Twelve years of Nazism and five and a half years of war are a drop in the ocean compared with the path this city travelled, growing from a small vill…
The history of Poland's maritime capital, from the Ice Age to the present day
How Memel became Klaipėda and what legacy it left behind
A town on the Mayskaya River (Pasmar). Founded in the 14th century as a castle of the Teutonic Order
On September 10, 1510, a powerful storm breached the spit, creating a new strait — and thus began the history of Pillau
A city that emerged at the confluence of the Instruch and Angrappa rivers
A woodcutters' village that received town rights in 1725
The little town has had a controversial reputation since the time of the first Hohenzollerns. Especially its castle
King Frederick William I of Prussia granted Gumbinnen town status on 6 April 1721
Tapiau received town rights in 1722 from King Friedrich Wilhelm I
The town's founding date is considered to be 1290, but little of it has survived
Soviet historiography regards 1734 as the official founding year of Krasnoznamensk
A town on the Sheshupe that did not survive the Second World War
Founded in 1314. In 1946 it was renamed in honour of Ivan Ladushkin, who was killed in the fighting for the town
A town in Bagrationovsk District on the Vitushka and Mamonovka rivers
Ragnit was granted town rights in 1722 by Frederick William I, who went down in history as the Soldier King
In 1818 Stallupönen became the centre of the Kreis of the same name
This small town on the Angrapa once gave shelter to Swiss Protestants, who turned it into a real "gem"
The fishing village that stood on the site of Neukuhren is first mentioned in 1254 – it is older than Königsberg
The settlement by Labiau Castle received town rights on 28 July 1642
The town is unique in that it did not grow up around a castle of the Order or of a bishop
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