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ID: 7006538 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006538			Record Type: administrative

Kaunas (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 54 52 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 54.8667 decimal degrees
Long: 023 55 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 23.9167 decimal degrees

Note: Located at head of navigation on Neman river; founded as a fortress in 11th cen.; was thriving medieval town by 14th cen., though it was often attacked by Teutonic Knights; Knights were defeated in 1410, & town grew; damaged by Napoleon & again in WW II.

Names:

Kaunas (preferred,C,V,English-P)

Kauen (C,O)

Kowno (C,O)

קאונאס (C,U,Hebrew )

Kovno (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Europe (continent) (P)

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Lithuania (nation) (P)

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Kauno Rajono Savivaldybė (municipality) (P)

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Kaunas (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	was a fortress in 1030, town founded in 1317, chartered in 1408
city (C)
district capital (C)
port (C)
river settlement (C)
industrial center (C)
power production center (C)
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:

קאונאס..........	[IMJ]
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)

Kauen..........	[VP]
..............	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 468

Kaunas..........	[BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................	Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 645
.................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 766-767
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 97
.................	USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)

Kovno..........	[BHA, VP]
..............	Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347

Kowno..........	[VP]
..............	Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347

Subject: .....	[BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................	Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 645
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 468
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 766-767
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 97
..................	Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
..................	USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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