Kashubians also use the name " Our Capital City Gdańsk " ( Nasz Stoleczny Gard Gduńsk ) or " The Kashubian Capital City Gdańsk " ( Stoleczny Kaszëbsczi Gard Gduńsk ).

Solidarity (, pronounced ; full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union " Solidarity " – Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy " Solidarność " ) is a Polish trade union federation that emerged on 31 August 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa.

Baltiysk (), prior to 1945 known by its German name Pillau (; ), is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, located on the northern part of the Vistula Spit, on the shore of the Strait of Baltiysk separating the Vistula Bay from the Gdańsk Bay.

A common theory for the etymology of the cities Gdańsk and Gdynia is that they are named after an older Polish and Kashubian name for the river, Gdania.

It includes areas to the east and south of the city of Gdańsk, from which the county takes its name, although the city is not part of its territory.

In 1920 Haller seized Pomerania and entered Danzig ( Gdańsk ) in the name of Poland, and during the Polish-Soviet War he commanded an army of volunteers.

Danzig is the German name ( and former official appellation ) of Gdańsk, a city in northern Poland.

Rabbi Danzig was born in Danzig ( modern Gdańsk ), Poland ( hence his name ), in 1747 or 1748 into a prominent Rabbinic family.

Several archeologians and historians have proposed the theory that the name Gothiscandza was evolved linguistically into Kashubian and other West Slavic languages ' rendition of the various historical names of Gdańsk ().

It was established in 1922 as the Society of the Sciences and Arts Friends in Gdańsk ( Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauki i Sztuki w Gdańsku ) and was active till 1939, abolished during World War II, reactivated in 1945, having had its present name since 1956.

Since then, Gdańsk Shipyard has operated as Stocznia Gdańsk S. A. On 1 April 1993 Northern Shipyard of " Westerplatte Heroes " became a corporation, under the name Northern Shipyard S. A.

Polish Baltic F. Chopin Philharmonic in Gdańsk ( full name in Polish: Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka im.

This interpretation is given official sanction in the use of the name Silesian Voivodeship ( województwo śląskie ) for the province covering this area.

Contrary to the name, however, eastern half of Silesian Voivodeship is not historical Silesia, but Lesser Poland.

In 1816-1837 it was the capital of the Sandomierz Voivodeship, whose capital, despite the name, was at Radom.

A locality was first mentioned in a 1564 deed, it received the name Biała in 1584, and belonged at that time to Kraków Voivodeship.

Both parents were Jews from Germany ( the family name was originally spelt Monasch and pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable ), living in Krotoschin in the Kingdom of Prussia, now Krotoszyn in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the village of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard ; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor.

Łódź Voivodeship ( also known as Łódź Province, or by its Polish name of województwo łódzkie or simply Łódzkie ) is a province ( voivodeship ) in central Poland.

The city of Mielec, part of Sandomierz Voivodeship, was founded on 17 March 1457, when King Casimir IV granted a charter to John Mielecki for the establishment of a city under the name of Nowy Targ.

After World War Two ( August 1945 ), Lesser Poland ’ s Myszków was transferred to Silesian-Dąbrowa Voivodeship, which in 1950 changed name to Katowice Voivodeship.

A better variant of this theory holds that the name originates from the period when the territory was within the Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, along the borderline with the Mazovia province, primarily a fief of the Poland of the Piasts and later on part of the Kingdom of Poland of the Jagiellons.

Despite the name, the city of Posen, Polish: Poznań, was no longer part of the province, as it had become the capital of the re-established Greater Polish Poznań Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic.

On April 1, 1938 the powiat Wyrzyski was ceded from the Poznań Voivodeship, which had become the Polish name of the Province of Posen, to the Polish Voivodeship of Pomerania then renamed into Greater Pomerania ( Polish: Województwo Wielkopomorskie ).

* Biała, former name of Janów Lubelski, a town in Lublin Voivodeship ( east Poland )

* Biała, former name of Bielawa, a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship ( south-west Poland )

On 13 June 2004, in the European Parliament election, 2004, Jerzy Buzek was elected a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) from the Silesian Voivodeship, basing his candidacy only on the popularity of his name and on direct contact with the voters.

* An older name of what is now Bardo in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

* An older name of Niegosławice, Lubusz Voivodeship in the Silesian Voivodeship

** Gersdorf, former German name of Dąbie, Lubusz Voivodeship

** Gersdorf, former German name of Gawroniec, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

* German name for Jeżów Sudecki, a village in Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

* Lusin, German name of Luzino, a village in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Poland

Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

and ( 2 ) such other special funds as may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be required each to be a claims fund to be known by the name of the foreign government which has entered into a settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

The name `` alkali bee '' indicates that one has to look for them in rather inhospitable places.

The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.

She teamed up with another beauty, whose name has been lost to history, and commenced with some fiddling that would have made Nero envious.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began ; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.

Another cue is having the same family name, especially if rare, and this has been found to increase helping behavior.

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.