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ID: 1049029
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049029
Record Type:
administrative
Ełk (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 022 21 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.3500
decimal degrees
Note:
Was fortified by Teutonic Knights in 14th cen.; scene of Battle of Masurian Lakes in 1915 during World War I; German population was evacuated when town was assigned to Poland in 1945.
Names:
Ełk
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Lyck
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Polska
(nation) (
P
)
............
Warmińsko-Mazurskie
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Ełk
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was important medieval center
city (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
............
important railroad junction
battlefield (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ełk..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 272
...........
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
367
Lyck..........
[
VP
]
...........
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-105
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 272
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-105
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
367
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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