What is "kazimierz"

Kazimierz (; ; ) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. Since its inception in the fourteenth century to the early nineteenth century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, located south of Kraków Old Town and separated by a branch of the Vistula river. For many centuries, Kazimierz was a place of coexistence and interpenetration of Christian and Jewish cultures, its north-eastern part of the district was historic Jewish, whose Jewish inhabitants were forcibly relocated in 1941 by the German occupying forces into the Krakow ghetto just across the river in Podgórze. Today Kazimierz is one of the major tourist attractions of Krakow and an important center of cultural life of the city.

The boundaries of Kazimierz are defined by an old island in the Vistula river. The northern branch of the river (Stara Wisła – Old Vistula) was filled-in at the end of the 19th century during the partitions of Poland and made into an extension of ul. Stradomska Street connecting Kazimierz district with Kraków Old Town.

Kazimierz or Casimir may refer to:

In people:

• Casimir, English form of Polish Kazimierz, a given name (including a list of people with the name)

In places:

• Kazimierz, a district of Kraków, Poland.
• Kazimierz Dolny, in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship (eastern Poland)
• Kazimierz Landscape Park, a protected area around Kazimierz Dolny
• Kazimierz Biskupi, in Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
• Kazimierz, Pabianice County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
• Kazimierz, Gmina Skomlin, in Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
• Kazimierz, Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
• Kazimierz, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)
• Kazimierz, West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)
• Kazimír, Trebišov District, Košice Region, Slovakia

Other:

• Casimir effect, an attraction between parallel plates best explained by quantum mechanics
• Casimir invariant, of a Lie algebra
• Casimir (dinosaur), from the French TV show l'Île aux enfants
• Casimir, Ontario a community in the Canadian province of Ontario
• Casimir, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community
• St. Casimir Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church, in Sioux City, Iowa
• Fort Casimir, 17th-century fort in New Netherland
• Kazimierzowski Palace, a building in Warsaw, Poland
• Casimir (band), a UK-based alternative rock band