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The history of the city may be divided into four periods: the Old Prussian settlement known as Twangste before 1255; the Polish city of Królewiec from 1454 to 1455 and then fief of Poland from 1456 to 1657; the German city of Königsberg from 1657 to 1945; and the Russian city of Kaliningrad from 1945 to present.
- Königsberg
Königsberg (German: [ˈkøːnɪçsbɛʁk] ⓘ, lit. 'King's...
- Kaliningrad Oblast
It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The oblast...
- Königsberg
Die vormals deutsche Hauptstadt Ostpreußens wurde im Ergebnis des Zweiten Weltkrieges von der Sowjetunion unter dem Namen Kaliningrad russifiziert und Bestandteil der Russischen Sowjetrepublik. Benannt ist sie nach dem 1946 verstorbenen sowjetischen Staatsoberhaupt Michail Kalinin.
Königsberg (German: [ˈkøːnɪçsbɛʁk] ⓘ, lit. 'King's mountain', Polish: Królewiec, Lithuanian: Karaliaučius, Baltic Prussian: Kunnegsgarbs, Russian: Кёнигсберг, romanized: Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The oblast is surrounded by two European Union and NATO members: Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east. The largest city and administrative centre of the province (oblast) is the city of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Königsberg.
W wyniku konferencji poczdamskiej (1945) miasto znalazło się w granicach ZSRR, 4 lipca 1946 jego nazwę zmieniono na Kaliningrad (na cześć zmarłego właśnie Michaiła Kalinina). Niemiecką ludność wykorzystywano do pracy, a w 1948 ostatecznie wysiedlono ją w nowe granice Niemiec.
23 paź 2024 · History of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly the German city of Konigsberg. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. Formerly the capital of East Prussia, Kaliningrad was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Potsdam agreement.
History. It was the capital city of the German province of East Prussia, the earlier Duchy of Prussia, and before that of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights. The Albertina University opened in 1544. [10] Famous people. One of the famous people from Königsberg was the philosopher Immanuel Kant. References.
