Gdansk (PL)

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Gdańsk, (German: Danzig, also known by other alternative names) is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity. Gdańsk is the historical capital of Gdańsk Pomerania and the largest city of Kashubia. The city was close to the former late medieval boundary between West Slavic and Germanic seized lands and it has a complex political history with periods of Polish rule, periods of German rule, and extensive self-rule, with two spells as a free city. Between the World Wars, the Free City of Danzig was in a customs union with Poland and was located between German East Prussia and the "Polish corridor" to the sea where the harbour of Gdynia grew up. Gdańsk has been part of modern Poland since 1945.

Gdańsk is comprised of 6 'Quarters' or dzielnicas.

Poland era (1945-)

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GDANSK 6, 2011

Germany era (1872-1920 and 1939-1945)

DANZIG ★ d

Danzig Free City (1920-1939)

Numeral & Letter Postmarks

DANZIG ★ 1 X 1920 on Reich 1 Mark overprinted DANZIG
DANZIG ★ 5 m 1922
DANZIG ★ 1 t 1922
DANZIG ★ 1 s 1922
DANZIG ★ 5 k 1922
DANZIG ★ 1 u 1923
DANZIG ★ 5 d 1924
DANZIG ★ 1 o 1926
DANZIG ★ 5 b 1934
DANZIG 1936.
DANZIG ★ 1 o 1937

Meter cancels

Meter cancel Danzig 1937
Meter cancel Danzig 1939

North German Confederation(1868-1871)

DANZIG BAHNH boxed cancel
Postal Stationary Envelope from Danzig to Creuznach, (Bad Kreuznach), 14 Jul 1870

Prussia (1850-1867)

DANZIG in Prussia Westpreussen province used a postal code 302.

Box DANZIG BAHNH. (Railway station) in 1861ca.
OLIVA bei DANZIG, 1867 cancel. This office (Kreis Danziger Höhe) opened in September 1862.

Covers from Prussia

DC DANZIG on cover to Constantinople on 6 November 1861. Cihangir collection.

Sub Offices

Based on Gdańsk quarters* Nowy Port is one of the six quarters of the city of Gdańsk, Poland. It borders with Brzeźno to the west, Letnica to the south, and Przeróbka to the east (over the Martwa Wisła). There are likely to be a further 34 (in total) PO districts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Gda%C5%84sk

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Nowy Port (German: Neufahrwasser; Kashubian: Fôrwôter).

DANZIG a, NEUFAHRWASSER. 26-03-1921.

Brzeźno

Letnica


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Oliwa (German: Oliva) is a northern district of the city of Gdánsk, Poland. It is known for its medieval monastery with the Oliwa Cathedral, the 1627 Battle of Oliwa and the 1660 Treaty of Oliva.

OLIVA in 1922.


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Old name is Ohra. Farming area lies to the South East of the main city of Gdánsk.

OHRA in 1921.

Przeróbka