Gdańsk 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.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
