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Kartuzy

Eastern Europe

Kartuzy is a town in northern Poland, in the historic region of Eastern Pomerania, also called Pomerelia, and the seat of Kartuzy County in Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies about 32 kilometres west of Gdańsk on a plateau divided by the Radaune lake, close to the highest parts of the Baltic Sea Plate. The place grew from a monastery established about 1380 for Carthusian monks who came from Prague, and it took its name from them. The monastery held large estates from the State of the Teutonic Order, the area returned to the Kingdom of Poland in 1466, and Prussia annexed it in 1772 and dissolved the monastery in 1826. A rail link opened in 1894, and after the First World War the town returned to Poland and received town rights in 1923. Kartuzy has long been a cultural centre of the Kashubians, and a Kashubian Museum has operated there since 1947.

Facts
Population
15,263 1
Founding Year
1380 1
Founding Year
1380 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 1
Climate Zone
Temperate 2
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 3
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1. Kartuzy (Wikipedia)
  • History, first sentence
    Kartuzy was established about 1380 as a monastery for Carthusian monks
  • Infobox: population_total (as of 2006)
    15263
  • Article text
    Kartuzy was established about 1380 as a monastery for Carthusian monks descending from Prague in the Kingdom of Bohemia, after whom it received its name.
  • Infobox: elevation_m
    42
  • Part Of: Poland, Lead sentence
    is a town in northern Poland
  • On Continent: Europe, History, 1871 to 1920
    it was also part of the German Empire
  • In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Lead
    is a town in northern Poland
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2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 54.25, 18.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 54.25, 18.25
54.25 18.25 Cfb
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3. GeoNames: Kartuzy - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3096525, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 3096525, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
54.33424 18.19735 P PPL PL 82 2205 220502 15002 210 Europe/Warsaw
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