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ID: 7007681
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007681
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kalisz (inhabited place)  Kalisz (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 18 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.3000  decimal degrees
Long: 015 55 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 15.9167  decimal degrees

Note: Known to Roman merchants & chronicled by Ptolemey in 2nd cen.; flourished as weaving town in 13th cen.; scene of Russsian-Polish victory over Swedes 1706; passed from Prussia to Russia in 1815 & to Poland in 1919; occupied by Nazis during World War II.

Names:
Kalisz (preferred,C,V,English-P)
Kalisch (C,O)
Kalish (C,O)
קאליש (C,U,Hebrew )
Calisia (H,O)
Calissia (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Poland (nation)  ........  Poland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Greater Poland Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Greater Poland Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Kalisz (inhabited place)  ................  Kalisz (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  site of a prehistoric village
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
trade center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
קאליש..........  [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Calisia..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 456
Calissia..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 456
Kalisch..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 346
Kalish..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 456
Kalisz..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 456
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 696
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................  Nagel's: Poland (1969) 269
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 95
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 456
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 696
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Nagel's: Poland (1969) 269
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 95
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 346
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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