country_of_citizenship aleksander zarzycki
The Sea of Azov (" Azovs ' ke more / Azovke more ") is a sea in Eastern Europe . To the south it is linked by the narrow ( about ) Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea , and it is sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea . The sea is bounded in the north by mainland ___MASK93___ , in the east by ___MASK4___ , and in the west by the Crimean Peninsula . The Don and Kuban are the major rivers that flow into it . The Sea of Azov is the shallowest sea in the world , with the depth varying between . There is a constant outflow of water from the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea . Cisleithania ( also " Zisleithanien ", , , , , , , , , transliterated : " Tsysleitàniia ") was a common yet unofficial denotation of the northern and western part of ___MASK71___ - Hungary , the Dual Monarchy created in the Compromise of 1867  as distinguished from " Transleithania ", i . e . the Hungarian Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen east of (" beyond ") the Leitha River . Slavonia is , with Dalmatia , ___MASK32___ proper , and Istria , one of the four historical regions of ___MASK32___ . Taking up the east of the country , it roughly corresponds with five Croatian counties : Brod - Posavina , Osijek - Baranja , Požega - Slavonia , Virovitica - Podravina and Vukovar - Srijem , although the territory of the counties includes Baranya , and the definition of the western extent of Slavonia as a region varies . The counties cover or 22 . 2 % of ___MASK32___ , inhabited by 806 , 192  18 . 8 % of ___MASK32___ ' s population . The largest city in the region is Osijek , followed by Slavonski Brod and Vinkovci . It is located in the Pannonian Basin , largely bordered by the Danube , Drava and Sava rivers . In the west , the region consists of the Sava and Drava valleys , and the mountains surrounding the Požega Valley , and plains in the east . Slavonia enjoys a moderate continental climate , with relatively low precipitation . ___MASK93___ ( tr . ) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe , bordered by ___MASK4___ to the east and northeast , Belarus to the northwest , ___MASK70___ and Slovakia to the west , Hungary , Romania , and Moldova to the southwest , and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast , respectively . ___MASK93___ is currently in territorial dispute with ___MASK4___ over the Crimean Peninsula which ___MASK4___ annexed in 2014 but which ___MASK93___ and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian . Including Crimea , ___MASK93___ has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world . It has a population of about 44 . 5 million , making it the 32nd most populous country in the world . ___MASK46___ is a unitary parliamentary republic in Central Europe . It covers an area of , situated in the Carpathian Basin and bordered by ___MASK16___ to the north , Romania to the east , Serbia to the south , Croatia to the southwest , Slovenia to the west , Austria to the northwest , and Ukraine to the northeast . With about 10 million inhabitants , ___MASK46___ is a medium - sized member state of the European Union . The official language is Hungarian , which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world . ___MASK46___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Budapest , a significant economic hub , classified as an Alpha - global city . Major urban areas include Debrecen , Szeged , Miskolc , Pécs and Gyr . Lviv Oblast ( translit . " L  vivs  ka oblast "; also referred to as L  vivshchyna ) is an oblast ( province ) in western ___MASK93___ . The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv . Population : . The West Ukrainian People ' s Republic was a short - lived republic that existed in late 1918 and early 1919 in eastern ___MASK8___ . It included the cities of Lviv , Przemyl , Kolomyia and Stanislaviv ( now Ivano - Frankivsk ) and claimed parts of Bukovina and Carpathian Ruthenia . Politically , the Ukrainian National Democratic Party ( the precursor of the interwar Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance ) dominated the lrgislative assembly , guided by varying degrees of Greek Catholic , liberal and socialist ideology . Other parties represented included the Ukrainian Radical Party and the Christian Social Party . The Black Sea is a body of water between Eastern Europe and Western Asia , bounded by ___MASK43___ , Georgia , ___MASK38___ , ___MASK4___ , ___MASK79___ , and Ukraine . It is supplied by a number of major rivers , such as the Danube , Dnieper , Rioni , Southern Bug , and Dniester . The Black Sea has an area of ( not including the Sea of Azov ), a maximum depth of , and a volume of . It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south and by the Caucasus Mountains to the east , and features a wide shelf to the northwest . The longest east - west extent is about . Franz Liszt ( born Franz Joseph Liszt ) ( in modern usage " Liszt Ferenc ", ; October 22 , 1811July 31 , 1886 ) was a prolific 19th - century Hungarian composer , virtuoso pianist , conductor , music ___MASK87___ , arranger , organist , philanthropist , author , nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary . ___MASK74___ ( or sometimes ), or Moldavia , officially the Republic of ___MASK74___ , is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe , bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north , east , and south . The capital city is Chiinu . The Austro - Hungarian Compromise of 1867 , " alias " Composition of 1867 , established the dual monarchy of ___MASK71___ - Hungary . The Compromise re - established partially the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Hungary , separate from , and no longer subject to the Austrian Empire . Under the Compromise , the lands of the House of Habsburg were reorganized as a real union between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary . The Cisleithanian ( Austrian ) and Transleithanian ( Hungarian ) regions of the state were governed by separate parliaments and prime ministers . Unity was maintained through rule of a single head of state , reigning as both the Emperor of ___MASK71___ and King of Hungary , and common monarchy - wide ministries of foreign affairs , defence and finance under his direct authority . The armed forces were combined with the Emperor - King as commander - in - chief . The official name " Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen " denominated the Hungarian territories of ___MASK71___ - Hungary during the totality of the existence of the latter , from 30 March 1867 - 16 November 1918 . This union of polities is sometimes denominated "" (" Arch - Kingdom of Hungary "), pursuant to Medieval Latin terminology . Pursuant to Article 1 of the Croatian  Hungarian Settlement of 1868 , this territory was officially defined as " a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia , Slavonia and Dalmatia ." The Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen disintegrated with the dissolution of ___MASK71___ - Hungary . The Ruthenian Voivodeship or Russian Voivodeship was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of ___MASK70___ from 1434 until the 1772 First Partition of ___MASK70___ . Together with a number of other voivodeships of southern and eastern part of the Kingdom of ___MASK70___ , it formed Lesser ___MASK70___ Province of the Polish Crown , with its capital city in Kraków . Following the Partitions of ___MASK70___ , most of Ruthenian Voivodeship , except for its northeastern corner , was annexed by the Habsburg Empire , as part of the province of Galicia . Today , the former Ruthenian Voivodeship is divided among ___MASK70___ and Ukraine . The Kingdom of ___MASK32___ - Slavonia was a nominally autonomous kingdom within the Austro - Hungarian Empire , created in 1868 by merging the kingdoms of ___MASK32___ and Slavonia following the Croatian  Hungarian Settlement . It was associated with the Hungarian Kingdom within the dual Austro - Hungarian state , being within the Lands of the Crown of St . Stephen or Transleithania . The kingdom was ruled by the Habsburg Emperor - King of ___MASK71___ - Hungary (" Kaiser und König ") under his title as " King of ___MASK32___ and Slavonia ". The King ' s appointed steward was the Ban of ___MASK32___ and Slavonia . In 1918 , the kingdom declared independence and reformed into the State of Slovenes , Croats and Serbs . Lviv (', ', ; Yiddish :  ; Latin : " Leopolis "), the largest city in western ___MASK93___ and the seventh largest city in the country overall , is one of the main cultural centres of ___MASK93___ . Named in honor of the Leo , the eldest son of Rus ' King Daniel of Galicia . It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia  Volhynia ( also called Kingdom of Rus ') from 1272 to 1349 , when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great who then became known as the King of ___MASK70___ and Rus '. From 1434 , it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of ___MASK70___ and was known as Lwów . In 1772 , after the First partition of ___MASK70___ , the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and was renamed to Lemberg . In 1918 in a short time was the capital of the West Ukrainian People ' s Republic . Between the wars , the city was known again as Lwów and was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic . After World War II , it became part of the Soviet Union ( Ukrainian SSR ) and in 1991 of independent ___MASK93___ . Administratively , Lviv serves as the administrative center of Lviv Oblast and has the status of city of oblast significance . Its population is . The ___MASK39___ ( modern spelling "") was an empire in Central Europe created out of the realms of the Habsburgs by proclamation in 1804 . It was a multinational empire and one of Europe ' s great powers . Geographically it was the second largest country in Europe after the ___MASK21___ ( 621 , 538 square kilometres [ 239 , 977 sq mi ]). It was also the third most populous after Russia and France , as well as the largest and strongest country in the German Confederation . Proclaimed in response to the First French Empire , it overlapped with the Holy Roman Empire until the latter ' s dissolution in 1806 . The " Ausgleich " of 1867 elevated ___MASK46___ ' s status . It became a separate entity from the Empire entirely , joining with it in the dual monarchy of ___MASK71___ - ___MASK46___ . A pianist is an individual musician who plays the piano . Most forms of Western music can make use of the piano . Consequently , pianists have a wide variety of repertoire and styles to choose from , including traditionally classical music , Jazz , blues and all sorts of popular music , including rock music . Most pianists can , to a certain extent , play other keyboard - related instruments such as the synthesizer , harpsichord , celesta and the organ and keyboard . Perhaps the greatest pianist of all time was Franz Liszt , whose piano mastery was described by Anton Rubinstein : " In comparison with Liszt , all other pianists are children ". Casimir III the Great ( 30 April 1310  5 November 1370 ) reigned as the King of ___MASK70___ from 1333 to 1370 . He was the son of King Wadysaw I (" the Elbow - high ") and Duchess Hedwig of Kalisz , and the last Polish king from the Piast dynasty . Croatian  Hungarian Settlement was a pact signed in 1868 , that governed ___MASK32___ ' s political status in the Hungarian - ruled part of ___MASK71___ - Hungary . It lasted until the end of World War I , when the Croatian Parliament , as the representative of the historical sovereignty of ___MASK32___ , on October 29 , 1918 adopted a decision on the cessation of all state and legal ties with the old ___MASK71___ - Hungary . Warsaw (; see also other names ) is the capital and largest city of ___MASK70___ . It stands on the Vistula River in east - central ___MASK70___ , roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains . Its population is estimated at 1 . 750 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3 . 105 million residents , which makes Warsaw the 9th most - populous capital city in the European Union . The city limits cover , while the metropolitan area covers . ___MASK38___ is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Europe . It borders the Black Sea , Bulgaria , ___MASK93___ , ___MASK46___ , ___MASK88___ , and ___MASK74___ . It has an area of and a temperate - continental climate . With 19 . 94 million inhabitants , the country is the seventh - most - populous member state of the European Union . The capital and largest city , Bucharest , with its 1 , 883 , 425 inhabitants is the sixth - largest city in the EU . The Baltic Sea ( ; ) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean , enclosed by Scandinavia , ___MASK94___ , the Baltic countries , and the North European Plain . It includes the Gulf of Bothnia , the Bay of Bothnia , the Gulf of ___MASK94___ , the Gulf of Riga , and the Bay of Gdask . The sea stretches from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 10 ° E to 30 ° E longitude . A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic , with limited water exchange between the two bodies , the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of Øresund , the Great Belt , and the Little Belt . ___MASK15___ ( lat . ',      ), officially the Republic of ___MASK15___ , formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia ( though this name is no longer used in ___MASK15___ itself , even in Russian language ), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by ___MASK4___ to the northeast , Ukraine to the south , ___MASK70___ to the west , and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest . Its capital and most populous city is Minsk . Over 40 % of its is forested . Its strongest economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing . Until the 20th century , different states at various times controlled the lands of modern - day ___MASK15___ , including the Principality of Polotsk ( 11th to 14th centuries ), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , the Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth , and the Russian Empire . The ___MASK63___ or Empire , occasionally also styled as the Danubian Monarchy (" Donaumonarchie "), is an unofficial appellation among historians for the countries and provinces that were ruled by the between 1521 and 1780 and then by the successor branch of Habsburg - Lorraine until 1918 . The Monarchy was a composite state composed of territories within and outside the Holy Roman Empire , united only in the person of the monarch . The dynastic capital was Vienna , except from 1583 to 1611 , when it was moved to Prague . From 1804 to 1867 the ___MASK63___ was formally unified as the ___MASK39___ , and from 1867 to 1918 as the Austro - Hungarian Empire . ___MASK32___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK32___ , is a sovereign state between Central Europe , Southeast Europe , and the Mediterranean . Its capital city is Zagreb , which forms one of the country ' s primary subdivisions , along with its twenty counties . ___MASK32___ covers and has diverse , mostly continental and Mediterranean climates . ___MASK32___ ' s Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands . The country ' s population is 4 . 28 million , most of whom are Croats , with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism . ___MASK4___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK4___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the ___MASK35___ ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European ___MASK4___ . ___MASK4___ ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll " in the United States in the 1950s , and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later , particularly in the ___MASK89___ and the United States . It has its roots in 1940s ' and 1950s ' rock and roll , itself heavily influenced by blues , rhythm and blues and country music . Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk , and incorporated influences from jazz , classical and other musical sources . The First Partition of ___MASK70___ took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795 . Growth in the Russian Empire ' s power , threatening the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Austrian Empire , was the primary motive behind this first partition . Frederick the Great engineered the partition to prevent Austria , jealous of Russian successes against the Ottoman Empire , from going to war . The weakened Commonwealth ' s land , including what was already controlled by Russia , was apportioned among its more powerful neighbors  Austria , Russia and Prussia  so as to restore the regional balance of power in Central Europe among those three countries . With ___MASK70___ unable to effectively defend itself , and with foreign troops already inside the country , the Polish parliament ( Sejm ) ratified the partition in 1773 during the Partition Sejm convened by the three powers . Lwów Voivodeship was an administrative unit of interwar ___MASK70___ ( 1918  1939 ). Because of the Molotov  Ribbentrop Pact , it ceased to exist in September 1939 , following the German and Soviet conquest of ___MASK70___ . The Polish underground administration however , existed until August 1944 . Aleksander Zarzycki ( 26 February 1834 in Lviv ( Lemberg ) , ___MASK71___ - Hungary ( now Ukraine ) -- 1 November 1895 in Warsaw ) was a Polish pianist , composer and conductor . Author of piano and violin compositions , mazurkas , polonaises , krakowiaks , and songs . In 1871 he co - founded and became a first director of the Warsaw Music Society ( Warszawskie Towarzystwo Muzyczne ) . In the years of 1879 -- 1888 director of the Warsaw Music Institute ( Insytut Muzyczny w Warszawie ) . The Kingdom of ___MASK46___ was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century ( 1000  1946 with the exception of 1918  1920 ). The Principality of ___MASK46___ emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom in about the year 1000 ; his family ( the Árpád dynasty ) led the monarchy for 300 years . By the 12th century , the kingdom became a European middle power within the Western world . The Kingdom of ___MASK8___ and Lodomeria , also known as ___MASK8___ or Austrian ___MASK70___ , became a crownland of the Habsburg Monarchy as a result of the First Partition of ___MASK70___ in 1772 , when it became a Kingdom under Habsburg rule . From 1804 to 1918 it was a crownland of the Austrian Empire . After the reforms of 1867 , it became an ethnic Pole - administered autonomous unit under the Austrian crown . The country was carved from the entire south - western part of the Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth . Among the many ceremonial titles of the princes of Hungary was " ruler of ___MASK8___ and Lodomeria ". ___MASK71___ - Hungary , often referred to as the Austro - Hungarian Empire in English - language sources , was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire ( the Kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council , or " Cisleithania ") and the Kingdom of Hungary ( Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen or " Transleithania ") that existed from 1867 to 1918 , when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I . The union was a result of the Austro - Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and came into existence on 30 March 1867 . ___MASK71___ - Hungary consisted of two monarchies ( ___MASK71___ and Hungary ), and one autonomous region : the Kingdom of Croatia - Slavonia under the Hungarian crown , which negotiated the Croatian  Hungarian Settlement (" Nagodba ") in 1868 . It was ruled by the House of Habsburg , and constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg Monarchy . Following the 1867 reforms , the Austrian and the Hungarian states were co - equal . Foreign affairs and the military came under joint oversight , but all other governmental faculties were divided between respective states . The ___MASK90___ , also known as the Second Commonwealth of ___MASK70___ or interwar ___MASK70___ , refers to the country of ___MASK70___ between the First and Second World Wars ( 1918  1939 ). Officially known as the Republic of ___MASK70___ or the Commonwealth of ___MASK70___ , the Polish state was recreated in 1918 , in the aftermath of World War I . When , after several regional conflicts , the borders of the state were fixed in 1922 , ___MASK70___ ' s neighbours were Czechoslovakia , Germany , the Free City of Danzig , Lithuania , Latvia , Romania and the Soviet Union . It had access to the Baltic Sea via a short strip of coastline either side of the city of Gdynia . Between March and August 1939 , ___MASK70___ also shared a border with the then - Hungarian governorate of Subcarpathia . Despite internal and external pressures , it continued to exist until 1939 , when ___MASK70___ was invaded by Nazi Germany , the Soviet Union and the Slovak Republic , marking the beginning of World War II in Europe . The Second Republic was significantly different in territory to the current Polish state . It included substantially more territory in the east and less in the west . ___MASK16___ , officially the Slovak Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe . It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west , ___MASK70___ to the north , Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south . ___MASK16___ ' s territory spans about and is mostly mountainous . The population is over 5 million and comprises mostly ethnic Slovaks . The capital and largest city is Bratislava . The official language is Slovak , a member of the Slavic language family . Daniel of ___MASK8___ ( 1201  1264 ; : " Danylo Romanovych ( Halytskyi )"; : " Daniil Romanovich ( Galitsky )") was a King of Rus ', Prince ( Knyaz ) of ___MASK8___ (" Halych ") ( 1205  1255 ), Peremyshl ( 1211 ), and Volodymyr ( 1212  1231 ). He was crowned by a papal archbishop in Dorohochyn 1253 as the first King of Rus ' ( 1253  1264 ). ___MASK70___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK70___ , is a country in Central Europe , situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges ( the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains ) in the south . Bordered by Germany to the west ; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south ; Ukraine and Belarus to the east ; and the Baltic Sea , Kaliningrad Oblast ( a Russian exclave ) and Lithuania to the north . The total area of ___MASK70___ is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe . With a population of over 38 . 5 million people , ___MASK70___ is the 34th most populous country in the world , the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union . ___MASK70___ is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions , and its capital and largest city is Warsaw . Other metropolises include Kraków , Wrocaw , Pozna , Gdask and Szczecin . The House of Habsburg , also called House of Hapsburg , or House of ___MASK71___ , was one of the most influential royal houses of Europe . The throne of the Holy Roman Empire was continuously occupied by the Habsburgs between 1438 and 1740 . The house also produced emperors and kings of the Kingdom of Bohemia , Kingdom of England (" Jure uxoris " King ), Kingdom of France ( Queen consort ), Kingdom of Germany , Kingdom of Hungary , Kingdom of Croatia , Second Mexican Empire , Kingdom of Ireland (" Jure uxoris " King ), ___MASK1___ , and Habsburg Spain , as well as rulers of several Dutch and Italian principalities . From the sixteenth century , following the reign of Charles V , the dynasty was split between its Austrian and Spanish branches . Although they ruled distinct territories , they nevertheless maintained close relations and frequently intermarried . The Principality of ___MASK8___  Volhynia , or Kingdom of Rus ( Old Ruthenian : , ), was a state in the regions of ___MASK8___ and Volhynia , of present - day ___MASK93___ , that was formed after the conquest of ___MASK8___ by the Prince of Volhynia Roman the Great with the help of Leszek the White of ___MASK70___ . Roman the Great united the principalities of Halych ( ___MASK8___ ) and Volhynia into a state that existed from 1199 to 1349 . Along with Novgorod and Vladimir - Suzdal , it was one of the three most important powers to emerge from the collapse of Kievan Rus '.