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Danzig

noun

A port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century. Synonym: Gdansk.

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"Danzig" Quotes from Famous Books

... then, that in the February of 1807, immediately after the taking of Danzig, Major Legendre and I were commissioned to bring four hundred remounts from Prussia ...

— The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard • Arthur Conan Doyle

... between 1909 and 1913. The third great airship-building company in Germany was the Schuette-Lanz Company, with its factory in Mannheim. It was named from Heinrich Lanz, the founder of machine works near Mannheim, who supplied the money, and Professor Schuette, of the Technical University, Danzig, who supplied the skill. Its rigid airships were made of wood; they were built from 1912 onwards expressly for the uses of the army and navy, and they played a great ...

— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh

... enumerating and discussing the restorations at Marienburg and Naumburg, the bas-reliefs at Halberstadt, the masks and statues of Andreas Schluter at Berlin, and the Renaissance and rococo work at Lubeck and Danzig, a knowledge and appreciation worthy of ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White

Words linked to "Danzig" : city, urban center, Polska, Poland, Hanseatic League, metropolis, port, Republic of Poland