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Danziger Höhe
The Danziger Höhe (i.e. Danzig Heights; Kreis Danziger Höhe) was an administrative district founded in 1887 and dissolved in 1939. The district administration was based in the City of Danzig, which itself did not form part of the district but was an independent city (Stadtkreis). The area Danziger Höhe covered is now within Poland. History The district was formed from parts of the previous within the Danzig Region in the province of West Prussia, within the Kingdom of Prussia, itself a part of Germany since 1871. In 1910, the district had 53,506 inhabitants, of which 23,955 were Protestant and 29,206 were Catholic. 9.7% had officially declared that they spoke the Kashubian language. After the First World War, when the Treaty of Versailles came into effect in 1920, Danziger Höhe became a district in the new Free City of Danzig. The district was enlarged by a number of municipalities from neighbouring West Prussian districts of Neustadt, Karthaus, Berent and Dirschau, wh ...
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Powiat Gdańskie Wyżyny Map
A ''powiat'' (pronounced ; Polish plural: ''powiaty'') is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture ( LAU-1, formerly NUTS-4) in other countries. The term "''powiat''" is most often translated into English as "county" or "district" (sometimes "poviat"). In historical contexts this may be confusing because the Polish term ''hrabstwo'' (an administrative unit administered/owned by a ''hrabia'' (count) is also literally translated as "county". A ''powiat'' is part of a larger unit, the voivodeship (Polish ''województwo'') or province. A ''powiat'' is usually subdivided into ''gmina''s (in English, often referred to as "communes" or "municipalities"). Major towns and cities, however, function as separate counties in their own right, without subdivision into ''gmina''s. They are termed " city counties" (''powiaty grodzkie'' or, more formally, ''miasta na prawach powiatu'') and have roughly the same st ...
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Kreis Karthaus
The Karthaus district was a Prussian district that existed from 1818 to 1920. It was located in the part of West Prussia that fell to Poland after World War I through the Treaty of Versailles in 1920, as part of the Polish Corridor. The capital of the district was Karthaus. From 1939 to 1945, the district was re-established as part of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia in occupied Poland. Today the territory of the district lies in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. History With the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the territory of the future Karthaus district became part of the Kingdom of Prussia, and it was initially divided between the Dirschau and Stargard districts in the province of West Prussia. On April 30, 1815, the area was made part of Regierungsbezirk Danzig. As part of a comprehensive district reform, parts of the old Dirschau and Stargard districts were separated to form the new ''Carthaus district'' on April 1, 1818. The spelling of the name of the town and the dis ...
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Borowina, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Borowina (german: Barenhütte) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Przywidz, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Przywidz, south-west of Pruszcz Gdański, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. The village has a population of 290. History For details of the early history of the region, see ''History of Pomerania'', ''of Order Prussia'', and ''of Royal Prussia''. Since 1466, when the rebels of the Prussian Confederation, partially successful in overthrowing the governing Teutonic Order, could only partition the western parts ( Culmland, Pomerelia and Warmia) of Order Prussia, Borowina formed part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Polish-allied Royal Prussia. In 1772, in the course of the First Partition of Poland Borowina (Baarenhütte) became part of the Kingdom of Prussia. Borowina (Baarenhütte) then formed a municipality in the newly founded . With partitioning the Preußisch Starg ...
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Bąkowo, Gdańsk County
Bąkowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kolbudy, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Kolbudy, north-west of Pruszcz Gdański, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see ''History of Pomerania The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern-day times Pomerania is split between Germany and Pol ...''. The village has a population of 260. References Villages in Gdańsk County {{Gdańsk-geo-stub ...
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Będzieszyn, Gdańsk County
Będzieszyn (german: Bangschin) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruszcz Gdański, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Pruszcz Gdański and south of the regional capital Gdańsk. The village has a population of 196. History For details of the early history of the region, see ''History of Pomerania'' and ''of Royal Prussia''. Since 1466, when the rebels of the Prussian Confederation, only partially successful in overthrowing the governing Teutonic Order, could only partition the western parts ( Culmland, Pomerelia and Warmia) of Order Prussia, Będzieszyn formed part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Polish-allied Royal Prussia. In 1772, in the course of the First Partition of Poland Będzieszyn (aka Bendieszin) became part of the Kingdom of Prussia. Bendieszin then formed a manorial ward in the newly founded . With partitioning Dirschau District in smaller districts in 1818, Bendieszin ...
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Babidół
Babidół (german: Ziegelei Babenthal) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kolbudy, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Kolbudy, west of Pruszcz Gdański, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see ''History of Pomerania''. The village has a population of 115. History Since 1466, when the rebels of the Prussian Confederation, partially successful in overthrowing the governing Teutonic Order, could only partition the western parts ( Culmland, Pomerelia and Warmia) of Order Prussia, Babidół formed part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Polish-allied Royal Prussia. In 1772, in the course of the First Partition of Poland Babidół became part of the Kingdom of Prussia. Babidół (Babenthal) then formed a manorial ward in the newly founded . With partitioning Dirschau District in smaller districts in 1818, Babenthal formed part of the new ...
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Arciszewo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Arciszewo (german: Artschau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruszcz Gdański, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Pruszcz Gdański and south of the regional capital Gdańsk. The village has a population of 143. History Since 1466, when the rebels of the Prussian Confederation, only partially successful in overthrowing the governing Teutonic Order, could only partition the western parts ( Culmland, Pomerelia and Warmia) of Order Prussia, Arciszewo formed part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Polish-allied Royal Prussia. In 1772, in the course of the First Partition of Poland Arciszewo became part of the Kingdom of Prussia. Arciszewo (Artschau) then formed a manorial ward in the newly founded . On partitioning Dirschau District into smaller districts in 1818, Artschau became part of the new in the Danzig Region within West Prussia. In 1871 Artschau, like all of Prussia, became part of G ...
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Manorialism
Manorialism, also known as the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages. Its defining features included a large, sometimes fortified manor house in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of labourers who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. These labourers fulfilled their obligations with labour time or in-kind produce at first, and later by cash payment as commercial activity increased. Manorialism is sometimes included as part of the feudal system. Manorialism originated in the Roman villa system of the Late Roman Empire, and was widely practiced in medieval western Europe and parts of central Europe. An essential element of feudal society, manorialism was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract. In examining the o ...
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Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland, regardless of heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,512,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the '' Polonia'') exists throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw and Silesian metropolitan areas. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabi ...
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Kashubians
The Kashubians ( csb, Kaszëbi; pl, Kaszubi; german: Kaschuben), also known as Cassubians or Kashubs, are a Lechitic ( West Slavic) ethnic group native to the historical region of Pomerania, including its eastern part called Pomerelia, in north-central Poland. Their settlement area is referred to as Kashubia. They speak the Kashubian language, which is classified as a separate language closely related to Polish. The Kashubs are closely related to the Poles and sometimes classified as their subgroup. The Kashubs are grouped with the Slovincians as Pomeranians. Similarly, the Slovincian (now extinct) and Kashubian languages are grouped as Pomeranian languages, with Slovincian (also known as Łeba Kashubian) either a distinct language closely related to Kashubian,Dicky Gilbers, John A. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken, ''Languages in Contact'', Rodopi, 2000, p. 329, or a Kashubian dialect.Christina Yurkiw Bethin, ''Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory'', pp. 160ff, Camb ...
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Germans
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Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939)
The Pomeranian Voivodeship or Pomorskie Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo Pomorskie) was an administrative unit of Second Polish Republic, interwar Poland (from 1919 to 1939). It ceased to function in September 1939, following the Nazi Germany, German and Soviet Union, Soviet Invasion of Poland (1939), invasion of Poland. Most of the territory of Pomeranian province became part of the current Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, of which one of two capitals is the same as the interwar voivodeship's Toruń; the second one is Bydgoszcz. The name ''Pomerania'' derives from the Slavic languages, Slavic ''po more'', meaning "by the sea" or "on the sea". History This was a unit of administration and local government in the Republic of Poland (''II Rzeczpospolita'') established in 1919 after World War I from the majority of the Prussian province of West Prussia (made out of territories taken in Partitions of Poland which was returned to Poland. Toruń was the capital. In 1938–1939, the v ...
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