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ID: 7007601
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007601
Record Type:
administrative
Breslau (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 017 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 17.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Originated on trade route between Roman Empire & Baltic Sea; home of many German immigrants since 13th cen.; passed to Bohemia in 1526 & to Prussia in 1741; damaged by Russian & Nazi sieges of 1945; was rebuilt & industrialized in 1950s-1960s.
Names:
Wrocław
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Wroclaw
(
C
,
V
)
Breslau
(
C
,
O
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
............
since 1741
ברסלאו
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Poland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Lower Silesian Voivodeship
(voivodeship) (
P
)
................
Breslau
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Silesia
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Breslau
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled during Stone Age, early town was founded in 920 AD
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
founded by King Boleslaw I the Brave in 1000
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Silesia from 1163 until destroyed by Tartars in 1241; of duchy ruled by Piast dynasty in 13th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
ברסלאו..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Breslau..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
214
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
33
Wrocław..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1027
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 775
.................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
214
.................
Nagel's: Poland (1974)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
217
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Wroclaw..........
[
GRLPSC
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1027
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 775
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Nagel's: Poland (1969)
214
..................
Nagel's: Poland (1974)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
217; 33
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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