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Freiherr von
Valvasor or
Johann Weichard Freiherr von
Valvasor (Slovene:
Janez Vajkard Valvasor,
pronounced [ˈʋáːlʋazɔɾ]) or
simply Valvasor (baptised on...
- by Ptolemy, and
perhaps also to
Latin Carusardius.
Johann Weikhard von
Valvasor, a
pioneer of the
study of
karst in
Slovenia and a
fellow of the Royal...
-
encyclopedia published in
Nuremberg in 1689 by the
polymath Johann Weikhard von
Valvasor. It is the most
important work on his homeland, the
Duchy of Carniola,...
- for the
public monuments of the
Carniolan polymath Johann Weikhard von
Valvasor and
Valentin Vodnik, the
first Slovene poet and journalist, as well as...
- Kranj, Slovenia. It was
first mentioned in 1689 by the
local naturalist Valvasor in his
Glory of the
Duchy of Carniola, who
reported that,
after heavy rains...
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Depiction of the city's coat of arms
featuring the
dragon on top of the castle, from
Valvasor's The
Glory of the
Duchy of Carniola, 1689...
- map from 1567 used the
Latin name Ocra mons,
whereas Johann Weikhard von
Valvasor called it Krma (the
modern name of an
Alpine valley in the vicinity) in...
- (born 1989),
tennis player Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641–1693)
Slovene name of
Johann Weikhard von
Valvasor,
scholar and
polymath Keber, Janez. 1988....
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ancient nomadic pastoralists. In 1689, the
ethnographer Johann Weikhard von
Valvasor mentioned the shepherd's dogs of the area in his work The
Glory of the...
- Radeče (Ratschach),
second half of the 17th century,
copper engraving by
Johann Weikhard von
Valvasor...
