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ID: 7007685
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007685
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kattowitz (inhabited place)  Kattowitz (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 16 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 019 01 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 19.0167  decimal degrees

Note: Developed in 1860s after coal deposits were discovered in nearby hills; was transferred to Poland after World War I; economy depends on mining, heavy industry & railroad yards; universities, libraries, theaters & sports centers were built in 1970s.

Names:
Katowice (preferred,C,V)
Kattowitz (C,V,English-P)  ............ since 1865
קטוביץ' (C,U,Hebrew )
Stalinogród (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Poland (nation)  ........  Poland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Silesian Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Silesian Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Kattowitz (inhabited place)  ................  Kattowitz (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  chartered as a city in 1865
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
mining center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
קטוביץ'..........  [IMJ]
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Katowice..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 467
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 763
.................  Nagel's: Poland (1969) 199
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Kattowitz..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 762
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Stalinogród..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-168
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 467
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 762; VI, 763
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Nagel's: Poland (1969) 199
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-168
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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