Czarne (Poland)
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
המרשטיין (פולין)
Name (Latin)
Czarne (Poland)
Other forms of name
nnaa Czarne, Poland
Hammerstein (Poland) (Poland)
האמרשטיין (פולין)
Coordinates
016.8736298 016.9736899 053.7349799 053.6081178 (gooearth )
Associated country
Poland
See Also From tracing place name
Hammerstein (Neuwied, Germany)
Sources of Information
- Qufra. Guida di Hammerstein, 1946 (subj.)t.p. (Hammerstein)
- BGN gaz. Poland(Hammerstein, PPL 53 41 N., 16 56 E., ref. from Czarne)
- BGN(name verified as Czarne, 9/14/79)
- Wielka Enc. Powsz.(Czarne)
- Brockhaus, 1966:v. 15, p. 40 (in Grenzmark Posen-West Preussen, ceded to Poland, 1945)
Wikipedia description:
Czarne [ˈt͡ʂarnɛ] (Kashubian: Czôrné; German: Hammerstein) is a town in Człuchów County of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. As of December 2022, the town has a population of 5,368. Founded in the Middle Ages and granted town rights in 1395, Czarne is a former royal town of Poland, which became most known as the place of a Polish victory over invading Swedes in 1627, and the location of German-operated prisoner-of-war camps for Allied soldiers of various nationalities during both world wars, where over 60,000 died during the Second World War. Since 1951, Czarne hosts a garrison of the Polish Army.
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