Płaj – abstracts

Piotr Janko
THE WATERWORKS OF TURCHEK AND OTHER MONUMENTS OF ENGINEERING IN THE ,,GOLDEN” KREMNICA
A geographical and geological description of the Kremnicke Mts. in western Slovakia, the mining area existing from the Middle Ages, especially the monuments of mining technology and the unique waterworks from 16th century.

Mirosław J. Barański
MRAZNICA THE ENIGMATIC
An analysis of meaning and origins of the place-name ,,Mraznica” occured in the Western Carpathians. Czytaj dalej →

Andrzej Ruszczak
The adventures of Stanisław Vincenz and Jerzy Stempowski at the Hungarian border, 1939-1940
A reconstruction of three attempts to cross the border between occupied Poland and Hungary by two Polish writers in autumn 1939 and spring 1940, based on the dispersed, partially unpublished memoirs.
Andrzej Ruszczak
The correspondence of Stanisław Vincenz and Marijka Mogoruk
Letters that Stanislaw Vincenz has received from his former Hutzul neighbour in the sixties (20th cent.) translated and commented. Czytaj dalej →

Andrzej Wielocha
Half a century in the mountains. The ,,Beskidians” anniversary
An essay on history of the Students Circle of the Beskidian Guides in Warsaw (SKPB), celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2007.
Dariusz Czerniak
Hydroenergetic systems in Oltenian Carpathians (part II)
The continuation of an extensive description of the hydroenergetic systems in Southern Carpathians, especially the Olt River Valley cascade and Iron Gate dam on Danube River. Czytaj dalej →

TADEUSZ CHRZANOWSKI (1926-2006) An obituary of the outstanding Polish art historian.
Tadeusz Chrzanowski: DESCRIPTIONES
The accounts on some works of arts from the Subcarpathian region, personal in tone and in a fine literary style.
Dariusz Czerniak: THE HYDRO-ENERGETIC SYSTEMS IN OLTENIAN CARPATHIANS. PART ONE: LOTRU RIVER VALLEY
A detailed description of one of the European biggest hydroenergetic systems, placed in the Southern Carpathians (Romania), with its original technical solutions. Czytaj dalej →

Andrzej Wielocha:
WLADYSŁAW KRYGOWSKI (1906-1998)
An obituaiy for the man who dedicated all his life to the Polish mountains and whose contribution to the mountain tourism in Poland cannot be overestimated.
Zdzisław Skrok:
AN EULOGY ON THE BESKIDIAN PŁAJ
An essay on the deeper spiritual significance of the mountain hiking (płaj is the Carpathian vernancular for a certain type of a mountain path). Czytaj dalej →

Andrzej Wielocha, We’re all from AKT
An essay to commemorate the centenary of the first Polish academic tourist club (AKT) with brief presentation of the specificity of the Polish academic tourism.
Mieczysław Orłowicz, The Carpathians 1907. An excerpt from the „Tourist Memoirs”
Two fragments of the memoirs of an outstanding Polish tourist activist, describing hikes to the Eastern Carpathians from the early years of the Lvov AKT. Czytaj dalej →

Andrzej Wielocha:
THE JOSEPHINIAN SETTLEMENT IN THE GALICIAN PART OF THE CARPATHIANS
A brief description of German settlement in Galicia, organized by Joseph II at the end of XVIII century, and further vicissitudes of German villages.
Marek Grabski:
GERMAN SETTLEMENT IN THE SANDECIAN REGION IN XVIII CENTURY
A detailed description (population, architecture, economical conditions) of the German villages in environs of Nowy Sącz. Czytaj dalej →

ROMAN REINFUSS
An obituary for the outstanding Polish ethnologist, whose work was dedicated especially to the Carpathian peoples. Text both in Polish and Lemkian. Accompanied with the bibliography of late Mr Reinfuss works, concerning Lemko ethnic group.
Tadeusz M. Trajdos
A STUDY OF HISTORY OF BANICA
The historical monography of Banica, the village in western part of the Lower Beskidy Mts. (continued from „Płaj” 15). Inter alia the detailed analysis of the 17th cent, icon, found in local church in the eighties. Czytaj dalej →

Olena Duć-Fajfer
LEMKOS IN POLAND – DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR ETHNIC CON-SCIOUSNESS, CONTEMPORARY SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES OF SURVIVAL
The autoress, a Lemkian national activist, describes the evolution of ethno-national consciousness of the Lemko ethnic group, as well as their present organisational and cultural activities.
ON EXILE. A DIARY OF REV. J. BOHATIUK 1944-1945
The author, a Greek-catholic priest from the Tarnopol Region has spent the last months of WW II in some villages of the Lemko Region. The diary covers the period from September 1944 to June 1945, the time of German-Soviet fights and the first expatriation of the Lemko population. Czytaj dalej →

Tadeusz Andrzej Olszański
ON THE NATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE PRZEMYSL-DYNOW HIGHLANDS
A broad analysis of the national and religious data concerning the Przemyśl-Dynów Highlands (see below) in XVIII-XX centuries.  A detailed presentation of some localities attached. Note: The Przemyśl-Dynów Highlands are the foresteeps of Bieszczady and western part of Lower Beskidy Mts.
Szymon Modrzejewski, Radostaw Szewc
AN OUTLINE OF THE MONOGRAPHY OF DYDIOWA AND LOKIEC VILLAGES
An outline of history and ethnography of two villages in Polish part of Bieszczady Mts., now abandoned, based on the relations from the beginnings of XX century and the authors’ own explorations. Czytaj dalej →