Mine - in Orava

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Orava (Swords Orava, Hungarian: Árva, German: Arwa, mountains. Ôrawa) is simply a country historical in Central Europe in the Orava river basin. Region name ‘Orava’ is derived from the name of the single-named river and its sources are not has so far been clearly defined.

Green and white - Polish Orawa

green - Slovak Orawa

The Polish part of Orava belongs to the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, to Nowy Targ County, and the main village on the Polish side is Jabłonka.
Babia Góra is simply a massif located on the border of Poland and Slovakia, in Western Beskids. This name besides refers to the culmination of the massif, the Devil (the "Chief of the Devil"), which is besides the highest highest of this part of the Carpathians, at an altitude of 1725 metres above sea level.

Poland, the north-eastern part of Orava (Kotlina Orawska) from the north and west is restricted by the band of Beskid Żywiecki and covers the western section of the Orava-Nowotar Basin. The east border of Orava mostly runs along the European water division, separating the basins of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, but a tiny section of the north-east of this land lies in the Black Danube basin and is dehydrated by it to the Vistula River and with it to the Baltic Sea. The Orava Basin forms the largest region in Poland belonging to the Black Sea catchment area (through the Black Orava, Wag and Danube).

The Polish part is inhabited by Poles and a tiny Slovak minority, while the Slovak part is inhabited by Slovaks, as well as tiny Czech and Polish minorities (the second is inhabited by the territory of Nastowski and Hardszynski).
The Polish territory of Orava was ethnically homogeneous – it was settled by Polish settlers from Lesser Poland lowland and Żywieców; the settlement was besides a tiny part of the Voloska population.

Poland Orawa - its axis is the Black Orawa River moving to the artificial Orava reservoir in Slovakia.

Orawa - Polish part shown on the Slovak map

It is named after the Orava River (the main river flowing through the region).

The name "Orava" may have pre-Slavic or Slavic origins. Pre-Slovenian *er-/*or-: fast, fast (fast river). Protoslavian *or-, *orati: scream, roar. The Slovak rivers Revúca and Hučava have the same etymology (the roaring river). akin names from another Slavic countries include the Croatian river Orljava (1234 Orauua), the Ukrainian river and the village of Oriava or Orzawiec (in the Dniepr river system). The appendix -ava may come from Germanic -ahwa (water), but is besides typical for older Slovak hydronyms.

The earliest mentions concern Arua (1287) and Oravia (1314).

According to my research, the name Orava comes from a word "The slag":

opava - orava

Opava - I'm sorry. Orava

Opawa - jw. by mistake Latin "p" was read as "r" or treated as Cyrillic "r" (sign "p") which gave the name: Orava

For details see here:

maciesynak.blogspot.com/2026/04/zuawa-cz-2-mawa-dabrowno-szczecin.html

We're looking. Zeriuani:

[...] and then the soupava was read "zepava"= EПavа = EПavа "Zusava" was read "withпava" (Pape, Spree, Syces)

As you can see from the illustration, the Orava reservoir topped the vast plain lying between the mountains on the east - west axis: it is most likely an alluvial plain (I do not know myself).

Lidar - mojgeoportal.pl

Map of Lidar - geoportal.gov.pl

Orava Castle is simply a castle located on a advanced stone above the Orava River in the village of Oravský Podzámok in Slovakia. The castle was built in the Kingdom of Hungary, the oldest parts formed in the 13th century, and the latest in the early 17th century. Many scenes from the 1922 movie Nosferatu were shot right here, and the castle represented the seven-garden castle of number Orloc.

Orava Castle

The Polish part of Orava belongs to the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, to Nowy Targ, and the main village on the Polish side is Jabłonka.

Babia Góra is simply a massif located on the border of Poland and Slovakia, in Western Beskids. This name besides refers to the culmination of the massif, the Devil (the "Chief of the Devil"), which is besides the highest highest of this part of the Carpathians, at an altitude of 1725 metres above sea level.

Herb of Orava

The customized of placing mine – inactive alive on Orava

30 April 2023 23:25

Establishing my old oraic tradition, which dates back to most likely pagan times and results from folk rites associated with changing seasons. The customized is popular throughout Orava – besides in its Slovak part.

Mine is simply a cut and carefully peeled tree – spruce, pine or fir – on which the top is left a green crown, adorned With paper and ribbons. It is always placed at night with April 30 on 1 May.

Its first function was to confess love to the chosen 1 by bewitched bachelor – that's why mine with appropriate signs with dedications, “grown” like mushrooms after rain primarily under Misses' houses on issue. Today, mine are besides dedicated to groups girls, or even local communities, as an expression of sympathy or Worship.

One of the first of this year's mys stood up present after south close the People's home in Lipnica Wielka, Orava. It's a commune, in which for 16 years the competition for “Noipyknijsy Municipal Moj’. Among the criteria the jury considers are e.g. the conventional appearance and the conventional way of attaching “my”, appearance and decoration of the tree, content and aesthetics of dedication, orava gwarming record signs.

A dozen-metre-long mine adorns the Orava towns all the way to Green Christmas erstwhile they are burned in a fire. It is worth mentioning that in the old days, the bachelor had to defender the “tree” all night – according to tradition, another suitors had the right to cut them down, but only until dawn on May 1.

Moj, who present stood in the center of Lipnica Wielka in Orawa – is an initiative of the local branch of the Podhalan Union and the friends from the OS Lipnica Wielki Centrum.

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May column, may tree, gaik, maik or mine (i.e. maypole, German Maibaum) is simply a wooden pillar, most frequently carved from a maple, birch, or hare, placed in a designated place in May by a local community, which then hosted fun.

Dancing around the May Hall in Åmmeberg, Sweden

Researchers see in the habit of erecting a May pillar a remnant European animistic beliefs. A classical example of planet axis, Axis mundi (which could be travelled between different worlds) or also (according to any researchers) a phallic symbol of fertility.

During May celebrations a pole tuned with proponents, ribbons, wreaths and The garlands of flowers. This was usually accompanied by a peculiar dance (known as the Dance of the May Servant), consisting of dancing in the ellipse around pole – in a more complicated version, holding the end in your hands tied to a pole of ribbons that wrap around during the dance The pole (to make it you had to start dancing in the other direction). Dancing around the pole was a celebration of the life-giving forces of nature, early summer.

In Poland may tree, on Silesian and Greater Poland's villages, as well as Podhale (areas adjacent to Spiš – near Sromowiec in Pieniny) gaik, maik, mojka, mine, fresh summer. From May tree most likely took the name of the village of Majewo (German. Maibaum). On Podlasie nadnawiński, “walking with a princess”. Headgear May can be found, among others, in the area of Cieszynsk Silesia, Moravia and Slovakia.

In the poem “Maik” Maria Konopnicka described the agrarian children's play of clapping and spreading the poppy village.

Basque men carrying the trunk of a tree cut down on a May column

Setting up alleged May in Wędrynia, Cieszynska Silesia

newt24.tv/usual-setting-my-still-lived-on-orava/
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orava_(region)
orawa.eu/updates/region

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== sync, corrected by elderman ==

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82up_May

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