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ID: 7007720
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007720
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Gorzów Wielkopolski (inhabited place)  Gorzów Wielkopolski (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 42 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 52.7000  decimal degrees
Long: 015 12 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 15.2000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Warta River; destroyed by Swedes during Thirty Years' War (1618-1648); part of Prussian Brandenburg province in 18th cen.; rebuilt & became textile center in 19th cen.; scene of battle in 1813 during Napoleonic Wars; returned to Poland in 1945.

Names:
Gorzów Wielkopolski (preferred,C,V)
Landsberg an der Warthe (C,O)
Landsberg (C,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 Lubusz Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Lubusz Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Gorzów Wielkopolski (inhabited place)  ................  Gorzów Wielkopolski (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a German city in 1257
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Gorzów Wielkopolski..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...................................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 343
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 378
...................................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 75
...................................  USBGN: Poland (1988)
...................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Landsberg..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 343
Landsberg an der Warthe..........  [VP]
.........................................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-63
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 343
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 378
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-63
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 75
..................  USBGN: Poland (1988)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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