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The settlement on the site of present-day Kaliningrad was founded as a military fortress in 1255 after the Prussian Crusade by the Teutonic Knights against Baltic Prussians. The new settlement was named in honor of the Bohemian (Czech) King Ottokar II. The crusade was followed by a settlement of Germans and the surrounding area became ...
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Kaliningrad Oblast ( Russian: Калининградская область,...
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Today, Kaliningrad is part of Russia. The centre square of...
- Kaliningrad Oblast
Apr 22, 2024 · History of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly the German city of Konigsberg. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. Formerly the capital of East Prussia, Kaliningrad was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Potsdam agreement.
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3 days ago · Kaliningrad, oblast (region), extreme western Russia. Most of the oblast is in the basin of the Pregolya River and its tributaries. Centred on Kaliningrad city, it was formed in 1945 from the northern half of German East Prussia, which was ceded to the U.S.S.R. by the Potsdam agreement of that year.
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May 10, 2023 · 10 May 2023. By Adam Easton in Warsaw and Tom Spender in London,BBC News. Getty Images. Kaliningrad is home to one of Russia's only ice-free European ports - the other is on its Arctic coast. The...
Aug 22, 2023 · Kaliningrad profile. 22 August 2023. The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea is sandwiched between Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east. It saw bitter fighting and ...
Jun 21, 2022 · Tensions are mounting around the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, an isolated but strategically significant territory on the Baltic coast that could soon be dragged into the Kremlin’s war. CNN ...
Kaliningrad Oblast ( Russian: Калининградская область, romanized : Kaliningradskaya oblastʹ) is the westernmost federal subject of the Russian Federation, in Central and Eastern Europe. [12] It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The oblast is surrounded by two European Union and NATO members: Poland to the ...
