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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). |
 | | In 1000 Gdańsk belonged to the Pomeranian province of Poland, and to the bishopric in Kolobrzeg, from ca 1015 to the Pomeranian bishopric in Kruszwica, and in 1124 the town had been assigned to the diocese of Wloclawek (Cuiavia and Pomerania), while several crusades were ordered by the popes, to 'christianize' the pagan Prussians. |
 | | 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. |
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