters into serfs and handed them over along with parts of forest which they lived in to various Russian aristocrats and generals.
		Two of them were from the zoological garden in Pszczyna and were direct descendants of a pair of wisents from the forest given to Duke of Pszczyna by tsar Alexander II in 1865.
		After the war part of the forest was left in Poland while a large part was annexed by USSR to Belarusian SSR.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Bialowieza-Forest.htm (1432 words)

	The Chancellery of the Prime Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Strategic partnership with Ukraine according to the Polish Prime Minister was an essential element of Poland's eastern policy.
		The next point of the visit was sightseeing of Kamenets Fortress with representatives of the Ukrainian foundation "Zamkovyi Mist" and Poland's "Most" foundation which are working to restore the historic bridge leading to the stronghold.
		In the presence of the Polish government chief and representatives of the local authorities, the mayor of Sanok and the mayor of Kamenets Podolski signed a partnership agreement on co-operation between the two towns.
	www.kprm.gov.pl /english/2130_5307.htm (410 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - Holocaust - 1941
		Himmler makes his first visit to Auschwitz, during which he orders Kommandant Höss to begin massive expansion, including a new compound to be built at nearby Birkenau that can hold 100,000 prisoners.
		Gas chambers at Auschwitz in Poland are used for first time, using Zyklon B, which was basically Hydrogen Cyanide.
		Jews taken there are placed in mobile gas vans and driven to a burial place while carbon monoxide from the engine exhaust is fed into the sealed rear compartment, killing them.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/the-holocaust/the-holocaust-index-1941.htm (419 words)

	Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Under the influence of Bishop Solik of Kiev the castle court sentenced 33 Jews to death for the "ritual murder" of a Christian child.
		The rationale for this was that had the townsman drowned so close to the synagogue, the Jewish community would have been accused of complicity in his death.
		Jacob Frank, a follower of the false Messiah Shabbetai Zevi, had begun his own movement which emphasized the Kabbalah and denigrated the Talmud.
	www.jewishhistory.org.il /1750.htm (807 words)

	Kamyanets-Podilskyy on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is a rail terminus and has industries that produce foodstuffs, tobacco, machinery, machine tools, and automobile parts.
		Kamyanets-Podilskyy was part of the duchy of Halych-Volhynia from the 12th to the 14th cent., when it passed to Poland.
		A popular tourist site, it features historic landmarks such as the fortress (15th-16th cent.), which is now a museum, and some cathedrals and monasteries dating from the 14th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kamyanets.asp (84 words)

	Holocaust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		July 17, 1941 - Nazi racial 'philosopher' Alfred Rosenberg is appointed Reich Minister for the Eastern Occupied Territories to administer territories seized from the Soviet Union.
		Above The tasks of the one of the SS murder squads is carried out in Poland.
		Aug 6, 1944 - The last Jewish ghetto in Poland, Lodz, is liquidated with 60,000 Jews sent to Auschwitz.
	www.upchucky.com /happen-again2.html (3605 words)

	What&Where Minsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nowadays the national park occupies the area of 85 thousand hectares stretching from North to South for 65 km and from West to East for 10 to 30 kilometers.
		It is the very place where most of the capercailzies living in the country are concentrated, where fl storks build their nests and some pheasants have been brought to breed.
		Within half an hour ride from the national park, in the town of Kamenets, there is an old tower of the 13th century.
	www.minskreview.com /n4/park-e.html (1154 words)

	Belovezhskaya Pushcha
		The unique forest is shared by Belarus and Poland.
		The frontier dividing Poland and Belarus runs across the forest and as a rule is closed for tourists for the time being.
		Presumably it was named after a tall watchtower that still dominates Kamenets, the small town on the edge of the National Park.
	yogi161.tripod.com /nationalpark.html (801 words)

	Brest voblast - Gurupedia
		Brest is the Western gate to Belarus linking an isolated, post Soviet dictatorship — known as the "last dictatorship in Europe" — to the European Union.
		The sixteen districts of the Brest voblast are: District of Brest, District of Kamenets, District of Malaryta, District of Zhabinka, District of Pruzhany, District of Kobrin, District of Drahichyn, District of Biaroza, District of Ivatsevichy, District of Ivanava, District of Baranavichy, District of Liakhavichy, District of Hantsavichy, District of Luninets, District of
		It is bordered on the west by Poland, on the south by
	www.gurupedia.com /b/br/brest_voblast.htm (159 words)

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		Halvorsen E., Lewandowski M. and Jelenska M. Paleomagnetism of the Upper Carboniferous Strzegom and Karkonosze Granites and the Kudowa Granitoid from the Sudet Mountains, Poland.
		Lewandowski M. Paleomagnetism of the Paleozoic rocks of the Holy Cross Mts (Central Poland) and the Origin of the Variscan Orogeny.
		Variscan tectonics in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland) and the role of structural inheritance during Alpine tectonics.
	www.igf.edu.pl /~lemar (2628 words)

	QYPCHAQ
		The written monuments we present here were made with Armenian script in the Qypchaq language in Ukraine (Lvov, Kamenets-Podolsky, and others), Poland, Romania, Moldavia, Crimea and Turkey in 16-17 centuries.
		The Lvov and Kamenets colonies were self-governed on the base of numerous privileges, gotten from Lithuanian dukes and Polish kings since 1344.
		For example, on September 30 / October 10, 1616 in the list of the Kamenets Armenians who have paid the customs duty for importing and exporting the goods, there were 43 people.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/source/armeno-qypchaq.html (786 words)

	Augustus II -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Though he regained Poland's former provinces of Podolia and the Ukraine, his reign marked the beginning of Poland's decline as a European power.
		Shortly after his coronation (1697) the “Turkish War,” which had begun in 1683 and in which he had participated intermittently since 1695, was concluded; by the Treaty of Carlowitz in 1699, Poland received Podolia, with Kamieniec (Kamenets) and the Ukraine west of the Dnieper River from the Ottoman Empire.
		By the end of his reign, Poland had declined from a major European power to a protectorate of Russia, and when he died the War of the Polish Succession broke out.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9011258 (1193 words)

	EuroScope: On-Line Guides: Ukraine: Kamyanets-Podilskiy
		A major settlement of the Kievan Rus Galicia-Volynia Principality on the trade route from Kyiv to the Balkans in 11-14 c.c., Kamyanets fell under the Lithuanian rule in mid-14th c., but in 1430 was taken over by Poland.
		In 1672 it fell to a Turkish seige, but in 1699 was returned to Poland.
		It then fell to the Russian in 1793 and 1797 became the administrative center of the Podolia Province (gubernia) of the Russian Empire and was a major center of trade, culture and education.
	pages.prodigy.net /euroscope/kamyanets_podilskiy.html (558 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Poland and The Pope Shedding new light on John Paul II's views By Andrew Nagorski Newsweek International Oct. 10, 2005 issue - John Paul II made no secret of his intense interest in the political upheavals and religious controversies in his native Poland.
		Beyond nostalgia in Poland By George Weigel In late July, the Polish Parliament created a new national holiday, "John Paul II Day," to be celebrated every October 16, the anniversary of Karol Wojtyla's election as the 264th Bishop of Rome.
		The Response In Poland To The Death Of The Pope
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=johnpaulii (5132 words)

	History of Brest Region
		August III was the King of Poland and the Great Prince of the Great Lithuanian Princedom.
		Troitsky kostyol (Catholic church) was built in the village of Volchin (Kamenets district).
		The King of Poland and the Great Prince of the Great Lithuanian Princedom Stanislav August Ponyatovsky abdicated in favour of Russian tsarina Ekaterina the 2nd.
	www.brestregion.com /history/h18.html (199 words)

	KAMENETS PODOLSKIY, or PODOLIAN KAMENETS (Polish Kamieniec) - Online Information article about KAMENETS PODOLSKIY, or ...
		KAMENETS PODOLSKIY, or PODOLIAN KAMENETS (Polish Kamieniec) - Online Information article about KAMENETS PODOLSKIY, or PODOLIAN KAMENETS (Polish Kamieniec)
		Kamenets is the see of a See also:
		KAMENETS PODOLSKIY, or PODOLIAN KAMENETS (Polish Ka
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JUN_KHA/KAMENETS_PODOLSKIY_or_PODOLIAN_.html (555 words)

	FATHERS: A NOVEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this "fictional" biography, Herbert Gold recounts the story of his father's immigration to America, survival and ultimate success.
		Sam Gold travels from Kamenets-Podolsk, Poland, to America to escape the restrictive, cruel, pogrom-filled land of his parents and seek his fortune.
		In time, Sam is able to bring his brothers and sisters to this country.
	www.oplin.lib.oh.us /ohioana/hgold/fathers.html (164 words)

	The National Park of Belovezhskaya Pushcha
		Belovezhskaya Pushcha is the oldest national Park of Europe situated in Western part of Belarus within Grodno and Brest provinces (70 km away from Brest and 30 km away from Kamenets) along the state border with Poland and partially on the territory of Poland.
		Name of the park comes from the name of Belovezha Castle ("belo" means "white" and "vezha" means "tower" in Polish and Belorussian languages) situated in Poland.
		Nowadays the national park occupies the area of 85 thousands hectares stretching from North to South for 65 km and from West to East for 10 to 30 km.
	www.brestregion.com /moreinfo/pushcha.html (947 words)

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		Of these, about 75% were from the Russian Pale, an area to which Jews were confined by law.
		The Pale consisted of the 15 western provinces of European Russia and the 10 provinces of Congress Poland.
		Today, all in east-central Poland (except northern Suwalki, which is today in southwest Lithuania).
	www.jewishgen.org /infofiles/ru-pale.txt (424 words)

	BREST-LITOVSK, BREST, BRISK, BRESTYE, BERESTIE, BERESTOV, BRZESC, sometimes Russia or Poland and now Belarus - Jewish ...
		To the SW is Krakow, Poland - which is a distance of 215 miles (346 kilometers)
		To the W is Warsaw, Poland - which is a distance of 115 miles (185 kilometers)
		To the NW is Siemiatycze, Poland - which is a distance of 42 miles (68 kilometers)
	www.brest-belarus.com (1153 words)

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