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 | | 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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