Saturday, September 3, 2016

Places Named Biele

There are a number of places in eastern Europe named Biele or with Biele in the name.  In the Slovak language biele translates to white.  In Polish, biel is white and biele is whites.  

There are five small villages in Poland with the name Biele:

                                             
Biele [ˈbjɛlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bądkowo, within Aleksandrów County,Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland


Biele [ˈbjɛlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sochocin, within Płońsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Sochocin, 6 km (4 mi) north-east of Płońsk, and 63 km (39 mi) north-west of Warsaw.


Biele [ˈbjɛlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Juchnowiec Kościelny, within Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Juchnowiec Kościelny and 15 km (9 mi) south of the regional capital Białystok.


Biele [ˈbjɛlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sompolno, within Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.


Biele [ˈbjɛlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ślesin, within Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.

Villages named Biele in Poland are noted by the yellow stars
There is also a range of mountains on the Czech - Slovakia border:

The White Carpathians (Czech: Bílé Karpaty; Slovak: Biele Karpaty; German: Weiße Karpaten;Hungarian: Fehér-Kárpátok) are a mountain range on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, part of the Carpathians.
They are part of the Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, stretching from the Váh river and the Little Carpathians in the south along the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the Morava and the Javorníky range in the north.

Bielefeld is a large city in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhineland - Westphalia) in Germany.  The “feld” in German is “field” in English, but there is no translation of “biele”.  The archivist of Bielefeld did not know either.  He stated that Bielefeld’s name went back to the Middle Ages and there are no records of its origin.


There are also smaller cities in Germany, including Biel and Bielen.

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