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ID: 1049207
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049207
Record Type:
administrative
Leszno (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 51 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.8500
decimal degrees
Long: 016 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Made a center of the Reformation by Moravian Brothers in 16th cen., after their expulsion from Bohemia; educator John Amos Comenius lived & taught here; textile industry prospered during 17th & 18th cen.; ruled By Prussia & Russia until 1918.
Names:
Leszno
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
)
Lissa
(
C
,
O
,
English-P
)
ליסה (לשנו)
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Polska
(nation) (
P
)
............
Wielkopolskie
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Leszno
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by powerful Lesczyński family in 15th cen.
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
ליסה (לשנו)..........
[
IMJ
]
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Leszno..........
[
IMJ
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 301
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
241
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
112
Lissa..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 300
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 300; VII, 301
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
241
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
112
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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