Biography Kolovrat

Kolovrat or
kolowrat (also
Colovrat, sometimes anglicized as
Collowrath) means spinning wheel in a number of Slavic languages (contemporary or archaic meaning): "kolo" means "wheel", "vrat" is the stem for "turning/spinning/etc." It may also be an archaic form of the Russian word
kolovorot for "brace". The word may also refer to one of the following.
People
- Kolovrat family, a Bohemian (Czech) noble family (Kolowrat)
- Franti?ek Antonín Kolovrat-Lib?tejnský (17787-1861), a Bohemian nobleman and politician (Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky)
- Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1886-1927), a Bohemian - Austrian film producer and pioneer of the Cinema of Austria
- Nadina Kolovrat, a pioneer-esperantist (Nadina Kolovrat)
- Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Prague from 1831 to 1833
- Johann Wilhelm Lib?tejnský von Kolowrat (1627-1668),archbishop of Prague (Johann Wilhelm Lib?tejnský von Kolowrat)
- Albrecht von Kolowrat (1463-1510), Bohemian politician (Albrecht von Kolowrat)
- Evpatiy Kolovrat (??????? ????????), a Russian a warrior of the times of Mongol invasion, a hero of Russian epos and many literary works
- Henry Kolowrat, a 1959 USFA Division I National Champion
Places
- Kolovrat Range, a mountain range in Slovenia
- Kolovrat, Zagorje ob Savi, a settlement in Zagorje ob Savi municipality, Slovenia
- Kolovrat, Tuzla, a settlement in Tuzla municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Kolovrat, Prijepolje, a settlement in Prijepolje municipality, Serbia
- Kolovrat Parish in Ljubljana Archdiocese (Nad?kofija Ljubljana), Slovenia
- Kolowrat Theatre (Divadlo Kolowrat), Prague
Other
- Kolovrat , a Slavic pagan symbol of Sun, similar to swastika
- Kolovrat , a Russian music band (????????)
- Kolovrat , a newspaper of neo-Nazi Estonian Russians
Kolovrat
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