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Sámuel Mikoviny

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Sámuel Mikoviny (Mikoviny Sámuel, Samuel Mikovíni ? – 23 March 1750) was a Hungarian mathematician, engineer, cartographer, and professor. [1]

57 relations: Ábelová, Ľubietová, Banská Štiavnica, Banská Belá, Banská Bystrica, Berlin, Bratislava, Bratislava Castle, Brezno, Buda, Cartography, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Cinobaňa, Counties of Hungary (before 1920), Danube, Demänovská Ice Cave, Engineer, Evangelicalism, Habsburg Monarchy, Hradište, Poltár District, Hungarians, Ján Kollár, József Károly Hell, Kingdom of Hungary, Komárno, Komárom, Kremnica, Maria Theresa, Mathematician, Matthias Bel, Maximilian Hell, Mining Academy (Banská Štiavnica), Moravia, Nová Baňa, Nuremberg, Oxford University Press, Polymath, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Pukanec, Silesia, Silesian Wars, Slovak language, Slovakia, Slovaks, Svätý Jur, Szőny, Tajchy, Tata, Hungary, Trenčín, Uhorské, ..., UNESCO, University of Altdorf, University of Jena, Upper Hungary, Váh, Vienna, World Heritage site. Expand index (7 more) »

Ábelová

Ábelová (earlier also Abelová, Jabelová; Ábelfalva, before 1907 Abellehota, before 1873 Abelova.) is a village and municipality in the Lučenec District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.

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Ľubietová

Ľubietová (Libethen) is a village in central Slovakia.

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Banská Štiavnica

Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz; Selmecbánya (Selmec)) is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano.

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Banská Belá

Banská Belá (Dilln; Bélabánya) is a village and municipality in Banská Štiavnica District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia.

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Banská Bystrica

Banská Bystrica (also known by other alternative names) is a city in central Slovakia located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Bratislava

Bratislava (Preßburg or Pressburg, Pozsony) is the capital of Slovakia.

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Bratislava Castle

Bratislava Castle (Bratislavský hrad,, Pressburger Schloss, Pozsonyi Vár) is the main castle of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

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Brezno

Brezno (1927 - 1948 Brezno nad Hronom, Bries or Briesen, Breznóbánya) is a town in central Slovakia, with a population of 21,534 (2013).

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Buda

Buda was the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Hungary and since 1873 has been the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest, on the west bank of the Danube.

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Cartography

Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.

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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VI (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740; Karl VI.) succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (as Charles II), King of Hungary and Croatia, Serbia and Archduke of Austria (as Charles III) in 1711.

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Cinobaňa

Cinobaňa is a village and municipality in the Poltár District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.

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Counties of Hungary (before 1920)

A county (Hungarian: vármegye or megye; for the various names, their origin and use see here) is the name of a type of administrative units in the Kingdom of Hungary and in Hungary from the 10th century until the present day.

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Danube

The Danube or Donau (known by various names in other languages) is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga.

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Demänovská Ice Cave

Demänovská Ice Cave or Demänovská ľadová jaskyňa (in Slovak) is an ice cave in the Demänovská Valley (Low Tatra) in Slovakia.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Habsburg Monarchy

The Habsburg Monarchy (Habsburgermonarchie) or Empire is an unofficial appellation among historians for the countries and provinces that were ruled by the junior Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg between 1521 and 1780 and then by the successor branch of Habsburg-Lorraine until 1918.

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Hradište, Poltár District

Hradište is a village and municipality in the Poltár District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary (Magyarország) and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history and speak the Hungarian language.

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Ján Kollár

Ján Kollár (29 July 1793 in Mošovce (Mosóc), Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy, now Slovakia – 24 January 1852 in Vienna, Austrian Empire) was a Slovak writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.

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József Károly Hell

Jozef Karol Hell (Slovak: Jozef Karol Hell, German: Josef/ph Karl Hell, Hungarian: Hell József Károly) (15 May 1713, Szélakna (Windschacht, Piarg, now Štiavnické Bane) - 11 March 1789, Selmecbánya (Schemnitz, now Banská Štiavnica)) was a Hungarian mining engineer and inventor, who invented the water-pillar (water pump machine) in 1749 (first use 1753).

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Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century (1000–1946 with the exception of 1918–1920).

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Komárno

Komárno (Komárom, colloquially Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom, Komorn, Komoran/Коморан) is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers.

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Komárom

Komárom (Komárno, German: Komorn) is a city in Hungary on the south bank of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom county.

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Kremnica

Kremnica (Kremnitz, Körmöcbánya) is a town in central Slovakia.

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Maria Theresa

Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (Maria Theresia; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Matthias Bel

Matthias Bel or Matthias Bél (Matthias Bel; Bél Mátyás; Matej Bel; Matthias Belius; March 22, 1684 – August 29, 1749) was a Lutheran pastor and polymath from the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Maximilian Hell

Maximilian Hell (Hell Miksa) (May 15, 1720 – April 14, 1792) was a Hungarian astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Mining Academy (Banská Štiavnica)

The Mining Academy (Banícka akadémia, Selmeci Akadémia), in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia, was a technological university founded in 1735 by scientist Sámuel Mikoviny (then Kingdom of Hungary).

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Moravia

Moravia (Morava;; Morawy; Moravia) is a historical country in the Czech Republic (forming its eastern part) and one of the historical Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.

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Nová Baňa

Nová Baňa (Königsberg; Újbánya) is a small town in the west of central Slovakia and the largest town of the Žarnovica District, located in the Banská Bystrica Region.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg) is a city on the river Pegnitz and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia, about north of Munich.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Polymath

A polymath (πολυμαθής,, "having learned much,"The term was first recorded in written English in the early seventeenth century Latin: uomo universalis, "universal man") is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas—such a person is known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Prussian Academy of Sciences

The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Akademie der Künste, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer.

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Pukanec

Pukanec (Bugganz / Puk(k)an(t)z, Bakabánya; Bukabak) is a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of southern Slovakia.

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Silesia

Silesia (Śląsk; Slezsko;; Silesian German: Schläsing; Silesian: Ślůnsk; Šlazyńska; Šleska; Silesia) is a region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Silesian Wars

The Silesian Wars (Schlesische Kriege) were a series of three wars fought in the mid-18th century between Prussia (under King Frederick the Great) and Austria (under Empress Maria Theresa) for control of Silesia, all three of which ended in Prussian victory.

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Slovak language

Slovak is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages (together with Czech, Polish, and Sorbian).

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Slovaks

The Slovaks or Slovak people (Slováci, singular Slovák, feminine Slovenka, plural Slovenky) are a nation and West Slavic ethnic group native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak the Slovak language.

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Svätý Jur

Svätý Jur (Sankt Georgen, Szentgyörgy, Saint George) is a small town northeast of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

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Szőny

Szőny was a town in Hungary.

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Tajchy

Tajchy (singular: tajch, from German teich) are artificial water reservoirs in the Štiavnica Mountains, in central Slovakia.

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Tata, Hungary

Tata (Totis), (Dotis) is a town in Komárom-Esztergom county, northwestern Hungary, northwest of the county town Tatabánya.

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Trenčín

Trenčín (also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia of the central Váh River valley near the Czech border, around from Bratislava.

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Uhorské

Uhorské is a village and municipality in the Poltár District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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University of Altdorf

The University of Altdorf was a university in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, a small town outside the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg.

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University of Jena

Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, shortened form Uni Jena) is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.

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Upper Hungary

Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of Felvidék (lit.: "Upland"), the Hungarian term for the area that was historically the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, now mostly present-day Slovakia.

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Váh

The Váh (Waag; Vág; Wag) is the longest river within Slovakia.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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References

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

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