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	gdansk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gdansk is the starting point of the EuroVelo 9 cycle route which continues on southward through Poland, then onto the Czech Republic, Austria, and Slovenia before it finally ends on the Adriatic Sea at Pula in Croatia.
		Gdansk Voivodship was extended in 1999 to include most of Slupsk Voivodship, western part of Elblag Voivodship and Chojnice County from Bydgoszcz Voivodship to form new Pomeranian Voivodship.
		Gdansk was occupied by the Germans, who started a programme of extermination of all Poles in the region: thousands were executed in the massacres in Zaspa and Piasnica Forest in 1939, thousands more sentenced to Stutthof concentation camp, others were expelled to the General Government.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /gdansk.html (2146 words)

	History of Gdansk - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Before Gdansk was established, the vicinity was inhabited by populations belonging to the various archealogical cultures of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
		Possession of Gdansk 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.
		A list of the 173 mayors of the City of Gdansk from 1347 to March 1945 was compiled by the current Gdansk city government and can be found on their recent website with the invitation for the "First World Gdańsk Reunion", which took place in May 2002.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/History_of_Gdansk (3312 words)

	GDANSK
		The capital of Poland's "Pomorze" province, the city of Gdansk is located at the mouth of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea.
		Gdansk is part of the Trojmiasto, or Three-City, urban area, made up of the towns of Gdansk, Gdynia, and Sopot.
		In 1772 Gdansk was seized by Prussia, and in 1793 it became part of that country.
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	Gdańsk
		This was accompanied by an incredible industrial expansion of Gdansk which multiplied the grain export and kept the position of the monopolist in the export of timber and its by-products.
		The commitment of Gdansk in defending the rights to the Polish throne for the king Stanislaw Leszczynski ended in the towns siege of the Russian-Saxon army in 1734 which led to the towns capitulation and a large contribution being levied by the victors.
		The development of the Gdansk harbour and shipyard were additionally strongly hampered by the regions of building limitations connected with the fortress and including areas along the both banks of the Vistula down to its mouth.
	sabaoth.infoserve.pl /danzig-online/hge.html (2391 words)

	Gdansk History
		Gdansk, for its loyalty was recompensated with privileges which gave it independence as it could become a free city - Gdansk.
		In the XVI century, Gdansk was told as about the Granary of Europe because of the amount of crops which was traded in the port.
		The present history of Gdansk is chiefly associated with the working anticommunist movement "Solidarnosc" and his leader Lech Walesa.
	www.experiencepoland.com /gdanskhistory.html (371 words)

	Poland - Gdansk - History, Gdansk, Lodging - Poland: Homepage, Europe
		Gdansk was annexed to Germany from Sept. 1, 1939, until its fall to the Soviet army early in 1945.
		Gdansk was the scene of anti-government demonstrations which led to the downfall of Poland's communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka in December 1970.
		Ten years later the Gdansk Shipyard was the birthplace of the Solidarity trade union movement, whose opposition to the government led to the end of communist party rule (1989); Solidarity's leader Lech Walesa became the Polish president in 1990.
	www.hotels-romania.com /site/polan_72925.htm (748 words)

	The Past as Palimpsest: SR, January 2003
		While the official version of history insisted on homogeneity when dealing with the past of the region which for centuries was a contested Polish-German borderland, writers of the younger generation have engaged in redefining the cultural identity of their homeland by rediscovering its multicultural past.
		Gdansk became one of such "reclaimed territories." It is perhaps in the nature of things that these adopted Heimats were to engender a passionate commitment and a sense of belonging, on a scale previously only encountered in relation to the Kresy literature.
		Thus the Gdansk school of writers seems to hold to an anti-Enlightenment view that the past is hardly knowable, in the traditional sense, and that any account of it is a reconstruction and a reading of traces, and as such is filtered through the imperfect human intelligence and anchored in a specific time and place.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/103/231hali.html (4195 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gdansk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gdańsk is situated at the mouth of the Motława river, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the Vistula, whose waterway system connects 60% of the area of Poland, giving the city a unique advantage as the center of Poland's sea trade.
		Main article: History of Gdansk, see also: History of Pomerania History Early times Before Gdansk was established, the vicinity was inhabited by populations belonging to the various archealogical cultures of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
		History The university was established in 1970 by the amalgamation of the Higher School of Economics in Sopot (existing since 1945) and Gdańsk College of Education (formed in 1946).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gdansk (8023 words)

	WorldTravelGate.net® - The History of the city of Gdansk,Poland
		For Gdansk, apart from this obvious and subjectively-written history, so dear to each of its citizens, possesses also the dimension of a city-symbol, and as such it transcends its individual, regional and national significance, becoming a universal value.
		The next significant date for Gdansk was the year 1224, when merchants from Lubeck, at that time the greatest experts in the difficult craft of trade, arrived and settled in the town.
		In Gdansk memories are still fresh of the conference which took place in the memorable year of 1997, when the city was celebrating its millennium.
	www.eurotravelling.net /poland/gdansk/gdansk_history.htm (1270 words)

	History of Gdańsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This move set both sides in the conflict that marks the history of the Free City of Danzig.
		A customs union with Poland was created by the victorious allies of WWI, which gave the Danzig Westerplatte port to the Polish republic; it became the Polish military transit depot.
		The official German history estimates that about 100,000 Danzigers — a quarter of the city's pre-war population — lost their lives in the war, through Nazi repression, the civilian evacuation, and the Soviet capture of the city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Gdansk (3415 words)

	Krzysztof M Dudek Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1148, the Gdansk Castle was built, in which the delegates of the Kingdom of Poland had their house.
		Until XVII century, Gdansk was the richest city at the Baltic Sea and the largest port.
		Gdansk is located some 400 kilometres north of Warsaw, at the Baltic Sea and with Gdynia and Sopot, it creates the Three City (Trojmiasto).
	homepage.mac.com /krisek/gdansk_en.html (351 words)

	History of Gdansk -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During the course of the war, Gdansk was seized (November 1308) by the (additional info and facts about Teutonic Knights) Teutonic Knights, called in by (additional info and facts about Wladyslaw the Elbow High) Wladyslaw the Elbow High of Poland.
		German incorporation of Gdansk was one of nationalistic territorial claims that every government of the (The German republic founded at Weimar in 1919) Weimar Republic put on its agenda.
		The question of Polish sovereignty over Gdansk was eventually resolved after the treaties with (A republic in north central Europe on the Baltic; established by the Soviet Union in 1954; reunified with West Germany in 1990) East Germany 1950, West Germany 1970 and United Germany 1990.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_gdansk.htm (3577 words)

	VISION OF CHANGE
		Gdansk was being destroyed, plundered and burned to the ground for many times.
		In 1939, Gdansk was the place, where the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century - II World war- began.
		The strike in the Gdansk Shipyard and the former workers’ tragedy in 1970 initiated the collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe and began the new era in the European history.
	estiem.zie.pg.gda.pl /vision2005/index.php?site=61 (609 words)

	History of Gdansk
		Possesion of Gdansk 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.
		The city's prosperity was severely damaged, however, by the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and the Northern Wars (1655-1660), and it suffered an epidemic of bubonic plague in 1709.
		The official German history estimates that about 100,000 Danzigers - a quarter of the city's prewar population - lost their lives in the war, including the evacuation and Soviet capture of the city.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/history_of_gdansk (3263 words)

	UBC - Project Gallery / Cultural institutions / Gdansk
		Gdansk is the capital city of the largest province in northern Poland.
		The ports of Gdansk and Gdynia are the meeting points between Scandinavia and Central Europe, and between Western Europe and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
		The city of Gdansk was from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century ruled by the Teutonic Knight, who had their European capital in Malbork, 60 km south of Gdansk.
	www.ubc.net /gallery/cultural/gdansk.html (541 words)

	Gdansk article - Gdansk Danzig (disambiguation) Motto Paweł Adamowicz Area Population - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the following years Gdansk was the main centre of a Polish splinter duchy ruled by the dynasty of Dukes of Pomerania.
		Gdansk has become a flourishing trading city with some 10,000 inhabitants by the year 1308 when it was occupied and demolished by the Teutonic Knights (the Gdańsk massacre of November 13, 1308).
		In 1440 it participated in the foundation of the Prussian Union which led to the Thirteen Years War (1454-1644) and the incorporation of Gdansk Pomerania, under direct rule of the Polish Crown.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Gdansk (2332 words)

	The history of the Technical University of Gdańsk
		It is a part of the history of Gdańsk, which has recently celebrated its millennium.
		The old antagonisms should remain history and the awareness of them ought to give an impulse for eliminating them from present and future", and those of François Mitterand: "This is the past which demands from us to bring to the end the task undertaken the morrow day after the great defeat...
		We regard with respect the conscientious scientific works of previous generations and we are looking for the base of understanding in the domain of science and education, we treat with responsibility challenges of the future.
	www.pg.gda.pl /wil/pehgo2000/hist1en.html (795 words)

	History of Gdansk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Before Gdansk was established, the vicinity was inhabited by populations belonging to the various archealogical cultures ofthe Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
		From the 14th century until the mid- 17th century Gdansk experienced rapid growth, becoming the largest city on the Baltic seaboard by the 16th century owing to its large trade with the Netherlands and its handling of mostof Poland's seaborne trade, transported up north via the Vistula river.
		The official German history estimates that about 100,000 Danzigers - a quarter of the city's prewar population - lost theirlives in the war, including the evacuation and Soviet capture of the city.
	www.therfcc.org /history-of-gdansk-222032.html (2942 words)

	Gdansk -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Waterfront of Gdansk, Poland, on the Motlawa River.
		First mentioned as a Polish city in 997 or 999, Gdansk was part of the Polish diocese of Wloclawek, as noted in a papal bull of 1148.
		The shipyards of Gdansk gained fame in the 1980s as the birthplace of Solidarity, the first independent labor union in a Soviet-controlled country.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036271?tocId=9036271 (601 words)

	Gdansk Poland - Gdansk - 1000 years of history...
		Gdansk is a beautiful town, full of monuments and historical places.
		Gdansk has almost half a million inhabitants and is dynamically growing.
		Gdansk was also the cradle of "Solidarity" movement - it is only 10 min.
	www.globosapiens.net /backpacking/Gdansk-392.html (573 words)

	Polish National Tourist Office
		Gdansk is possibly the best known of the three.
		Gdansk has had a tumultuous history, with citizens from Germany, Poland and abroad contributing to its cosmopolitan air.
		Also near Gdansk is the suburb of Oliwa, the site of an immense cathedral whose impeccable acoustics capture the magnificent sounds of the great organ during public recitals.
	www.polandtour.org /regionsandcities/cityguide/gdansk.html (468 words)

	POLISH NEWS - Explore Poland - GDANSK, POLAND. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gdansk, a city of beauty, history, the arts and if that weren't enough, of aSt Mary`s Church in Gdañsk is Europe`s biggest mediaeval brick church.
		For those wishing to investigate Poland's recent history, the Gdansk shipyard and shipyard workers monument on Plac Solidarnosci Robotniczej, are an essential stop.
		We chose to explore the "Museum of the History of Gdansk" which is housed in the 14th century Main Town Hall.
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/explore/2001/explore66_1.shtml (779 words)

	Gdansk - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tensions arising from quarrels between Germany and Poland over control of the Free City served as a pretext for the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and the outbreak of World War II.
		Gdańsk was the scene of anti-government demonstrations which led to the downfall of Poland's communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka in December 1970.
		Gdansk, Names, Historical documents, Special celebration names, History, Historical summary, Historical population, Economy, Culture, Tourism, Tranportation, Sports, Politics and Local Government, Regional center, Education and Science, Scientific and regional organizations, See also and External links.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Danzig (1966 words)

	Salon Wanderlust \| History and hallucination
		And it is history clarified by hallucination, where things are a little more exact than they ought to be, legendary champions live on bus routes and insubstantial battle cruisers kill soldiers long since dead.
		The prime Gdansk illusion is central Gdansk itself -- Old Danzig, that is, which was for centuries one of the great seaports of the Hanseatic League and a lordly center of Baltic commerce, culture and diplomacy.
		This is very good for me, because sometimes during my stay in Gdansk I began to feel that the sham and the genuine were disturbingly confused here, past and present all mixed up, the very conception of old and new made meaningless.
	www.salon.com /wlust/feature/1998/01/05feature.html (1155 words)

	ISSHAC History
		The fifth symposium was held in Gdansk (Danzig) one of the most beautiful historical port cities in Northern Europe.
		We bow our heads low to the history of the city, the history of Gdańsk is full of momentous and grand events, but also even tragic happenings.
		The city of Gdansk is the place where the Second World War began in 1939, and the city where the political "Solidarity" movement was born in 1980, bringing the communist system in Europe to collapse.
	vega.umcs.lublin.pl /isshac/history.php (709 words)

	Magic of Gdańsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The history of Gdańsk, now more than a thousand years long, was rich in dramatic events.
		The main feature of the people of Gdańsk was always their love of freedom, often manifested in its history.
		Hugo Conventz (1855-1922), director of the museum of Natural History, was the founder of scientific environment protection.
	ecis2002.univ.gda.pl /magic2.html (2207 words)

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