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Gdansk

Gdansk

4 5.6
A port city in northern Poland by the Baltic Sea
  • proper noun
  • /ɡdænsk/
: Gdansk
  • Shipyard workers fought with police in the streets of Gdansk, and the Solidarity leaders in Warsaw organized large protest marches.
  • Gdansk shipyards
  • Gdansk shipyard strike
  • Gdansk Triptych

And he was the leader of the, the, the, the strike in the Gdansk shipyard.

Examples

  • Though it is outside the city, Westerplatte is a worthwhile venture for anyone visiting Gdansk, like so many sights.

    Blog text (5)

  • Moreover, the effort to save the Gdansk shipyard was an important symbolic victory that helped AWS in the polls.

    Academic text (1998)

  • We both grew up near Gdansk, but we met at a wedding in Queens.

    All Is Bright (2013)

  • Several important observations were made at the Gdansk conference.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Are we not all brothers and sisters here in the square, in Gdansk, in Cairo?

  • The sea must be somewhere farther off, near Sopot; this is still Gdansk.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The Hanseatic captain, Paul Benecke, sailed the galley and all of its cargo back to Gdansk, where the painting has remained until the present day.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Most notably, Lech Walesa, the movement's leader and Poland's first president, has retreated to splendid isolation in Gdansk.

    Academic text (2006)

  • A number of tantalizing questions surround Memling's Last Judgment Triptych in the Muzeum Narodowe in Gdansk (Figs. 1 and 2).

    Academic text (1991)

  • The city of Gdansk is known for its historical significance and beautiful architecture.

Synonyms

Danzig
vsGdansk
2 7.7

A port city in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea, also called Gdańsk

is the modern Polish name for the same port city

Surface Forms

Gdansk main

Etymology

Gdansk comes from an old Slavic name for the nearby 'river', seen in older forms like Gdania, and the German name Danzig is the same name in another language. Because the city grew where the river meets the Baltic Sea, the name helps you remember it as a 'port' by the water.