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Puck (Poland)


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  • Variants

    • Puck, Poland
    • Pùckò (Poland)
    • Pëck (Poland)
    • Putzc (Poland)
    • Pusecz (Poland)
    • Puczse (Poland)
    • Putsk (Poland)
    • Pucz (Poland)
  • Additional Information

    • Descriptor

        Cities and towns
    • Descriptor

        Populated place
    • Associated Locale

        Poland
    • Associated Locale

        Województwo Pomorskie (Poland)
    • Associated Locale

        Gdańsk (Poland : Voivodeship)
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        • Earlier Established Forms

          • Puck, Poland
        • Sources

          • found: Treder, J. Toponimia byłego powiatu ... 1977 (used in hdg.)t.p. (puckiego) p. 69 (Puck)
          • found: P 78-659(Puck)
          • found: NIS gaz. Poland, 1955(Puck, popl, 54°42ʹN 18°25ʹE)
          • found: BGN phone call.
          • found: GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 54°42ʹ00ʺN 018°25ʹ00ʺE)
          • found: GEOnet, 2 April 2015(Puck; PPLA2, 54°43ʹ07ʺN, 018°24ʹ39ʺE; Pomorskie, Poland; variant: Putzig)
          • found: GNS, 8 April 2023(Puck (Approved, Unique Name Identifier: -744405); variant: Putzig; country: Poland; first-order administrative division: Pomorskie; feature designation: seat of a second-order administrative division; feature class: populated places; latitude (DMS): 54:43:07 [54° 43ʹ 07ʺ N]; longitude (DMS): 18:24:39 [018° 24ʹ 39ʺ E]; latitude (DD): 54.718542 [N]; longitude (DD): 18.41085 [E]; Unique Feature Identifier: -524511)
          • found: Wikipedia, 27 March 2023:Puck, Poland (Puck; Kashubian: Pùckò, Pùck, Pëck, formerly German: Putzig); town in northern Poland; in Gdańsk Pomerania on south coast of Baltic Sea (Bay of Puck), part of Kashubia with many Kashubian speakers in the town; previously in Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975-1998), has been the capital of Puck County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; variant spellings: in a 1277 document Putzc, 1277 Pusecz, 1288 Puczse and Putsk, 1289 Pucz; initially was part of Poland; annexed by the Teutonic Order in 1309, then re-incorporated into Kingdom of Poland 1454; in 1772, in First Partition of Poland, was annexed by Kingdom of Prussia; in 1773, became part of newly established province of West Prussia; as Putzig, became part of Germany in 1871; was ceded to Second Polish Republic in accordance with Treaty of Versailles [1919]; coordinates: DMS: 54°42ʹ0ʺ N, 018°24ʹ0ʺ E; decimal: 54.7 [N], 18.4 [E]) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck,_Poland
          • found: Wikipedia (German), 17 April 2023:Puck (Polen) (Puck; German Putzig; lies in the former Westpreussen; in the context of the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the area around Putzig and Neustadt came under Friedrich II. von Preussen in Königreich Preussen; from 1887, Putzig was the capital of the Kreis of the same name; after end of First World War, based on the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles, in effect from 20th January 1920 Putzig had to be ceded to Poland; after the conquest of Poland in 1939, Putzig was part of Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen until 1945; in spring of 1945, the Red Army occupied the region, which again became part of Poland; during the following time, the German minority was expelled from Putzig) - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(Polen)
          • found: GeoNames, 27 March 2023(Puck; third-order administrative division; coordinates: 54.7142 [N], 18.4051 [E]) - https://www.geonames.org/7532859
          • found: Wikidata, 27 March 2023(Puck (Q628962); also known as: Pùck, Pùckò, Putzig; description: city and urban gmina of Poland; coordinate location: 54°42ʹ51.12ʺ N, 018°24ʹ18.36ʺ E) - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q628962
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        • Change Notes

          • 1978-03-31: new
          • 2023-04-25: revised
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