Bielawski
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Bielawski is the surname
Surname
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 of a Polish
Poland
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 noble family
Szlachta
The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...

 originating from Bielawa, Poland, Masovian Voivodeship
Bielawa, Masovian Voivodeship
Bielawa is a village located in Poland, in Piaseczno County in the Masovian Voivodeship, just south of the city of Warsaw.The Bielawski family originated from and owned the village of Bielawa in the 15th century through 17th century.-External links:***...

. In fact, the Polish
Poland
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 surname Bielawski means a nobleman
Nobility
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 from Bielawa. This noble
Nobility
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 family was listed in Boniecki in the Clan Jelita. However, this same family Confirmed Nobility
Nobility
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 in the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
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 in Vilnius
Vilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...

 (Wilno) in the Clan Jastrzebiec
Jastrzebiec
Jastrzębiec may refer to the following places:*Jastrzębiec, Włocławek County in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship *Jastrzębiec, Sępólno County in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship...

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Its bearers include:
  • Józef Bielawski, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     Arabist
    Arabist
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  • Maciej Zaremba Bielawski
    Maciej Zaremba
    Maciej Zaremba Bielawski is a Swedish journalist and author.Zaremba was born in Poznań, Poland. He came to Sweden in 1969 where he worked as a construction worker during the 1970s. In his youth he was active in the League Communist , but abandoned his communist views when the group was dissolved...

    , Polish
    Poland
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    -Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     journalist
    Journalist
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     and author
    Author
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  • Edmund Bielawski
    Edmund Bielawski
    Edmund Bielawski was a Polish-Brazilian explorer and documentary film maker. In 1961 during an expedition to American Cordillera, searching for the beginning of the Amazon River, he captured footage of the human headshrinking rituals by the Shuar people. He also made a film about the Amazon River ....

    , Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

    -Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

    ian explorer


Places named after persons bearing the surname include:
  • Mount Bielawski
    Mount Bielawski
    Mount Bielawski or Mount Bielewski is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, near the San Francisco Bay Area. The mountain rises to an elevation of just to the southwest of the Santa Cruz – Santa Clara county line and Highway 35.The summit is the highest point in Santa Cruz County...

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