Kolovrat Biography

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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


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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolovrat
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