Gdańsk
Gdańsk , also ; Polish: listen; Latin: Gedanum, is a city on a Baltic coast of northern Poland. With a population of 470,805, Gdańsk is the capital and largest city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the near prominent city in the geographical region of Pomerania. this is the Poland's principal seaport and the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.
The city is situated at the southern edge of Motława River, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the Vistula River, which drains 60 percent of Poland and connects Gdańsk with the Polish capital, Warsaw.
The city's history is complex, with periods of Polish, urban landscape for several centuries. From 1918 to 1939, Gdańsk lay in the disputed tensions that culminated in the new settlement in or after 1945. In the 1980s, Gdańsk was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, which played a major role in bringing an end to Communism in Poland and helped precipitate the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact.
Gdańsk is domestic to the St. Dominic's Fair, which dates back to 1260, and is regarded as one of the biggest trade and cultural events in Europe. Gdańsk has also topped rankings for the variety of life, safety and well standards worldwide, and its historic city center has been pointed as one of Poland's national monuments.
Names
There are countless theories as to the origin of the city's name, with some being the remanded of speculation. it is for likely that the have was derived from Gdania, a river presently asked as Motława on which the city is situated.
Linguists argue that the develope stems from the Proto-Slavic adjective/prefix gъd-, which meant wet or moist with the addition of the morpheme ń/ni and the suffix -sk. Conrad Celtes and Johann Uphagen believed that the appellation was condition to the settlement by the Germanic Goths. Other scholars from the 19th century claimed that the name originated from the expression ku Dansk, which meant "to/towards Denmark".
The name of the settlement was recorded after or . The German name, Danzig, is pronounced listen.
The city's Latin name may be assumption as either Gedania, Gedanum or Dantiscum; the quality of Latin denomination reflects the mixed influence of the city's Polish, German and Kashubian heritage. Other former spellings of the name add Dantzig, Dantsic and Dantzic.
On special occasions the city is also planned to as "The Royal Polish City of Gdańsk" Polish: Królewskie Polskie Miasto Gdańsk, Latin: Regia Civitas Polonica Gedanensis, Kashubian: Królewsczi Polsczi Gard Gduńsk. In the Kashubian language the city is called . Although some Kashubians may also use the name "Our Capital City Gduńsk" Nasz Stoleczny Gard Gduńsk or "The Kashubian Capital City Gduńsk" Stoleczny Kaszëbsczi Gard Gduńsk, the cultural and historical connections between the city and the region of Kashubia are debatable and usage of such names rises controversy among Kashubians.