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ID: 1049533
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049533
Record Type:
administrative
Tczew (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 018 46 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 18.7667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located above mouth of Vistula River; connected by rail to nation's major cities; site of Pomeranian fortress built in 1282; occupied by Teutonic Knights 1308-1466; one of Europe's first & largest truss bridges built here in 1857.
Names:
Tczew
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Dirschau
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Pomeranian Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Tczew
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was important medieval fortification
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Dirschau..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-46
Tczew..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 918
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 594
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
195
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 918
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 594
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-46
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
195
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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