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ID: 1049511 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049511			Record Type: administrative

Suwałki (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 54 06 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 54.1000 decimal degrees
Long: 022 56 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 22.9333 decimal degrees

Note: Located in far NE; ruled by Prussia in 1796 & became a Russian garrison in 1897; heavily damaged by German bombing in 1939; was site of Nazi concentration camp & German Gestapo headquarters; site of a religious museum, lumber & textile factories.

Names:

Suwałki (preferred,C,V)

Suvalkai (C,V)

Suvalki (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Europe (continent) (P)

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Poland (nation) (P)

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Podlaskie Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)

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Suwałki (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	received town rights in 1715
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Suvalkai..........	[VP]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 900

Suvalki..........	[VP]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 900

Suwałki..........	[VP Preferred]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 140
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 423
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1992) 192

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 140; II, 900
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 423
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1992) 192


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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