Wschowa (Poland)

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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
וושובה (פולין)
Name (Latin)
Wschowa (Poland)
Coordinates
16.3 16.3 51.8 51.8 (gooearth )
Associated country
Poland
See Also From tracing place name
Fraustadt (Germany)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 145435179
Wikidata: Q717938
Library of congress: n 82038800
Sources of Information
  • Walters, J.A. The 1846 enumeration of the Jews of Fraustadt, Prussia, c1981 (xx-ref.)t.p. (Fraustadt) p. i (Wschowa)
  • BGN phone call, 3/10/82(Wschowa, ppl. 51p0s19ʹN, 16p0s19ʹE, former name: Fraustadt)
Wikipedia description:

Wschowa (pronounced Fs-hova [ˈfsxɔva], German: Fraustadt) is a town in the Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland with 13,875 inhabitants (2019). It is the capital of Wschowa County and a significant tourist site containing many important historical monuments. It is part of the historic region of Greater Poland. Once an important royal city of Poland, due to its 18th-century history, it is sometimes called the "unofficial capital of Poland".

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