What is ..."Tabula chorographica auff Preusse"?

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What does this translate to and what is this document?

Answer 1

The area around the Vistula delta was inhabited by populations belonging to the various archaeological cultures of the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. Settlements existed in the area for several centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ.


Wielbark Culture (red) in the early 3rd century (also Gotland (pink), Götaland (green), Roman Empire (purple))In the 1st century AD, a new culture appeared in the area, called Willenberg-Kultur or now Wielbark culture. This culture is widely identified as the Gothiscandza (or Coast of the Goths) that was mentioned by Jordanes in the 6th century. It was characterised by Scandinavian burial traditions, such as the stone circles. In the 3rd century, this culture moved to the Ukraine, which they called Oium, and formed the Chernyakhov culture. It is known that until around 500 East Germanic and Baltic tribes controlled the area.

It is known that the Kashubians migrated to the area, but it is sure they settled in neighboring areas in Pomerania with the general Slavic people's movement to the north and west from the Pripjet marshes after 600. There are traces of a crafts and fishing settlement from the 8th–9th centuries, and — in the 10th century — an important stronghold of the Pomeranian dukes and at least 1,000 inhabitants.


Foundation
In 980, Duke Mieszko I of Poland dedicated a fortress built in the region. The official year of foundation of Gdańsk (Gyddanyzc) is 997, the same year St. Adalbert of Prague passed through the area as part of the Christianizing crusade against the Baltic Prussians on behalf of Duke Boleslav the Brave of Poland. In 1997 Gdańsk celebrated the millennium of its foundation by Mieszko I, who resolved to compete with the Pomeranian ports of Szczecin and Wolin on the Oder River.

Mieszko I received the ducal title from the Ottonian emperors in regards to lands he already controlled. In 1000 Gdańsk belonged to the territory later called Pomerania, and to the Pomeranian bishopric in Kołobrzeg (German: Kolberg). From ca. 1015 it belonged to the Pomeranian bishopric in Kruszwica, and in 1124 the town was assigned to the diocese of Włocławek (Kuyavia and Pomerania). Several crusades were ordered by the popes to Christianize the pagan Prussians and Pomeranians

Answer 2

"Tabula chorographica auff Preusse" tells the story of the city of Gandst (located by the Baltic sea in modern day Poland) in a book given to Duke Albert of Prussia by the Pomeranian Duke of Gdansk/Danzig over a thousand years ago.For more detailed info.and iteresting reading click on yahoo sarch bar www.wikinfd.org/gdansk/danzig