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The Commandry of Mirow was a commandry of the Knights Hospitaller, based in Mirow, a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It existed from 1226 until 1648.
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The Commandry of Mirow was a commandry of the Knights Hospitaller, based in Mirow, a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It existed from 1226 until 1648.
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The Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a duchy in Northern Germany consisting of the eastern fifth of the historic Mecklenburg region, roughly corresponding with the present-day Mecklenburg-Strelitz district, and the western exclave of the former Bishopric of Ratzeburg in modern Schleswig-Holstein. At the time of its establishment, the duchy bordered on the territory of Swedish Pomerania in the north and of Brandenburg in the south.
Mirow is a town in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte in southern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a territory in Northern Germany, held by the younger line of the House of Mecklenburg residing in Neustrelitz. Like the neighbouring Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, it was a sovereign member state of the German Confederation and became a federated state of the North German Confederation and finally of the German Empire upon the unification in 1871. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–19 it was succeeded by the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
In the Middle Ages, a commandery was the smallest administrative division of the European landed properties of a military order. It was also the name of the house where the knights of the commandery lived. The word is also applied to the emoluments granted to a commander. They were the equivalent for those orders to a monastic grange. The knight in charge of a commandery was a commander.
The Mecklenburg Lake Plateau or Mecklenburg Lakeland is the largest coherent lake and canal region in Germany and is sometimes called "the land of a thousand lakes". There are several nature parks and well-known lakes with unique flora and fauna in the region, such as the Müritz, the biggest German lake lying entirely within Germany, the Plauer See, the Fleesensee, the Tollensesee, the Schmaler Luzin and the Kölpinsee.
Mirów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Niegowa, within Myszków County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Niegowa, 12 km (7 mi) east of Myszków, and 53 km (33 mi) north-east of the regional capital Katowice.
Mecklenburgische Kleinseenplatte is an Amt in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The seat of the Amt is in Mirow.
Gmina Mirów is a rural gmina in Szydłowiec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Mirów, which lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) south-east of Szydłowiec and 115 km (71 mi) south of Warsaw.
Higashi-Ainonai Station is a railway station in Kitami, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan. Its station number is A58.
Hurley Priory is a former Benedictine priory in the village of Hurley. Founded in 1086, the remains are located on the banks of the River Thames in the English county of Berkshire.
Mirów Castle is a 14th-century castle, now ruined, located in the Mirów village, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It changed owners multiple times, and was finally abandoned in 1787.
The Château de Condat is a fortified former commandry of the Knights Hospitaller located in the commune of Condat-sur-Vézère in the Dordogne département of France.
The Compesières Commandry is the main Commandry of the Order of Malta in the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. The Commandry is located in the municipality of Bardonnex.
Charles I, was the reigning Duke of Mecklenburg in the Mecklenburg-Güstrow part of the country.
Cresco Township is a township in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States.
Lynn Grove Township is a township in Jasper County, Iowa, United States.
The Order of Saint John was organised in a system of commanderies during the high medieval to early modern periods, to some extent surviving as the organisational structure of the several descended orders that formed after the Reformation.
The Commandry of Nemerow was a commandry of the Knights Hospitaller in the village of Klein Nemerow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It existed from 1285 until 1648. It was originally centred on Gardow, a now-ruined village near Wokuhl-Dabelow.
Thomas Mirow is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2008 to 2012.
