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Szczecin
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Szczecin

Industrial (shipbuilding, fish processing, synthetic fibres, tools, iron) port on the River Oder, in northwest Poland; population (2002) 415,400.

A Hanseatic port from 1278, it was Swedish from 1648 until 1720, when it was taken by Prussia. It was Germany's chief Baltic port until captured by the Russians 1945, and came under Polish administration. Catherine the Great of Russia was born here.



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