Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ostoja is a Polish coat of arms that originally was used by the family of Ostoja from Lesser Poland and later also in Kujavia, Mazowsze and Greater Poland. It is a coat of arms of knightly families that fought in the same military unit using battle cry Hostoja or Ostoja, and that was given the right to use the ancient sign of Stibor family as their coat of arms, forming a clan of knights. Later, when the clan expanded their territory to Pomerania, Prussia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania they also adopted a few noble families from Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine mostly in the year 1450, finally turning into the Clan of Ostoja. As different lines of the clan formed surnames after their properties and adding the adoptions, Ostoja become the name of a coat of arms used by several families not necessarily blood-related with each other.. }
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- Ostoja_coat_of_arms abstract "Ostoja is a Polish coat of arms that originally was used by the family of Ostoja from Lesser Poland and later also in Kujavia, Mazowsze and Greater Poland. It is a coat of arms of knightly families that fought in the same military unit using battle cry Hostoja or Ostoja, and that was given the right to use the ancient sign of Stibor family as their coat of arms, forming a clan of knights. Later, when the clan expanded their territory to Pomerania, Prussia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania they also adopted a few noble families from Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine mostly in the year 1450, finally turning into the Clan of Ostoja. As different lines of the clan formed surnames after their properties and adding the adoptions, Ostoja become the name of a coat of arms used by several families not necessarily blood-related with each other.".