The crusade encompassed much of the Baltic Sea coast, Danzig ( Present day Gdańsk ), and other areas of the coast up to Sambia.

* 1920: Gdingen ( now named Gdynia ), along with other parts of former West Prussia, became a part of the new Republic of Poland ; simultaneously, the city of Danzig and surrounding area was declared a free city and put under the League of Nations, though Poland was given economic liberties and requisitioned for matters of foreign representation.

From May onwards, he orchestrated a " hate campaign " against Poland, fabricating stories about atrocities against ethnic Germans in Danzig and other cities.

The railroad wanted to call the town Regier but Mr. Regier suggested three other possibilities: Elbing, Danzig and Marienburg, all cities in Prussia where he had lived.

Danzig overdubbed many of the album's instrument tracks in order to avoid having to pay royalties to the other former band members.

Only contacted Danzig about receiving a portion of the royalties from these albums ' sales, beginning a legal battle that lasted several years and involved other past members of the band.

Danzig, however, insisted that he had written all of the songs in their entirety and that the other members ' creative input had been minimal.

Prior to the album release, Glenn Danzig noted how the band had improved in the interim between the debut recording and the recording of Lucifuge: “ Everybody's much more comfortable with each other now.

Six other light cruisers were ordered to raise steam and join the defense as soon as they could: moored on the river Ems ;,,, and Kolberg from the river Jade ; Danzig and München from Brunsbüttelkoog on the river Elbe.

Among the many important bands and singers who got their start at these clubs and other venues in downtown Manhattan were Patti Smith, Arto Lindsay, the Ramones, Blondie, Madonna, Talking Heads, Television, the Plasmatics, Glenn Danzig, Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys, Anthrax, and The Strokes.

The same was not true for other Polish Jewry situated in areas outside of Galicia, e. g., Danzig or Warsaw.

It also includes Plautdietsch ( originating from Danzig ), which is spoken by Mennonites in North America and a few other places in the world.

The models for the Danzig Law were the statute books of the Holy Roman Empire and of other Hanseatic cities, especially Lübeck.

Via Danzig, Mitau and other places he travelled to St. Petersburg, receiving excellent reviews.

A Danzig album is always fascinating because the band sounds like no other in hard rock today.

From those territories, Napoleon had created French client states which were formalized and recognized at Tilsit: the Kingdom of Westphalia, the Duchy of Warsaw and the Free City of Danzig ; the other ceded territories were awarded to further French clients and to Russia.

At 0622, the Marines frantically radioed the ship they had heavy losses and were withdrawing, Danzig Police had tried to seize control of the harbor on the other side of Westerplatte but were defeated.

ISBN 3-520-37105-7 .</ ref >< ref > However, only merchants from the six Prussian Hanseatic cities of Braunsberg ( Braniewo ), Culm ( Chełmno ), Danzig, Elbing, Königsberg, and Thorn ( Toruń ) were considered fully fledged members of the league, while merchants from other Prussian cities did not enjoy the full solidarity, but underlay all the Hanseatic rules, in order to be tolerated enjoying Hanseatic privileges.

In March 1440, gentry ( mainly from Culmerland ) and the Hanseatic cities of Danzig, Elbing, Kneiphof, Thorn and other Prussian cities founded the Prussian Confederation to free themselves from the overlordship of the Teutonic Knights.

It excludes Austria (" Ostmark "), the Sudetenland, the Memel Territory, the Free City of Danzig, and all other territories annexed after 1937.

At least eleven of the guns were produced ; eight were sited in Norway ( one was sunk enroute ), and the other three were used in Poland near Danzig.

The choice of other members of this Commission was not random, it contained wealthy king supporters, like the merchant and owner of a merchant fleet from Danzig, Georg Hewel ( Gdańsk, Jerzy Hewel ).

On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).

The treaty concluded the Thirteen Years ' War ( 1454 – 1466 ) which had begun in February 1454 with the revolt of the Prussian Confederation, led by the cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), Kulm ( Chełmno ) and Thorn, and the Prussian gentry against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in the Monastic State.

It lies between the larger cities of Gdańsk ( Danzig ) ( to the south-east ) and Gdynia ( to the north ), the three towns together making up the metropolitan agglomeration called Trójmiasto ( Tri-City ).

These government regions were named after the German language names of their chief cities: Hohensalza ( Inowrocław ), Posen ( Poznań ), Kalisch ( Kalisz ), Bromberg ( Bydgoszcz ), Danzig ( Gdańsk ), and Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).

Danzig-West Prussia was divided into three government regions ( Regierungsbezirk ), with the name-giving capital cities of Bromberg, Danzig and Marienwerder.

Starting in June 1944, the SS in Stutthof began conscripting women from Danzig and the surrounding cities to train as camp female guards because of a severe shortage of guards.

Further Polish areas were annexed in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, now including the cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ) and Toruń ( Thorn ).

ISBN 3-520-37105-7 .</ ref > So the Order welcomed English Merchant Adventurers, starting to cruise in the Baltic, competing with Dutch, Saxon and Wendish Hanseatic merchants, and allowed them to open outposts in its cities of Danzig and Elbing .< ref name =" Dollinger 1998 103seq "> Philippe Dollinger, Die Hanse Hanse ( XII < sup > e </ sup >- XVII < sup > e </ sup > siècles ); German, see references for bibliographical details, pp. 103seq.

Later on the Eastern Front, Warsaw, Budapest, Kolberg, Königsberg, Küstrin, Danzig and Breslau were some of the large cities selected as strongholds whilst on the Western Front locations included the British island of Alderney.

German names of major cities like Danzig, Königsberg or Breslau are still recognizable and frequently used in Germany ( Danzig about half the time ; Breslau somewhat less ).

Major German cities that became part of Poland after 1945 were Breslau ( Wroclaw ), Danzig ( Gdansk ), Stettin ( Szczecin ), Schneidemühl ( Piła, Glewitz ( Gliwice ) and Thorn ( Toruń ).

While there have been many varieties of Missingsch throughout Northern Germany, those of larger cities are best known, such as those of Hamburg, Bielefeld, Bremen, Flensburg and Danzig.

Jogaila also sent his troops to other Teutonic fortresses, which often surrendered without resistance, including the major cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Thorn ( Toruń ), and Elbing ( Elbląg ).

That same day, on 21 March 1939, Ribbentrop presented a set of demands to the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski about Poland allowing the Free City of Danzig to return to Germany in such violent and extreme language that it led to the Poles to fear their country was on the verge of an immediate German attack.

As part of a dual strategy to avoid war via deterrence and appeasement of Germany, British leaders warned that they would go to war if Germany attacked Poland while at the same time tried to avoid war by holding unofficial talks with such would be peace-makers like the British newspaper proprietor Lord Kemsley, the Swedish businessman Axel Wenner-Gren and another Swedish businessmen Birger Dahlerus who attempted to work out the basis for a peaceful return of Danzig.

Instead, Danzig would go on small, localized tours, such as the ten west coast dates they played for the 2006 Blackest of the Black tour.

Once France had abandoned its allies in Eastern Europe as the price of better relations with the Reich, this would create a situation where the Poles and Czechoslovaks having no Great Power ally to protect them, would be forced to adjust to German demands, and hence in Chamberlain's view would peacefully hand over the territories claimed by Germany such as the Sudetenland, the Polish Corridor and the Free City of Danzig ( modern Gdańsk, Poland ) In this way, promoting territorial revisionism in Eastern Europe in Germany ’ s favour was one of Chamberlain's principal reasons for Locarno, and thus Locarno was from the British viewpoint an early instance of Appeasement.

Once France had abandoned its allies in Eastern Europe, thereby creating a situation where the Poles and Czechoslovaks having no Great Power to protect them from Germany, would be forced to adjust to German demands, and hence in the British viewpoint would peacefully hand over the territories claimed by Germany such as the Sudetenland, the Polish Corridor, and the Free City of Danzig ( modern Gdańsk, Poland ).

Germany's territorial losses following the Treaty of Versailles incited German revanchism and created problems such that the status of the independent Free City of Danzig and the Polish Corridor between East Prussia and the rest of Germany became an issue in German politics.

Also, Germany wanted to prevent new diocesan boundaries being established which would dilute Germany's ties to ceded German territories in the east such as Danzig and Upper Silesia.

Already in the 17th century, local historians studied the history of Danzig law, such as Elias Constantius von Treuen-Schroeder ( 1625 – 1680 ) and Johann Ernst von der Linde ( 1651 – 1721 ).

Throughout the years, the band's music has evolved from a raw, punk-ish style to a more massive sound with complex guitar melodies, often compared to such bands as Danzig and Mana Mana.

The " Heim ins Reich " ( Home into the Empire ) rhetoric of the Nazis over the continued disjoint status of exclaves such as Danzig was an agitating factor in the politics leading up to World War II, and is considered by many to be among the major causes of Nazi aggression and thus the war.

However, since a common Polish-Hungarian frontier would mean a minor flanking of Germany, Germany was willing to countenance such a common frontier only if Poland made compensation by giving up the Danzig corridor to East Prussia.

Breed 77 have toured consistently over the years, and have supported bands such as Black Sabbath, Machine Head, Danzig, Ill Niño, One Minute Silence and Napalm Death.

Some harbour cranes were specialised at mounting masts to newly built sailing ships, such as in Danzig, Cologne and Bremen.

The band then participated in the 2005 installment of the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival with other notable acts such as Soilwork, Danzig, Dark Tranquillity and Mnemic.

This led to other coveted opening slots, with such popular acts as Coal Chamber, Snot, Soulfly, Sepultura and Danzig.

Statistics and contemporary assessments indicate that he was a dominant antipodean racehorse of the 19th century, and he still ranks with such 20th-century Thoroughbreds as his descendants Danzig, Nearco, Northern Dancer, Mr. Prospector, Nasrullah, Nijinsky II ( winner of the UK Triple Crown ), Royal Charger and Royal Palace ( who have established their own sire-lines ) in terms of renown among turf historians.

The album was hailed by critics and many declared it to be Cash's finest album since the late 1960s, while his versions of songs by more modern artists such as Tom Waits and Glenn Danzig ( who penned a song called " Thirteen " specifically for Cash, in just twenty minutes ) helped to bring him a new audience.

During this period of near-constant touring, the band toured with such acts as Type O Negative, Danzig, Coal Chamber, GWAR, Powerman 5000, Fear Factory, Godflesh, and played one-off shows with Spahn Ranch, and Goth legends Alien Sex Fiend.

The festival has had headliners such as Immortal, Mayhem, Obituary, Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, Opeth, Anathema, Danzig, Samael, Satyricon and Taake.