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 | | Gdańsk (pronounced: [gdaɲsk], Kashubian: Gduńsk, Latin: Gedania, German:Danzig) is the 6th largest city in Poland, its principal seaport, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodship. |
 | | In 1440 it participated in the foundation of the Prussian Union which led to the Thirteen Years War (1454-1466) and the incorporation of Gdansk Pomerania, under direct rule of the Polish Crown. |
 | | They were very unhappy when the city was not placed under full Polish sovereignty, but was made into the Free City of Gdansk, formally an autonomous part of Poland and protected by the League of Nations, but in practice dominated by the local German-speaking residents. |
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