The Sigismund Bell (Polish: Dzwon Zygmunt or colloquially Dzwon Zygmunta) is the largest of the five bells hanging in the Sigismund Tower of the Wawel...
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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)
site. The Sigismund's Tower, which contains the Sigismund's Bell The cathedral's treasury Stained-glass window in the Holy Trinity Chapel The sarcophagus...
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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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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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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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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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