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ID: 1048887
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1048887
Record Type:
administrative
Łomźa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 11 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.1833
decimal degrees
Long: 022 05 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Was prosperous commercial town by 16th cen.; passed to Prussia in 1795; was part of Russia 1807-1918; economy is based on food processing, textiles & paper milling; was restored after WW II.
Names:
Łomźa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Łomża
(
C
,
V
)
Lomzha
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Podlaskie Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Łomźa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by 9th cen., chartered in 1428
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since 1975
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Łomża..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 527
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 457
Łomźa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Lomzha..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 527
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 527
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 457
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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