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ID: 7007595
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007595
Record Type:
administrative
Bielsko Biala (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 019 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 19.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
At foothills of Carpathian Mountains; developed large textile industry in 16th cen.; produces gliders, machinery & automobiles; known for resorts & picturesque surroundings; connected by rail to Kraków & Czech Republic.
Names:
Bielsko-Biała
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bielitz
(
C
,
V
)
Bielsko Biala
(
C
,
U
,
English-P
)
ביילסקו ביאלה
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Silesian Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Bielsko Biala
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Silesia
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Bielsko Biala
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was important medieval center
city (
C
)
............
incorporated with Biała city in 1951
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
ביילסקו ביאלה..........
[
IMJ
]
..........................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Bielitz..........
[
VP
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
76
Bielsko-Biała..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
76
..........................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 203
..........................
Guide Bleu: Pologne (1967)
..........................
Nagel's: Poland (1974)
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
27
Bielsko Biala..........
[
IMJ Preferred
]
..........................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
76
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 203
..................
Guide Bleu: Pologne (1967)
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Nagel's: Poland (1974)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
27
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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