Zeitler Web

Who knew is was all about the bees?
The name “Zeidler / Zeitler” comes from an old German word, ‘zeideln’ meaning to cut honey(comb). They were in charge of honey gathering and documented from 959 onwards. I even found a coat of arms for them!
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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 [...]

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 [...]