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The Free City of Danzig (French: Ville libre de Dantzig; German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk), sometimes referred to as the Republic of Danzig (French: République de Dantzig; German: Republik Danzig), was a semi-independent city-state established by Napoleon on 21 July 1807, during the time of the Napoleonic Wars following the capture of the city in the siege of Danzig in ...
On 9 September 1807, Napoleon established the Free City of Danzig, as a semi-independent state. This territory was carved from lands that comprised part of the Kingdom of Prussia , consisting of the city of Danzig (now known as Gdańsk ) along with its rural possessions on the mouth of Vistula , together with the Hel Peninsula and the southern ...
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]
Briefly becoming a free city during Napoleonic Wars, it was again Prussian after Napoleon's defeat, and later became part of the newly created German Empire. After World War I the Free City of Danzig was created, a city-state under the supervision of the League of Nations.
The Treaty of Tilsit of 1807 had made Danzig a Free City nominally under Prussian control. [2] It was sited at the mouth of the River Vistula and along the coast of the Baltic Sea and then had 60,000 inhabitants. It was also a major supply depot for Napoleon's force, with large quantities of food, munitions, forage, weapons, clothing and ...
The Free City of Danzig included the major city of Danzig as well as Zoppot , Tiegenhof (Nowy Dwór Gdański), Neuteich and some 252 villages and 63 hamlets. Covering a total area of 1,966 square kilometers (754 sq mi), the territory was roughly twice the size of the Napoleonic statelet.
General Count Rapp. General Count Jean Rapp (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʁap]; 27 April 1771 – 8 November 1821) was a French Army officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars and twice governor of the Free City of Danzig.
Free City of Lübeck, from 1226 to 1937 in what is now Germany; Free City of Cracow, 1815–1846, in what is now Poland; Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic), established by Napoleon, and Free City of Danzig, created after World War I, two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańsk, Poland