Lehahayer
type: channel
description: The journal is scholarly, peer-reviewed annual. It aims to intensify research on the culture and history of the Polish Armenians and bring these issues back to the scientific consciousness. This choice of title is not accidental. As a result of the change of borders after the Second World War, the actual cultural dimensions of the Polish Armenians were blurred. They fell into a political inheritance in Ukraine, and many of those who write about their history from the 14th to the 20th century are not aware of the real dimensions, the real identity of this political, social, economic, and cultural space, in which they existed and worked.
publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka Sp. z o.o.
language: en
publication name: Lehahayer
issn: 2082-6184
items: Z materiałów źródłowych do dziejów Ormian w zasobie Archiwum Państwowego w Przemyślu: akta miejskie i sądowe
items: Badania nad antroponimią ormiańską w Polsce
items: Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski († 2024) jako historyk Ormian polskich
items: Współczesne chaczkary na terenie Polski
items: Ormiańska saga malarska
items: Patriota czy buntownik? Działalność niepodległościowa księdza Grzegorza Moszory w okresie Wiosny Ludów w świetle archiwów lwowskich i wiedeńskich
items: Księgozbiór Grzegorza Ignacego Szadbeja (1796-1839) w Bibliotece Ossolineum
items: Dywany i dyplomacja
items: Szlachectwa Ormian polskich od XIV do XX wieku: zarys problematyki
items: Tematyka ormiańska na konferencjach naukowych w Polsce w 2024 roku
items: Back Matter
items: Mesrob z Kaffy († 1624) – ostatni przedunijny arcybiskup „wszystkich Ormian obojga płci, mieszkających we Lwowie, Kijowie, Łucku i Zamościu”
items: Rekognicje celne jako źródło do dziejów Ormian kamienieckich w drugiej połowie XVI wieku
items: Lwowscy zastawnicy w niewoli tureckiej, 1672-1679
items: Between Lwów and Rome: Armenians in Transylvania and Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Lwów (1681-1691)
items: Z Isfahanu do Warszawy
items: (Proto)nazwiska polskich Ormian na podstawie rzymskokatolickich ksiąg metrykalnych z Kresów Południowo-Wschodnich (XVII-XIX wiek)
items: Działalność rodziny Kiebabczych w Kielcach
items: Z dziejów przyjaźni polsko-ormiańskiej
items: National memory, assimilated in generations of Armenians
items: O Ormianach w Jerozolimie (C. Mutafian, Jérusalem et les Arméniens: jusqu’à la conquête ottomane (1516), Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2022)
items: https://journals.akademicka.pl/lehahayer/article/view/5710
items: Literacki obraz wsi ormiańskiej i jego polska translacja (N. Abgarjan, Z nieba spadły trzy jabłka, tłum. J. C. Kamiński, Glowbook, Warszawa–Sieradz 2023)
items: https://journals.akademicka.pl/lehahayer/article/view/5712
items: Front Matter
items: W sprawie identyfikacji zarządcy dóbr benedyktynek łacińskich we Lwowie – barona Romaszkana
items: Trzydziestolecie stosunków między Rzeczpospolitą Polską a Republiką Armenii
items: Dziesięć roczników czasopisma „Lehahayer”

Z materiałów źródłowych do dziejów Ormian w zasobie Archiwum Państwowego w Przemyślu: akta miejskie i sądowe
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description: FROM SOURCE MATERIALS ON THE HISTORY OF ARMENIANS. IN THE RESOURCE OF THE STATE ARCHIVE IN PRZEMYŚL: CITY AND COURT RECORDS Abstract, The Resource of the State Archive in Przemyśl includes source materials from 16th and 17th centuries, concerning the history of Armenian culture. Among these sources, mentions are valuable written down in city and court records preserved in the records of archive sets no 129 (Records of the city of Przemyśl) and no 132 (Records of the city of Jarosław). Set no 143 (Greek Catholic Chapter in Przemyśl) includes the court record of the Armenian law of Saint John jurydyka with entries from 1600-1605 (ref. no 490).
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: State Archive in Przemyśl
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subject: Polish Armenians
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subject: Przemyśl
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subject: Jarosław
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subject: Lviv
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subject: jurydyki
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subject: fairs
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subject: local government records
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subject: court records
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creator: Ewa Grin-Piszczek
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 371
ending page: 378
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.09

Badania nad antroponimią ormiańską w Polsce
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description: STUDIES ON ARMENIAN ANTHROPONYMS IN POLAND The history of studies on Armenian anthroponyms in Poland dates back to the mid 1880s, when the works of Jan Hanusz (1858-1887), one of the precursors of Polish onomastics, were published. Subsequent linguists conducting this research in the 20th and 21st centuries include: Eugeniusz Słuszkiewicz (1901-1991), Mieczysław Buczyński (1936-1992), Andrzej Pisowicz (born 1940), Stanisław Stachowski (1930-2021), Łukasz Trzeciak (born 1984). The article presents selected works of Polish researchers devoted to the personal onomastics of Polish Armenians.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: anthroponyms
  topic: keywords
subject: names
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subject: surnames
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subject: Armenians in Poland
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creator: Łukasz Trzeciak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 353
ending page: 369
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.08

Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski († 2024) jako historyk Ormian polskich
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description: TADEUSZ ISAKOWICZ-ZALESKI († 2024) AS A HISTORIAN OF POLISH ARMENIANS Abstract, Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski (1956-2024), a biritual Catholic priest (of the Armenian and Roman rites), also known in Poland as a publicist and a social, charitable activist, was simultaneously a historian writing about the history of Polish Armenians, especially their Church of the Armenian Catholic rite and extermination during World War II. The article analyses his publications against the background of contemporary Polish historiography and discusses historical essays of his authorship devoted to these issues.
subject: Glosy
  topic: section
subject: Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski
  topic: keywords
subject: Polish Armenians
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subject: Polish historiography
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creator: Andrzej A. Zięba
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 381
ending page: 390
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.10

Współczesne chaczkary na terenie Polski
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description: MODERN KHACHKARS IN POLAND The article analyses the history of erecting, artistic values and symbolism of Armenian votive crosses (khachkars) in Poland within its current borders, from the first one, funded in 1978, until the last one from 2023. It presents their geographical distribution (Warsaw, Krakow, Gliwice, Elbląg, Gdańsk, Lublin, Zamość, Kartuzy, Szczecinek, Kurów, Białystok, Zabrze, Kielce, Łódź, Polanów), funders, authors, goals and circumstances of foundations, dates of consecrations, persons consecrating, materials and places of creation. The analysis has been placed in the context of the history of carving art concerning khachkars, their connections with the culture of Armenia and its Church, the tragedy of the 1915 genocide, as well as creation an Armenian diaspora in Poland, its martyrology in the time of World War II and expatriation trauma after 1945.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: khachkar
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subject: Poland
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creator: Joanna Sławińska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 309
ending page: 352
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.07

Ormiańska saga malarska
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description: ARMENIAN PAINTING SAGA. ANTONI AND KAJETAN STEFANOWICZ The article presents historical and artistic analysis concerning the works of two Polish painters of the Armenian origin, from the Stefanowicz family: Antoni (1858-1929) and Kajetan (1886-1920), the father and the son. In the context of their biographies, the author discusses their works, covering various areas of painting: portraits, landscapes, monumental painting, graphics, drawings, book illustrations, posters. In reference to Kajetan Stefanowicz, she makes a successful attempt to place him in the stylistically and regionally variable European art of his time – Secession, Art Nouveau, Art Deco. She also extensively describes his politically engaged works, created in atmosphere of fight for Poland’s independence during and after World War I.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Polish Armenians
  topic: keywords
subject: Galicia
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subject: painting
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subject: Antoni Stefanowicz
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subject: Kajetan Stefanowicz
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creator: Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 287
ending page: 308
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.06

Patriota czy buntownik? Działalność niepodległościowa księdza Grzegorza Moszory w okresie Wiosny Ludów w świetle archiwów lwowskich i wiedeńskich
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description: A PATRIOT OR A REBEL?INDEPENDENCE ACTIVITIES OF THE PRIEST GRZEGORZ MOSZORA DURING THE SPRINGTIME OF THE PEOPLES IN THE LIGHT OF LVIV AND VIENNA ARCHIVES Abstract, Grzegorz Moszoro (1812-1881) was born in an Armenian family in Łysiec (Eastern Galicia). In 1838, he graduated in philosophy and theology from the University of Vienna and became a priest of the Archdiocese of Lwów within the Armenian rites. In 1839, he joined in Lwów a secret society called “Sons of the Fatherland”, for which he was accused of high treason, sentenced to death and deprived of his nobility. In 1845, the Emperor Ferdinand I pardoned him, ordering penance. In 1848, Moszoro became a vicar of the Armenian parish in Stanisławów, where he got involved in independence activities again. He participated in the work of the Regional National Council – an organisation striving for introduction of democratic changes and regaining independence by Poland. During sermons within the Armenian Church, he encouraged the faithful to rebel against the Austrian authorities. Gubernium in Lwów and starostvo in Stanisławów collected extensive material documenting the priest’s activity. On its basis, the activities of Moszoro were recreated – in the context of socio-political changes, occuring in Galicia at that time. In 1849, Moszoro became a rector of the Armenian parish in Tyśmienica, devoting himself exclusively to priestly work.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Grzegorz Moszoro
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subject: Galicia
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subject: Springtime of the Peoples
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subject: Central National Council
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subject: Polish Armenians
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subject: Armenian clergy
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creator: Tomasz Krzyżowski
creator: Marek Stasiowski
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 265
ending page: 286
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.05

Księgozbiór Grzegorza Ignacego Szadbeja (1796-1839) w Bibliotece Ossolineum
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description: THE BOOK COLLECTION OF GRZEGORZ IGNACY SZADBEJ (1796-1839) IN THE OSSOLINEUM LIBRARY The article presents the book collection of Grzegorz Ignacy Szadbej (1796-after 1839), an Armenian lawyer and poet active in Lviv. Before commiting suicide, he donated his entire collection to the Ossolineum Library. This gift included publications representing fiction and law as well as economic and medical guides. It was Szadbej’s private library, primarily helping him in his professional work and assisting in development of interests and writing skills. In 1946, the collection was divided between the National Ossolineum Library in Wrocław and Wasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Grzegorz Ignacy Szadbej
  topic: keywords
subject: Ossolineum
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subject: Armenians in Galicia
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creator: Dorota Sidorowicz-Mulak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 249
ending page: 264
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.04

Dywany i dyplomacja
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description: CARPETS AND DIPLOMACY. MORE ABOUT THE MISSION OF SEFER MURATOWICZ IN PERSIA: GENESIS, GOALS AND LISTS OF ABBAS I AND SIGISMUND III In 1601, Sefer Muratowicz, an Armenian merchant from Poland, travelled to Persia at the command of the Polish king Sigismund III. He wrote a concise account of this journey. Previous studies have defined purposes of his stay in Safavids’ country in various ways. Some researchers considered the journey to be a purely commercial expedition, during which he made a purchase of carpets for the king. According to others, it was a diplomatic mission. The article, beginning from the state of research on Muratowicz’s stay at the Persian court, re-discusses his account primarily from a Persian perspective and a standpoint of Polish diplomacy, in connection with the political situation at that time and the relations of Shah Abbas I with Europe and Moscow. This allowed a new interpretation on grounds of Muratowicz’s departure and purposes of his stay at the Persian court. Furthermore, the article includes two previously unknown letters of Abbas I and Sigismund III related to the mission of Muratowicz.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sefer Muratowicz
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subject: Abbas I
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subject: Sigismunt III
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subject: Persia
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subject: Poland
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subject: diplomacy
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subject: oriental trade
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creator: Ryszard Skowron
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 219
ending page: 247
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.03

Szlachectwa Ormian polskich od XIV do XX wieku: zarys problematyki
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description: THE NOBILITY OF POLISH ARMENIANS FROM THE 14TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY (OUTLINE OF ISSUES) The article is an introduction to analysis of the phenomenon of social advancement in the community of Polish Armenians, allochthonous in terms of the origin and minority in terms of the ethnicity, experienced by obtaining nobility status, throughout the history of Poland from the second half of the 14th century to the beginnings of the 20th century, i.e. in evolving political, socioeconomic and cultural conditions. It contains: 1) the discussion of previous studies and their further directions in this field; 2) the characteristics of chronology, bestowers and recipients of ennoblement, ways of its obtaining and consequences as well as myths developed around this phenomenon; 3) the initial list of ennoblement, indygenat, legitimacy, effective nobility usurpation, golden knighthood and aristocratic titles of Polish Armenians.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Polish Armenians
  topic: keywords
subject: social advancement
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subject: nobilitation
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subject: aristocracy
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subject: heraldry
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subject: genealogy
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creator: Andrzej A. Zięba
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 7
ending page: 181
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.01

Tematyka ormiańska na konferencjach naukowych w Polsce w 2024 roku
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description: ARMENIAN SUBJECT AREA WITHIN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES IN POLAND IN 2024 Abstract, In 2024, several conferences, entirely or partially devoted to Armenian subject area, were organised in Poland. Two conferences, concerning the genocide of Armenians, took place in Warsaw – the first one at the University of Warsaw (participants: Edita Gzoyan, Nune Gevorgyan, Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala, Harutyun Marutyan, Dominika Maria Macios), the second one in the Eastern House of the Karta Center Foundation (Lech Nijakowski, Karine Arutyunova, Inga Nosikova). Subsequent four conferences concerned issues of archival science, museology, and historical documentation. They presented an Armenian strand in reference to the collections of the now-defunct Archdiocesan Armenian Museum in Lwów and the Foundation of Culture and Heritage of Polish Armenians in Warsaw: “Archives of churches and religious organisations in Poland from 1918 to the present times” in the Archives of Modern Records and the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Hanna Kopczyńska-Kłos); “Family and social archives” in Lublin, within VI Domestic Archival Symposium, organisers: Association of Polish Archivists and State Archives in Lublin (Monika Agopsowicz, Hanna Kopczyńska-Kłos); “Polish museology in the inter-war period” in Ossoliński National Institute in Wrocław (Tomasz Krzyżowski) and “National Scientific Conference devoted to Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Church” in Tarnów (Ewa Soszko-Dziwisińska, Małgorzata Podkańska). Two conferences concerned only Armenian content: “Axentowicz. On the 165th anniversary of the artist’s birth” in Szymbark, within the European Heritage Days, organisers: Museum of the Manors of Karwacjan and Gładysz Families in Gorlice, Mesrop Mashtots Foundation in favour of Supporting Armenian Studies (Adrianna Napiórkowska-Bek, Urszula Kozakowska-Zaucha, Krzysztof Stopka, Andrzej A. Zięba) and “Armenians in the culture of the Polish–Lithuanian C…
subject: Glosy
  topic: section
subject: Polish armenology
  topic: keywords
subject: scientific conferences
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creator: Hanna Kopczyńska-Kłos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 391
ending page: 396
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.11

Back Matter
type: item
subject: Back Matter
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30

Mesrob z Kaffy († 1624) – ostatni przedunijny arcybiskup „wszystkich Ormian obojga płci, mieszkających we Lwowie, Kijowie, Łucku i Zamościu”
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description: MESROP OF KAFFA († 1624). THE LAST PRE-UNION ARCHBISHOP OF “ALL ARMENIANS OF BOTH GENDERS, LIVING IN LVIV, KIEV, LUTSK AND ZAMOŚĆ” Mesrop from Kaffa (Kaffatsi), the last pre-Union archbishop of Lviv before the union of the Armenian Church in Poland with the Holy See, came from the Principality of Moldavia. He was born in a mixed Armenian-Ruthenian family. As a child, he was sent to the vardapet Hovhannes Aintabetsi in Sebastia to receive education. According to his vardapet command, he left for Crimea before finishing studies, where he was probably ordained a monk. For this reason, he later referred to himself as “from Kaffa” – Kafatsi, Kafali (1605). In Crimea, he arbitrarily accepted the title of a master (rabbuni) and a vardapet afterwards. In the search of Armenian manuscripts, he travelled to eastern Armenia (Ejmiatsin, Khor Virap, Saghmosavank, Sanahin and Haghpat). In 1607, he was in Jassy and in 1608 in Suceava, thence he moved in 1610 to Lwów, where in 1611 he was employed as a preacher- vardapet in the Armenian cathedral. In 1613, he began a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. On the way back (about 1616) in Aleppo, he was already formally appointed as a vardapet by his former teacher Hovhannes Aintabetsi the catholicos of Cilicia, who also ordained him as a bishop of Poland and Moldavia. In 1617, he was recorded in Lwów as a local archbishop. In 1621, during the Polish-Turkish war, he was in the monastery of Saint Auxentius in Suceava. On 4 March 1623, the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa, during the Warsaw Seym approved him as the archbishop of Lwów. Mesrop was a benefactor of the Armenian church of Saint Nicholas in Kamieniec Podolski where he founded an altar dedicated to Saint Gregory the Illuminator. He also took care of churches in Lwów and Zamość. He died 12 May 1624 in Zamość and was buried there. The article includes three supplements in Polish translation: the royal confirmation of the archbishop Mesrop by Sigismund III from 1623, written in Latin; the will …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Armenian Church
  topic: keywords
subject: Polish Armenians
  topic: keywords
subject: Lviv
  topic: keywords
subject: Kamianets-Podilskyi
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subject: Suceava
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subject: Mesrop of Kaffa
  topic: keywords
creator: Krzysztof Stopka
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 183
ending page: 217
doi: 10.12797/LH.11.2024.11.02

Rekognicje celne jako źródło do dziejów Ormian kamienieckich w drugiej połowie XVI wieku
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description: CUSTOMS RECOGNITIONS AS A SOURCE FOR STUDYING THE HISTORY OF KAMIENIEC ARMENIANS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY Armenians were among the constituent ethnic groups in the society of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Actively participating in trade, they were subject to legal regulations in as much as other urban citizens. Customs recognitions, or testimonies given by merchants enjoying customs freedom, serve as evidence of this process. The article analyzes the overall trade activities of Armenians from Kamieniec Podolski [Kamianets-Podilskyi] at Lublin fairs based on these recognitions. On their basis, it discusses the significance of customs exemptions as one of the privileges of Kamieniec residents, as well as the intensity of trade relations between this city and Lublin, and the range of goods exchanged. Additionally, it addresses the Armenians’ knowledge of legal practices and their ability to use the Polish and Ruthenian languages. An annex includes the edition of customs recognitions, which are an interesting source for studying economic history, diplomatics, and sigillography.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Polish Armenians
  topic: keywords
subject: Kamieniec Podolski
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subject: Lublin
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subject: trade
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subject: customs
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subject: customs recognitions
  topic: keywords
creator: Mikołaj Walkowicz
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 13
ending page: 56
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.01

Lwowscy zastawnicy w niewoli tureckiej, 1672-1679
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description: LVIV HOSTAGES IN OTTOMAN CAPTIVITY, 1672-1679 After capturing Kamieniec Podolski [Kamianets-Podilskyi] in late August 1672, Ottoman army moved towards Lwów [Lviv] and started its siege in September. The condition for withdrawing from the siege was a ransom of eighty thousandtalers. Only five thousand was collected, and the missing amount was compensated by agreeing to hand over eleven hostages, including two Armenians. Later efforts resulted in the release of the Armenian hostages in 1676, while the remaining ones were released only in 1679. The author attempts to organize the topic of Lwów hostages, frequently mentioned in source materials but scattered and containing many contradictions, especially regarding their names and fate.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Lwów Armenians
  topic: keywords
subject: Lwów
  topic: keywords
subject: Kamieniec Podolski
  topic: keywords
subject: Polish-Ottoman War of 1672
  topic: keywords
subject: war hostages
  topic: keywords
creator: Monika Agopsowicz
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 57
ending page: 76
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.02

Between Lwów and Rome: Armenians in Transylvania and Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Lwów (1681-1691)
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description: In 1988, the renowned Polish-Armenian church historian Gregorio (Grzegorz) Petrowicz published a book in Italian about the history of the Armenian Catholic Archbishopric (1686-1954) in Lwów (Lemberg; now Lviv, Ukraine). In his book, he dedicated a subchapter to the church-union of Armenians in Transylvania in the late 17th century, principally based on the documents kept at the Historical Archive of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide) in Rome. At the same time, the scholarship has analyzed this book critically during the past two decades, and unfortunately, his subchapter proved to be very sketchy and poorly elaborated. His argumentations, however, regarding the history of the Armenians in Transylvania were based upon old, obsolete books published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Therefore, my article also deals with this problem from an ecclesiastical-historical perspective concerning the church-union of the Armenians in Transylvania. Furthermore, my study also aims primarily at analyzing the role of the Armenian Catholic Archiepiscopacy in Lwów in creating the process of the church-union of the Armenians in Transylvania in the years 1681- 1691. With regards to the methodology of my article, it is mere critical analysis focusing upon the incomplete as well as newly discovered manuscript sources kept in archives in Armenia, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Romania, and the Vatican.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Lwów
  topic: keywords
subject: Rome
  topic: keywords
subject: Apostolic Holy See
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subject: Transylvania
  topic: keywords
subject: Church-Union
  topic: keywords
subject: Catholicism
  topic: keywords
subject: Armenian Catholic (Uniate) Church
  topic: keywords
creator: Kornél Nagy
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 77
ending page: 104
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.03

Z Isfahanu do Warszawy
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description: FROM ISFAHAN TO WARSAW: POSTHUMOUS INVENTORIES OF SALOMON SYRI (ZGÓRSKI), ENVOY OF JAN III SOBIESKI TO PERSIA The embassy of Salomon Syri (Zgórski), an Armenian in the service of Polish King Jan III Sobieski, to Persian Shah Suleiman I, undertaken in 1688-1690, was related to efforts to include Persia in the anti-Ottoman alliance. It was also connected with the Jesuit mission in the 1680s, aiming to reach China via Siberia. However, Syri was killed in Isfahan during the mission and was buried in the Jesuit church there. After the diplomat’s death, Poles residing in the capital of Persia compiled an inventory of his belongings, packed them into several crates, and sent them to Poland through Moscow. The University of Warsaw Library holds four handwritten inventories of Syri’s property, prepared in Moscow by the Polish resident Jerzy Dominik Dowmont. He sent to his king the belongings of the envoy in several parts. The inventories of Syri’s property, published in the article, constitute important and unique sources for the history of both Polish diplomacy and Polish material culture.
subject: Articles
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subject: Salomon Syri (Zgórski)
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subject: Jan III Sobieski
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subject: Phillippe Avril
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subject: Persia
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subject: Polish-Persian relations
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subject: diplomacy
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subject: inventories
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creator: Ryszard Skowron
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 105
ending page: 133
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.04

(Proto)nazwiska polskich Ormian na podstawie rzymskokatolickich ksiąg metrykalnych z Kresów Południowo-Wschodnich (XVII-XIX wiek)
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description: (PROTO)SURNAMES OF POLISH ARMENIANS BASED ON ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH REGISTERS FROM SOUTHEASTERN BORDERLANDS (17TH-19TH CENTURIES): SELECTED ISSUES The article is based on excerpts from Roman Catholic parish registers in Brzeżany, Kołomyja, Obertyn, and Żółkiew, serving as a significant source for anthroponymic studies of Polish Armenians. Criteria for including the collected anthroponyms in the study were defined: besides undisputed cases where the ethnicity of a person was indicated in the entry, other criteria of being Armenian were also taken into account – confessional (notes about the Armenian rite) and anthroponymic (the form of the name or surname used by Armenians). The dictionary includes 69 (proto)surnames covered in 63 entries.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Polish Armenians
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subject: anthroponymy
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subject: surnames
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subject: parish registers
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subject: Roman Catholic parishes
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subject: Southeastern Borderlands
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creator: Łukasz Trzeciak
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 135
ending page: 150
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.05

Działalność rodziny Kiebabczych w Kielcach
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description: ACTIVITY OF THE KIEBABACZY FAMILY IN KIELCE Based on archival materials, press, and memoirs, the article discusses the economic activities of the Armenian Kiebabaczy family, originating from Staryi Krym, primarily engaged in newspaper distribution in Kielce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Kielce
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subject: Staryi Krym
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subject: Armenians
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subject: Kiebabaczy family
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creator: Paweł Grzesik
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 151
ending page: 171
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.06

Z dziejów przyjaźni polsko-ormiańskiej
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description: FROM THE HISTORY OF POLISH-ARMENIAN FRIENDSHIP: THE CASE OF MARIA GROCHOLSKA (1917-1989) Maria Grocholska (1917-1989) played a significant role in Polish-Armenian cultural relations during the Soviet era. Born in St. Petersburg to a Polish family, she studied Russian philology and Armenian philology in Leningrad. Her studies continued in Yerevan from 1940 to 1945, and from 1945 to 1948 she worked there as Professor Gurgen Sewak’s assistant. After abandoning the completion of her doctoral studies, she worked in primary and secondary schools in Armenia, where she taught Russian and Armenian. From 1955 to 1960, she taught Russian at the Academy of Theology in Etchmiadzin. She was a fervent advocate of the Armenian language during the Russification era. In 1962, she translated into Armenian Bohdan Gębarski’s essay on the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, titled List do starego tureckiego znajomego [A Letter to an Old Turkish Acquaintance], which resonated widely in Armenia. She also translated several literary works by Polish authors into Armenian, including Stanisław Lem’s well-known novel Solaris. She moved to Poland in 1969, where she taught Russian at a high school in Grodzisk Mazowiecki and assisted Bohdan Gębarski in translating literature from Armenian. Grocholska died in Warsaw. In March 1989, a solemn memorial service was held in Etchmiadzin in her honor performed by Catholicos Vazgen I.
subject: Articles
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subject: Maria Grocholska
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subject: Bohdan Gębarski
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subject: Polish-Armenian relations
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subject: Armenian literature
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subject: Armenian Genocide
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creator: Tomasz Krzyżowski
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 173
ending page: 186
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.07

National memory, assimilated in generations of Armenians
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description: NATIONAL MEMORY, ASSIMILATED IN GENERATIONS OF ARMENIANS Assimilation and national acculturation are inevitable phenomena to which every ethnic community separated from its native environment is vulnerable. The ways and degrees of its manifestation vary, but the direction is the same: moving away from the native national profile and assimilating characteristics typical of the nation and culture of the country of residence. Cases of assimilation also occur to a lesser extent when a nation becomes a minority in its own homeland or when its native environment is absorbed by an empire. The article analyzes such situations among Armenians, specifically in Armenian diasporas. It concludes that the pace of assimilative changes depends on various factors, including maintaining formal points of contact with Armenia (citizenship, organizational ties, owning a house in Armenia, etc.), and a measured and consistent policy of the Armenian state towards the diaspora.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Armenia
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subject: Armenian diaspora
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subject: assimilation
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subject: acculturation
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creator: Arcwi Bakczynian
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 205
ending page: 218
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.09

O Ormianach w Jerozolimie (C. Mutafian, Jérusalem et les Arméniens: jusqu’à la conquête ottomane (1516), Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2022)
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description: ON ARMENIANS IN JERUSALEM (CLAUDE MUTAFIAN, JÉRUSALEM ET LES ARMÉNIENS: JUSQU’À LA CONQUÊTE OTTOMANE (1516), LES BELLES LETTRES, PARIS 2022) The review concerns an album publication by Claude Mutafian, a French-Armenian historian, about the Armenian past of Jerusalem until the beginning of the 16th century. The reviewer highly values the author’s research competence and the aesthetic and editorial aspects of the work. He also notes a few Polish accents, including a critique of the claim about German origins of the author of Descriptio Terrae Sanctae (1422), Johannes Poloner.
subject: Voices, Reviews and Information
  topic: section
subject: Armenians
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subject: Jerusalem
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subject: Claude Mutafian
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creator: Andrzej Pisowicz
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 221
ending page: 225
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.10

https://journals.akademicka.pl/lehahayer/article/view/5710
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title: Nowa praca o diasporze ormiańskiej w Imperium Osmańskim (Henry R. Shapiro, The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2022)
description: A NEW MONOGRAPH ON THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (HENRY R. SHAPIRO, THE RISE OF THE WESTERN ARMENIAN DIASPORA IN THE EARLY MODERN OTTOMAN EMPIRE: FROM REFUGEE CRISIS TO RENAISSANCE, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS, EDINBURGH 2022) The review discusses Henry R. Shapiro’s latest book on the Armenian diaspora in the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period.
subject: Voices, Reviews and Information
  topic: section
subject: Armenians
  topic: keywords
subject: Ottoman Empire
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subject: Henry R. Shapiro
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creator: Marcin Łukasz Majewski
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 227
ending page: 236
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.11

Literacki obraz wsi ormiańskiej i jego polska translacja (N. Abgarjan, Z nieba spadły trzy jabłka, tłum. J. C. Kamiński, Glowbook, Warszawa–Sieradz 2023)
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description: A LITERARY IMAGE OF THE ARMENIAN VILLAGE AND ITS POLISH TRANSLATION (N. ABGARJAN, Z NIEBA SPADŁY TRZY JABŁKA [THREE APPLES FELL FROM THE SKY], TRANS. J. C. KAMIŃSKI, GLOWBOOK PUBLISHING, WARSAW-SIERADZ 2023) The review focuses on the Polish translation of Narine Abgarjan’s novel Three Apples Fell from the Sky. After presenting the creative profile of the writer, the reviewer analyzes the work and critically discusses the translation from the perspective of Armenology. One drawback of the translation is the lack of a reliable Armenologic linguistic research and numerous incorrect transliterations of Armenian terms.
subject: Voices, Reviews and Information
  topic: section
subject: Narine Abgarjan (Abgarian)
  topic: keywords
subject: Armenian literary prose
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creator: Jakub Osiecki
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 237
ending page: 243
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.12

https://journals.akademicka.pl/lehahayer/article/view/5712
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title: Madżarscy – renesans pamięci? (D. V. Lisejčikov, E. S. Glinskij, Madžarskie: armânskij rod v istorii Belarusi, Nacionalʹnyj Istoričeskij Arhiv Belarusi, Fond Razvitiâ i Podderžki Armenovedčeskih Issledovanij «Aniv», Minsk-Erevan 2023, Armeniâ–Belarusʹ)
description: THE MADŻARSKI FAMILY – RENAISSANCE OF MEMORY (МАДЖАРСКИЕ: АРМЯНСКИЙ РОД В ИСТОРИИ БЕЛАРУСИ, НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ АРХИВ БЕЛАРУСИ, ФОНД РАЗВИТИЯ И ПОДДЕРЖКИ АРМЕНОВЕДЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ «АНИВ», МИНСК-ЕРЕВАН 2023) The album book, jointly published by the National Historical Archive of Belarus and the Foundation for the Development and Support of Armenian Studies, is dedicated to the Madżarski family – Armenians who came from the Ottoman Empire to operate the Radziwiłłs’ workshop manufacturing kontush sashes in Słuck (Slutsk, today in Belarus). Such sashes were an essential element of traditional Polish noble attire. The reviewed book is based on archival research and draws upon significant sources on this topic. It is also an expression of the inheritance of historical memory from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by contemporary Belarusian society and, from Polish Armenians by the current Armenian diaspora in Belarus.
subject: Voices, Reviews and Information
  topic: section
subject: Słuck
  topic: keywords
subject: manufacturing
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subject: Madżarski family
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subject: Radziwiłłs
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subject: Polish Armenians
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subject: Belarus
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creator: Andrzej A. Zięba
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 245
ending page: 265
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.13

Front Matter
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subject: Front Matter
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rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30

Back Matter
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subject: Back Matter
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19

W sprawie identyfikacji zarządcy dóbr benedyktynek łacińskich we Lwowie – barona Romaszkana
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subject: Voices, Reviews and Information
  topic: section
creator: Urszula Ososko
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 267
ending page: 268
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.14

Trzydziestolecie stosunków między Rzeczpospolitą Polską a Republiką Armenii
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description: THIRTY YEARS OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND AND THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA The thirty years of diplomatic relations between Poland and Armenia represent a challenging and inspiring history of seeking a collaboration between states belonging to different political and military alliances, geographically and culturally distant, with significantly different potentials.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Republic of Armenia
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subject: Republic of Poland
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subject: Polish-Armenian relations
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subject: international relations
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creator: Zdzisław Aleksander Raczyński
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 187
ending page: 204
doi: 10.12797/LH.10.2023.10.08

Dziesięć roczników czasopisma „Lehahayer”
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subject: Introduction
  topic: section
creator: Andrzej A. Zięba
creator: Krzysztof Stopka
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19
starting page: 5
ending page: 9

Front Matter
type: item
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2023-12-19
publication date: 2023-12-19