Eastern Pomerania (also Pomerelia, East Pomerania, Gdansk Pomerania, Vistula Pomerania) is a geographical and historical region in the east of Pomerania in northern Poland.
The indigenous population of Pomeranians is mostly the Kashubians, who speak the KashubianPomeranian language. They organize in the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association.
Pomerania (German: Pommern, Pom(m)erland, Polish: Pomorze) is a land or province which before World War I (eastern part, "Pomorze Gdanskie") and World War II (western part, "Pomorze Szczecinskie") belonged to Germany and is currently divided between Germany and Poland.
Pomerania as the name was the first written in the 11th century.
After 1945 the eastern part of Pomerania, according to an agreement signed in Potsdam in 1945 by the United Kingdom, United States of America and Soviet Union, was given under the temporary administration of Poland until a peace treaty signed in 1990.
Gdansk is the 6th largest city in Poland, its principal seaport, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodship.
Gdansk is, with a population of 460 000 (2002), the largest city in the historical province of Eastern Pomerania.
Gdansk is situated at the mouth of the Motlawa river, connected to Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the Vistula, whose waterway system connects 60% of the area of Poland, giving the city a unique advantage as the center of Poland's sea trade.
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