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    The Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek (Estonian: Saare-Lääne piiskopkond; German: Bistum Ösel–Wiek; Low German: Bisdom Ösel–Wiek; contemporary Latin: Ecclesia Osiliensis)...
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    the Bishopric of Courland; the Bishopric of Dorpat; the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek; and territories under the military administration of the Livonian Brothers...
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    consequently, gave up his right of inheritance when Frederick II had him placed as prince-bishop of Ösel-Wiek in Livonia. However, the plan to secure John the post...
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    Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek. In 1559, after the fall of the Livonian order in Livonian War, the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek sold Saaremaa to Frederick II of Denmark,...
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    Ösel–Wiek to the Danish Crown, and the loss of territory to Tsardom of Russia). In 1575, after Muscovy attacked Danish claims in Livonia, Frederick II dropped...
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    brother, Magnus of Holstein (1540–1583), in the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek. King Frederick II largely tried to avoid conflict in Livonia and consolidated amicable...
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    Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek 1228–1236   Saare County 1236–1241 Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek 1241–1261   Saare County 1261–1262 Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek 1262–1343   Saare...
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    wieku, [in:] Przemysł II. Odnowienie Królestwa Polskiego, ed. J. Krzyżaniakowej, Poznań 1997, pp. 57–64. Stanisław Zachorowski, Wiek XIII i panowanie Władysława...
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    Janusz Jasiński; Tadeusz Oracki (2005). Wybitni Polacy w Królewcu: XVI-XX wiek. Wydawnictwo "Littera". p. 46. ISBN 978-83-89775-03-0. Jasiński, Janusz (2005)...
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    coronation of his older brother, King Frederick II of Denmark. The same year, the prince-bishop of Ösel-Wiek and Courland Johannes V von Münchhausen in Old...
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    John I of Sweden tried to establish a Swedish presence in the province of Wiek, but his troops were defeated by the Oeselians in the Battle of Lihula in...
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  • March 2014. Roszak, Stanisław; Kłaczkow, Jarosław (2015). Poznać przeszłość: Wiek XX: Podręcznik do historii dla szkół ponadgimnazjalnych. Zakres podstawowy...
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  • Jakob Johann von Uexküll September 8, 1864 Keblas Manor, Sankt Michaelis, Wiek County, Russian Empire July 25, 1944 Capri, Kingdom of Italy 1923, 1926,...
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    a hotbed of Estonian resistance. The Order founded the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek there. When the Order was defeated by the Lithuanian army in the Battle of...
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    in Germany. He was buried on September 28, 1943, in a small cemetery near Wiek, Rügen. His family was presented his Distinguished Service Cross, which he...
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    1917. In 1559, during the Livonian war, Frederick II of Denmark bought the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek from Prince-Bishop Johannes V von Münchhausen for 30...
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    German and which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after World War II in Europe. In most of these territories, Germans used to be the dominant or...
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    the state. It sits on the River Ryck, at its mouth into the Danish Wiek (Dänische Wiek), a sub-bay of the Bay of Greifswald (Greifswalder Bodden), which...
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    indigenous Estonian population in the Duchy of Estonia, the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek, and the insular territories of the State of the Teutonic Order to rid themselves...
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    inhabitants remained strong. The crusaders founded the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek there. When the Order was defeated by the Lithuanian army in the Battle of...
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    Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). Vol. XIV. Warsaw: Wiek. pp. 169–170. "Włodzimierz Wołyński". Encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Retrieved...
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    culture in the city. The 15th and 16th centuries were known as Poland's Złoty Wiek or Golden Age. Many works of Polish Renaissance art and architecture were...
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    despite constant invasion from Russia, and Frederick II of Denmark bought the old Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, which he placed under the control of his brother...
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    bar, the Reddevitz Höft, separates the two bays of Having and Hagensche Wiek. In the north-east of the island of Rügen is formed by the peninsula of Jasmund...
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    Piłsudskiego, Międzymorze – Polska i kraje Europy środkowo-wschodniej XIX-XX wiek (Some Remarks on Józef Piłsudski's Federationist Thought, Międzymorze — Poland...
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    Order and the Bishopric of Dorpat; 1423–1468, Ösel-Wiek Strifes, within the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek; 1479, Stodewescher Feud, between the Livonian Order...
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    In 1559 the Bishop of Courland and Ösel-Wiek Johann V von Münchhausen sold his lands to King Frederick II of Denmark for 30,000 thalers. The Danish...
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    Duchy of Estonia (1561–1721) Estonia under Swedish rule Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek Andrejs Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic States, Cambridge University...
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    Jesse W. Weik (redirect from Jesse W. Wiek)
    White, Horace (1920). Abraham Lincoln : the true story of a great life, Vol II. New York ; London : D. Appleton and Co. Mary Hays Weik: biography Weik, Jesse...
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    extensive bay between the Sassnitz and Binz regions, known as the Prorer Wiek, on the narrow heath (the Prora) which separates the lagoon of the Kleiner...
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