Warsaw
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- Names
Warszawa
Warsaw
Varsovie
Warszowa
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Noted for repeated resurrection from wars & occupation over centuries; flourished 14th-15th cen.; almost completely destroyed by Czar Nicholas I of Russia in 19th cen.; destroyed in German air raid in 1939, but original buildings were restored or rebuilt.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Nagel's: Poland (1969); Nagel's: Poland (1974); Rand McNally Atlas (1994); Times Atlas of the World (1992); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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