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ID: 7007756
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007756
Record Type:
administrative
Poznań (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 016 53 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.8833
decimal degrees
Note:
On banks of Warta River; became a major trade center; cultural growth peaked 15th-16th cen.; was occupied by Germans; ruled by Russia 1807-1815; destroyed by Nazis in 1939; textile mills, chemical & metals plants were built after WW II.
Names:
Poznań
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Posen
(
C
,
O
)
Poznan
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Greater Poland Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Poznań
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established as a stronghold in 9th cen.
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
first in nation, established in 968
national capital (
H
)
............
from 10th cen. until annexed to Prussia
Sources and Contributors:
Posen..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
]
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Poznan..........
[
GRLPSC
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Poznań..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 659
.................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
244-246
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
157
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 659
..................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
244-246
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
157
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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