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ID: 1049581
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049581
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Wałbrzych (inhabited place)  Wałbrzych (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 48 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 016 19 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 16.3167  decimal degrees

Note: Processing center for coke, chemicals & textiles; chronicled as site of castle of Bolesław II in 1290; dressmaking center since 15th cen.; prospered as textile center in 19th cen.; Gross-Rosen concentration camp was located nearby during World War II.

Names:
Wałbrzych (preferred,C,V)
Waldenburg (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 Lower Silesian Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Lower Silesian Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Wałbrzych (inhabited place)  ................  Wałbrzych (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Silesia (historical region)  ........  Silesia (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Wałbrzych (inhabited place)  ............  Wałbrzych (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  documented in 13th cen.
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Wałbrzych..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 459
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 212
Waldenburg..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-187
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 459
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-187
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 212
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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