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Szczecin - Wikipedia  Szczecin is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. Located near the ... In July 1945, however, Polish authorities were permitted to take power. ... The names "Szczecin" and "Stettin" are of Slavic origin, though the exact .... Stettin developed into a major Prussian port and became part of the German...
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Gdansk - New World Encyclopedia  The city's name is thought to originate from the Gdania river, the original name of the ... Postage stamp issued by Nazi Germany to celebrate the return of Danzig into ... controlled the area and traded with the Roman Empire until around 500 C.E. ... Poland built another port on Polish territory at Gdynia, 10 miles (16 km) to the...
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Rebirth of Poland  The Poles wanted to have Danzig [Gdansk] the port city of old Poland, and the .... Pohmorzhe]; the German name, later accepted in the West, was the "Polish ..... not do without Upper Silesian coal, it was allowed to import 500,000 tons per ..... [We learned] that somewhere near Warsaw lies not [only] the center of the Polish...
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Gdask - Wikipedia  Gdask is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's ... Between the world wars, the Free City of Danzig was in a customs union with ... of Latin names reflects the mixed influence of the city's Polish, German and ..... Today Gdask is a major shipping port and tourist destination.
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Klaipda Revolt - Wikipedia  The Klaipda Revolt took place in January 1923 in the Klaipda Region (Memel Territory, ... The activists also eyed Klaipda (Memel), a major sea port in the Baltic Sea. ... Polish Corridor provided access to the Baltic Sea, but the Free City of Danzig .... Reunion with Germany was a political impossibility, but local Germans...
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Another word for germany | Meaning of germany | Synonyms for ...  a city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port; a leading member of the Hanseatic ... a city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr. essen...
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The Major Cities of the World  Taiwan's largest city, it is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the .... is the largest city and principal port of Morocco, located in the western parth of ... Berlin is the capital of Germany, coextensive with Berlin state , NE Germany,...
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Notes on Selected Polish Surnames  12  Polish Genealogical ...  I found your articles and would like to know if you can help me find ... all over the country but with the largest numbers in the provinces of Katowice (670), ..... And you're not imposing on me  people who ask politely about one name at a ..... There are names that Polish experts say derive from Polish bul~ka, bread roll (I'm...
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November 11, 1938 - HITLER SEIZES 20,000 ... - Chicago Tribune  by Sigrid Schultz Nov 11, 1938. U ... BERLIN, Nov. 10.-Systematic de- struction of Jewish property, looting, arson, and ... It is estimated that 20,000 Jews were arrested in Germany and what was Austria. ... Today the mobs gloated over the smashed stores ot Jews. ... Since most of them had no passports many were arrested.
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Gdask - Wikipedia  Gdask is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdask Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot ... In the late Middle Ages it was an important seaport and shipbuilding town,...
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lenin - Search-ID  ... (Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls through a shipyard in Gdansk, Poland.) I'm in what's in now simply called the Gdansk Shipyard; during Polish Communist rule,...
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Polish Corridor - Wikipedia  The Polish Corridor also known as Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdask Corridor, ... The Free City of Danzig (now the Polish city of Gdask) was separate from ... The word corridor is an artificial idea, as this land has been Polish for ... of the Vistula, and their settlements extend from the sources of the river to its...
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Port of Hamburg - Wikipedia  The Port of Hamburg is a German sea port, located on the river Elbe in Hamburg, some 110 kilometres from the mouth of the Elbe into the North Sea. It is Germany's largest port and is named the country's "Gateway to the ... During the second half of the 19th century, Hamburg became Central Europe's main hub for...
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Thousands at Gdansk Shipyard Join Polish Strike - NYTimes.com  May 3, 1988 ... LEAD: Thousands of shipyard workers in Gdansk went on strike ... of the Solidarity trade union and expressing unity with striking workers at a southern steel plant. ... The Lenin Shipyard was the focal point of strikes in August 1980 to ... The strikes represent the most serious labor trouble in Poland since the...
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Braunschweig - Wikipedia  Braunschweig also called Brunswick in English, is a city of 252,768 people (as of 31 December ... Another explanation of the city's name is that it comes from Brand, or burning, indicating a place .... During the Cold War, Braunschweig, then part of West Germany, suffered economically due to its proximity to the Iron Curtain.
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Berlin - Wikipedia  Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its 16 states. With a ... All German place names ending on -ow, -itz and -in, of which there are many east of the ... The central part of Berlin can be traced back to two towns. .... the seat of the German capital from Bonn to Berlin, which was completed in 1999.
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The Largest Deepwater Container Terminal in Poland - Port of Gdansk  The increase in the joint turnover of the 20 major Baltic ports amounted to 170 ... the increase in container shipping volumes within the Baltic Sea region from 3.5...
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Wismar - Wikipedia  Wismar is a port and Hanseatic city in Northern Germany on the Baltic Sea, in the state of ... During the 13th and 14th centuries it was a flourishing Hanseatic town, with ... In World War II Wismar was heavily damaged by Allied air raids. ... as a port and shipbuilding city, becoming East Germany's second-largest port, after...
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The Story of the Gdansk Shipyards | Gdansk - In Your Pocket  Jun 27, 2016 ... The word shipyard is synonymous with Gdansk, due in the main to the social ... small man with a bushy moustache, while in the background hulked the giant ... the bulk of what was once the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk has slowly been ... Now as King Wladyslaw II Jagiello of Poland, Jogaila set about putting...
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Port of Hamburg | Warsaw  The Port of Hamburg is an important hub for the distribution of Polish imports and exports. ... In 2014 the bulk of containers  around 395,000 TEU  were transported by ... services via Hamburg to or from the container terminals in Gdansk, Gdynia ... about 20 container trains run between Hamburg and Poland every week.
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European Rivers & their main ports of call... | CruisingTalk.com  The Danube is the second longest river in Europe after the Volga. ... port and its second largest city lies 70 miles inland on the banks of the Elbe. .... and Germany before reaching the Baltic Sea via a lagoon north of the Polish city of Szczecin. ...... Warsaw lies on the Vistula River, about 240 miles (386 km)...