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ID: 7007751
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007751
Record Type:
administrative
Opole (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 017 56 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 17.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Oder River; passed to Bohemia in 1327, to Habsburgs in 1742 & returned to Poland in 1945; is important port between Wrocław & Upper Silesia; economy depends on cement factories & iron foundries; noted for many historic buildings.
Names:
Opole
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Oppeln
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Opole Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Opole
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Silesia
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Opole
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
occupied by Slavic Opolanie tribe in 9th cen.
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since 1202
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Duchy of Opole through Middle Ages
Sources and Contributors:
Opole..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 689
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 968
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
145
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Oppeln..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
145
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 689
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 968
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
145
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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