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Elbląg (ĕl`blôNk) or Elbing (ĕl`bĭng), city (1994 est. pop. 127,500), Warmińsko-Mazurskie prov., N Poland. A seaport near the Vistula Lagoon, it has shipyards, machinery plants, and an important metallurgical industry. In 1237 the Teutonic Knights built a castle, around which developed a settlement. Elbląg joined the Hanseatic League in the late 13th cent. Along with other Prussian towns, it revolted against the Teutonic Knights c.1450 and submitted to the rule of Poland. It gained increasing importance in the 16th and 17th cent. as a commercial port. The city was ceded to Prussia in 1772. It suffered heavy damage in World War II, after which it passed to Poland. Elbla̧g a port in N Poland: metallurgical industries. Pop.: 129 000 (2005 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Rose skillfully surveys Abakanowicz's career, from the early '60s, when her rather crude 20-foot-tall oval cylinder punctuated by smaller protruding tubes was included in the Biennial of Three-Dimensional Forms in Elblag (a provincial town near Gdansk), to the early '90s, when she was selected as a finalist in an urban-development competition for the Great Axis of Paris on the basis of her eccentric forest of houses resembling gigantic trees (which she dubbed "arboreals"). It will begin operations in the latter two provinces, with plans for Elblag and Jelenia Gora to follow. |
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