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Encyclopedia > Wrangel

Wrangel can refer to:

  • The name of a Baltic German noble family, later also Swedish and Russian noble family, some members of which are:
    • Herman Wrangel, a Swedish Governor-General of Livonia, Field Marshal, and Privy Councillor
    • Carl Gustaf Wrangel, a Swedish soldier and Privy Councillor (son of Herman Wrangel)
    • Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, Imperial Russian Navy admiral, Arctic explorer, Governor of Russian Alaska
    • Ferdinand Ferdinandovich Wrangel
    • Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
    • Alexander Evstafiyevich Wrangel, Baron, Russian infantry general
    • Vasili Vasiliyevich Wrangel, Baron, Imperial Russian Navy admiral
    • Vasili Georgiyevich Wrangel
    • Yegor Vasiliyevich Wrangel
    • Yegor Yegorovich Wrangel
    • Karl Yegorovich Wrangel, Baron Russian cavalry general
    • Roman Yegorovich Wrangel
    • Karl Karlovich Wrangel, Baron, Russian infantry general
    • Karl Reingoldovich Wrangel
    • Nikolai Nikolayevich Wrangel

This article is about the Russian island. ... Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (April 13, 1784 – November 2, 1877), Prussian generalfeldmarschall, was born at Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland). ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (Old Prussian: PrÅ«sa, German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad... Shoulder boards of a Generalfeldmarschall Generalfeldmarschall ( â–¶(?)) (General Field Marshal, usually translated simply as Field Marshal, and sometimes written only as Feldmarschall) was a rank in the armies of several German states, the Holy Roman Empire, and Austrian Empire. ... The Baltic Germans (German: Deutsch-Balten, Deutschbalten, sometimes incorrectly Baltendeutsche), were ethnically German inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea which forms today the countries of Estonia and Latvia. ... Herman Wrangel Herman Wrangel (1584 or 1587-1643) was a Swedish soldier and politician of Baltic German extraction. ... Estonia, Livonia and Courland from a 1740 map Livonia (Latvian: Livonija; Estonian: Liivimaa; German: Livland; Polish: Inflanty; Russian: Лифляндия or Liflandiya) once was the land of the Finnic Livonians, but came in the Middle Ages to designate a much broader territory controlled by the Livonian Order on the eastern coasts of... Carl Gustaf Wrangel Carl Gustaf Wrangel (December 23, 1613 - July 5, 1676) was a Swedish soldier. ... Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich (Врангель, Фердинанд Петрович in Russian) (12. ... Russian Navy Jack Russian Navy Ensign The Imperial Russian Navy refers to the Navy of Imperial Russia, before the Soviet Union. ... The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border The Arctic is the area around the Earths North Pole. ... As seen in this photo of the Bering Strait, Alaskas West coast and Russias East coast are not far apart. ... Baron Wrangel At a prayer vigil upon accepting command. ... White army may refer to: The military arm of the White movement, a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War The Saudi Arabian National Guard The National Guard of Kuwait This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... The Russian Civil War was fought from 1918 to 1922. ...

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