#krzyżacy

[beidak-art]

they were confreres in christ

[postmariannizm]

Pics that go hard

[jagalart]

One hell of a nostalgic piece for my @beidak-art 💛

[photo-snap-stories]

PL:

Zamek Książąt Mazowieckich, Ciechanów (część 1 z 2)

Kiedy zaczęto budować zamek ciechanowski, a było to ok. roku 1355, na Mazowszu, które było osobnym księstwem, panował książę Siemowit III z linii Piastów Mazowieckich. Na pozostałych terenach Polski kończył się wówczas proces zjednoczenia, po tzw. rozbiciu dzielnicowym. Rządził tam, ostatni król dziedziczny, Kazimierz Wielki, także z linii Piastów, który „zastał Polskę drewnianą a zostawił murowaną”. Na ziemie polskie najeżdżały wojska z państw sąsiednich, a szczególnie Krzyżaków (Zakon Rycerski Najświętszej Marii Panny) z północy, Czechów z południa i Litwinów ze wschodu.

Mazowsze było szczególnie narażone na najazdy litewskie, które pustoszyły zimie księstwa, aż do 1385 r. Dwukrotnie był palony Ciechanów, który był stolicą Ziemi Ciechanowskiej.

Forma zamku – prostokąt o wymiarach 48 x 57 m – z jednym budynkiem przy bramie południowej (dla załogi), dwóch wieżach od strony wjazdu i olbrzymim, pustym dziedzińcem przypominała wczesnośredniowieczne zamki z Bliskiego Wschodu – zamki bizantyjskie. Miał on podobne przeznaczenie – służył do schronienia ludności miasta, wraz z najcenniejszym dobytkiem w okresie zagrożenia przez wroga. Jedyną drogą do zamku, od strony miasta, przez bagniste rozlewiska rzeki Łydyni był drewniany most, o długości prawie 300 m., łatwy do demontażu.

Zamek ciechanowski był praktycznie nie do zdobycia i nigdy nie został zajęty przez wrogów, chociaż takie próby podejmowali Krzyżacy, czego dowodem są znalezione w fosie zamkowej, w trakcie badań archeologicznych, dwa miecze i inne fragmenty uzbrojenia rycerzy zakonnych. Zamek pełnił wówczas (na przełomie XIV i XV w.) rolę obronnego zamku granicznego, gdyż granica Państwa Krzyżackiego przebiegała wzdłuż rzeki, tuż za północnym murem zamku.

EN:

Castle of the Mazovian Dukes, Ciechanów, Poland (part 1 of 2)

When the construction of the Ciechanów castle began, and it was around 1355, Mazovia, which was a separate duchy, was ruled by Prince Siemowit III from the line of the Mazovian Piasts. In other areas of Poland, the process of unification was coming to an end, after the so-called district breakdown. It was ruled by the last hereditary king, Casimir the Great, also from the Piast line, who "found Poland made of wood and left it made of stone". Polish lands were invaded by armies from neighboring countries, especially the Teutonic Knights (the Knights' Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary) from the north, Czechs from the south and Lithuanians from the east.

Mazovia was particularly vulnerable to Lithuanian invasions, which ravaged the Duchy's lands until 1385. Ciechanów, the capital of the Ciechanów Land, was burned twice.

The form of the castle - a rectangle measuring 48 x 57 m - with one building at the southern gate (for the crew), two towers from the entrance side and a huge, empty courtyard resembled early medieval Middle Eastern castles - Byzantine castles. It had a similar purpose - it was used to shelter the city's population, along with the most valuable possessions, when threatened by the enemy. The only way to the castle, from the city side, through the swampy backwaters of the Łydynia River, was a wooden bridge, almost 300 m long, easy to dismantle.

The Ciechanów castle was practically impregnable and was never occupied by enemies, although such attempts were made by the Teutonic Knights, as evidenced by two swords and other fragments of the knights' armament found in the castle moat during archaeological research. The castle then (at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries) served as a defensive border castle, as the border of the Teutonic State ran along the river, just behind the northern wall of the castle.

[makiitabaki]

Happy bitwa pod Grunwaldem day for those who celebrate

[ewa-jednak-chce-spac]

[weepingwonderlandharmony]

𝓙𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓴𝓪 𝓸𝓯 𝓩𝓰𝓸𝓻𝔃𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮

("𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙺𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚜" 𝚋𝚢 𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚢𝚔 𝚂𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚎𝚠𝚒𝚌𝚣)

[mierzejazinnejbajki]

[createmydreamblog]

Z racji, że pogoda szaleje i jest zima z wiosną na zmianę to wrzucam kadry z wakacji 😉 Z racji, że nie wrzuciłam wszystkiego to macie teraz Toruń wraz z ruinami zamku Krzyżackiego 😍 Jak wam mija weekend? U mnie nie najgorzej biorąc pod uwagę wczoraj pracę 🤣 Już tylko 5 dni do wylotu i byleby wytrzymać do czwartku, a potem urlopik 🤩 Miłej niedzieli kochani ♥️ #castle #krzyżacy #Toruń #oldtown #Unesco #ratusz #sightseeing #summer #wspomnienia #weekend #sunday (w: Ruiny Zamku Krzyżackiego w Toruniu) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpsh7bVoHZZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

This one

please do look it up if you dont know the date bc there may be at least an approximate answer and otherwise the last option will completely dominate and this poll will be boring.

and dont be like 'but i cant sing'... just answer the earliest tune you know well enough that you COULD sing it

periods of western classical music provided only for reference

[beidak-art]

sleepless night

[seriously-mike]

So, The Knights of the Cross game based on Henryk Sienkiewicz's national epic and made by a Chinese studio is finally released next week, after almost half a year of delay. Just so you know.

Funny thing, though: last year, the only screenshots on their Steam page were in Chinese. I started translating them with Google Lens and got a hilarious translation of how they called Maćko, the protagonist's uncle.

It was "Old Turtle Uncle Maciek". What makes this funny is that the local dub of Dragonball Z called Master Roshi "Genius Turtle the Divine Mastah" ("Genialny Żółw Boski Miszcz" in Polish).

Enter #Stable Diffusion. I found out that the data model I extensively tested lately can copy Akira Toriyama's style very well, so here you have it.

On the left, you have a still from the 1960 Krzyżacy movie, depicting Maćko (played by Aleksander Fogiel). In several scenes he wears a blue tabard with his coat of arms, and his in-game likeness is heavily based on the film version.

On the right, the result of a very generic prompt - "anime art by akira toriyama of overweight 50 year old man with brown hair and large mustache, wearing medieval armor". Fuckin' nailed it.

[jarekprz]

Môj hrad. Pri niom bývam.

[slavicafire]

I want to cup every pole’s on here face lovingly and help them remove all the layers of nonsense and dislike built throughout years of polish lessons towards what was the mandatory reading, prose and poetry alike. just so you can approach it all again, as if for the first time, and form your own opinion. maybe fall in love with some of the works. maybe see the blatant propaganda in others. maybe to hate something for new reasons. but mostly to fall in love with something you might have disregarded for so long because your teacher was an asshole or because you were a teen and reading something has been forced upon you at the stupidest possible time

[spacemilkbag]

um have you ever heard of... sienkiewicz...

well I was thinking between mickiewicz or him 😶

[ewa-jednak-chce-spac]

Congratulations to BB-8 x BB-9E shippers

Your ship won with Zbyszko x Danusia in my second true ultimate shipping tournament and advanced to the second round!

Zbyszko x Danusia fans, don’t weep, because your ship remains awesome!