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ID: 7007583
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007583
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Olsztyn (inhabited place)  Olsztyn (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 48 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 020 29 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 20.4833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on River Łyna in Mazurian Lake District; noted for ruined 14th-cen. Gothic fort where Copernicus fought off Teutonic Knights in 1521; was headquarters for Union of Poles in Germany 1918-1939; famous for mime theatre run by hearing-impaired.

Names:
Olsztyn (preferred,C,V)
Allenstein (C,O)
Allenstenium (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 Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Olsztyn (inhabited place)  ................  Olsztyn (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was noted medieval center
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
cultural center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Allenstein..........  [BHA, VP]
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 10
Allenstenium..........  [VP]
.......................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 14
Olsztyn..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 477
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Nagel's: Poland (1974) 310
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 145
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 477
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Nagel's: Poland (1974) 310
..................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 14
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 10; 145
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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