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ID: 1049607
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049607
Record Type:
administrative
Wodzisław (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 01 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.0167
decimal degrees
Long: 018 26 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 18.4333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in Rybnik Coal Fields; Franciscan monks founded monastery & church here in 15th cen.; passed to Prussia in 1875; was returned to Poland in 1921; economy based on coke-mining, natural gas & food-processing.
Names:
Wodzisław
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Wodzisław Śla̜ski
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Silesian Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Wodzisław
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1257
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Wodzisław..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 724
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
217
Wodzisław Śla̜ski..........
[
VP
]
................................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-192
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 724
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-192
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
217
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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