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ID: 7007831
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007831
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Toruń (inhabited place)  Toruń (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 01 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.0167  decimal degrees
Long: 018 35 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 18.5833  decimal degrees

Note: Was important medieval center; noted as birthplace of astronomer Copernicus; site of conflicts between Polish & Teutonic Knights & burned by Knights in 1454; by 17th cen., city was almost as large as Warsaw; part of Prussia 1793-1919.

Names:
Toruń (preferred,C,V)
Thorn (C,O)
Thoruń (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 Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Toruń (inhabited place)  ................  Toruń (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Teutonic Knights in 1237
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Thorn..........  [VP]
..............  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-175
Thoruń..........  [BHA]
.................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Toruń..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 655
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 942
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Guide Bleu: Pologne (1967) 636
..............  Nagel's: Poland (1974) 261
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 200
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 655
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 942
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Guide Bleu: Pologne (1967) 636
..................  Nagel's: Poland (1974) 261
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-175
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 200
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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