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unusual facts about Moravian-Silesian Beskids



30564 Olomouc

The citation accompanying the suggestion of the name and published in the Minor Planet Circular on 6 January 2003 said: "The city of Olomouc is the center of Hanakia in the heart of Moravia. The seat of Catholic bishops since 1063 and Moravian primates since 1777, it has been home to a university since 1573, now called Palacký University."

Arnulf of Carinthia

As early as 880, Arnulf had designs on Great Moravia, and had the Frankish bishop Wiching of Nitra interfere with the missionary activities of Methodius, with the aim of preventing any potential for creating a unified Moravian nation.

Carl Christoffer Gjörwell Sr.

Despite changing public tastes, various twists of fate and whichever wandering turns his life took, he bore all reverses with stoic calm, happy in his family, his employment and his religious life in the prayer halls of the Moravian Herrnhut brethren.

Castleton Corners, Staten Island

Castleton Corners is separated from its eastern neighbor Sunnyside by Castleton Hill, noted for the two churches that stand across from one another on its western ridge—a Moravian church (Castleton Hill Moravian Church) on one side of Victory Boulevard and a Roman Catholic church (St. Teresa's) on the other.

Claude Kogan

Nun Kun with Vittoz, a Moravian missionary to the Tibetans and an experienced alpinist

Courland

George Henry Loskiel, (1740–1814), born in Angermuende in Courland, Moravian clergyman who obtained complete separation of the European and American branches of the church.

David Moritz Michael

Moritz Michael's official church position was as a worker with the young men of the Moravian congregations in Nazareth and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and his contributions to the musical life of the Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania was great.

David Nitschmann

David Nitschmann der Wagner (1676-1758), Czech-born Moravian missionary and carpenter

David Nitschmann der Bischof (1695-1772), missionary of the Moravian Brethren and the first "Bishop" (Bischof der Brüdergemeine).

David Nitschmann der Syndikus

David Nitschmann der Syndikus (David Nitschmann the Syndic; September 20, 1703 in Zauchtenthal/Suchdol nad Odrou – March 28, 1779 in Zeist) was a Czech-born Moravian missionary.

David Zeisberger

Zeisberger was born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia (present day Suchdol nad Odrou in the Czech Republic) and moved with his family to the newly established Moravian Christian community of Herrnhut, on the estate of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in the German Electorate of Saxony in 1727.

Dolní Dunajovice

In 1249 the Moravian margrave Přemysl Ottokar II granted it together with the Lordship of Mikulov to the Austrian noble Henry I of Liechtenstein.

Ervin J. Rokke

Following retirement from Moravian, the Rokkes have relocated to Monument, Colorado.

Francis Edwin Shober

Born in Salem (now Winston-Salem), North Carolina, Shober attended the common schools and the Moravian School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Fratrum

Unitas Fratrum was the original name for the organisation that became the Moravian Church.

Frýdek

Frýdek-Místek, a city in Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic

George Henry Loskiel

According to the wish of his father he was educated at the Moravian college and theological seminary in Barby, Germany.

German North Polar Expedition

In June 1870, the crew got to the coast by boat and reached the Moravian Herrnhut mission at Friedrichsthal (modern Narsaq Kujalleq) near Cape Farewell, from where they got back to Germany on a Danish ship.

Henry Morley

The son of an apothecary, he was born in Hatton Garden, London, educated at a Moravian school in Germany, and at King's College London, and after practicing medicine and keeping schools at various places, went in 1850 to London, and adopted literature as his profession.

Hrubá

Hrubá Vrbka, village and municipality (obec) in Hodonín District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic

James K. Marshall

Marshall had the brigade's Moravian band perform for the men to heighten their morale after the first day's carnage.

Jindřich Wankel

Studied as medical doctor he came to work into area of Moravský kras (Moravian Karst, today Czech Republic) in 1847 and since 1849 lived in Blansko.

John Christian Bechler

He was educated at the Moravian College and Theological Seminary in Germany, came to the United States in 1806, and entered the boarding school of Nazareth Hall, at Nazareth, Pennsylvania, as a tutor.

John Christian Jacobson

John Christian Jacobson (8 April 1795 Burkal, Denmark - 24 November 1870 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was a Moravian bishop in the United States.

José Manuel Villa Castillo

In 1986 he was one of the selected artists for the XII Biennale of Graphic Design, Brno, held at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czechoslovakia.

Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart

The new Moravian Library building which was opened in Brno on 2 April 2001 has a stone relief of the Labyrinth on its front wall.

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

In 1818 she joined the Moravian Church; and although towards the end of her life she was attracted to the Roman Catholic church, she remained a Moravian until her death.

Matthias Stach

Matthias Stach (sometimes anglicized to Matthew Stach or Stack) (March 4, 1711 in Mankendorf) was a Moravian missionary in Greenland.

Mikulčice

The only still-standing church safely dated to the Great Moravian period is found in the nearby Slovak village of Kopčany.

Moravian Burial Ground

The Burial Ground is located in the grounds of Lindsey House in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, just off Milman Street (near Moravian Place), near Cheyne Walk and Beaufort Street.

Moravian Church in North America

Combined Moravian arches were used to form the dome of the Wachovia Center (now called 100 North Main Street).

Moravian Church music

American Moravian music collections contain several thousand pieces by composers as well known as Haydn, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Karl Stamitz; and as little known as Wenzel Pichl, Adalbert Gyrowetz, and Kleinknecht.

Moravian Falls, North Carolina

Wilkes Central High School, and Central Wilkes Middle School, are located in Moravian Falls.

Moravian Falls is located in the foothills of the Brushy Mountains, which rise to the south of the community.

Pores Knob, the highest point in the Brushy Mountains, is located in Moravian Falls.

Napranum, Queensland

Formerly known as Weipa South, Napranum was established in 1898 by Moravian missionaries on behalf of the Presbyterian church.

New Herrnhut

New Herrnhut Moravian Church, a Moravian mission in Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands

Nitschmann

Anna Nitschmann (1715–1760), a Moravian Brethren missionary (Missionarin), lyrical poet, and wife of Nikolaus von Zinzendorf

David Nitschmann der Wagner (1676–1758), a Czech-born Moravian missionary and carpenter

David Nitschmann der Bischof (1695–1772), a missionary of the Moravian Brethren and the first "Bishop" (Bischof der Brüdergemeine)

On Religion

He entered a Moravian seminary in Barby, Germany in 1785, only to lead to his eventual expulsion for engaging in heretical philosophic discourse.

Romig

Joseph H. Romig (1872-1951), frontier physician in Alaska and Moravian Church missionary

SimCity 4: Rush Hour

Composers Jerry Martin, Andy Brick and conductor Petr Pololanik worked with the seventy-piece Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra to record five songs for the soundtrack in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Slavomir of Moravia

It is possible that Slavomir was one of the "high-ranking hostages" whom his relative, Rastislav, the duke of Moravia turned over to the Franks in 864, because in that year Bishop Otgar of Eichstätt granted an estate near the Frankish–Moravian border to a certain Slav, Sleimar whose name may be a variant spelling of his name.

Stephen Mallory

Then, she sent her son away for further schooling at a Moravian academy in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

Western Beskids

Silesian Beskids (Polish: Beskid Śląski, Czech: Slezské Beskydy)

William F. Badè

After short pastoral appointments at Unionville, Michigan, and Chaska, Minnesota, he returned to Moravian College as instructor of Greek and German, earning his PhD from that institution in 1898 with a thesis on the Assyrian flood legends.

William Thomas Thornton

He was educated at the Moravian settlement at Ockbrook in Derbyshireand, after work experience abroad with relatives, obtained a clerkship in the East India House.


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