Gumbinnen

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Gumbinnen was a town in former East Prussia (now Gusev, Russia) that served as a significant site of military operations on the Eastern Front in both World Wars.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gumbinnen canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf town ⓘ
administrativeFunction seat of a Regierungsbezirk in East Prussia ⓘ
battle Battle of Gumbinnen ⓘ
battleBelligerent German Empire ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ
battleDate 20 August 1914 ⓘ
battleTheater Eastern Front of World War I ⓘ
linked to: Eastern Front
country Germany ⓘ
currentAdministrativeUnit town of Gusev in Kaliningrad Oblast ⓘ
formerCountry German Empire ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ
Weimar Republic ⓘ
historicalRegion East Prussia ⓘ
Prussia ⓘ
languageHistoricallySpoken German ⓘ
Lithuanian ⓘ
Polish ⓘ
locatedIn East Prussia ⓘ
Gusevsky District ⓘ
Kaliningrad Oblast ⓘ
Kingdom of Prussia ⓘ
linked to: Prussia

Province of East Prussia ⓘ
linked to: East Prussia

Russia ⓘ
namedAfter Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov (as Gusev, indirectly via hero Sergei Gusev) ⓘ
nearbyCity Insterburg ⓘ
Königsberg ⓘ
partOf Gumbinnen District ⓘ
Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen ⓘ
post1945Status annexed by the Soviet Union ⓘ
population largely expelled or fled ⓘ
renamed Gusev ⓘ
postwarAdministration Soviet military administration ⓘ
pre1945PopulationCharacter ethnically mixed German, Polish, and Lithuanian population ⓘ
presentDayCountry Russia ⓘ
presentDayName Gusev ⓘ
regionType borderland area between Germany and Russia ⓘ
religionHistoricallyDominant Protestantism ⓘ
religionHistoricallyPresent Judaism ⓘ
Lutheranism ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
role regional administrative center ⓘ
significantEvent Battle of Gumbinnen ⓘ
World War I Eastern Front operations ⓘ
World War II Eastern Front operations ⓘ
strategicImportance military crossroads on the Eastern Front ⓘ
timeZoneCurrent Kaliningrad Time ⓘ
transport railway junction ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gusev → formerName → Gumbinnen ⓘ