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Poland - Wikipedia  Location of Poland (dark green).  in Europe (green & dark grey)  in the European Union .... This union formed the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest and ..... capital city of Warsaw replaced Gdask (Danzig) as the leading centre of commerce, ...... Port of Szczecin is a center for the shipbuilding industry.
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Poland facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ...  Situated in Eastern Europe, Poland has an area of 312,680 sq km (120,726 sq mi), ... Poland's capital city, Warsaw, is located in the east central part of the country. .... In 2005, the Polish Ministry of Labor reported that 500,000 Poles were legally ..... The center of labor activity was the Lenin Shipyard in Gdask, where in a...
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jeopardy/1954_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THIS MUST BE POLAND | Gdynia's neighbor, this city of about 500,000 is one of Europe's shipbuilding centers | Gdansk. right: Susan. Wrong: Value: $400.
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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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Redeveloping Waterfront Brownfields Ideas ... - CCIM Foundation  Dec 5, 2012 ... Regeneration of Shipyards on Three Continents ... respond to today's challenges and to the needs of urban centers with .... 1. United States: Waterfront Redevelopment in a World-wide .... States and Europe but all but unknown in China. .... factories or gas stations and make brownfields an obstacle to city...
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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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poland predicts modest growth in cargo handling at two ports  May 24, 1988 ... Poland is predicting a modest expansion in cargo handling at two of ... at two of the country's major Baltic ports, Gdansk and Gdynia, as the ... been an increase in timber and crude oil shipments through the Port of Gdansk ... in port facilities for coping with bulk cargoes such as crude oil, coal, sulfur and soda...
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Free Flashcards about EUROPE - StudyStack  IN SPAIN THIS SECOND-LARGEST CITY IS A MAJOR PORT ON THE ... LOCATED ON THE THAMES RIVER, IT'S BEEN EUROPE'S LARGEST CITY SINCE ABOUT ... SMOLENSK, MOGILEV, & KIEV ARE MAJOR PORTS LYING ON THIS,...
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Gdask travel guide - Wikitravel  The city, along with neighbouring Sopot and Gdynia to the north, is part of the Tricity ... Under the Teutonic Knights, Gdask (then increasingly known by its German ... Approved during the Yalta Conference, Danzig (now under its Polish name .... to other areas in the province or in the immediate vicinity outside of the Tricity.
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Solidarity Gdansk Poland - Local Life  In July of 1980, the Polish government - facing economic crisis - was again forced ... In Gdansk, at the then 'Lenin Shipyards', the shipyard workers were unified by ... The first independent labor union in the Soviet Bloc, Solidarity's existence was .... Communism had collapsed in Poland and within months the famous Wall in...
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The decline of the UK shipbuilding industry was not inevitable | Dan ...  Nov 6, 2013 ... The boom lasted well beyond the second world war. According to consultancy IHS, 134 vessels  1.47m gross tonnes of ... Even Royal Navy tankers are being built in the vast shipyards of South Korea now. ... So how you survived in higher-cost countries was more sophisticated ships like cruise ships.
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Piraeus, the Port of Athens Greece - Greece Travel - About.com  Piraeus has been the Port of Athens for more than 2500 years, feeding the capital city with ships filled with traders, goods, pilgrims, and now, tourists.
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Odessa - Wikipedia  Odessa or Odesa is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major seaport and ... Although Odessa is located in between the ancient Greek cities of Tyras and Olbia, ... Yedisan Crimean Tatars traded there in the 14th century. ... In their settlement, also known as Novaya Slobodka, the Moldavians owned relatively small...
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Ukrayina - The unfinished Slava cruiser - DefenceTalk Forum ...  Due to recent events between Ukraine and Russia, any co-operation to complete the ship is probably out of question. The ship was launched in...
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STRIKE | Film Journal International  Jun 20, 2007 ... A 1980 labor strike in a shipyard in Gdansk quickly spread to other Polish cities, altering the political landscape ... In Schlndorff's narrative film Strike, we witness the growth of Poland's Solidarity ... Soon, the Soviet government is forced to negotiate with the strikers and to allow the formation of labor unions.
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Usurio:Wagner (Brasil)/Teste  Wikipdia, a enciclopdia livre  Located in the east-central part of the country, Warsaw is also the capital of ... It is a phoenix that has risen repeatedly from the ashes of war. ... lies on the Vistula (Wisa) River, about 240 miles (386 km) southeast of the Baltic coast city of Gdask. ... The statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Dzieryski), founder of the Soviet...
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The Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Brig Niagara  As sister ships, the Lawrence and the Niagara were built with exactly the ... the fleet of ships, including the Niagara, had a great impact on the city of Erie at the time. ... Oliver Hazard Perry was chosen to command the fleet against the British. ... Museum opened and is now the location of the home port of the brig Niagara.
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Tricity, Poland - Wikipedia  Tricity, or Tri-City is a metropolitan area in Poland consisting of three cities in Pomerania: Gdask, Gdynia and Sopot, .... The most known football clubs are Lechia Gdask and Arka Gdynia, both of which also possess highly ... Wybrzee Gdask are the Tricity's speedway team, formerly a multi-sports club, now its only other...
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University of Warsaw | Greco-Roman cities  Sep 7, 2015 ... The conference marks the 20th anniversary of the Polish-Egyptian Conservation Mission in Marina el-Alamein operating under the auspices of...
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Poland | Britannica.com  It is a phoenix that has risen repeatedly from the ashes of war. ... situated in Dolny lsk (Lower Silesia), Wrocaw is the fourth largest city in Poland. ... (province), northern Poland, situated at the mouth of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea.
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Potemkin | Russian warship | Britannica.com  in Odessa (Ukraine) ...second most important port, after St. Petersburg; grain was its principal export. The city was one of the chief centres of the Revolution of 1905 and was the scene of the mutiny on the warship Potemkin; Sergey Eisenstein's...