Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Gdańsk [a] is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, ...
It remains today a major port and industrial city. A list of the 173 mayors of the city from 1347 to March 1945 was compiled by the current Gdańsk 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. [138]
The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas. [4]
The Free City of Danzig (now the Polish cities of Gdańsk, Sopot and the surrounding areas), situated to the east of the corridor, was a semi-independent German speaking city-state forming part of neither Germany nor Poland, though united with the latter through an imposed union covering customs, mail, foreign policy, railways as well as defence.
Regional business newspapers also started in 2004, covering Warsaw (Biznes Warszawski), Gdansk/Gdynia (Biznes Trojmiejski), Poznan (Biznes Poznanski), Wroclaw (Biznes Wroclawski), and Slask (Biznes Slaski). These biweeklies are modeled on the U.S. business journal model.
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Gdańsk shipyards have fallen on hard times. Once a place of work for over 20,000 people, the Gdańsk shipyards employ 2,200 workers today. [8] The European Union has backed a restructuring plan for the shipyard. [9] [10] About 77 companies operate on the grounds of the shipyards, including GSG Towers, which builds steel towers for wind ...
St. Mary's Church (Polish: Bazylika Mariacka, German: St. Marienkirche) [a] is a Roman Catholic church and co-cathedral located in central Gdańsk, Poland.Completed in 1502 in the Brick Gothic architectural style, it is one of the world's largest brick churches and among the city's most important landmarks, known to its inhabitants as the Crown of Gdańsk (Polish: Korona Gdańska).