Gdańsk Bay or the Gulf of Gdańsk is a southeastern bay of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the adjacent port city of Gdańsk in Poland. The western part...
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Navy warships were attacked by German Luftwaffe aircraft in Gdańsk Bay (then Danzig Bay). It was the first naval-air battle of World War II. The Polish...
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city and principal seaport. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia...
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The Port of Gdańsk is a seaport located on the southern coast of Gdańsk Bay in the city of Gdańsk, extending along the Vistula estuary Martwa Wisła (Dead...
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refer to several places: Gdańsk Bay, the bay in the Baltic Sea adjoining the port of Gdańsk and stretching to Kaliningrad Gdańsk County, a small administrative...
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sand spit, or peninsular stretch of land, separating Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay, in the Baltic Sea, with its tip separated from the mainland by the Strait...
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Tricity, Poland (redirect from Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot)
Pomerelia forming a row on the coastline of the Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea, namely the cities of Gdańsk, Gdynia, and Sopot, along with other cities and towns...
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Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon (Zalew Wiślany) or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta...
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Vistula Lagoon (redirect from Vistulan Bay)
(10 to 19 km) wide, and up to 17 feet (5 m) deep, separated from the Gdańsk Bay by the Vistula Spit. The lagoon is a mouth of a few branches of the Vistula...
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1146; 17.0406 (Wyspa Piasek) The following Polish islands are in the Gdańsk Bay and Vistula Lagoon: Aestian Island (artificial island in the Vistula Lagoon)...
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(Polish: Molo w Sopocie) is the pier in the city of Sopot, Poland on the Gdańsk Bay, built as a pleasure pier and as a mooring point for cruise boats. It...
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(Gdańsk) into the Danziger Bucht, now Gdańsk Bay. Its river mouth and environs double as a harbor channel for the Inner Port of the port of Gdańsk. Baltic...
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an urban agglomeration of almost 1 million inhabitants on the coast of Gdańsk Bay. Slavic Lechitic settlements existed in present-day Rumia in the Early...
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collection) Warsaw, Zabrze, Kraków, Giewont, Moscow, Stockholm, Dunmore Cave, Gdańsk Bay, Gdynia, Project Riese March 2016 Robert J. Szmidt The Tower Wrocław May...
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Port of Gdynia is a Polish seaport located on the western shore of Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea, in Gdynia. Founded in 1926, in 2008 it ranked second in intermodal...
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Bay Neva Bay Koporye Bay Luga Bay Narva Bay Väinameri Sea Gulf of Riga Curonian Lagoon Vistula Lagoon Gdańsk Bay Bay of Pomerania Szczecin Lagoon Bay...
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the shore of the Strait of Baltiysk separating the Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay. It had a population of 33,946 (2021 Census); 32,697 (2010 Census); 33...
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Nehrung) is an island located between Gdańsk Bay, Śmiała Wisła and Leniwka in northern Poland within the city limits of Gdańsk. The island is divided into 3 administrative...
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other lakes were formerly bays, but have been cut off from the sea. The easternmost coastline along the Gdańsk Bay (with the Bay of Puck) and Vistula Lagoon...
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continue. It is part of the project to construct a waterway connecting Bay of Gdańsk with the port of Elbląg with a total length of 22.88 km. The canal is...
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The Bay of Puck or Puck Bay (Polish: Zatoka Pucka; Kashubian: Pùckô Hôwinga; German: Putziger Wiek), is a shallow western branch of the Bay of Gdańsk in...
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commence Operation Rurka, an attempt to lay a minefield at the entrances to Gdańsk Bay. Wicher was to shield the operation, carried out by Gryf, a heavy minelayer...
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longest wooden pier in Europe, at 511.5 metres, stretching out into the Bay of Gdańsk. The city is also famous for the Sopot International Song Festival,...
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distributary river branch of the Vistula in northern Poland that flows to the Gdańsk Bay. The Śmiała Wisła is a western border of Sobieszewo Island and was created...
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granted Gdańsk the religious privilege of celebrating communion with both bread and wine. Thereafter the City Council ended Catholic masses in all Gdańsk churches...
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amber, the island could have been Heligoland, Zealand, the shores of Gdańsk Bay, the Sambia Peninsula or the Curonian Lagoon, which were historically...
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similar fashion, the Vistula Spit separates the Vistula Lagoon from the Gdańsk Bay off the coast of Poland. Zlatni Rat, a popular pebble beach jutting southward...
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Arend Dickmann (category Military personnel from Gdańsk)
Battle of Oliwa, a major encounter during the war, that was fought in the Gdańsk Bay. During the battle, his ship had attacked and boarded the enemy galleon...
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River in northern Poland. Unlike the main river, it does not empty into Gdańsk Bay but rather into the Vistula Lagoon. The Nogat has its origin near the...
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Sobieszewo Island (category Gdańsk)
Baltic Sea, between the Gdańsk Bay and the delta of Vistula river. The island is part of the territory of the city of Gdańsk, Poland. The northern border...
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