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ID: 7017021
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017021
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Brest-Litovsk (inhabited place)  Brest-Litovsk (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 08 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 52.1333  decimal degrees
Long: 023 40 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.6667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on right bank of Bug river; was part of Lithuania 1319; later went to Poland, then to Russia 1795 & back to Poland 1919-1939; noted for Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed between Germany & Soviet Russia in 1918; maintains light industries.

Names:
Brest (preferred,C,V)
Brest-Litovsk (C,V,English-P)
Brześć nad Bugiem (C,V)
ברסט-ליטובסק (C,U,Hebrew )
Berestye (H,V)  ............ first mentioned in 1019

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Belarus (nation)  ........  Belarus (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Brestskaya Voblasts' (province)  ............  Brestskaya Voblasts' (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Brest-Litovsk (inhabited place)  ................  Brest-Litovsk (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  documented in 11th cen.
city (C)
port (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
ברסט-ליטובסק..........  [IMJ]
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Berestye..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 502-503
Brest..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 502-503
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 33
Brest-Litovsk..........  [BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 502-503
..........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Brześć nad Bugiem..........  [VP]
................................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-25
................................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 339
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 502-503
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-25
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 33
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 339
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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