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The history of the city may be divided into four periods: the Old Prussian settlement known as Twangste before 1255; the Polish city of Królewiec from 1454 to 1455 and then fief of Poland from 1456 to 1657; the German city of Königsberg from 1657 to 1945; and the Russian city of Kaliningrad from 1945 to present.
25 de jun. de 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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Há 5 dias · 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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History. The territory of what is now the Kaliningrad Oblast used to be inhabited by the Old Prussians and other Western Balts, prior to the Teutonic conquest in the early Late Middle Ages.
22 de ago. de 2023 · Kaliningrad is still of great strategic importance to Moscow. It houses the Russian Baltic Fleet at the port of Baltiysk and is the country's only ice-free European port.
14 de ago. de 2019 · Kaliningrad was a German city called Konigsberg before World War II, when it was ceded to the Soviet Union. Learn about its history, geography, economy and culture as a Russian enclave surrounded by EU countries.
It was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946, in honour of Soviet Communist functionary Mikhail Kalinin. The city's historic centre was subsequently demolished by the Soviet government. It is now the capital of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave bordered in the north by Lithuania and in the south by Poland.
