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ID: 1049354
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049354
Record Type:
administrative
Piła (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 09 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.1500
decimal degrees
Long: 016 44 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Gwda river; passed to Prussia in 1772, returned to Poland in 1945; was devastated in World War II, but rebuilt; industries include lumber mills, railroad work shops & food-processing facilities; lies on Berlin-Gdańsk rail line.
Names:
Piła
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Schneidemühl
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Greater Poland Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Piła
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first chronicled in 15th cen.
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Piła..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 440
...........
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
257
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
153
Schneidemühl..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
178
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 440
..................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
257
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
153; 178
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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