Mannheim

Graph search · record

Courland

place · http://data.judaicalink.org/data/yivo/courland

This record is one of the sources of the entity page Courland.

From ls-yivo-wikidata

same as
wd:Q185072

From record-classes

rdf:type
place

From yivo

described at
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Courland
has abstract
(Ger., Kurland; Lat., Kurzeme), a historic and ethnographic area of west and southwest Latvia. The territory of Courland was conquered in the thirteenth century by the German Livonian Order. One-third of its territory (Piltene) went to the bishopric of Courland and two-thirds to …
(Ger., Kurland; Lat., Kurzeme), a historic and ethnographic area of west and southwest Latvia. The territory of Courland was conquered in the thirteenth century by the German Livonian Order. One-third of its territory (Piltene) went to the bishopric of Courland and two-thirds to the Livonian Order. In 1309, Jews were banned in the territories by Siegfried von Feuchtwangen, Grand Master of the Order. In 1561 a treaty between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Livonian Order ended Livonian independence; the document forbade Jews to settle in Courland or even to reside there temporarily for commercial transactions. The Duchy of Courland was dependent on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth throughout its existence (1561–1795). Perhaps reflecting scattered and periodic Jewish residence, a series of laws to ban Jews from engaging in commerce was adopted in the Courland Landtag in 1692, 1698, and 1699. Only in autonomous Piltene, formerly ruled by the bishop, and, from 1585, by Poland, was Jewish residence officially permitted.
title
Courland
alternative label
Courland
alternative label
Kurland
preferred label
Courland
has related
Jelgava
has related
Latvia
has related
Lithuania
has related
Pale of Settlement
has related
About this Article (Poland)
has related
Riga
has related
About this Article (Russia)

Linked from

As data: Turtle · N-Triples · JSON-LD · SPARQL · in production: data.judaicalink.org