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ID: 7007821
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007821
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Wloclawek (inhabited place)  Wloclawek (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 39 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 52.6500  decimal degrees
Long: 019 01 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 19.0167  decimal degrees

Note: Largest cellulose-processing center in nation since 1960s; seat of Kujavian bishops during 11th cen.; sacked by Teutonic Knights in 14th cen.; Copernicus studied here 1489-1491; taken by Russia in 1815; went to Poland in 1918.

Names:
Włocławek (preferred,C,V)
Vlotslavsk (C,O)
Wloclawek (C,U,English-P)
ולוקלאווק (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Poland (nation)  ........  Poland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Wloclawek (inhabited place)  ................  Wloclawek (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 12th cen.
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
ולוקלאווק..........  [IMJ]
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Vlotslavsk..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1024
Włocławek..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1024
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 723
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 216
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Wloclawek..........  [IMJ Preferred]
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1024
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 723
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 216
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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