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ID: 1049475
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049475
Record Type:
administrative
Sosnowiec (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 16 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 019 07 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 19.1167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Czarna Przemsza River; rebuilt after fire of 1830; prospered with construction of Warsaw-Vienna rail line; has numerous heavy-industries including coal mines, textile mills, & glassworks; noted for the nation's first mining museum.
Names:
Sosnowiec
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
סוסנוביץ'
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Silesian Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Sosnowiec
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
............
since 1902
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
סוסנוביץ'..........
[
IMJ
]
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Sosnowiec..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 22
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
187
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 22
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
187
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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