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Gdynia

[guh-din-ee-uh, -yuh, gdi-nyah]

noun

  1. a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.



Gdynia

/ ˈɡdɪnja /

noun

  1. a port in N Poland, near Gdańsk: developed 1924–39 as the outlet for trade through the Polish Corridor; naval base. Pop: 251 183 (2007 est)

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Great Britain must beat Poland in Gdynia over the next two days to have a chance of winning the Davis Cup next year.

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Captain Smith says the British number one had been planning to play in Gdynia, but his team have made "the right call".

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The Nazis’ increasing persecution of Jews ended Vera’s education, and in 1938 her father’s business in Danzig was seized and he fled to Gdynia, Poland.

After Kristallnacht, the Nazis’ night of violent antisemitic pogroms in November 1938, the Schapiros received exit visas; after learning that Gestapo officers were waiting for them at the cousins’ home, they took the train to Gdynia, where they reunited with Mr. Schapiro.

Gdansk is a neighboring city to Gdynia on the Baltic coast.

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