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  1. Casimir II of Belz. Casimir II of Belz (pl: Kazimierz II bełski; 1401/03 – 15 September 1442), was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast from the Masovian branch. He was a Duke of Płock, Rawa Mazowiecka, Gostynin, Sochaczew, Belz, Płońsk, Zawkrze and Wizna during 1426–1434 jointly with his brothers, and after the division of the ...

  2. Oct 11, 2023 · 1399. 1399. Birth of Prince Casimir II of Belz. Sochaczew, Warszawa, Warszawa, Mazowia, Poland. 1442. September 15, 1442. Age 43. Death of Prince Casimir II of Belz. Genealogy for Prince Casimir of Belz, II (1399 - 1442) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.

    • Warszawa, Mazowia
    • Margaret of Shamotul
    • Mazowia
    • between 1399 and 1403
  3. Feb 21, 2024 · brother Casimir II. Mieszko III (born 1126/27—died March 13, 1202) was the prince of Great Poland from 1173 to 1177 and, during a period of civil war, in 1190/91 and 1194. The brother and successor of Bolesław IV, he was so brutal and despotic that he provoked a revolt of the magnates, who drove him out and tried, with mixed success, to ...

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. The War for Brest was Prince Casimir II the Just's military campaign against Kievan Rus following the fall of Brest. Casimir quickly captured the city and made efforts to restore Prince Mstislav to the throne of Halych. Despite initial reluctance from some Polish lords, Casimir led his forces into battle against opposing Rus princes. The engagement culminated in a decisive victory for Casimir ...

    • 1182-1183
    • Polish victory
    • Belz, Halych, Kievan Rus
    • Port of Commerce and Entry
    • Expansion on The Waterfront and Inland
    • Immigrant Settlement in Older Areas
    • Restructuring in The Twentieth Century
    • The High-Rise Boom

    The port on the Delaware, ferries from New Jersey, and roads radiating outward into Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland enabled people and goods to move in and out of the compact city. Throughout the colonial era English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Welsh, German, and free and enslaved people of African heritage came through the port of Philadelphia to bu...

    While residents and businesses planted new structures across the width of the grid, earlier settled blocks churned with changing purposes and redevelopment. The Merchants Exchange completed in 1834 at Third and Walnut Streets signaled the continuing importance of maritime commerce, as did the 1830s rebuilding of a warehouse district on Front Street...

    Older blocks continued to lose their cachet but served as points of entry for immigrants and other new arrivals to Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1870s, a Chinatown began to form in the 900 block of Race Street as Chinese merchants and laundrymen migrated to Philadelphia from the West Coast. With few options, the Chinese created their community in ...

    As the region became more suburban from the late nineteenth into the twentieth century, Center City felt the impact. By the 1950s and 1960s, urban reformers focused their attention on areas of poverty and “blight” along the Delaware waterfront and in nearby neighborhoods. Pointing to areas that had “changed over the years from aesthetic assets to e...

    The continuing revitalization of Center City as a mix of residential and commercial historic ambiance and new development built upon these twentieth-century projects. Beginning in 1976, federal tax credits for historic preservation spurred creation of a new supply of luxury apartments through adaptive reuse of old hotels, factories, and office buil...

  5. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Casimir II, 1138–94, duke of Poland (1177–94), youngest son of Boleslaus III. A member of the Piast dynasty, he drove his brother Mieszko III from power at Kraków in 1177 and became the principal duke of Poland. At the Congress of Leczyca (1180) the nobility and clergy, in return for privileges he had ...

  6. Casimir II of Belz (pl: Kazimierz II bełski; 1401/03 – 15 September 1442), was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast from the Masovian branch. He was a Duke of Płock , Rawa Mazowiecka , Gostynin , Sochaczew , Belz , Płońsk , Zawkrze and Wizna during 1426–1434 jointly with his brothers, and after the division of the paternal ...

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