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ID: 7014788
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014788
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Chełm (inhabited place)  Chełm (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 08 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.1333  decimal degrees
Long: 023 29 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.4833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Uherka river near Ukrainian border; passed to Poland in 1377, fell to Austria in 1795 & Russia in 1815; site of two Nazi concentration camps during WW II; Polish Republic was proclaimed here on July 22, 1944; processes flour, minerals & wood.

Names:
Chełm (preferred,C,V)
Kholm (C,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 Lublin Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Lublin Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Chełm (inhabited place)  ................  Chełm (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1237 on the site of a Slavic village
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
commercial center (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
battlefield (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Chełm..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 177
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 152-153
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 44
Kholm..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 177
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 177
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 152-153
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 44
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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