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ID: 7007831
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007831
Record Type:
administrative
Toruń (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 01 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.0167
decimal degrees
Long: 018 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 18.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Was important medieval center; noted as birthplace of astronomer Copernicus; site of conflicts between Polish & Teutonic Knights & burned by Knights in 1454; by 17th cen., city was almost as large as Warsaw; part of Prussia 1793-1919.
Names:
Toruń
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Thorn
(
C
,
O
)
Thoruń
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Toruń
(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:
Thorn..........
[
VP
]
..............
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-175
Thoruń..........
[
BHA
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Toruń..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
655
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 942
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Guide Bleu: Pologne (1967)
636
..............
Nagel's: Poland (1974)
261
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
200
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
655
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 942
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Guide Bleu: Pologne (1967)
636
..................
Nagel's: Poland (1974)
261
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-175
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
200
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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