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St George and the Dragon at St. Mary's Church or formally the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church in Gdańsk, Poland. Its construction began in 1379, or 1343 according to the official website.

Old Prussians, Baltic Prussians or simply Prussians were the indigenous peoples from a cluster of Baltic tribes that inhabited the region of Prussia. It was located on the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula Lagoon to the west and the Curonian Lagoon to the east.

One of Poland’s most beautiful cities, Gdansk, on the Baltic Sea, has played major roles in history, especially in the 20th-century. It was the 1939 flash point of World War II, and then in 1980, the birthplace of the Solidarnosc labor movement, ushering the end of Communist domination in...