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	Krak des Chevaliers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Krak des Chevaliers (also Crac des Chevaliers, "fortress of the knights" in a mixture of Arabic and French) was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller in Syria during the Crusades.
		During the Fifth Crusade the Hungarian king Andrew II strengthened the outer walls (1217) and financed the guarding troops.
		T.E. Lawrence believed Krak des Chevaliers was the greatest of the Crusader castles and "the most wholly admirable castle in the world." Today, the fortress is owned by the Syrian government, and it is designated as a World Heritage Site along with Qal’at Salah El-Din (Fortress of Saladin).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers (651 words)

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		Krak des Chevaliers, respect to other fortifications, was in a favorable geographic position because in that period the main zones on which it was concentrated the defensive efforts or attack efforts was Jerusalem (Israel), Damietta (Egypt), Edessa (Armenia), Constantinople (Turkey), Aleppo and Damascus (Syria) all enough far from the Krak.
		The Krak was attacked in 1163 always from Nureddin whose troops met with those of crusaders in Buquai' ah in the vicinities of the castle.
		This would have to confirm that the Krak had an important role of defense of the coastal positions of the zone, but that in the more general within the clash “Crusaders –Muslims” it was not among the priorities of conquest from Muslims.
	web.tiscali.it /agricasa/krak_e.htm (1998 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ladislaus III (reigned 1434-44; after 1440 also king of Hungary), although routed and killed by the Ottoman Turks at the battle of Varna (1444), gave Poland the prestige of championing the Christian cause against the Muslim invaders.
		In 1505 the gentry forced King Alexander (reigned 1501-6) to recognize the legislative power of the Sejm, or diet, which comprised a senate (made up of representatives of the landed magnates and of the high clergy) and a chamber (consisting of the deputies of the nobility and of the gentry).
		In 1697 the elector of Saxony was chosen king of Poland as Augustus II by a minority faction supported by Czar Peter I. Augustus allied himself with Russia and Denmark against Charles XII of Sweden.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/poland.asp (4473 words)

	Smok Wawelski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The King certainly wanted to put a stop to the dragon, but his bravest knights fell to its fiery breath.
		In the versions involving the sacrifice of young girls, every girl in the city was eventually sacrificed except one, the King's daughter Wanda.
		In desperation, the King promised his beautiful daughter's hand in marriage to anybody who could defeat the dragon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smok_Wawelski (452 words)

	Krak Des Chevaliers : Syria : By Carol Miller
		The adaptations at Krak des Chevaliers served the single-minded purpose of a unique circumstance.
		Finally, during the winter of 1271, the Mamluk king al-Zaher Baibars besieged the presumably invulnerable fortress.
		Krak des Chevaliers, under Arab rule, became the seat of the Vice-Sultanate.
	www.syriagate.com /Syria/about/cities/Homs/krakdeschevalier-cm.htm (1670 words)

	The Jagiellonian University and Krakow history
		In some versions of the story, King Krak slew the dragon with his sword, in others, a young shoemaker tricked the monster into eating a sheepskin filled with sulfur and salt.
		After a period of massive social unrest in the north, in part due to the enforcement of Christianity on a still largely Pagan population, the capital of Poland was moved from Gniezno to the tamer city of Kraków by King Kazimierz the Renewer.
		However, in 1596, King Zygmunt III felt need to move his administrative capital to what was then the tiny village of Warsaw, in order to be closer to an empire that threatened to break away at any moment.
	www.ces.uj.edu.pl /european/krakow/krakow_history.htm (1015 words)

	Women in power 750-1000
		She was the wife of Offa II, the Saxon King of Mercia (757-96), and acquired notoriety as a tyrannical Queen.
		But her uncle, King Edward of Wessex, occupied the town and received the submission of the Mercians, and in December of the same year, he deprived her "of all authority among the Mercians" and took her away to Wessex, where she seems to have spent the rest of her life in a nunnery.
		Bagrat III Bagrationi the Unifier (King of Georgia 1008-14) of the mountainous district along the east coast of the Black Sea.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Womeninpower03.htm (5779 words)

	The Dragon of Wawel
		The King of Kraków, desperately worried by the tragic situation in the city, sent his heralds far and wide to announce to the Royal houses and courts of Europe that whosoever could slay the dragon would - as a reward - marry his daughter and sit on his throne after his death.
		The dragon's throat and stomach burned so much he was forced to drink half of the Vistula River, and as a result, his stomach kept swelling and swelling and eventually it exploded, killing him, and setting the town and the surrounding countryside free from its grip of terror.
		The shoemaker's apprentice married the king's lovely daughter, was gifted the stolen treasure that was in the cave, and after the monarch's death, ascended to the throne.
	www.icbleu.org /artur/dragonwawel.htm (973 words)

	Search Results for "Krak"
		Krak and Montreal in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		He came to the Holy Land in the Second Crusade and married (1153) Constance, daughter of Bohemond II of Antioch....
		She is best known for the moralistic novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1856) and for the children's classics...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Krak (177 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 1271 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		July 2 - Kings Otakar II of Bohemia and Stephen V of Hungary sign the first Peace of Pressburg, settling territorial claims following the failed invasion of Hungary by Otakar II.
		September 1 - Pope Gregory X is elected pope by compromise between French and Italian cardinals, ending a three-year conclave, the longest ever.
		Construction of the Belaya Vezha in Belarus is begun.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/1271 (497 words)

	Jerusalem
		King of Cyprus (1194-1205) and of Jerusalem (1198-1205).
		Called the "Leper king." Son of Amalric I; reigned (1174-77) under regency of Raymond III, Count of Tripoli; reign marked by encirclement of Jerusalem by Saladin; crowned nephew Baldwin V (1183) in order to fix succession.
		In 1444 Charles VII, king of France, consummated an agreement at Lorraine by the terms of which René's eldest daughter, Yolande, was married into the opposition Vaudémont family and Margaret of Anjou, René's second daughter, was married to Henry VI, king of England.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/jerusalem.htm (2263 words)

	Wawel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Financed by king Sigismund I of Poland, the chapel was built between 1519 and 1533 by Bartolomeo Berrecci.
		A square-based chapel with a golden dome houses the tombs of its founder king Sigismund, as well as king Sigismund Augustus of Poland and Anna Jagiellonka.
		The design of the internal sculptures, stuccos and paintings was carried out by some of the most renowned artists of the epoch, including Santi Gucci, Hermann Vischer, and the architect himself, Georg Pencz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wawel (870 words)

	Syria Gate - About Syria - Homs - Krak Des Chevaliers
		After that the Krak was kept in the hands of the crusaders, although it was damaged by a couple of earthquakes, and was rebuilt in its final form in the 13th century.
		The south side of the Krak was the most vulnerable and Sultan Baybars added a strong bastion to it.
		On the NW side is a building known as the 'Tower of the King's Daughter', the lower part of this construction dates back to the 12th century while the upper part belongs to the Arab period.
	www.syriagate.com /Syria/about/cities/Homs/krakdeschevalier.htm (668 words)

	Krakow - Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Once upon a time, a fierce dragon was terrifying the neighbourhood, his favourite prey being pretty maidens, whom he would drag back into his cave at the base of Wawel Hill to devour.
		He threw the dragon a sheep soaked in burning pitch, whereupon the former ate it and expired in a mass of smoke and flames.
		He is commemorated by a great eighth century mound, the Kopiec Krakusa, across the Vistula in the south of the city.
	www.magma.ca /~pfeiffer/poland/kra_folk.htm (127 words)

	Emperor Charlemagne and Mérovée King of the Salic Franks - Person Page 7
		Ercc King of Dalriada was the son of Eochaid Muinremur King of Dalriada.
		Fulk of Anjou, king of Jerusalem (1092-1143), was the son of Fulk IV, count of Anjou, and his wife Bertrada (who ultimately deserted her husband and became the mistress of Philip I of France).
		Nicholas Gainsford, Esquire, of Carshalton, surrey, admitted Loncoln's Inn, 1452/3, King's servitor and Usher of the Chamber, 1461-1476, usher to Elizabeth Wydeville, queen consort for King Edward IV, 1476-1498, sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, Knight of the Shire (M.P.) for Surrey, Burgess (M.P.) for Bletchingly, Guilford, and southwark, constable of Odiham Castle, 1461-1486.
	www.tracycrocker.com /OCC/p7.htm (5756 words)

	Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
		While the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and King Philip II Augustus of France went on the Crusade, Frederick died on the way, Philip soon left, and operations were mainly conducted by a third monarch, the King of England, Richard I, the Lion-Heart.
		Before long, sons of King Frederick II of Sicily, brother of King James of Aragón, succeeded as Dukes, but then sovereignty began to be exercised by Kings of Sicily themselves, starting with Louis.
		King 'Abd al-'Azîz Ibn Sa'ûd reportedly told Franklin Roosevelt that if the Jews deserved a state because, among other things, of what the Germans had done, then the state should be carved out of Germany, not out of Palestine.
	www.friesian.com /outremer.htm (14277 words)

	Arts Rush - Kiama Art Society news - Peter Krak
		The best time of Peter Krak's life was the five years he worked in a transport division set up by the British Army in occupied Germany from 1945-50.
		Peter Krak, the Society's September demonstrator was a successful full-time painter 1980-1992, selling market-driven, inoffensive traditional works through the Boronia Gallery in Mosman and the Saints Gallery in Carlton, as well as in outdoor exhibitions of the Wollongong Traditional Art Society (of which he is co-founder, Life Member, and current vice-president).
		Peter Krak is currently engaged in writing his memoir which records the broad sweep of Soviet and German power swerves that turned him and his Ukrainian homeland into an accessory after the fact.
	www.artsrush.com.au /kiama3.htm (756 words)

	Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 12th century Poland fragmented into several smaller states, which were later ravaged by the Mongol armies of the Golden Horde in 1241.
		In 1320 Władysław I became the King of the reunified Poland.
		In 1773 King Stanisław August Poniatowski established his Commission on National Education (Komisja Edukacji Narodowej), the world's first state ministry of education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poland (4007 words)

	Famous Dragons
		To Draco's disadvantage, the only way to kill the prince (now king) was to kill Draco for their hearts beat as one.
		Griffin is later killed in his dragon form (he got to his dragon form by having the princess of the Dynasty throw it into the fire, and he kicked it into the water and retrieved it) by Drake using ice to shatter him.
		Krak destroyed the dragon by giving it a sheepskin full of saltpeter which caused him to drink water until he burst into tiny pieces.
	members.tripod.com /~waterdragon/famous.html (1545 words)

	Kraków - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In 1475 delegates of the elector George the Rich of Bavaria came to Kraków to negotiate the marriage of Hedwig, the daughter of King Casimir IV Jagiello to George the Rich.
		In 1572, the king Sigismund II died childless, and the throne passed to Sigismund III of the Swedish House of Vasa.
		Kraków's importance began to decline, accelerated by the pillaging of the city during the Swedish invasion, and an outbreak of plague that left 20,000 of the city's residents dead.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/r/a/Cracow.html (2347 words)

	Krak des Chevaliers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Krak des Chevaliers, one of the oldest Crusader Castles, was one of the highlights of our winter holiday trip to Syria,.
		Inside the central courtyard is the entrance to the main meeting hall for the king and the knights.
		From Krak des Chevaliers we descended the mountain and drove to the town of Hama, a forty five minute journey.
	www.tracyanddale.50megs.com /craque.html (398 words)

	Greatest Castle pre age of gunpowder - The Guild
		The Krak was built during the crusades, which hapened to be in the Middle East.
		Problem with Krak was that it was never fully manned due to that small number of Hospitallers in the region were spread out over a large area along with the problem of acquiring water for the castle.
		Caernarfon and the Krak are certainly spectacular, forbidding and rich in history, but both are as dead as their former inhabitants.
	forums.totalwar.org /vb/showthread.php?t=43980 (2070 words)

	History Company - Historic Chess Sets
		Joined by King Phillip 11 of France, Richard I recruited knights and mercenaries with the express purpose of reclaiming the holy city of Jerusalem.
		Richard leads the Crusaders as King, with his wife Beregaria of Navarre as Queen, and the Castle of Krak de Chevaliers (held by the Christian Knights of St John) representing the Castle.
		When George III was crowned king in 1760, the British were the dominant power on the North American continent.
	www.lightlink.com /history/uk/products/039.html (562 words)

	Artur's Fairy Tales - Queen Wanda
		King Krak reigned happily over Poland for many many years, and when he grew old and died, the people bitterly regretted the loss of their venerable ruler, for he was brave, just and wise.
		The mound they built in honor of King Krak is still there outside of Krakow to this day.
		"Krak also had a daughter" the people exclaimed, "she is wise, and brave, and the people love her".
	www.icbleu.org /artur/queenwanda.htm (802 words)

	King - Uncyclopedia
		Just to further confuse things, sometimes what appears to be a King is actually a Queen.
		Also, King kills krazy kouples on krak using father kristmas.
		This is a disambiguation page, a navigational aid which links to unrelated pages.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/King (100 words)

	Welcome to Okana's Web - Polish and Slavic Paganism and Pagan Beliefs
		The king who reigned at the time sent out his heralds to announce that whosoever could slay the dragon would - as a reward - marry his daughter and sit on his throne after his death.
		The king gave himself up to despair, while the king's daughter wrung her hands as ahe could not expect to ever be married.
		King Krak reigned happily for twenty years, and when he died, the people regretted the loss of their ruler, for he was brave, just and wise.
	www.okana.org /faerytls.html (2694 words)

	So who's going to Cabin Fever and King of the Ants ? - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		If just wanted to see who from the board is going to see Cabin Fever and King of the Ants at the Egyptian on the 8th.
		KING OF THE ANTS, 2003, The Asylum, 102 min.
		A stunning change of pace for genre master Stuart Gordon (RE-ANIMATOR, DAGON), KING OF THE ANTS is a dark, unnerving crime drama about the banal, almost everyday existence of evil in our lives, and how it seduces, nearly destroys and finally transfigures one individual.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=12399 (750 words)

	Poon
		In the face of such "multiple jeopardy" (if one may borrow a phrase used by Deborah King to describe the interrelated forms of oppression confronting Black women in America), [1] the act of "talking back" by Third World and postcolonial women must occur on various fronts at once.
		Krak!" frame, Danticat impresses upon the reader a sense of dialogue, particularly appropriate given that many of her stories revolve around the idea of communication and/or miscommunication.
		The notion of a conversational or verbal exchange also informs our reading of Danticat's stories as interrelated and connected; her stories "speak" to and influence each other, even as the events and characters in these tales are formally separated in terms of time and place.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/v4i2/anpoon.htm (7302 words)

	The Castle
		The castle shown in the picture above, and in the plan on the home page, is the castle of Krak des Chevaliers, in the Crusader state of Tripoli (modern Syria), which T.E. Lawrence described as "perhaps the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world".
		Meanwhile, Krak passed into the keeping of the Count of Tripoli, who handed it on, in 1142, to the Knights Hospitallers (like the Templars and the Ransomers, a military religious order) from whom it took the name "des Chevaliers".
		That on the left is Château Gaillard in Normandy; it was built by Richard the Lion Heart, in his capacity as Duke of Normandy, to defend his territory against the King of France.
	www.outremer.co.uk /castle.html (1161 words)

	The Dragon of Wawel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Many, many years ago, when Krakau was still the capital of Poland, there lived in the castle on the Wawel mountain above the Weichsel, King Krak with his daughter Wanda.
		The king announced to the whole country that he was looking for a brave knight who could defeat the dragon.
		The king listened and agreed to what he was intending to do.
	www.learn-line.nrw.de /angebote/maerchen/foyer/basar/edrache.html (443 words)

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