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ID: 7007754
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007754
Record Type:
administrative
Płock (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 32 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 019 40 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 19.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Oldest city in Mazowsze (Masovia) region; seat of Polish rulers 1079-1138; thrived as a trade center from 14th-17th cen.; controlled by Prussia 1793-1806; returned to Poland in 1918; economy based on oil refineries, plastics & petrochemicals.
Names:
Płock
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Plock
(
C
,
V
)
Plosk
(
C
,
O
)
Schröttersburg
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Masovian Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Płock
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first chronicled in 10th cen., chartered as a city in 1237
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
since 1075
capital (
C
)
............
of a duchy from 1138-1351
Sources and Contributors:
Płock..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 742
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 522
..............
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
94-95
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
155
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Plock..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
155
Plosk..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 742
Schröttersburg..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 522
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 742
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 522
..................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
94-95
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
155
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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