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ID: 7010138
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010138
Record Type:
administrative
Gomel (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 031 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Sozh river; belonged to Lithuania 1300s; later passed to Poland; taken by Russia 1772; became important railroad junction late 19th cen.; products include fertilizers, agricultural machinery, cables, glass, footwear & foodstuffs.
Names:
Gomel
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
Gomel'
(
C
,
V
)
Homel
(
C
,
V
)
גומל
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Gomiy
(
H
,
V
)
Gomy
(
H
,
V
)
............
first mentioned 1142
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Bieloruś
(nation) (
P
)
............
Homyel'skaya Voblasts'
(province) (
P
)
................
Gomel
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first documented in 1142
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
גומל..........
[
IMJ
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Gomel'..........
[
BHA
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Gomel..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 353
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
74
Gomiy..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 341
Gomy..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 353
Homel..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 341
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 341
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 353
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
74
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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