• Polish landed gentry (Polish: ziemiaństwo, ziemianie, from ziemia, "land") was a social group or class of hereditary landowners who held manorial estates...
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    The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could...
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  • Look up landed gentry, county family, landed society, or squirearchy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Landed gentry usually refers to a largely historical...
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    class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see manorialism),...
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    Szlachta (redirect from Polish gentry)
    nobility List of szlachta Lithuanian nobility Polish heraldry Polish landed gentry (Ziemiaństwo) Polish name Silva rerum Ukrainian nobility from Galicia...
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    Olga von Root (category Russian people of Polish descent)
    nobleman, and Lubov Karlovna Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich, a member of a Polish landed gentry family. Root's paternal ancestors were Volga German nobility who...
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  • Gentry (China) Polish landed gentry Gentry, Arkansas Gentry, Missouri Gentry County, Missouri Gentry, Texas Gentry (surname) Montgomery Gentry, an American...
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    Bar mleczny (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    established in 1896 in Warsaw by Stanisław Dłużewski, a member of the Polish landed gentry. Although the typical bar mleczny had a menu based on dairy items...
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    Stanisław Mokronowski (category Generals of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    the Polish landed gentry of Bogoria coat of arms. A general of the Polish Army and a royal Chamberlain[1], Mokronowski took part in both the Polish–Russian...
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  • with a group of men (soldiers), dependent on their wealth. Landed gentry Polish landed gentry Yeoman "főnemes | A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára | Kézikönyvtár"...
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    Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    Superiors of the Catholic Mariavite Church. Wiłucka was a member of the Polish landed gentry. She was the daughter of Adam Wiłucki and Maria Antonina née Horn...
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    cooperates with the Polish branch of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, with the foundation Pomoc Maltańska, with the Polish Landed Gentry Society and with...
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    The gentry, relatively small landowners with perhaps one or two villages, were mostly noble in most countries, for example the Polish landed gentry. At...
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    Privilege Liberum veto Lithuanian nobility Pacta conventa (Poland) Polish landed gentry Propination laws Sarmatism Orest Subtelny (2000). Ukraine: A History...
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  • Kazimierz Lubomirski (category Diplomats of the Second Polish Republic)
    with Polish landed gentry organizations. From 1924 to 1930, with a break in 1926, he was a chairperson of the Supreme Council of the Landed Gentry Organizations...
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    Poles to abandon armed struggle. In addition, Tsar Alexander II hit the landed gentry hard and, as a result, the whole economy, with a sudden decision in...
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    Endriejavas (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    of 640 people. Historically it was a private town of the Racewicz Polish landed gentry family. In 1780, Andrzej Racewicz built a wooden Catholic church...
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  • Vilnius Region under Lithuanian administration (1939–1940) (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    primarily through land reform. This was also aimed at weakening the Polish landed gentry. A significant concession was their exemption from taxation for the...
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    Józef Weyssenhoff (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    political movement after 1905, he paid tribute to the tradition of the Polish landed gentry in the Eastern Borderlands. He lived several years in Bydgoszcz in...
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  • Paulin Święcicki (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    Ukraine), he was an heir to an old family of lesser szlachta, or Polish landed gentry. He graduated from a prestigious gymnasium at Kamenets-Podolsk and...
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    followed. The Russian government imposed taxes on Polish landed gentry or even confiscated Polish estates. The local government in the region attracted...
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    Aleksander Meysztowicz (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    Governorate, Russian Empire, and now part of Lithuania. He came from Polish landed gentry family, which owned Pajuostis estate. He studied at the Vilnius Gymnasium...
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    Gabriela Zapolska (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    on 30 March 1857 in Podhajce in Galicia, to a wealthy family of Polish landed gentry. At that time, as a result of the Third Partition of Poland, this...
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    Ziemiańska (category Articles needing translation from Polish Wikipedia)
    Ziemiańska (the name coined after the term ziemianin, meaning member of Polish landed gentry) was a coffeehouse in Warsaw. It was notable as a meeting place of...
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  • OUN Uprising of 1939 (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    counterinsurgency and ultimately to the murder of the Polish landed gentry by Ukrainian hands in a Polish-Ukrainian civil war. On 15 September, Wilhelm Canaris...
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    Adam Doboszyński (category Polish People's Republic rehabilitations)
    Trans (Trance). Furthermore, Doboszyński was active in the local Polish landed gentry circles, holding the post of a secretary in the Kraków Branch of...
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    Littlefield. p. 27. ISBN 9781610488938. Terrence Emmons, The Russian Landed Gentry and the Peasant Emancipation of 1861 (1968). Roger Bartlett, "Serfdom...
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    Kazimierz Stabrowski (category Polish male painters)
    Polish landed gentry (ziemiaństwo) family. His father Antoni was a military in the Russian Army and his mother Zofia Pilecka came from a rich Polish family...
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    Jadwiga Golcz (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    Golcz was born on 13 August 1866 in Gradowo, to a wealthy family of Polish landed gentry. She took an interest in photography in Wojciech Gerson's painting...
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  • poet and member of the Polish Brethren, Wacław Potocki, converted to Catholicism. His poetry depicts the life of Polish landed gentry and historic events...
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