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Subject:
early placename in East Germany/Poland
From:
"Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 Jun 1995 17:33:41 EDT
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    : Fri, 09 Jun 95 17:23:45 PST
    : "Tomasz Pawlowski" <[log in to unmask]>
       : Re: early placename in East Germany/Poland
 
 
     Try Geszen or Gejszen. This is Polish spelling of German name
     Geischen.
 
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    : Sat, 10 Jun 1995 01:12:54 -0400
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       : Re: early placename in East Germany/Poland
 
>We have "one of those questions," and we are stuck.  A patron is asking
>about a place called Geischen, a town in East Germany or Poland.
 
I find a little place called Geishin which was in West Russia in 1910.
Roughly measuring with map & ruler it is about 60 miles SE of the city of
Mogilef. Could very well have been in Poland depending on the time.
 
Art Lassagne
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