Poland's Wedding to the Sea
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Poland's Wedding to the Sea was a ceremony meant to symbolize restored Polish access to the Baltic Sea that was lost in 1793 by the Partitions of Poland. It was first performed on 10 February 1920 by
Memorial to the 1945 Wedding in Mrzeżyno
Site of the 1920 Wedding in Puck – Kashubia
Poland's Wedding to the Sea by Wojciech Kossak. Painting of the 1920 ceremony in Puck
The flag marks the site of the 1945 Wedding in Kołobrzeg
Puck, Poland
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Puck is a town in northern Poland with 11,350 inhabitants. It is in Gdańsk Pomerania on the south coast of the Baltic Sea and part of Kashubia with many Kashubian speakers in the town. Previously in t
Poland's Wedding to the Sea
…Polish access to the Baltic Sea that was lost in 1793 by the Partitions of Poland. It was first performed on 10 February 1920 by General Józef Haller at Puck. In the early spring of 1945, following the Polish-Soviet advance into Pomerania, a number of such ceremonies took place in several locations. The most…
Market Square
13th-century Gothic Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Poland's Wedding to the Sea in Puck in 1920
Memorial plaque at the town hall dedicated to inhabitants of Puck murdered by the Germans in the Piaśnica massacre in 1939