Danzig
a fortified town and port, Prussia, capital of the province of West Prussia, 253 miles N. E. of Berlin, on the left bank of the W. arm of the Vistula, about three miles above its mouth in the Baltic, and intersected by the Mottlau, DAPHNIA which here divides into several arms.
It is one of the most important seaports in the Prussian republic. The more modern parts are regularly and well built; in the other parts the streets are ent. Among the principal buildings are narrow and the houses old and indifferthe Dom or Cathedral , begun in 1343, the the arsenal, observatory, three monas- Church of St.
Catharine, the exchange , teries, two synagogues, two theaters, etc.
The industries are numerous, but exconnected with shipbuilding, artillery , and beer, not of great importance.
The prosperity of the town particularly in wheat from Poland. is founded chiefly on its transit trade, There is also a considerable trade in proper port of Danzig is Neufahrwasser, at the mouth of the Vistula; but vessels of large size can After being alternately possessed by now come up to and enter the town. the Teutonic knights and the Poles, Danof Poland, fell to the lot of Prussia. By the Treaty of Versailles , Danzig was made with the surrounding territory a free city under which appoints a high commissioner. It the protection of the League of Nations, has a legislative Council, and universal suffrage. Danzig serves as a corridor by which Poland has access to the sea.
Pop. (1919) 162,468.