Wielbark est une localité polonaise de la gmina rurale de Malbork située dans le powiat de Malbork en voïvodie de Poméranie. Elle se trouve au sud-est de la capitale régionale Gdańsk.
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Wielbark [ˈvjɛlbark] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Malbork, within Malbork County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
Between the end of the 13th century and the 15th, the village lay in the territory of the Teutonic Knights. In 1454, King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated the region to the Kingdom of Poland. In 1466, the Teutonic Knights renounced claims, and it was confirmed as part of Poland, within which it was a royal village, administratively located in the Malbork Voivodeship in the province of Royal Prussia in the Greater Poland Province. After the First Partition of Poland, it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and from 1871 it was also part of Germany. After Germany's defeat in World War II, it became again part of Poland.
In 1873, a cemetery of the ancient Wielbark culture was discovered not far from the village.
The place is not to be confused with Wielbark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
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Royal Prussia or Polish Prussia was a province of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which was established following the Second Peace of Thorn from territory in Pomerelia and western Prussia which had been part of the State of the Teutonic Order. Royal Prussia retained its autonomy, governing itself and maintaining its own laws, customs, and rights.
In 1569, Royal Prussia was fully integrated into the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and its autonomy was largely abolished. As a result, the Royal Prussian parliament was incorporated into the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1772 and 1793, after the first and second partition of Poland, the former territory of Royal Prussia was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and subsequently re-organized into the province of West Prussia.
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Gościszewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sztum, within Sztum County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
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Stalag XX-B was a German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, operated in Wielbark. It housed Polish, British, French, Belgian, Serbian, Soviet, Italian, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian POWs.
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Kraśniewo [kraɕˈɲɛvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Malbork, within Malbork County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
Before 1772 the area was part of the Kingdom of Poland, from 1772 to 1919 of Prussia and Germany, from 1920 to 1939 of the Free City of Danzig, and from September 1939 to February 1945 of Nazi Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.