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ID: 7007794
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007794
Record Type:
administrative
Sieradz (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 35 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.5833
decimal degrees
Long: 018 41 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 18.6833
decimal degrees
Note:
One of nation's oldest cities; reinforced as fortress town in 14th cen., but destroyed by Swedish invaders; noted for medieval, Baroque & Rococo architecture; economy is based on textiles, farm machinery & food-processing.
Names:
Sieradz
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
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P
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Polska
(nation) (
P
)
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Łódzkie
(voivodeship) (
P
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Sieradz
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a fortified township in 1025
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Sieradz..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 789
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
183
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 789
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
183
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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