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ID: 7007625
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007625
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bydgoszcz (inhabited place)  Bydgoszcz (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 09 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 018 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 18.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Founded as trading post; was seized by Teutonic Knights in 13th cen.; prospered as grain & timber center until destroyed during 17th-cen. Swedish Wars; construction of canal reestablished trade in 18th cen.; staunchly resisted Nazi attack of 1939.

Names:
Bydgoszcz (preferred,C,V)
Bromberg (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Polska (nation)  ........  Polska (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kujawsko-Pomorskie (voivodeship)  ............  Kujawsko-Pomorskie (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Bydgoszcz (inhabited place)  ................  Bydgoszcz (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was given town rights in 1346
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bromberg..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-25
Bydgoszcz..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 137
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 693
....................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 137
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 693
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-25
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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