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ID: 7007626
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007626
Record Type:
administrative
Beuthen (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 21 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.3500
decimal degrees
Long: 018 58 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 18.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Oldest & largest city in Górny Śląsk coal region; leading silver mining town since 12th cen.; passing to Germany in mid-18th cen., it had the only Polish secondary school; center for Polish underground during World War II.
Names:
Bytom
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Beuthen
(
C
,
O
,
English-P
)
בותן
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Silesian Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Beuthen
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Silesia
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Beuthen
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 11th cen. by King Boleslaw I, the Brave
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of independent dukedom from 1282-1289
Sources and Contributors:
בותן..........
[
IMJ
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Beuthen..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-19
Bytom..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 137
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 699
..............
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..............
Słownik Geograficzny (1880-1904)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 137
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 699
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-19
..................
Słownik Geograficzny (1880-1904)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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