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  Gdansk
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.
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 Wikinfo | Gdansk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
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.
During the course of the war, Gdansk was seized (November 1308) by the Teutonic Knights, called in by Wladislaw Lokietek of Poland.
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 most of Poland's seaborne trade, transported up north via the Vistula river.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Gdansk   (3752 words)

  
 Gdansk | Gdansk City | Gdansk Life
This was indeed one of the great Hanseatic cities, and post-war conservators have done a marvellous job in recreating the splendour of old Gdansk (the claim that it is difficult to tell where new elements fuse with the old is often true).
An area of Gdansk that is certainly not conventionally attractive, but nevertheless of considerable historic resonance, is the stretch of the Stocznia Gdansk - the Gdansk shipyards.
Gdansk can be very quiet in winter, in which case the bright lights of Sopot may do the trick.
www.gdansk-life.com /guide/Gdansk/tour.php   (513 words)

  
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Gdansk lies on three of Poland’s major highways: the E75 from the south, the E28 from the west and the E77 from the east.
Gdansk’s new-found prosperity in the wake of liberalisation has pushed up the number of tourists coming to the city, and there are, consequently, many more accommodation options than there were two decades ago.
Gdansk has a reasonably lively nightlife; bars and pubs are scattered all across the city, and there are a number of discotheques and nightclubs as well.
www.journeymart.com /DExplorer/Europe/Poland/Gdansk?SubLink=DExplorer/Europe/Poland/Gdansk/viAround_Inc.htm   (2370 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Oliwa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Oliwa is one of the quarters of Gdansk since 1926.
The city goes down into bankruptcy and eventually becomes one of the quarters of Gdansk.
Oliwa (Oliva) is one of the quarters of Danzig, (since 1945 Gdansk.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Oliwa   (7770 words)

  
 Peter Lacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three years later, Lacy succeeded Repnin in command of the Russian forces quartered in Livland, and in 1729 he was appointed Governor of Riga.
In 1733, Lacy and Munnich expelled the Polish king, Stanislaw Leszczynski, from Warsaw to Gdansk, which was besieged by them in 1734.
Thereupon the Irishman was commanded to march towards the Rhine and join his 13,500-strong contingent with the forces of Eugene of Savoy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Lacy   (775 words)

  
 Gdansk  Northern Europe/Baltic Sea - Cruise Reivews.com
Gdansk, originally called Danzig has origins that date back to the 10th century, forged by years of Prussian and Hanseatic domination.
Enter Gdansk from its gateway port of Gdynia and discover one of the oldest, most important, and most beautiful cities in the Baltic.
Gdansk was once the nation's chief trading hub as well as its cultural center.
www.cruise-reviews.com /port_info/port_detail.asp?fPortID=302   (1334 words)

  
 Gdansk  Poland  - John Paul ll - In Your Pocket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Born as Karol Wojtyla in 1920, he went on to become the youngest pope of the century, as well as the third longest serving pontiff in history.
Later he met teenagers on the Westerplatte peninsula, speaking how each person would one day face their own private Westerplatte; a situation where you face extreme opposition and have to fight for your beliefs.
However it is the city of Krakow that is most commonly associated with him, and the city will long remember his visit in 2002 – which drew a staggering crowd of 2.5 million fans to Błonie field.
www.inyourpocket.com /poland/gdansk/en/feature?id=55714   (846 words)

  
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Gdansk, ever since it was founded a thousand years ago, has been in the news.
This is the city which, clinging to the rim of the Baltic, has had changes of fortune as abrupt and unpredictable as the city’s weather.
Gdansk has been rich and it has been poor; it has been free and it has been captive.
journeymart.com /DExplorer/Europe/Poland/Gdansk?.../viAround_Inc.htm   (249 words)

  
 (Poland: History of its Elective Democracy)
The parliamentary quarters of the castle consist of the Hall of the Deputies, also known as "the Hall under the Heads," and of the Senate Chamber.
In the new quarters, the Seym debates on controversial issues attracted many spectators, who often spilled over from the overcrowded galleries onto the ground floor and stood in the aisles, or took up vacant seats intended for the legislators.
In Warsaw, the former parliamentary quarters in the Castle of Warsaw were demolished in the late 1830s on the orders of Emperor Nicholas I as an act of vengeance for the act of his dethronement passed by the Seym in 1831.
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 Gdansk apartments - holiday apartments throughout Gdansk
Gdansk apartment rentals:The most important city of northern Poland, Gdansk sits on the Baltic Sea and is near many of Poland's most popular resorts.
This bright and modern apartment is situated in a Gdansk townhouse.
Strolling the historic quarters and visiting its museums and churches is an engaging way to pass a few days, but outside the city centre Gdansk offers easy access to beaches and natural areas.
www.selfcateringhols.com /region.php?id=72&affid=VA479   (733 words)

  
 THE OCCURRENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES IN POLAND, IN THE 3rd QUARTER, 1998
The occurrences reported in the period of the 3rd quarter of 1998, were registered in the area of 15 Voivodships.
The occurrences registered during the 3rd quarter of 1998 stand for 37.0% total occurrences which were registered during three quarters of 1998.
During the 3rd quarter 1998, supervision was carried out over removing off the effects of those occurrences, rehabilitation of the environment has not been completed for by the end of the 2nd quarter 1998.
www.mos.gov.pl /1materialy_informacyjne/archiwum/zagrozenia_srodowiska/IIIkwartal/anal3_8_eng.htm   (3514 words)

  
 Gdansk  Poland - In Your Pocket
A trading stronghold from the middle ages, this handsome town was the cradle of two of the most important events of the 20th century; the start of WWII, and the birthplace of the Solidarity movement.
August marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the August Accords in the Gdańsk shipyards: a key moment in history which many regard as the spark that inspired the fall of communism.
Gdansk In Your Pocket is the most comprehensive guide you will find covering the city, and includes everything from hotel and restaurant listings to bars, clubs and museums.
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 Silversea Cruises (1-800-845-1717) Gdansk Poland
With its origins going back to the 10th century, prewar Gdansk or Danzig as it was known then was forged by years of Prussian and Hanseatic domination.
Gdynia is the modern port for Gdansk, which is perhaps the most familiar city in Poland.
Near Gdansk lies Sopot, one of the oldest resorts on the Baltic Sea.
www.deluxecruises.com /silversea/silversea_port_description/Silversea_Gdansk_Poland.htm   (359 words)

  
 Gdansk Travel Tips - Gdansk Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
What remains is an evening with old Russian orthodox chorus music, the Dom with the grave of Immanuel Kant and a city where even the historical remains after World War II have been razed to the ground by the Soviets.
The city of Gdansk (Danzig) Again, just to high lighten the importance of knowing the history of this area: In 1945 Danzig became Polish for the first time after 1308.
Knowing that Gdansk was basically destroyed to a 100% during World War II, one can hardly imagine which efforts the Polish government ahs put in to reconstruct the houses in their original way already shortly after the war, as resource had been scarce everywhere.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Poland/Wojewodztwo_Pomorskie/Gdansk-498698/General_Tips-Gdansk-R-8.html   (1087 words)

  
 Talk:Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If Pomerania had steered clear of Warsaw rule then it may have been a seperate state with an administrative seat in Gdansk and then it is highly unlikely that the Pomeranians would class themselves as Polish subnationals when in fact they are already a Slav subnation.
If the people of Bielsko were to speak in their own dialect totally decentralized from the standard language, then their speech is very different, and closer to the Czech spoken in Ostrava.
Gdansk USED to be used as 'Danzig' in English, but after the Cold War we began to use Gdansk (no accent).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Poland   (7771 words)

  
 Polish Economic Reform: A Class Analysis
In Poland, for example, the intellectual and student movement of 1968 and the Gdansk Shipyard workers' uprising in 1970 gave birth to the reform-minded Gierek government.
The focus of the first section is devoted to the examination of the collapse of the Polish regime, and the role of Solidarity in that collapse.
In the second section, the question of how it was possible for Gdansk shipyard workers to construct their own organization (Solidarity) in 1980 against the all pervasive power of party-state and the official trade union is examined.
www.eco.utexas.edu /faculty/Cleaver/rieprop.html   (14842 words)

  
 The Virtual FormGuide - Media Releases - Victoria Park Race Report
A son of Northern Drake, the winner of five races, one of which was the Melbourne Racing Club's Yalumba Stakes and a second in the 1998 WS Cox Plate, Idalou is out of a Roi Danzig mare Gdansk Danzer the winner of two races.
Starting at $17 and trained by Gordon Richards Surround Glory was not sighted in the early and middle stages but came with a strong run on the outside in the straight to gain a one length win.
The John Macmillan prepared and Matthew Gatt ridden Ramanikov $8-50 ran second with a further one and a quarter lengths away third being the Dennis O'Leary trained and Kayla Stra piloted Kid Dapper $6 who was always in contention.
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 Anna M   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
A police officer lost his nerve and shot one of the workers; the worker's colleagues set fire to the building, and the staff had to be evacuated from the roof by helicopter.
In Gdansk, workers were forced to run the gauntlet between policemen armed with sticks and truncheons.
A monument was built in memory of the Gdansk workers killed on December 16, 1970.
raven.cc.ku.edu /~eceurope/hist557/lect18a.htm   (12245 words)

  
 GoPoland! Web Travel Guide to Poland
"Gdansk Destroyed and Reconstructed" - photo exhibit, history of the Town Hall interiors, city's artistic craft.
Gdansk furniture, history of furniture making in Gdansk and East Pomerania, foreign paintings.
History of interior decorating of Gdansk living quarters, especially middle class.
www.gopoland.com /wheretogo/gdansk/museums   (245 words)

  
 Rough Guides Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Gdansk's National Museum located on ul Torunska south of the Main Town is a treasure-trove of fine fabrics, ornate silverware, elaborately carved furniture, porcelain and paintings.
Gdansk is a huge city of half a million people.
Consisting of three historic quarters, Gdansk's centre is crammed with attractions, most of which are confined to the Main Town.
travel.roughguides.com /planning/journalEntryOverview.asp?JournalID=29073   (614 words)

  
 Florilegium urbanum - Tolls and customs - Exports to northern Europe, and customs levied thereon at Lynn
From Ralph de Bedyngham for 310 quarters of wheat, 63 quarters of beans and peas, 3 pieces of broad cloth, 4 pieces of narrow cloth, worth £87.13s.
From the same Adam for 12 quarters of wheat, 12 quarters of oats, 12 quarters of beans, worth 110s.
From John Spicer for 200 quarters of wheat, 20 quarters of oats, 40 quarters of rye, worth £62.6s.8d
www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/florilegium/economy/ectol16.html   (6756 words)

  
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Towards the end of the 16th century the flood of immigration abated and new communities were founded generally as a result of the movement of the population from the crowded districts to new quarters.
The restrictions imposed on the territorial expansion of Jewish quarters forced the Jews to seek the privlegia de non tolerandis christianis, or bans on Christian settlement in Jewish quarters.
In the first quarter of the 16th century, Jewish lease holders performed their functions as full-fledged heads of enterprises subordinated to them, for example salt mines and customs offices.
www2.dsu.nodak.edu /users/dmeier/Holocaust/ghettoization.html   (20696 words)

  
 History of Theresienstadt before it became a Jewish ghetto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Although his mother, Empress Maria Theresa, was an anti-Semite who had expelled the Jews from the Austrian empire for three years, Joseph II was an enlightened monarch who emancipated the Jews of Prague when he became Emperor in 1780 after the death of his mother.
The post-war country of Germany was reduced to three quarters of the size it had been when it was formed in 1871 and the long reign of the Hohenzollern family came to an end.
At the heart of the dispute was the free city of Gdansk, formerly the German city of Danzig, with its 100% German population, which was taken from the Germans in the Treaty of Versailles.
www.scrapbookpages.com /CzechRepublic/Theresienstadt/TheresienstadtGhetto/History/TheresienstadtHistory.html   (2858 words)

  
 Cruise liners at the Westerplatte Ferry Terminal
Although this number is still considerably small as compared with about 90 calls reported annually at the Port of Gdynia, this year's increased rate gives evidence to the attractiveness of the Port of Gdansk to passengers sailing on board cruise liners.
This is due to numerous attractions awaiting tourists in Gdansk (especially its historic quarters) and its vicinity, as well as an easy access from the port to the city centre.
- those are vital arguments in support of the Port of Gdansk as is confirmed by opinions of specialists operating in the tourism industry.
www.portgdansk.pl /index.php?id=230&lg=en   (374 words)

  
 ROOTS
The history and the wars have resulted in the disappearance of 27 cemeteries of various religions from Gdansk.
The thus created fields of the nave are covered with stone slabs.
In the aisles, the quarters are set out only by a kerb made of light-coloured stones.
roots.gdansk.pl /en/miejsca/miejsca_03.php   (751 words)

  
 GDANSK LECH WALESA AIRPORT
Wizz Air flies a young fleet of 180 seater Airbus A320 aircraft from Katowice, Warsaw, Gdansk and Poznan in Poland, from Budapest in Hungary and from Sofia in Bulgaria on 33 European routes to 19 destinations currently.
Gdansk will be the airline’s fourth crew base and the third in Poland.
Closest plans concerning development of cheap airline Wizz Air in Gdansk region were theme of meeting, foundation of bases in Gdansk and influence on economy of Pomerania Region.
www.airport.gdansk.pl /service/en/index2.php?click=aktualnosci&year=2005   (10556 words)

  
 SEND International Christian World Missions
This is the European Lowlands between the Baltic Sea and the arc of the Carpathian Mountains.
The major historical cities of Warsaw, Krakow, Sandomierz, Kazimierz, Plock, Torun and Gdansk were built along the Vistula river.
Modern architecture coexists with 800 year old historical quarters: like the Old towns of Warsaw and Gdansk, Krakow's center, and the market places of Kazimierz and Sandomierz.
www.send.org /poland/geography.htm   (279 words)

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