Bielany, Kraków
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Bielany former village, incorporated on 1941 as the XXXII quarter of Kraków, Poland. Located some 7 kilometres west of the city centre. It is now part of the District VII Zwierzyniec.
Bielany. View from S.
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Camaldolese Monastery 1 Konarowa Avenue
Municipal waterworks 299 Księcia Józefa Street
Kraków Fortress Fort Bielany 132 Księcia Józefa Street
Deluge (history)
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The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of the Commonwealth as
Bielany, Kraków
…first half of the 17th century a Camaldolese monastery was established there, damaged in 1655 during the Siege of Kraków (1655) in the course of the Polish-Swedish war. It was rebuilt after a subsequent fire in 1814. Under the Austrian Partition, after 30 years of deliberation and planning, in 1901 Kraków's first…
Swedish Siege of Kraków in 1655
The Vow of John Casimir by Jan Matejko (1838–1893) shows the Polish king in Lwów in 1655, pledging to drive out the Swedes.
Battle of Warsaw in 1656
Transylvanian–Swedish Siege of Brest in 1657, painted by E. Dahlbergh