Kolovrat
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Kolovrat or kolowrat (also Colovrat, sometimes anglicized as Collowrath) means spinning wheel in a number of Slavic languages (contemporary or archaic meaning): "kolo" means "wheel", "vrat" is the stem for "turning/spinning/etc." It may also be an archaic form of the East Slavic word kolovorot for "brace".
Kolovrat, or Kolwrat, may refer to:
People
- Yevpaty Kolovrat, a medieval Russian knight.
- Kolovrat family, a Bohemian (Czech) noble family (cs:Kolovratové)
- John Charles Count Kolowrat-Krakowski (1748–1816), field marshal in the Austrian Empire in 1809
- Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (1778–1861), Bohemian nobleman and politician
- Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1886–1927), a Bohemian-Austrian film producer and pioneer of the cinema of Austria
- Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat (1759–1833), Roman Catholic archbishop of Prague from 1831 to 1833
- Henry Kolowrat, Jr. (born 1933), American fencer
Places
- Kolovrat Range, a mountain range in Slovenia
- Kolovrat, Zagorje ob Savi, a settlement in Zagorje ob Savi municipality, Slovenia
- Kolovrat, Tuzla, a settlement in Tuzla municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Kolovrat, Prijepolje, a settlement in Prijepolje municipality, Serbia
- Kolowrat Theatre (Divadlo Kolowrat), Prague
Other
- Kolovrat (symbol), a Slavic pagan symbol of Sun, similar to swastika
- Kolovrat (band), a Russian music band
- Kolovrat (newspaper), a neo-Nazi Russian-language newspaper published in Estonia
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