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  Danzig - IBWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Danzig [da:ntsiçk / danzik / da:nziç] is a city that is independent territory, but it's defence and foreign affairs are managed by the Republic of the Two Crowns.
Danzig is a coastal city with its climate moderated somewhat by the sea.
The territory of the Free City of Danzig is entirely enclosed by the Baltic Sea in the north and the Republic of the Two Crowns elsewhere.
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  Free City of Danzig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It consisted of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) with all its rural possessions in the mouth of Vistula river and the Hel peninsula.
After the Congress of Vienna (1815), Danzig was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and made the capital of a district and the province of West Prussia.
Ninety percent of the city was reduced to ruins in the war and thereafter, and it is estimated that 40 percent of the pre-war population was killed.
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 danzig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gdańsk or Danzig is a city on the southern coast of the Gdansk Bay (Baltic Sea), the biggest city and capital of Eastern Pomerania region, north-western Poland, and a county-status city of Pomeranian Voivodship with a population of 460,000 (2002).
In the first of the late 18th century Partitions of Poland (1772), German-speaking inhabitants of Danzig, as it was usually called, fought fiercely to stay in Poland while the majority of Polish Pomerania fell to the Kingdom of Prussia.
Danzig was surrounded by the Prussian territories until 1793, when it was incorporated into the Prussian kingdom as part of the province of West Prussia, reverting under Napoleon Bonaparte to direct Prussian rule after a second brief period (1807-14) as a free city.
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 Stadt Danzig Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
FREIE STADT DANZIG 180FI ** 1923, 5 Mio.
POLAND 1923 1 GULDEN (KOGA)- "FREIE STADT DANZIG" -AU FREIE STADT DANZIG 197xaa gestempelt 1925, 25 Pf.
FREIE STADT DANZIG 59,62 gestempelt 1921, 2 und 10 M. FREIE STADT DANZIG 19DDII gestempelt 1920, 60 auf 30 Pf FREIE STADT DANZIG 201xa,xb gestempelt 1924/32, 75 Pf.
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 FREIE STADT DANZIG
Eine gerechte Lösung in der Danziger Frage herbeizuführen, kommt mit Rücksicht auf die unmittelbare Zuständigkeit der Alliierten, die auf Grund ihrer Bindung an den kollektivvertraglich geschaffenen und gesicherten Internationalen Status die vorläufige Regierungsgewalt für die Freie Stadt Danzig übernommen haben, eine erhebliche Bedeutung zu.
Sie haben die Freie Stadt Danzig in Potsdam unter vorläufige Verwaltungsbesetzung der Republik Polen gestellt und zugleich die Verpflichtung übernommen, endgültige vertragliche Regelungen folgen zu lassen.
Danzig ist zu keiner Zeit seiner Geschichte eine polnische Stadt gewesen.
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 Wikipedia: Gdansk
Some of the continuing struggle of the independent Hanse city of Danzig to remain independend despite the 1515 Maximilian I deal have been recorded in the article on Danzig councilman Albrecht IV Giese, a member of a long established Danzig Patrician family.
Danzig was surrounded by the Prussian territories until 1793, when it was incorporated into the Prussian kingdom as part of the province of West Prussia, reverting under Napoleon Bonaparte to direct Prussian rule after a second brief period (1807–14) as a free city.
The feeling of grief felt by the citizens of Danzig when their independent city was incorporated into the state of Prussia was reflected in the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
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 Free City of Danzig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Free City of Danzig (French: Ville Libre de Dantzig) was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars in years 9 September 1807– 22 January 1813/1815.
It consisted of the city of Danzig (Gdansk) with all its rural possessions in the mouth of Vistula river and the Hel peninsula.
The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a separate state established in 10 January 1920, a territory that included the city of Danzig plus the surrounding territory, which was previously (from 1815) a part of Prussia (itself since 1871 a part of the German Empire).
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 Administrations of Danzig before April 1945 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1920 Danzig became a Free and Sovereign City under the Protection of the League of Nations.
In 1939 the Free City of Danzig was annexed to the German Reich.
In 1945 Danzig was conquered by the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front Army Group commanded by Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1896 - 1968).
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 Gdansk Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The city was formerly known by the German name of Danzig, reflecting the presence over many centuries of a German-speaking population in the Hanseatic capital.
Initially the new rulers tried to revert the economic significance of Gdansk, by abolishing the local government, and the priviledges to the Lubeck traders, but later they had to accept the fact that Gdansk was the biggest seaport of the region.
At the first of the late 18th century Partitions of Poland (1772), German-speaking inhabitants of Gdansk fought fiercely to stay in Poland while the majority of Polish Pomerania fell to the Kingdom of Prussia.
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On 30 March 1945, most of Danzig was reduced to a mass of rubble when the Germans defended the city from Polish and Soviet troops.
Danzig had used Prussian stamps, Reichspost issues and when Danzig was given the status of Free city, the first issues were the Germania series overprinted Danzig, followed by stamps that gave the Free City of Danzig its own distinct identity.
After World War II, Danzig was occupied by the Soviets, the city was bombed to pieces and made a part of Poland.
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 Expert About da:Danzig
The more experimental Danzig 4 was released in 1994 and entered the charts at number 29, but its quiet, moody, atmospheric subtlety didn't find as much favor with the band's new audience as the anthemic "Mother," while some longtime fans dismissed it as mellow and therefore commercial.
Danzig is currently working on the screenplay for the film and he also plans to sit in the directors chair for the film.
Danzig, eine der ältesten Handels- und Industriestädte an der Ostsee, liegt fünf Kilometer oberhalb der Weichselmündung in der Danziger Bucht.
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 Lexikon Freie Stadt Danzig
Die Stadt Danzig wurde auf Grund ihrer strategischen Bedeutung durch die günstige Lage an der Mündung der Weichsel in die Ostsee zweimal in ihrer Geschichte zur „Freien Stadt“ erklärt: zur Zeit der Napoleonischen Kriege und zwischen dem Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Dieser völkerrechtlich einmalige Status wurde der Stadt gegen den Willen Polens, sowie der überwiegend deutschen Bevölkerung (Volkszählung von 1910: 97.82% deutschsprachig) als auch gegen den Willen der jüdischen Gemeinde in der Stadt verliehen.
Etwa 600 in der Stadt verbliebenen jüdischen Einwohner und hier lebende Polen wurden verhaftet, geschlagen und in Konzentrationslager und Ghettos deportiert (siehe auch KZ Stutthof).
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 Wikinfo | Gdansk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The purpose of this decision was to enable the Poles to use Danzig again as their chief port, while not subordinating the German population of the city to direct Polish rule.
The strong economy of the late 1920s was not well-used by Danzig, as the leaders of the city were more interested in preparing the way for a future reunion with Germany than in developing better relations with Poland.
In October 1939, Danzig, together with the rest of the Polish Corridor to the south and west, became the German Reichsgau (administrative district) of Danzig-West Prussia (Danzig-Westpreussen).
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 Freistaat Danzig
Danzig hatte eine Staatsflagge, die auf rotem Tuch zwei übereinander stehende weiße Kreuze und darüber eine gelbe Krone zeigte.
In den Jahren der Freien Stadt Danzig kam es jedenfalls immer wieder zu Provokationen der Polen, die sich in den letzten Wochen vor Kriegsbeginn so steigerten, daß selbst die mit Polen verbündete englische Regierung sich genötigt sah, Polen vor den Folgen unbedachter Handlungen zu warnen.
Um von Danzig unabhängig zu sein, hatte Polen inzwischen in dem ursprünglichen Fischerdorf Gdingen einen eigenen Hafen gebaut, mit dem es Danzigs Hafen heftige Konkurrenz machte.
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 Danzig Coin Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Recognizing Danzig’s significant potential for trade revenue, Prussia, Germany and Poland vied for control of the land throughout the Middle Ages and well into the 20th century.
Danzig’s coat of arms adorns the obverse side of the coin and the words “Freie Stadt Danzig” proclaim its sovereignty.
This Danzig coin is particularly significant as a cultural expression of a proud heritage – the Free State of Danzig.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gdańsk, formerly Danzig, is a city on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, the biggest city and capital of Eastern Pomerania region, north-western Poland, and a county-status city of Pomeranian Voivodship with a population of 460,000 (2002).
The city was formerly known by the German name of Danzig, reflecting the presence over many centuries of a German-speaking population in the Hanseatic capital, thriving due to extended trade to Netherlands and England of products delivered through the Vistula river.
Initially the new rulers tried to reduce the economic significance of Gdansk, by abolishing the local government and the priviledges of the Lubeck traders, but later they had to accept the fact that Gdansk was the biggest seaport of the region.
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Proclamation of the Free City of Danzig: sailboat in a frame
On 15 November 1920, the Free City of Danzig was formed under the protection of the League of Nations.
Freie Stadt Danzig is German for "Free City of Danzig".
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 Notgeld - Freistaat Danzig / Gdansk - German historical Banknotes
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.
The Free City issued its own stamps and currency, bearing the legend "Freie Stadt Danzig" and symbols of the city's maritime orientation and history.
The Bank von Danzig (Bank of Danzig) was issuing banknotes for the region between 1924 and 1938.
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 Danzig-Online Informationen über Danzig
Danzig, eine der ältesten Handels- und Industriestädte an der Ostsee, liegt fünf Kilometer oberhalb der Weichselmündung in der Danziger Bucht.
Das Weichseldelta mit der Danziger Region war im Laufe der Jahrhunderte bis in die Gegenwart Schauplatz wechselvoller geschichtlicher Ereignisse.
Die Bedeutung Danzigs entwickelte sich aus der geschützten Handelslage als Flussmündungshafen mit einem sich bis zu den Karpaten erstreckenden Hinterland.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Free City of Danzig
The Free City of Danzig refers to either of two short-lived city-states which were centered on the present-day Baltic port known as Gdańsk (German: Danzig).
The Free City of Danzig, sometimes referred to as the Republic of Danzig, was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon on September 9, 1807, during the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was an autonomous city-state established on January 10, 1920.
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 Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku
One year later Regierung Danzig (local state administration office) signed the agreement with the municipal authorities in which the latter transferred the building ground for the future Gdańsk Archive to Prussia at no cost.
The first and most important part of the holdings of the Gdańsk Archive were the historical records of Gdańsk dating from XIV century and later, transferred to the Archive by the City of Gdańsk.
In 1921-1929 the Executive Director of the Staatsarchiv für Freie Stadt Danzig was Dr Joseph Kaufmann who as a matter of fact performed as such since 1915 when the Archive was still Prussian.
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 Gdansk Special celebration names Economy Sports See also Kashubian Boleslaus the Brave Prussian Union German Empire ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gdańsk gdaɲsk (Kashubian: Gduńsk, Latin: Gedania, German: Danzig,) is the 6th largest city in Poland, its principal seaport, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodship.
At the Yalta and the Potsdam conferences, Danzig was transferred to Polish administration, along with most of Pomerania and Silesia and southern East Prussia.
Polish settlers were brought in from the parts of eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union and from other parts of Poland, and Gdańsk was rebuilt from ruins in the 1950s and 1960s to become a major port and industrial centre of communist Peoples Republic of Poland.
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 The world's top gdansk websites
Possesion of Danzig by the Teutonic Order was questioned all the time by the Polish kings Wladyslaw the Elbow High and Casimir the Great what led to a series of bloody wars and legal-suits in the papal court in 1320 and 1333.
In 1440, Danzig joined the nearby Hanseatic cities of Elbing (now Elblag) and Thorn (now Torun) which together with gentry from Pomerania formed the Prussian Confederation, which then asked Casimir IV of Poland for incorporation of whole Prussia into Polish kingdom (February 1454) against the Teutonic Order's rule.
Danzig was surrounded by the Prussian territories until the Second Partition Of Poland (1793), when it was incorporated into the Prussian kingdom as part of the province of West Prussia, reverting at the Congress of Vienna to direct Prussian rule after a brief period (1807–14) as a free city.
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 Freie Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
FREIE STADT DANZIG 28II gestempelt 1920, 2 M. auf 35 Pf FREIE STADT DANZIG 134 gestempelt 1923, 50 M. rotorange
FREIE STADT DANZIG 59,62 gestempelt 1921, 2 und 10 M. FREIE STADT DANZIG 201xa,xb gestempelt 1924/32, 75 Pf.
POLAND 1923 1 GULDEN (KOGA)- "FREIE STADT DANZIG" -AU FREIE STADT DANZIG 237-39 gestempelt 1934, ´Winterhilf
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 Gallery Freie Stadt Danzig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
After the WW II the territory of Free City of Danzig was taken over by Poland.
The City, which comprises the Municipality of Danzig and surrounding territories, was established in conformity with the Treaty of Versailles (Arts, 100-108) and placed under the protection of the League of Nations.
By Decree of 25 Apr 1939 holders resident in Danzig were required to deposit their bonds with the Bank of Danzig for conversion into gulden bonds by being stamped as payable in gulden at the Bank of Danzig (at G25 per Łl).
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 Artistopia Music - Danzig Fanfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
'''Danzig''' is a rock band formed in 1987, whose style combines heavy metal music and alternative metal.
Danzig is a name that permeates, infects, and ultimately makes strong, the very soul of hard rock in the '90s.
Danzig Jewry: A Short History by Gershon C. Bacon Reprinted from Danzig 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed...
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 Glenn Danzig, Danzig Hotel, Hotel In Danzig, Song 16 Danz DA
Danzig, alte Hansestadt und Informationen vom Bund der Deutschen Minderheit, sowie viel Wissenswertes.
Willkommen beim Bund der Deutschen Minderheit in Danzig Neue...
Daraufhin schaltete sich sogar der Papst in den Konflikt ein und drohte der Stadt Danzig mit einem Bann.
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