Vitebsk
Details
- Names
Vitebsk
Witebsk
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Developed as a fortified center; controlled by Lithuania from 1320; under Russian rule from 1772; was damaged by Poles 16th cen., by Swedes during Great Northern War, by Napoleon I 1812 & by Nazis in WW II; products include textiles, tools & foodstuffs.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- BHA, Authority file (1973-); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers;
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