This was the start of the end of Soviet rule in Poland. In 1980 the Solidarity movement commenced in the Gdansk shipyards. The city returned to Polish sovereignty but under Soviet rule after the war. This political instability set the scene for the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 and its name was changed to Danzig. In the period between the two world wars, the city and its multi-ethnic make-up lay in a disputed area between Poland and the Weimar Republic. It has always been a major seaport and shipbuilding town but its proximity to the German nation has been a huge factor in its history. With a population of just under half a million, it is the centre of a metropolitan area of 1.4 million people making it Poland's fourth largest city.įound in the tenth century, Gdansk has had a turbulent history. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River, part of the Vistula delta on the Baltic coast of Poland.
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