Gdansk, Poland

Gdańsk (English pronunciation: /ɡəˈdɑːnsk/; Polish [ˈɡdaɲsk] ( listen); German: Danzig, pronounced [ˈdantsɪç]  ( listen); Kashubian: Gduńsk; Latin: Gedania, Dantiscum) is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is also historically the largest... Read More

Gdańsk (English pronunciation: /ɡəˈdɑːnsk/; Polish [ˈɡdaɲsk] ( listen); German: Danzig, pronounced [ˈdantsɪç]  ( listen); Kashubian: Gduńsk; Latin: Gedania, Dantiscum) is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is also historically the largest city of the Kashubian region. The city is close to the former boundary between West Slavic and Germanic lands and it has a complex political history with long spells of Polish rule interspersed with periods of German control and two spells as a free city. For much of its history the majority of its inhabitants were German-speakers who referred to their city as Danzig, but after World War II it again became part of Poland. See Less