The Sigismund Bell (Polish: Dzwon Zygmunt or Dzwon Zygmunta) is the largest of the five bells hanging in the Sigismund Tower of the Wawel Cathedral in...
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The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell (Polish: Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta na wieży katedry w roku 1521 w Krakowie English: The Hanging of the Sigismund bell...
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Sigismund I the Old (Polish: Zygmunt I Stary, Lithuanian: Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania...
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Wawel Castle (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
symbols. Today, the bishops of Kraków use it quite often, which reduces the importance of the Sigismund bell. The hanging of the bell is the subject of a...
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the cases of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Sigismund Korybut, Sigismund I the Old, Sigismund II Augustus). The Polish spelling is Zygmunt, and the Serbo-Croatian...
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Wawel Cathedral (category Burial sites of the Jagiellonian dynasty)
Sigismund's Chapel. It is the official seat of the Archbishop of Kraków and of the Archdiocese of Kraków. A symbol of Polish statehood and faith, the...
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Jan Matejko (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
finished Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta (The Hanging of the Sigismund bell). In 1878, he produced another masterpiece, The Battle of Grunwald. That year he received...
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Polish hussars (category Mercenary units and formations of the Early Modern era)
The Polish hussars (/həˈzɑːrs/; Polish: husaria [xuˈsarja]), alternatively known as the winged hussars, were a heavy cavalry formation active in Poland...
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Temple bell and clapper. Banna-ji. Japan. Mingun Bell weighs 55,555 viss, or 90 tonnes. Philadelphia's Liberty Bell. The Zygmunt (Sigismund) Bell (from...
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Stańczyk (painting) (redirect from Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk)
several of his works (most notably, besides the painting discussed here, in Consecration of King Sigismund's Bell, 1874 and Prussian Homage, 1882). Working...
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