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  Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
In 1440 Danzig participated in the foundation of the Prussian Union which eventually led to the Thirteen Years War (1454-1466) and the incorporation of Royal Prussia by the crown of Poland, with the pre-requesit of autonomy for western Prussia.
Danzig was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1793 and remained Prussian until 1919 – except for the short period of 1807-1815 when it was the Free City of Danzig during the Napoleonic years.
Danzig was responsible for Sub-Area Headquarters at Neustadt in Westpreussen, Preussisch Stargard, Marienwerder, Graudenz, Bromberg, and Thorn.
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 Danzig
Danzig is the historical name of the city now known as Gdansk.
Danzig is the name of a heavy metal rock band.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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 danzig page
In 1440 Danzig participated in the foundation of the Prussian Union which eventually led to the Thirteen Years War (1454-1466) and the incorporation of Royal Prussia to the direct rule of the Polish Crown.
Danzig was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1793 and remained Prussian until 1919 -- except for the short period of 1807-1815 when it was the Free City of Danzig during the Napoleonic years.
Ninety percent of the city was reduced to ruins during the war and thereafter, and it is estimated that 25 percent of the pre-war population was killed.
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 World War 2: 10/01/2006 - 11/01/2006
Hitler sought to reverse this trend and made an appeal to German nationalism, promising to "liberate" the Germans still in the Corridor, as well as Danzig, as the port city was now under the control of the League of Nations.
In 1938, Germany began to increase its demands for Danzig while proposing that a roadway be built in order to connect East Prussia with Germany proper, running through the Polish Corridor.
On May 23 1939 Adolf Hitler explained to his officers that the object of the aggression was not Danzig, but the need to obtain German Lebensraum and details of this concept would be later formulated in the infamous Generalplan Ost.
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 directopedia : Directory : Arts : Music : Bands and Artists : D [13] : Danzig
Due to the fact that the city was heavily dominated by its German population, became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1792 and was part of the German Empire until 1919, the German name Danzig was widely used until the end of the Second World War.
The 16th and 17th centuries were a Golden Age for trade and culture in Danzig.
Many members of Danzig's Polish population were deported to Stutthof or were executed at Piasnica.
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 Lechia Gdansk
Gda sk and in the delta of the Pomeranian name Gdu sk, the Polish name is Gda sk was developed, accessible for much bigger ships, including middle sized tankers.
The city lies on the immigrant experience of Foster`s family, taking as their inspiration Foster`s own 1996 visit to a Leniwka, a branch in the local Kashubian language it is known as Gdu sk.
Alternative languages' names The city has been known under its German name Danzig) is the 6th largest city in the local Kashubian language it is known as Gdu sk.
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 Danzig - Wikipedia in higiena-system.com 04
Danzig - amerykańska grupa heavy metalowa założona w 1987 roku przez Glenna Allena Anzalone bardziej znanego pod pseudonimem Glenn Danzig.
Po skończeniu szkoły średniej w połowie lat siedemdziesiątych Glenn Danzig postanowił, nie zważając na protesty rodziców całkowicie poświęcić się karierze muzyka.
Glenn Danzig - śpiew, gitara, gitara basowa, instrumenty klawiszowe, pianino, sitar, harmonijka ustna (1987-)
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 Sopot
In 1819 Wenger opened the first public bath in Sopot and tried to promote the newly-established spa among the inhabitants of Danzig, but the undertaking was a financial failure.
In the beginning of the century the city became a holiday resort for the inhabitants of nearby Danzig, as well as aristocracy from Berlin, Warsaw, and Königsberg.
The following day the Free City of Danzig was annexed by Nazi Germany and most of the local Poles, Kashubians, and Jews were arrested and expelled.
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 Wikipedia:Naming_conflict - Thagodz Wiki
For instance, the term "Macedonians" may refer to the Slavic people who call themselves by that name, the inhabitants of the geographic region of Macedonia, the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia, the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Macedon or even an obscure early Christian sect.
Example: The Polish city of Gdańsk was called Danzig for many years.
The name "Danzig" is not the definitive term today, but it is correctly used in an historical context (e.g.
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 Gdansk: Weather and Much More from Answers.com
Reverting to Prussia in 1814, it was fortified and, as Danzig, was the provincial capital of West Prussia until 1919, when by the Treaty of Versailles it once more became a free city with its own legislature.
The city was mainly populated by Germans and in 1792 became a part of the Kingdom of Prussia, later part of the German Empire until 1919, the German name Danzig was widely used until the end of the Second World War.
Nazi demands for easier access from Pomerania to Danzig and to East Prussia served as a direct pretext for the German attack on Poland on September 1, 1939 and triggered the outbreak of World War II.
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 Qwika - similar:Federation_of_Expellees
The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig) was established twice, first by Napoleon, and again in between the World Wars.
[edit] 19th century map of Duchy of Warsaw and Free City of Danzig The first Freie Stadt Danzig, sometimes referred to as the Republic of Danzig, was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars, from 9 September 1807 to 22 J...
Attlee, Truman, and Stalin at Potsdam The Potsdam Conference was a conference held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), from July 17 to August 2, 1945.
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 more info on Danzig - danzing - dansig
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 The Amber Room
It was crafted by Gottfried Wolfram, master craftsman to the Danish court of King Frederick IV of Denmark, with help from the amber masters Ernst Schacht and Gottfried Turau from Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland.
Since the craftsmen in question are ethnic Germans, I think it's reasonable to prefer the Danzig variant of the name, as that's what they presumably called it.
So I put back the Danzig, but left a note that it's now called Gdansk.
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 the danzig resource page
Park Stud has announced that the Phipps family bred and raced Survivalist, a 4-year-old graded stakes-winning son of Danzig, out of a full sister to Seeking the Gold, will enter stud at Park Stud in Ontario, Canada.
A judge in Atlanta refused to accept a plea deal in the case of the father accused of trying to extort money from the Campbell's Soup Co. by poisoning his childrens soup.
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 Gdansk
Gdańsk was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1793 and, again in 1815, after a short period as the Free City of Danzig (1807–1815) under Napoleon.
In contrast to the independent period, under the Prussian administration GdaЕ„sk became a relatively unimportant city dominated by the military garrison and the administration officials.
However, the city was not placed under full Polish sovereignty, but was made into the Free City of Danzig, an independent free city under the auspices of the League of Nations, governed by its largely German-speaking residents but with its external affairs largely under Polish control.
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 Gdansk
Imaginative, powerful, surprising, and magical, Foster's lines breathe life into the land, history, and culture of her ancestors.
Gdańsk - Gdańsk (usually Gdansk in English and pronounced, German: Danzig, Kashubian: Gduńsk, Latin: Gedania; also other languages) is the sixth-largest city in Poland, its principal seaport, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodship.
Municipal Website } (formerly known under its German name Danzig) is the 6th largest city now in Poland, its principal seaport, and the capital of the Gdansk Bay (of the Baltic Sea),...
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 Danzig
RIKER, DANZIG, SCHERER, HYLAND & PERRETTI, Morristown, said James Harkness, Ronald Puhala and Mary Ellen Scalera have been elected partners with the firm, and Brett Reina, James Mohoney, Anthony Fernandez and Alex Richman-La Londe have been elected counsel to the firm.
Hotel Grand ensured the potentially monumental switch in Australia's Triple Crown seem a smooth transition with a grand success in the first edition of the Randwick Guineas (Aust-I) March 18.
Bathurst's previous non-fiction offering focused on the Stevenson family of engineers and the lighthouses they built; this book concentrates on the people who encouraged shipwrecks instead.
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 danzig - OneLook Dictionary Search
Danzig : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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 Polka - LoveToKnow 1911
In Italy, however, there were three hard-fought though indecisivebattles, Parma (June 29, 1734), Luzzara (Sept. 19, 1734) and Bitonto (May 25, 1735), the first and last won by the Austrians, the second by the French and their allies.
In Poland itself, Stanislaus, elected king in September 1733, was soon expelled by a Russian army and was afterwards besieged in Danzig by the Russians and Saxons (Feb.June 1733).
This page was last modified 13:51, 24 Sep 2006.
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 Historical Geography - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
The Indian Ocean Christmas Island, an Australian territory, should not be confused with the Pacific Kiritimati (formerly Christmas Island), which is part of the Republic of Kiribati.
Meaning disambiguation, Gdansk was Poland's largest city until 1770.
The name Danzig was applied by the Germans until WWII.
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 Amber - Gurupedia
For other things called amber, see Amber (disambiguation).
It is often covered with a white powder easily removed by wiping.
The name comes from Gedanum, the Latin name of Danzig at the Baltic Sea.
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 Treaty of Versailles information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany.
the city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) with the delta of Vistula river at the Baltic Sea was made the Freie Stadt Danzig (Free City of Danzig) under the League of Nations.
Article 156 of the treaty transferred German concessions in Shandong, China to Japan rather than returning sovereign authority to China.
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 danzig resource page - danzig mother
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