Gdakowo is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Prabuty __NOTOC__ Gmina Prabuty is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kwidzyn County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Prabuty, which lies approximately east of Kwidzyn and south-east of the regional capi ...

, within Kwidzyn County,

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province (Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The ...

, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of

Prabuty Prabuty (german: Riesenburg) is a town in Kwidzyn County within the Pomeranian Voivodeship of northern Poland. Before World War I, the town belonged to the German province of West Prussia. It was ceded to Poland in 1945. Between 1975 and 1998, P ...

, north-east of Kwidzyn, and south-east of the regional capital

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

History

The village was part of the Kingdom of Poland until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by Prussia. In November 1831, several Polish cavalry units of the

November Uprising The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in W ...

stopped near the village on the way to their internment places. In 1871, the village became part of Germany, and following Germany's defeat in World War II in 1945, it became again part of Poland.

Transport

There is a train station in the village.

References

Villages in Kwidzyn County {{Kwidzyn-geo-stub