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Przemyśl [a] (Polish: [ˈpʂɛmɨɕl] ⓘ) is a city in southeastern Poland with 56,466 inhabitants, as of December 2023. [3] In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was previously the capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship.
Libuše and Přemysl (1881–1890) by Josef Václav Myslbek Closeup of the sculpture in 2012 at Vyšehrad. Přemysl the Ploughman (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpr̝̊ɛmɪsl̩ ˈoraːtʃ] ⓘ Přemysl Oráč; English: Premysl, Przemysl or Primislaus [nb 1]) was the legendary husband of Libuše, and ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty, containing the line of princes (dukes) and kings which ruled in ...
Przemyśl County (Polish: powiat przemyski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine.
Foundations of the stone Romanesque rotunda and palatium complex built by the Polish king Bolesław I Chrobry in the 11th century Aerial view of Przemyśl castle. The location of Przemyśl castle and the earlier settlement lay on an important river crossing on a trade route running from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea and through the Carpathian passes, and was a site of a fortified grod ...
Przemyśl fortress (Polish: Twierdza Przemyśl) is a series of fortifications around Przemyśl, Poland.It was constructed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the mid 19th century until the First World War in sections, depending on the diplomatic relations between Austria and the Russian Empire, and saw extensive combat during World War I. [1] Originally captured by the Russian Army, it was ...
The Přemyslid dynasty or House of Přemysl (Czech: Přemyslovci, German: Przemysliden, Polish: Przemyślidzi) was a Bohemian royal dynasty that reigned in the Duchy of Bohemia and later Kingdom of Bohemia and Margraviate of Moravia (9th century–1306), as well as in parts of Poland (including Silesia), Hungary and Austria.
In 1578 the mayor of Przemysl, Secretary of the Crown – Jan Tomasz Drohojowski (d. 1605), founded the present chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. [1] Founded on the site earlier rotunda St. Nicholas. Because of the continuous threat of incursions of the Tartars and Wallachians , it is a fortified church, surrounded by a wall and is equipped with ...
The 1925 Concordat between Poland and the holy See confirmed that the building belongs to the Greek Catholic Church. [1]Soon after the Second World War a Soviet controlled communist government expelled most of the Ukrainians from Przemyśl [3] during the Operation Vistula, including most of the clergy and bishop Josaphat Kotsylovsky (Jozefat Kocyłowski), who was martyred.