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Names of interest: Balko, Ciszec, Chryplivi, Hawryluk, Kruk, Moroz, Rajterowsky, Wintoniak,  Patryk, Stanislawsky
Towns:  Lubianki                     See Stanislawsky Line

The full Zeitler line beginning with Johann Zeitler born about 1540.
Other names of interest: Albert, Aichelseer, Ciszko, Hiller, Jarosz, Kremer, Mayer, Preischl, Rodovicz, Zeitler
Towns of interest: Klokuczka, Czernowitz, Kolomea, Enslwang, Adertshausen, Oed, Armensee, Raittenbach, Hohenfels, Affenrieth, Effenrieth, Haslach, Haasla
— See The Zeitler Line

Job designations are the most common form of family names; anybody who had an unusual job would have been bound to be identified by it. Examples: Schmidt (smith), Müller (miller), Meier (farm administrator), Schulze (constable), Fischer (fisherman), Schneider (tailor), Maurer (mason), Bauer (farmer), Metzger or Fleischer (butcher), Töpfer or Toepfer (potter).
Note: the surname of Zeitler [...]

Images of high fashion in the 14th and 15th centuries:
Eventually, fashion dictated that huge points, stiffened with whale-bone, be attached to both shoes and boots. These were called plumes (a corruption of the word Polonaise) in France, and Cracoves in England - both words showing the fashion’s Polish origin. During the 14th century, the [...]

Latin Germani is first used by Julius Caesar, and is thought to be a loan from the Celtic name for the Germanic tribes. There is also a Latin adjective germanus (from germen, “seed” or “offshoot”), which has the sense of “related” or “kindred” and whence derives Catalan germà, Spanish hermano and Portuguese irmão, “brother”. If [...]

In pre-Roman times the region was populated by various tribes, including the Lugiis, Goths and Vandals (the Przeworsk and Puchov cultures). After the fall of the Roman Empire, which most of southern-eastern Poland and western Ukraine was part of (all territories below the San, Bug, Dniester and Ztir), the area was invaded by West Slavs [...]

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language and one of the world’s major languages. German is closely related to English and Dutch.
The German language has undergone a number of changes in history. The main phases are called Old High German (Althochdeutsch, AHD), Middle High German (Mittelhochdeutsch, MHD), and New High German (Neuhochdeutsch, NHD).    Read Full [...]

450–1100 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) – The language of Beowulf.
1100–1500 Middle English – The language of Chaucer.
1500–1650 Early Modern English (or Renaissance English) – The language of Shakespeare.
1650–present Modern English (or Present-Day English) – The language as spoken today.
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At the time at which Julius Caesar took power in Rome, the Roman calendar had ceased to reflect the year accurately.  The Julian reform lengthened the months (except February, owing to its religious significance) and provided for an intercalary day to be added every four years to February, creating a leap year.
This produced a noticeably [...]

Bukovina, on the eastern slopes of the Carpathian mountains, was once the heart of the Romanian Principality of Moldavia, with the city of Suceava being made its capital in 1388. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Painted Monasteries of Arbora, Dragomirna, Humor, Moldovita, Putna, Sucevita, and Voronet were constructed under the patronage of Stefan [...]

Early settlements, Roman Raetia, Vindelicia
The earliest known inhabitants that are mentioned in written sources were a people, probably Celts, participating in the widespread La T ène culture, whom the Romans subdued just before the opening of the Christian era, founding colonies among them and including their land in the provinces of Raetia and Noricum. The [...]

The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648, was mainly fought on the territory of today’s Germany, and involved most of the major European continental powers. Although it seemed a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the rivalry between the Habsburg dynasty and other powers was also a central motive. Catholic France supported the Protestant side, showing that [...]

The Hundred Years’ War was a conflict between France and England, actually lasting 116 years from 1337 to 1453. Fought primarily over claims by the English kings to the French throne, it did have several brief plus two longer periods of peace before it finally ended with the expulsion of the English from France.
The war [...]

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