Geographical lexicon of the Kingdom of Poland

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Geographical Lexicon of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries ( Polish: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich ) is a 16-volume encyclopedia with 14,785 pages, which was published between 1880 and 1902.

The work contains descriptions of all regions, cities, villages and other places, mountains, rivers and lakes of the Kingdom of Poland ( Congress Poland ) and other Slavic-speaking areas. This includes the Baltic, Western and Southern Gubernien (Gouvernies) of the Russian Empire, West Prussia and East Prussia , the Grand Duchy of Poznan and Prussian Silesia , Galicia , Volhynia , Podolia , Polesia , Austrian Silesia , Moravia , the Slovak parts of Hungary and Bukovina and in addition, other important places in the other gubernia in European Russia (country seats, parishes, railway stations, etc.).

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