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Francysk Skaryna

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Francysk Skaryna (alternative transcriptions of his name: Francišak Skaryna or Francisk Skaryna; Franciscus Scorina, language Скарына; Pranciškus Skorina; Franciszek Skaryna, František Skorina; 1470 – 1551/29 January 1552) was a Belarusian humanist, physician, and translator. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 62 relations: Alexander Lukashenko, Bachelor of Arts, Barysaw, Belarus, Belarusian language, Belarusians, Bible, Bohemia, Catholic Church, Charles University, Chișinău, Church Slavonic, Copenhagen, Cyrillic script, Czech language, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Doctor of Arts, East Slavic languages, Eastern Europe, Eastern Orthodox Church, Fiol's Octoechos, Francišak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society, Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Independence Avenue (Minsk), Italy, Jagiellonian University, John of the Lithuanian Dukes, Königsberg, Kraków, Kyiv, Leninsky Avenue, Lida, London, Lviv, Minsk, Moscow, Nyasvizh, Old Testament, Order of Francysk Skaryna, Orsha, Padua, Polish language, Polotsk, Poznań, Prague, Printer (publishing), Printing, Quarto, ... Expand index (12 more) »

  2. 16th-century Polish businesspeople
  3. 16th-century Polish physicians
  4. 16th-century Polish writers
  5. 16th-century biblical scholars
  6. Belarusian printers
  7. Belarusian-language writers
  8. Culture of Belarus
  9. Early printed Bibles
  10. European biblical scholars
  11. People from Polotsk
  12. People from Polotsk Voivodeship
  13. Ruthenian people from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  14. Ruthenian-language writers

Alexander Lukashenko

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, currently the longest in Europe.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Barysaw

Barysaw or Borisov (Barysaŭ,; Борисов) is a city in Minsk Region, Belarus.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Belarusian language

Belarusian (label) is an East Slavic language.

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Belarusians

Belarusians (biełarusy) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Belarus.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles University

Charles University (CUNI; Univerzita Karlova, UK; Universitas Carolina; Karls-Universität), or historically as the University of Prague (Universitas Pragensis), is the largest and best-ranked university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in the world in continuous operation, the first university north of the Alps and east of Paris.

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Chișinău

Chișinău (formerly known as Kishinev) is the capital and largest city of Moldova.

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Church Slavonic

Church Slavonic is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.

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Czech language

Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Doctor of Arts

The Doctor of Arts (D.A.; occasionally D.Arts or Art.D. from the Latin artium doctor) is a discipline-based terminal doctoral degree that was originally conceived and designed to be an alternative to the traditional research-based Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and the education-based Doctor of Education (Ed.D.).

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East Slavic languages

The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Fiol's Octoechos

Fiol's Octoechos is an incunabulum octoechos, the first printed book in the Cyrillic script.

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Francišak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society

The Francišak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society (Tavarystva bielaruskaj movy imia Franciška Skaryny, TBM) is an association in Belarus.

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Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum

Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum (Belarusian:; also referred to as Skaryna Library and Skarynaŭka) in north London, England, is the only library outside Belarus to collect exclusively in the field of Belarusian studies. Francysk Skaryna and Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum are culture of Belarus.

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Francisk Skorina Gomel State University

Francisk Skorina Gomel State University is a medium-sized university situated in Gomel, Belarus.

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Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.

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Independence Avenue (Minsk)

Independence Avenue (Praspiekt Niezaliežnasci; Проспект Независимости) is the main street of Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University (UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland.

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John of the Lithuanian Dukes

John of the Lithuanian Dukes (Jan Ochstat de Thelnicz, Jonas iš Lietuvos kunigaikščių, Jan z Książąt Litewskich; 8 January 1499 – 18 March 1538) was Bishop of Vilnius (1519–36) and of Bishop of Poznań (1536–38).

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Königsberg

Königsberg (Królewiec, Karaliaučius, Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Leninsky Avenue

Leninsky Avenue (Ленинский проспект, Leninsky prospekt) or Lenin Avenue (проспект Ленина, Prospekt Lenina) was a common name for major avenues in many cities of the former Soviet Union commemorating Vladimir Lenin.

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Lida

Lida (Ліда,; Лида,; Lyda; Ļida; Lida,; Lyde) is a city in Grodno Region, western Belarus, located west of Minsk.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Nyasvizh

Nyasvizh or Nesvizh (Niasviž,; Несвиж; Nesvyžius; Nieśwież; ניעסוויז; Nesvisium) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.

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Order of Francysk Skaryna

The Order of Francysk Skaryna (О́рдэн Францы́ска Скары́ны) is an award of Belarus.

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Orsha

Orsha (Orša; Орша,; Orša, Orsza) is a city in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

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Padua

Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Polotsk

Polotsk (Полоцк) or Polatsk (Polack) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

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Poznań

Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Printer (publishing)

In publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses.

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Printing

Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template.

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Quarto

Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Ruthenian language

Ruthenian (ру́скаꙗ мо́ва or ру́скїй ѧзы́къ; see also other names) is an exonymic linguonym for a closely related group of East Slavic linguistic varieties, particularly those spoken from the 15th to 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in East Slavic regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Schweipolt Fiol

Schweipolt Fiol (also Sebald Vehl or Veyl; c. 1460 – 1525 or 1526) was a German-born 15th century pioneer of Cyrillic printing. Francysk Skaryna and Schweipolt Fiol are 16th-century Polish businesspeople.

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Sigismund I the Old

Sigismund I the Old (Zygmunt I Stary, Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548.

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Sigismund II Augustus

Sigismund II Augustus (Zygmunt II August, Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548.

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Slutsk

Slutsk (Sluck; Слуцк; Słuck, Sluckas, Yiddish/Hebrew: סלוצק) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus.

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Solar eclipse

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.

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University of Padua

The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy.

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Velikiye Luki

Velikiye Luki (p; lit. great meanders. Г. П. Смолицкая. "Топонимический словарь Центральной России". "Армада-Пресс", 2002 (G. P. Smolitskaya. Toponymic Dictionary of Central Russia. Armada-Press, 2002) or longbows) is a town in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the meandering Lovat River.

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Vilnius

Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.

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Vitebsk

Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.

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See also

16th-century Polish businesspeople

16th-century Polish physicians

16th-century Polish writers

16th-century biblical scholars

Belarusian printers

Belarusian-language writers

Culture of Belarus

Early printed Bibles

European biblical scholars

People from Polotsk

People from Polotsk Voivodeship

Ruthenian people from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Ruthenian-language writers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francysk_Skaryna

Also known as Francis Skaryna, Francisc Skorina, Francisco Skorin, Franciscus Scorina, Francisk Skorina, Francišak Skaryna, Frantsishak Skaryna, Frantsisk Skorina, Frantsysk Skaryna, Frańcišak Skaryna, Skaryna.

, Reformation, Ruthenian language, Saint Petersburg, Schweipolt Fiol, Sigismund I the Old, Sigismund II Augustus, Slutsk, Solar eclipse, University of Padua, Velikiye Luki, Vilnius, Vitebsk.