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Pskov (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 57 50 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 57.8333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 028 20 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 28.3333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on Velikaya River; went to Novgorod in 1136; home of late medieval school of painting 12th-14th cen.; seized by Poles in 1518 & by Swedes 1615; Nicholas II abdicated here in 1917; occupied by Germany WW I & II; noted for 17th-cen. cathedral. |
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| Pskov (preferred,C,V,O,Russian-P)
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| Pihkva (C,O)
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| Pleskau (C,U)
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| Pskow (C,U)
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| Псков (C,U,Russian)
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| Pleskov (H,V)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Pskov (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled by 8th cen. |
| city (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| capital (H) |
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of the Pskov Republic, from 1347 until its fall to Moscow in 1510 |
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