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Encyclopedia: Warmia

Warmia (German: Ermland (help·info), Polish: Warmia, Latin: Varmia; also historically Ermeland) is a region between Pomerania and Masuria in northeastern Poland. Together with Masuria, it forms the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

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	(German)	Ermland
	(Italian)	Varmia

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Lidzbark Warminski

Lidzbark Warmiński (German name Heilsberg ) is a town in the Polish voivodship Warmia i Mazury... imperial Prince-Bishop of Warmia (German Ermland ) and remained his seat for 500 years. After the war.... Like whole Warmia, this town in 1772, during the first Partition of Poland, was incorporated into...

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Bishopry of Warmia

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Lucas Watzenrode

mother's brother, also named Lucas Watzenrode, who as bishop of Warmia strongly supported the independence of Warmia and helped raise Nicolaus and his brother after their father's death. Christina and.... Tideman Giese, a famous bishop of Warmia, was a descendend. Copernicus' uncle Lucas Watzenrode followed...

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Braniewo

Braniewo (German: Braunsberg ) is a city in northeastern Poland: Warmia - Mazury voivodship). Located in the bishopric of Warmia, the city may have been named after Saint Bruno of Querfurt. It is... Sisters, who were devoted to nursing the sick within the community. Warmia, a part of the Kingdom of...

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Copernicus and coin reform

In 1505, Nicolaus Copernicus moved to Warmia (Ger. Ermland ), in northern Poland. He settled in Frombork (Ger. Frauenburg ). There he held the office of canon and participated with the leading role in the discussions on the Prussian Sejm about the coin reform in the province. One issue of concern...

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Johan Albert

Warmia and Cracow, cardinal. When he was 9 years old, after the death of Szymon Rudnicki his father chose him to be the next bishop of Warmia. The pope has agreed to that request on the 21 October of 1621... Warsaw Jakub Wierzbipieta Borzuchowski and canon of Warmia, Pawel Piasecki. The cathedral at Frombork...

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Johann Friedrich Endersch

Johann Friedrich Endersch was a Polish mapmaker and mathematician from Elblag, Royal Prussia who in 1755 completed a beautiful map of Warmia titled: "Tabula Geographica Episcopatu Warmiensis In Prussia Exhibiens", which detailed all the surrounding towns. He was Royal Mathematician and the map...

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Marcin Kromer

Portrait Marcin Kromer (1512-1589) was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer... Maciejowski. In 1551 he received the canony of Warmia. He was interested in culture of that region. In... Warmia bishopian diocesy. In 1579 he became a bishop of Warmia bishopian diocesy. He died in on 23...

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Polonia sive de situ, populis, moribus, magistratibus et Republica regni Polonici libri duo

Poland by Marcin Kromer Cities of Poland by Marcin Kromer Province of Warmia by Marcin Kromer...

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