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3 unusual facts about Long Market


Long Market

His wealth enabled him to found 11 ships to king Władysław IV in 1635, the core of the Polish fleet.

The attic is decorated with coat of arms of Poland, Gdańsk and Royal Prussia and four sculptures.

After 1632 it was owned by Jerzy Curicki (Georg Curicke), whose son Rajnold was an author of famous Description of the City of Gdańsk published in 1687 in Gdańsk and in Amsterdam.



see also

Chipping, Lancashire

Chipping is a prefix used in a number of place names in England, and is probably derived from ceapen, an Old English word meaning 'market', though the meaning may alternatively come from (or via) the Medieval English word chepynge with a more specific meaning of 'long market square'.