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    Alexander Guagnini (Polish: Alexander Gwagnin, Italian: Alessandro Guagnini dei Rizzoni; 1538 in Verona, Republic of Venice – 1614 in Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian...
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  • account was written down by the author Alexander Guagnini. However, according to the historian Solovyov, Guagnini had never been in Moscow, putting the...
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    sacrifices to the gods. Many other early modern writers, including Alexander Guagnini and Lucas David, followed Grunau in their descriptions of Patollo...
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    intended to overthrow him from the throne and become tsar himself. Alexander Guagnini reported that Ivan ordered him to put on royal clothes, put him on...
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    originates from the land of Severians. As the Italian-Polish chronicler Alexander Guagnini (1538–1614) wrote: "There is also another, small Tanais, which originates...
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    information about Lada was repeated by Maciej Miechowita, Marcin Kromer, Alexander Guagnini, Maciej Stryjkowski, Marcin and Joachim Bielski, and the priest Jakub...
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    in either Thurocz or Marcin Bielski, nor with the description in Alexander Guagnini. Stephen's seal, with legend in Old Church Slavonic Modern drawing...
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    Traidenis Imaginative depiction of Traidenis by Alexander Guagnini, 16th-century Grand Duke of Lithuania Reign 1269–1282 Predecessor Shvarn Successor Daumantas...
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    of Obertyn. 1531 Flag of the Moldavian principality, described by Alexander Guagnini. Around 1574 Moldavian Banner under Prince Ieremia Movilă. 1601 Banner...
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    Treniota Depiction of Treniota from chronicles of Alexander Guagnini, published in 1578 Grand Duke of Lithuania Reign 1263–1264 Predecessor Mindaugas Successor...
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    See were reinforced. In 1255, Mindaugas received permission from Pope Alexander IV to crown his son as King of Lithuania. A noble court, an administrative...
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  • about Dzidzilela was repeated by Maciej Miechowita, Marcin Kromer, Alexander Guagnini, Maciej Stryjkowski, Marcin and Joachim Bielski, and the priest Jakub...
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  • Jesza was repeated by historians Maciej Miechowita, Marcin Kromer, Alexander Guagnini, Maciej Stryjkowski, Marcin and Joachim [pl] Bielskis, and the priest...
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  • "complete fantasies".[citation needed] Also, the 16th century chronicler Alexander Guagnini's book Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio wrote that Rus' was divided in...
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    from which time one also finds mention of a state flag. In 1578, Alexander Guagnini was the first to describe such a state flag, according to him the...
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    Kletsk, and Nyasvizh and even threatened the capital city of Vilnius. Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania, then ordered the construction of a...
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  • Seasons. Later authors, including Jonas Bretkūnas, Marcin Kromer, Alexander Guagnini, provided no new information about kriwe. Since the concept of a "pagan...
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  • Moldavia around 1574 Flag of the Moldavian principality, described by Alexander Guagnini 1531 Moldavian banner at the Battle of Obertyn 1467 Moldavian flag...
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    escape was organized by Dashko Feodorovich Ostrogski, Aleksander Nos, and Alexander of Smolensk. During the night of 24 March 1418 the conspirators, with...
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    Depiction of Vykintas from the chronicles of Alexander Guagnini, published in 1578...
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    were also reinforced. In 1255, Mindaugas received permission from Pope Alexander IV to crown his son as King of Lithuania. In the domestic arena, Mindaugas...
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    Lesco the Third, by Alexander Guagnini (1538–1614)....
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  • "Notes on Seventeenth-Century Translations from the Polish Kronika of Alexander Guagnini." "Neizvestnyi pamiatnik drevnerusskoi literatury: 'Gramota gosudaria...
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    Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army. He served in a garrison in Vitebsk under Alexander Guagnini. He was a Pole, but spent most of his life in the Grand Duchy, initially...
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    was killed in 1325 and Maria never remarried. Maria's brother-in-law, Alexander I, nevertheless maintained friendly relationships with the Grand Duchy...
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    with classical authors of Lithuanian history (Maciej Stryjkowski, Alexander Guagnini, Jan Długosz, Marcin Kromer), studied Lithuanian folk songs, read...
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  • Vykintas, one of the early Samogitian dukes, as depicted by Alexander Guagnini...
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    the wall map. The longer description was based on the chronicle by Alexander Guagnini first published in 1578. Such atlases were printed in 1631–1649. About...
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    tartarorum, lituanorum et moscorum, Livonian Chronicle of Henry, works by Alexander Guagnini and Jan Łasicki, and others. He also used Lithuanian folklore, etymologies...
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    Christmemel. Švitrigaila's cause was also aided by Moldavian forces led by Alexander the Good, who attacked Poland in the southeast. On 25 June 1431, the Polish...
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