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Lodz (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 49 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.8167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 019 28 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 19.4667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Nation's second largest city; developed as large food-processing & textile center after trade barriers with Russia were dropped 1850; occupied by Nazis during World War II; focus for socialist & labor movements; has museums, music centers & universities. |
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| Łódź (preferred,C,V)
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| Lodz (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Lodsch (C,O)
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| Litzmannstadt (C,O)
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| לודז' (C,U,Hebrew )
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Lodz (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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first chronicled in 14th cen. |
| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| educational center (C) |
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| episcopal see (C) |
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