Stara Bircza

Stara Bircza [ˈstara ˈbirt͡ʂa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bircza, within Przemyśl County, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.

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Coordinates: 49°41′26″N 22°27′32″E / 49.69056°N 22.45889°E / 49.69056; 22.45889

Stara

Stara [ˈstara] is a village in the administrative district on Gmina Aleksandrów, within Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Aleksandrów, 27 km (17 mi) south-east of Piotrków Trybunalski, and 70 km (43 mi) south-east of the regional capital Łódź.

The village has a population of 160.

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Coordinates: 51°14′10″N 19°57′21″E / 51.23611°N 19.95583°E / 51.23611; 19.95583

Ēostre

Ēostre or Ostara (Old English: Ēastre, Northumbrian dialect Ēostre; Old High German: *Ôstara (reconstructed form)) is a Germanic divinity who, by way of the Germanic month bearing her name (Northumbrian: Ēosturmōnaþ; West Saxon: Ēastermōnaþ; Old High German: Ôstarmânoth), is the namesake of the festival of Easter. Ēostre is attested solely by Bede in his 8th-century work The Reckoning of Time, where Bede states that during Ēosturmōnaþ (the equivalent of April), pagan Anglo-Saxons had held feasts in Eostre's honor, but that this tradition had died out by his time, replaced by the Christian Paschal month, a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.

By way of linguistic reconstruction, the matter of a goddess called *Austrō in the Proto-Germanic language has been examined in detail since the foundation of Germanic philology in the 19th century by scholar Jacob Grimm and others. As the Germanic languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (PIE), historical linguists have traced the name to a Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn *H₂ewsṓs (→ *Ausṓs), from which descends the Common Germanic divinity from whom Ēostre and Ostara are held to descend. Additionally, scholars have linked the goddess's name to a variety of Germanic personal names, a series of location names (toponyms) in England, and, discovered in 1958, over 150 2nd century BCE inscriptions referring to the matronae Austriahenae.

Bircza

Bircza [ˈbirt͡ʂa] (Ukrainian: Бірча) is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bircza. It lies approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) south-west of Przemyśl and 51 km (32 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. The village has a population of 1,000.

In Bircza was born Orthodox metropolitan Yov Boretsky and Jan Komski.

Before World War II, the Bircza area was home to a large Jewish community. Nearly all of them were murdered during the ensuing Holocaust.

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Coordinates: 49°41′32″N 22°28′46″E / 49.69222°N 22.47944°E / 49.69222; 22.47944