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Czernowitz (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 48 18 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 48.3000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 025 56 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 25.9333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in foothills of Carpathian Mountains; held by Turks & then passed to Austria-Hungary 18th cen.; belonged to Romania after WW I; part of Soviet Union from 1940; linked by rail to Moldavia & Romania; processes meat, sugar & other food products. |
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| Chernivtsi (preferred,C,V)
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| Černovsy (C,V)
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| Černovcy (C,V)
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| Chernovtsy (C,V)
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| Czernowitz (C,O,English-P)
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| Cernăuţi (C,O)
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| צ'רנוביץ (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Chernovitsy (H,V)
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............ | until 1944 |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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first recorded as town in Polish-Lithuanian kingdom 1407 |
| city (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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| transportation center (C) |
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| educational center (C) |
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university founded 1875 |
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