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    Brzeg ([bʐɛk] ; Latin: Alta Ripa, German: Brieg, Silesian German: Brigg, Silesian: Brzeg, Brzyg, Czech: Břeh) is a town in southwestern Poland with 34...
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    Saint-Georges (Moselle), Saint-Georges-Armont, Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche, Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, Saint-Georges-d'Orques, Saint-Georges-de-Reintembault...
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    Charles married Elisabeth Magdalena (1562–1630), daughter of the Duke George II of Brzeg, on 30 September 1585. After the death of Lord Jiřík Zajímač of Kunštát...
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    Germany Aylesbury, England San Severo, Italy Parma, Italy Namur, Belgium Brzeg, Poland El Kef, Tunisia Arpitania Bressan Bresse chicken Communes of the...
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  • beginning of the 14th century, fourteen independent Duchies existed in Silesia: Brzeg, Wrocław, Świdnica, Jawor, Ziębice, Głogów, Ścinawa, Żagan and Oleśnica...
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    Oława (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    lower leagues. John Christian of Brzeg-Legnica (1591–1639), Duke of Brzeg and Legnica, member of the Piast dynasty George Rudolf of Legnica (1595–1653),...
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  • ORP Heweliusz ORP Kopernik RV Baltica RV Doktor Lubecki RV IMOR RV Kaszubski Brzeg RV Oceania RV Oceanograf 1 RV Oceanograf 2 ORP Planeta (retired) ORP Zodiak...
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    1440, Frederick was succeeded as elector by his second-eldest son, Frederick II. He married Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut (1383–13 November 1442, Ansbach)...
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    Lower Silesia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    their names (including the Piast castles in Brzeg and Wołów). In September 1939, at the start of World War II, Germany invaded and occupied the Polish part...
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    Barsinghausen, Germany (1967) Edenbridge, England (1973) Osica de Sus, Romania (1991) Brzeg Dolny, Poland (2003) Rouko, Burkina Faso (2010) "Répertoire national...
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  • Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (b. 1403) November 19 – Kunigunde of Sternberg, first spouse of the King George of Podebrady (b...
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    nobles. In 1624 Opitz was appointed councilor to Duke George Rudolf of Liegnitz (Legnica) and Brieg (Brzeg) in Silesia, and in 1625, as reward for a requiem...
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    Kurt Masur (category People from Brzeg)
    of the Berlin wall. Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Brzeg, Poland), and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony...
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    Kingdom of Bohemia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Hora in 1465, challenging the authority of George of Poděbrady; the next year, Pope Paul II excommunicated George. The Bohemian War (1468-1478) pitted Bohemia...
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    1945, many prisoners from other locations, including Katowice, Racibórz, Brzeg and Nysa, were brought to the local prison either during death marches or...
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    in 1918, would be invited by the Council of Lithuania to be King Mindaugas II of Lithuania, and was mother of the latter's children and descendants. On...
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    Karl Otfried Müller (category People from Brzeg)
    of classical Greek studies and philodorian. He was born at Brieg (modern Brzeg) in Silesia, then in the Kingdom of Prussia. His father was a chaplain in...
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    Sigismund's Chapel at Wawel Cathedral. Polish magnates, Silesian Piast princes in Brzeg, and even Kraków merchants (by the mid 16th century their class had gained...
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    Sigismund's Chapel at Wawel Cathedral. Polish magnates, Silesian Piast princes in Brzeg, and even Kraków merchants (by the mid 16th century their class economically...
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    Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    brother Karl I and his younger brother Bernhard VII. The death of his uncle George III without male heirs permitted him and his brothers, Karl I and Bernhard...
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    Goslar (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    is twinned with: Arcachon, France (1965) Beroun, Czech Republic (1989) Brzeg, Poland (2000) Forres, Scotland, UK (1984) Ra'anana, Israel (2006) Windsor...
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    Lower Silesian Voivodeship (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (15,368) Ząbkowice Śląskie (15,004) Chojnów (13,355) Trzebnica (13,331) Brzeg Dolny (12,511) Strzelin (12,460) Wołów (12,373) Góra (11,797) Milicz (11...
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  • wall, including several towers and stretches of wall. Braniewo Brodnica Brzeg – a star-shaped park around the old town is what remains of the renaissance...
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    History of Silesia (category Oil campaign of World War II)
    Wrocław) in 1532; Cieszyńska (of Cieszyn) in 1625; and Brzesko-Legnicka (of Brzeg and Legnica) in 1675. Although Friedrich Wilhelm, the last male Silesian...
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    3 – Toussaint Rose, French writer (d. 1701) September 4 – George III of Brieg, Duke of Brzeg (1633–1664) (d. 1664) September 8 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius...
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    1503 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    French poet January 20 – Ludmila of Poděbrady, Regent of the duchies of Brzeg and Oława (1488–1503) (b. 1456) February 11 – Elizabeth of York, queen of...
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    Trebizond ("Megas Komnenos"), Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1362) Louis I of Brzeg ("Louis the Wise"), Polish nobleman from the (House of Piast) (d. 1398)...
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    do Sorrento?...” reissue 2012 „Wróć do Sorrento?...” reissue Na tamten brzeg (1964) [Onto that shore] Tańczące Eurydyki (1965) [Dancing Eurydices] Recital...
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    theologian (b. 1583) November 24 – Louis IV of Legnica, Duke of Oława and Brzeg (b. 1616) December 5 – Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582) December...
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    Katarina Šubić (?–1358), married Duke of Legnica-Brzeg Bolesław III the Generous in 1326. Juraj II Šubić of Bribir (1275–1330), Count of Bribir and Split...
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