Gdansk

"Gdansk (en polaco: Gdask, pronunciado Acerca de este sonido ['dask] (?·i); en casubio: Gdusk; en alemán: Danzig, pronunciado Acerca de este sonido [dantsç] (?·i)) es la sexta mayor ciudad de Polonia y la mayor ciudad portuaria de este país. Entre 1975 y 1998 fue capital del desaparecido Voivodato de Gdansk y, desde 1998, es la capital del voivodato de Pomerania. En esta ciudad se encuentra el famoso astillero donde se fundó el sindicato Solidaridad. Gdansk, junto con las ciudades vecinas de Gdynia y Sopot, constituyen un área metropolitana llamada en polaco Trójmiasto ("Trípoli", "Triciudad" o "Triple Ciudad"). Su nombre alemán es Danzig, nombre que fue oficial bajo el dominio de la Orden Teutónica (1308-1454) y en la época contemporánea entre 1793 y 1945. Tras la expulsión del ejército alemán de la ciudad durante la II Guerra Mundial, la ciudad pasó a estar bajo la administración del Ejército Rojo en un primer momento y, más tarde, fue integrada a la República Popular de Polonia, a la que perteneció hasta la caída del telón de acero en los años 90, cuando este Estado cambió su nombre por el de República de Polonia (Rzeczpospolita Polska), a la cual pertenece actualmente."

"Gdask (Polish pronunciation: [dask] ; English /dænsk/, also US /dnsk/; German: Danzig [dantsç] , also known by other ) 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, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population approaching 1.4 million. Gdask itself has a population of 460,427 (December 2012), making it the largest city in the Pomerania region of Northern Poland. Gdask is the capital of Gdask Pomerania and the largest city of Kashubia. The city's history is complex, with periods of Polish rule, periods of Prusso-German rule, and periods of autonomy or self-rule as a "free city". Between the world wars, the Free City of Danzig was in a customs union with Poland and was located between German East Prussia and the so-called Polish Corridor. Gdask lies at the mouth of the Motawa River, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the nearby Vistula River, which drains 60 percent of Poland and connects Gdask with the Polish capital, Warsaw. Together with the nearby port of Gdynia, Gdask is also an important industrial center. In the late Middle Ages it was an important seaport and shipbuilding town, and in the 14th and 15th centuries a member of the Hanseatic League. Five centuries later, Gdask was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, formed in 1980, which played a major role in bringing an end to Communist rule in Poland and helped precipitate the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union."