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  Kazimierz III the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kazimierz III the Great (Polish: Kazimierz Wielki; 1310 – 1370), King of Poland (1333-70), was the son of King Władysław I the Elbow-high and Jadwiga of Gniezno and Greater Poland.
Kazimierz the Great married firstly Anna, or Aldona Ona, the daughter of the prince of Lithuania, Gediminas.
Kazimierz then married Adelheid of Hessen, and this was the start of his bigamous marriage career.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casimir_III_of_Poland   (992 words)

  
 Kazimierz IV Jagiellon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kazimierz IV Jagiellon (Polish: Kazimierz IV Jagiellończyk; Lithuanian: Kazimieras Jogailaitis; 1427 - 1492), of the House of Jagiełło, was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 to his death.
That same year, Kazimierz was approached by the Prussians for aid against the ruling Teutonic Order, which he promised, by the act of incorporation of Prussia to the Polish Kingdom; however, when the cities of Prussia rebelled against the Teutons, the Order resisted with greater strength than expected, and the Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466) ensued.
Kazimierz IV's son Kazimierz was to have married the daughter of Emperor Frederick III but instead chose a religious life, eventually being canonized as St.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casimir_IV_of_Poland   (409 words)

  
 KAZIMIERZ DOLNY - History [English version]
A famous historian, Jan Długosz, mentioned the area of Kazimierz as a property of a Benedictine monastery at Łysa Góra in the 11th century.
Kazimierz was never to return to its former prosperity, in spite of many efforts.
After the January Uprising in 1863, Kazimierz first lost its status as the head of a powiat (county) and then, in 1866 after half the town was burnt down, it lost its rights to be a town.
www.kazimierz-news.com.pl /historiaa.html   (637 words)

  
 History of Kazimierz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The town of Kazimierz as an entity did not have the same rights as Cracow, and the Jews were subjected to additional restrictions.
Cracow’s weakness was reflected in the situation of the Kazimierz Jews.
Kazimierz became a seat of the Jewish refugees from Germany.
www.polishnews.com /serceeuropy/history.html   (1901 words)

  
 Cracow | Guide | Krakow Kazimierz
The town was founded in 1335 by King Kazimierz the Great, and as its splendid churches and synagogues evoke, it was once a world of prosperity and tolerance.
Kazimierz was known as a dirty, not altogether safe place, inhabited by stray dogs and morose alcoholics.
Kazimierz is an enchanting place, and a place to reflect on what has gone before us.
www.cracow-life.com /guide/Krakow_Kazimierz/tour.php   (326 words)

  
 Kazimierz
What makes Kazimierz so special is that its character is splendidly different from the rest of the city, which is dominated by big churches, big markets, and big, big, big.
Kazimierz is only a few blocks away from the downtown, but there's no real sign that you are there...
A visit to Kazimierz will take you among a culture and lifestyle very different from the rest of Kraków, and the Jewish people there have a story that is worth listening to.
www.tompgalvin.com /places/pl/kazimierz.htm   (524 words)

  
 Kazimierz Dolny , History of the town : History , Kazimierz Dolny, kazimierz :
In the area of today's Kazimierz there already existed a settlement called Windy Hill in the early middle ages, which alongside the neighbouring hamlets was bestowed at the end of the 12th century (1181) by Kazimierz Sprawiedliwy (Kazimierz the Fair) to the Norbertan nuns from Cracow's Zwierzyniec.
At that time Kazimierz already had 3 churches, out of which the most beautiful is the parish church (fara) that was renewed in the style of lubelski renaissance and in 1620, received the largest organ in Poland at that time.
The Swedish invasion brought the decline of Kazimierz’s magnificence; the town was never to regain it again.
www.kazimierzdolny.pl /historia/index.php?jz=2&t=33&id=130   (478 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Cracow
Kazimierz, located on the outskirts of Cracow and founded in 1335 by King Casmir the Great, became the main center for Jewish settlement.
Overcrowding in Kazimierz became a problem because of the influx of immigrants.
The ghetto was built in March 1941, on the opposite side of the Vistula River from Kazimierz.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Cracow.html   (2529 words)

  
 Ashoka Fellow Profile - Kazimierz Jaworski
In rural Poland, Kazimierz Jaworski is modernizing long-neglected physical infrastructure, starting with telephones, in a way that generates independent local organization and investment.
Kazimierz Jaworski is countering the lethargy and mood of helplessness that pervades post-communist rural Poland by mobilizing communities to build long-neglected physical infrastructure such as telephones, drinking water, sewage, electricity, and roads.
Then, with the collapse of Communism, Kazimierz was able to return to his village and begin his life's dream of bridging the gap between urban and rural Poland.
www.ashoka.org /fellows/viewprofile3.cfm?reid=97166   (1376 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - Culture at Kazimierz Dolny
Kazimierz used to be a fishing town and a wheat trade center where the greatest granaries were situated.
The Museum in Kazimierz is the only member of the prestigious organization from the former Eastern Bloc.
The To the Armory Through Kazimierz exhibition at the Vistula River Museum recalls the year 1955, when an exhibition at the Warsaw's Arsenał gallery triggered a transformation in modern Polish art: the artists decided to break with the doctrine of socialist realism.
www.warsawvoice.pl /view/5202   (524 words)

  
 Kazimierz Dziewanowski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kazimierz Dziewanowski was born in Warsaw November 7, 1930.
Throughout all his private and professional life Kazimierz Dziewanowski was strongly involved in the country's public affairs, particularly by offering his support to emerging democratic opposition and "Solidarity".
Kazimierz Dziewanowski's Award is a joint initiative of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington D.C. The Award recognizes American graduate students for their outstanding research in the field of Polish studies which promotes Polish culture in the United States.
www.piasa.org /kazimierzdziewanowskiaward.htm   (424 words)

  
 True Birth Date of Kazimierz Pulaski
This information, however, comes from the record of the completion of baptismal ceremonies for Kazimierz (marked with the Roman numerals III and IV), and not the real record of the sacrament of baptism, which was located by the author of this article in August of 1995.
Kazimierz Rudzinski (about 1676-1759), castellan of Czersk, then Mazowsze Voivode, and from May 1744 the marshal of the Radom Tribunal (treasury) and his wife Maria Antonia nee Nowosielska (1753).
Slepowron (1746-1779), Polski slownik biograficzny, [Pulaski, Kazimierz of the Slepowron crest (1746-1779) Polish Biographical Dictionary] vol.
www.poles.org /birth.html   (1924 words)

  
 Kazimierz Naturalised Epistemology Workshop '05
Kazimierz Dolny lies on the Vistula, about a hundred and twenty kilometres south east of Warsaw, the closest international airport and railway hub.
On the 1st of September a minibus will be organised to take workshop participants from Warsaw to Kazimierz with the return journey leaving Kazimierz in the morning of the 7th.
Apart from the minibus, the easiest way to reach Kazimierz from Warsaw is by train to Pulawy and then either by taxi or by bus to Kazimierz.
bacon.umcs.lublin.pl /~ktalmont/KNEW/gettingthere.html   (206 words)

  
 Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz was born in 1890 in Tarnopol
Towards the end of World War I he joined the newly-formed Polish army, from which he was demobilized in 1920 with the rank of an artillery captain, to return to university life.
Until the outbreak of World War II he was first lecturer and then professor of philosophy in the Universities of Lvov and Warsaw.
www.fmag.unict.it /~polphil/PolPhil/Ajduk/Ajduk.html   (657 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kazimierz IV
Kazimierz IV (1427-1492), king of Poland (1447-1492) and grand duke of Lithuania, third ruler of the Jagiellonian dynasty.
Kazimierz II, called The Just (1138-1194), duke of Poland (1177-1194).
Kazimierz was one of the four sons of Bolesław III, duke of Poland, among whom...
encarta.msn.com /Kazimierz_IV.html   (170 words)

  
 Hotels in Cracow: Hotel Kazimierz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Hotel Kazimierz is situated in the Kazimierz district of Kraków - a historical Jewish town originally founded in 1335 and within a 10 minute walk of the main square in Krakow.
For example, in the old synagogue is located the museum of Judaism, and the Remuh cemetery on Szeroka Street with its renaissance tombstones which was discovered during archaeological research is considered to be the richest and most beautiful Jewish burial ground in Europe.
The Hotel Kazimierz offers 10 rooms: 6 double rooms with king size beds including 2 suites, 2 standard double rooms and 2 single rooms, all equipped with private bath, satellite TV and direct dial telephone.
www.hotelspoland.com /cracow/kazimierz   (138 words)

  
 KAZIMIERZ DOLNY [English version]
The town of Kazimierz Dolny, situated on the Lublin plateau, lies on the right bank of the river Vistula on its way to the Baltic.
The number of inhabitants is in the region of 7300, of whom 2300 reside in the town.
Both the urban architecture as well as the attractive landscape of Kazimierz and the surrounding countryside have become well known in Poland and beyond its borders.
www.kazimierz-news.com.pl /wersjaa.html   (400 words)

  
 Kazimierz M. Slomczynski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. "Granice Stosowalnosci Ankiety Audytoryjnej w Srodowisku Robotniczym" (An Evaluation of the Applicability of Group Questionnaires in the Milieu of Manual Workers).
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. "Uklady Zgodnosci i Niezgodnosci w Natezeniu Cech Polozenia Spolecznego" (Patterns of Congruence and Incongruence of Social Status Factors).
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. "Rola Wyksztalcenia w Procesie Ruchliwosci Wewnatrzpokoleniowej" (The Role of Education in the Intra-Generational Mobility).
www.sociology.ohio-state.edu /kms/vitaenew.html   (5793 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - Kazimierz Culture
Kazimierz Dolny, perched on the bank of the Vistula River around 100 km south of Warsaw, is one of the most fascinating places in Lublin province.
Exhibits are held in the interiors of the most precious historical buildings in Kazimierz Dolny-Kamienica Celejowska tenement house, a historical granary and a former Baroque belfry.
The other exhibit-Painters of Kazimierz Dolny-presents paintings, pieces of graphic art and drawings created by artists from pre-World War II artistic groups such as the Brotherhood of Saint Lucas and the Warsaw School, as well as artists associated with the Kazimierz artistic colony of modern painters.
www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/5863   (754 words)

  
 The Old Jewish Quarter of Kasimierz in Krakow where Schindler's List was filmed
Since the fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, Kazimierz has been revived as a Jewish community, and it has also become a popular tourist attraction with special tours of the places where the movie was filmed.
From Krakow, the tour of Kazimierz entered the former ghetto on Jozefa street and the first thing we saw was the courtyard, which links Jozefa street with Meiselsa street, and the stairwell where the hiding scene in Schindler's List was filmed.
Schindler's apartment in Krakow was north of the Kazimierz district and north of Wawel hill.
www.scrapbookpages.com /Poland/Kazimierz/Kazimierz01.html   (1524 words)

  
 Szeroka Street in Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter of Krakow
To find the Kazimierz district in Krakow, just look for Wawel hill, which is a 748 foot high Jurassic hill that is a prominent feature of the city, south of the Old Town.
Kazimierz was originally established in 1335 by King Kazimierz the Great, as a separate walled town near the city of Krakow, just south of Wawel hill, the ancient seat of Poland's royal court.
Kazimierz was to be a Polish town separated from German-dominated Krakow by an arm of the Vistula river which has now disappeared.
www.scrapbookpages.com /poland/Kazimierz/Kazimierz02.html   (706 words)

  
 A Picture on the Wall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kazimierz was founded by King Kazimierz (Casimir) the Great in 1335.
By the end of the 15th century, the Jews were made to leave and settled in Kazimierz, a suburb of the city.
The name Kazimierz is never mentioned on the grave stones inscriptions while the name Cracow is. The Jewish community, bolstered by immigrants from Germany, Bohemia, Spain, and Portugal, became a semi-autonomous Jewish town, protected by the king.
www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1341&subject=33   (2442 words)

  
 Poland Travel Log, 15 October 1999: Kazimierz Dolny
Friday morning was an early rise (yet again) for a train returning to Warsaw, continuing to Pulawy and changing for a bus to Kazimierz Dolny.
As the bus drove farther and farther, the roads became smaller and smaller.
Somewhere I read a passage in a book, "the town of Kazimierz Dolny has been immortalized on the canvas of many Polish painters." It is easy to see why this statement would be true.
www.demel.net /poland/log/15oct1999.html   (1151 words)

  
 Kazimierz Dolny
Kazimierz is a mecca of Polish artists and intellectuals.
Although Kazimierz was heavily destroyed during the wars of 17th century and in the WW II, it was fantastically restored.
When the majority of tourists are gone, all painters and photographers arrive, because Kazimierz is a really fascinating model.
www.staypoland.com /about_kazimierz.htm   (554 words)

  
 Kazimierz [Jewish quarters]
Not far from Wawel is Kazimierz, a historical municipality, dotted with old buildings, the home of the larger part of the Jewish population of Cracow till 1939.
The old synagogue at no. 24 ulica Szeroka, was built at the end of the 14th century and rebuilt in the 16th century by Matteo Gucci in the same style as the synagogues of Ratisbon, Worms and Prague.
The district, established in the 14th century by King Kazimierz the Great, used to be a separate town where Christianity and Judaism coexisted for nearly five centuries.
www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=169922&pid=93   (542 words)

  
 The Jewish Quarter (Kazimierz), Krakow, Poland
Kazimierz contains synagogues in various states of disrepair, as well as a museum inside one of the synagogues, which I believe is the Old Synagogue (Alte Schul), a place where the history dates back to the 15th century.
Kazimierz is a district of Krakow between Dietla St., Starowislna St. and the Vistula river.
Kazimierz was the area inhabited by the largest Jewish community in Europe.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Poland/Wojewodztwo_Malopolskie/Krakow-490219/Things_To_Do-Krakow-The_Jewish_Quarter_Kazimierz-R-6.html   (1206 words)

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