dynasty. The town was founded in 1597 as a private fortified town and named Żółkiew after its founder, one of the most accomplished military commanders in...

Żółkiew-Kolonia [ˈʐuu̯kʲɛf kɔˈlɔɲa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żółkiewka, within Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern...

the king, and subsequently settled in the Sobieski's ancestral castle in Żółkiew. After falling out of favor with Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI for allowing...

chamois. The palatine chapel was consecrated in 1640. The golden age of the Zolkiew Castle was the late 17th century when it passed through inheritance to...

fruitful for "Jewish science" (Wissenschaft des Judentums). On his return to Żółkiew, he went back to studying philosophy. He delved into the work of Kant,...

around Europe under the tutelage of Sebastian Gawrecki. They departed Żółkiew on 21 February or 25 March 1646. They visited Berlin, Wittenberg, Leipzig...

Schaue) Zolochiv (Polish: Złoczów, Yiddish: Zlotshev) Zhovkva (Polish: Żółkiew) Żywiec (Ukrainian: Живець, Zhyvets, German: Saybusch) West Galicia was...

buried in St Lawrence Church in Żółkiew (now Zhovkva, Ukraine), the town he enlarged and where he built the Żółkiew Castle. Żółkiewski's heroic death –...

granddaughter of Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski. John Sobieski spent his childhood in Żółkiew. After graduating from Bartłomiej Nowodworski College in Kraków in 1643...

couple divorced and Charlotte moved to Silesia. Moving again, this time to Żółkiew, she spent her last years trying to protect her father's estates of which...