Dantzic

Fortified seaport on left bank of the Vistula, w. Pru ia; an important town as early as 997; under control of the Teutonic Knights 1308-1455, when it became nominally subject to Poland: was for a time an important member of the Darby, JOHN NELSON, 1800-1882. English hymnist, leader of one section of the Plymouth Brethren.