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Description: Gdańsk on the Baltic coast of northern Poland is Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city's history is complex, with periods of Polish, Prussian and German rule, and periods of autonomy or self-rule as a free city state. In the early-modern age, Gdańsk was a royal city of Poland. In the late Middle Ages it was an important seaport and shipbuilding town and, in the 14th and 15th centuries, a member of the Hanseatic League. In the interwar period Gdańsk lay in a disputed region between Poland and Germany, which became known as the Polish Corridor. The city's ambiguous political status ultimately culminated in the Invasion of Poland and the first clash of the Second World War. In the 1980s, Gdańsk was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, which played a major role in bringing an end to communist rule. Parts of the historic old city of Gdańsk, which had suffered large-scale destruction during the war, were rebuilt during the 1950s and 1960s. The reconstruction was not tied to the city's pre-war appearance, but instead was politically motivated as a means of culturally cleansing and destroying all traces of German influence from the city.Any traces of German tradition were ignored by the communists, suppressed, or demolished while communist and Flemish/Dutch, Italian and French influences were used to replace the historically accurate Germanic architecture which the city was built upon since the 14th century. We visited Poland on our overland trip by car (a Toyota LandCruiser 4WD campervan) from the Netherlands to the Nordic countries in Europe; see our channel youtube.com/user/JanvanBekkum for hundreds of clips. More clips of Poland can be found here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMYlw_C7EP8LSy-i5hS4byF6uAJSBMWxr. Software used to create this video includes: - iZotope post production software (izotope.com/) - Vegasaur toolkit (vegasaur.com/)