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ID: 7007656
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007656

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Elbla̜g (inhabited place)  Elbla̜g (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 54 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 54.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 019 25 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 19.4167  decimal degrees

Note: Located at mouth of Vistula River; revolted against Teutonic Knights & became part of Poland in 1450; chief port of E Prussia in trade with England; ceded to Prussia - 1772; destroyed during World War II & since rebuilt; main industry is metal processing.

Names:
Elbla̜g (preferred,C,V)
Elbing (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Poland (nation)  ........  Poland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Elbla̜g (inhabited place)  ................  Elbla̜g (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Teutonic Knights in 1237
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Elbing..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-52
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 342
Elbla̜g..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 270
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 418
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 61
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 270
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 418
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-52
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 61
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 342
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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