State
Free City of Danzig
Napoleonic semi-independent city state
- This boundary
- 1807–1814
- Founded
- 1807
- Ended
- 1814
- Capital
- Gdańsk
- Government
- sister republic
- Languages
- German, French, Polish
- Preceded by
- West Prussia
- Succeeded by
- West PrussiaKingdom of Prussia
Overview
The Free City of Danzig (French: Ville libre de Dantzig; German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk), sometimes referred to as the Republic of Danzig (French: République de Dantzig; German: Republik Danzig), was a semi-independent city-state established by Napoleon on 21 July 1807, during the time of the Napoleonic Wars following the capture of the city in the siege of Danzig in May. After the Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815, Danzig was re-incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia.
All rulers (392)
- Nehemiah384–372 BCE
- Hasdrubal the Fair228–221 BCE
- Shi Xie187–226 CE
- Aioulf456–457 CE
- Harith Gassani529–569 CE
- Hudhayfah al-Bariqi632 CE
- Mughith al-Rumi711 CE
- Khalid al-Qasri724–738 CE
- Abd al-Malik759–788 CE
- 'Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Waqid al-'Umari813–814 CE
- Ishaq ibn Musa ibn 'Isa al-Hashimi814–815 CE
- Saʽid bin Judi890–898 CE
- Muhammad ibn Rumahis939–971 CE
- Gonzalo Sánchez of Aragon996–997 CE
- Wei Qi1075–1077
- Artuk Bey1086–1091
- Mu'ayyad al-Din Muzaffar1096–1100
- Muhàmmad ibn al-Hajj1110–1115
- Otto de Bonvillano1147
- Al-Adil I1183–1186
- Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus1185–1191
- Korguz1235–1242
- Saʿd al-Din al-Humaidi1246–1249
- Nasir al-Din Abu al-Fath Abd al-Rahim ibn Abi Mansur1256
- Timurtash1319–1327
- Renaud IV de Pons1339–1342
- Henri II de Villars1343–1349
- Hugues de Genève,1349–1355
- Jean III de Bueil1369
- Lancelot II Frezeau1417–1428
- Jan van Uitkerke1428–1440
- Lancelot II Frezeau1429–1430
- Olivier de Feschal1430
- Jacques Binet1461
- Louis Bastet de Crussol1463–1472
- Ajwad ibn Zamil1470–1497
- Jehan Merichon1471
- Pedro de Vera1480–1491
- Jean de Doyat1480–1482
- Palamede de Forbin1481
- Jean de Baudricourt1481–1499
- Johann von [Jean d'Estavayer] Stäffis1484
- Pierre de Saint-André1499–1509
- Mohammad Khan Ustajlu1506–1524
- Sayyida al-Hurra1515–1542
- Muqrin ibn Zamil1516–1521
- Simão Correia1516–1517
- Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés1520
- Adrien of Croÿ1524–1553
- Marcos de Aguilar1526–1527
- Charles Chabot, Baron de Jarnac1527
- Pedro de Navarra y de la Cueva1530–1532
- Pedro de Navarra y de la Cueva1532–1537
- Pedro de Mendoza1534–1537
- Juan de Ayolas1537–1539
- Domingo Martínez de Irala1539–1541
- Bayandor Khan1539–1581
- Adrien of Croÿ1540–1553
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca1541–1544
- Antonio de Cháves1541
- Antoine de Lettes-Desprez de Montpezat1541
- Domingo Martínez de Irala1544–1552
- Juan de Frías1545–1546
- Ferdinando Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno1545
- Antonio de Cháves1546–1550
- Pedro de Navarra y de la Cueva1548
- Henri d'Apremont1552–1573
- Juan de Moncayo1553–1566
- Louis Adhémar de Monteil comte de Grignan1557
- Cesare Brancaccio1557–1559
- Pablo Collado1559–1561
- Louis Prévost de Sansac1559
- Camillo Caula1560–1571
- Namgung Chim1564
- Troilus de Mesqouez1565
- Karma Tseten1565–1599
- François de Pérusse des Cars1565
- Pedro Ponce de León1566–1569
- Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon1567
- Antoine de Lenche1568–1588
- Ortún de Velasco1571
- Cristóvão de Barros Cardoso1572–1574
- Louis de Castellane Adhémar de Monteil comte de Grignan1574
- Juan de Pimentel1576–1583
- Alonso de Espinosa1577
- Guy de Saint-Gelais de Lansac1578
- Bakht-un-Nissa Begum1581
- Frutuoso Barbosa1582–1585
- João Tavares1586
- Frutuoso Barbosa1586–1594
- Françoise de Cezelli1593
- Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy1594
- Arvid Henrikinpoika Tavast1598–1599
- René de La Tour Gouvernet1600
- Alonso de Ribera1601–1605
- Manuel Cerveira Pereira1603–1607
- Edward Blayney, 1st Baron Blayney1604
- Alonso de Ribera1606–1611
- Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons1610–1618
- Alonso de Ribera1612–1617
- Aleix de Marimon-Jafre i de Comallonga1613–1639
- Cristobal Lechuga1614–1622
- Bernardino de Ceballos1614–1618
- Henry de Beaumanoir, Marquis de Lavardin1614
- Diego Palomeque de Acuña1615
- Manuel Cerveira Pereira1615–1617
- Diego de Escobedo y Gallego1622–1626
- Nils Assersson Mannersköld1626–1642
- Jacques d'Estampes de Valençay1626–1632
- Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc1626–1635
- Juan de Agüero1627–1630
- Johan Wolfert van Brederode1630
- Johan Albert II, Count of Solms-Braunfels1630–1641
- Nils Assersson Mannersköld1633–1642
- Jacques Dyel du Parquet1636–1646
- Jean-Baptiste de Labeaume1637
- Michel Sublet d'Heudicourt1641
- Johan Albert II, Count of Solms-Braunfels1641–1648
- Jacques Pronis1642
- Johan Printz1642–1653
- Tomàs de Banyuls i d'Orís1643–1654
- William Owen1644–1647
- René de Longueil1645–1653
- Jérôme du Sarrat, sieur de La Pierrière1646–1647
- Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge1646–1650
- George Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Siegen1648–1658
- Étienne de Flacourt1648
- Shang Kexi1649
- Bartolomeu de Vasconcelos da Cunha1653–1654
- François Sagarre1654
- Jacques Pronis1655
- Luc de Champmargou1655
- George Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Siegen1658–1674
- Charles d'Hovyne1660
- Guillaume de Guitaut1661–1685
- Jacques de Boisseret de Téméricourt1665
- Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Verneuil1666
- Diego de Villalba y Toledo1667–1671
- François de Lopès de Montdevergues1667
- François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois1668
- Lennart Ribbing1668–1675
- François de La La Trémoille, Marquis de Royan, Comte d'Olonne1670
- Jean-François de La Baume Le Blanc1670
- Luc de Champmargou1670
- William Stapleton1671–1672
- François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois1674–1675
- John Holmes1675–1683
- Jacques Caulier1676–1679
- Carel Hartsinck1679–1681
- Lennart Ribbing1680–1686
- Henry Holmes1683–1695
- Alexis-Henri de Châtillon1683
- János Giczy1685–1688
- Robert Lundy1689
- Juan Beltrán y Pantoja1689–1690
- André Cusaco1694
- Henry Holmes1702–1714
- Antonio de Escobar y Gutiérrez1702–1705
- José de la Torre Vela1702
- George XI of Kartli1703–1709
- José Ávalos de Mendoza1705
- Rodrigo de Peralta y Cascales1706
- Esteban de Urizar y Arespacochaga1707–1724
- Mauritz Vellingk1710
- Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde1712–1714
- Éléonor Marie du Maine du Bourg1713
- Zsigmond Kornis1713
- Philippe Pastour de Costebelle1714–1717
- Jonathan van Beuningen1715–1719
- Diego de la Haya Fernández1718–1734
- Nicolas Roze1723
- Isidoro Ortiz de Haro1724–1725
- Alonso de Alfaro1725–1726
- Isak I Jakeli1727–1736
- Baltasar de Abarca y Velasco1727–1730
- Baltazar de Abarca y Velasco1727–1730
- James Jurin1732
- Cristóbal Domínguez de Ovelar1733–1735
- John Richardson1735–1741
- Louis Quentin de La Vienne1736–1757
- Henri François de Ségur1737–1751
- Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc1739–1754
- Aleksey Obolensky-Bely1740–1741
- Aleksey Obolensky-Bely1741–1743
- Simone Buonaccorsi1741–1742
- Alain Magon de La Terlaye1741
- Jean-François de Creil1744
- Juan José de Clou1750–1752
- Sadiq Khan Zand1751–1779
- Étienne Guinot de Monconseil1751–1763
- Mateo Antonio de Mendoza1753–1761
- Augustin de Boschenry de Drucour1754–1758
- Jean Louis Quentin de Richebourg1755–1789
- Pierre Mathieu Renault de Saint-Germain1755
- César Marie de Talaru1756
- Jean Louis Quentin de Richebourg1757–1780
- Jonas Hanway1758
- László Kemény1758–1762
- Robert Melville1760
- Louis-Pierre Quentin de Richebourg1760–1775
- José Martínez Fontes1761–1764
- Marc Antoine François Le Pellerin, Seigneur de Gauville, la Chartre-sur-le-Loir1761
- Carl Fredrik Törnflycht1762–1766
- Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon1762–1788
- Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington1763–1792
- Marc Charles Frédéric de Sacconay1763–1769
- Jean-Nicolas Dufort de Cheverny1764
- François Armand d’Usson1765
- Joseph Guillermin de Corny1766–1768
- Carlos Morphi1766–1772
- Gaspar de Portolà1768–1770
- Joseph Roch Boyer de Fonscolombe1768
- Matías de Armona1769–1770
- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst1770–1794
- Jules-David Cromot du Bourg1774–1786
- Sten Abraham Piper1774
- Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch1777–1812
- Guillaume de Bellecombe1777–1779
- Thomas Chittenden1778–1789
- Jean-Baptiste Vigoureux Comte Duplessis1780–1782
- Antonio Maria Lorgna1784–1796
- Marie François Joseph Maxime Cromot du Bourg1786–1791
- Pedro Garrido y Durán1787–1789
- Vice Admiral James Seton1787–1798
- Moses Robinson1789–1790
- Louis-Pierre Quentin de Richebourg1789–1792
- Thomas Chittenden1790–1791
- Eric Ruuth1790
- Fay Na1791–1811
- François Thomas Galbaud-Dufort1792
- José de Ribas1794
- Rafael de la Luz1798
- John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde1798–1808
- Carl Carlheim-Gyllensköld1798–1800
- John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde1801–1808
- Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry1801–1806
- Willem Hendrik Rink1802–1807
- Jan Willem Janssens1802–1806
- Jean-Gérard Lacuée, count of Cessac1804–1814
- Robert Williams1805–1809
- Friedrich Wilhelm von der Schulenburg-Kehnert1805–1807
- Domenico Mattei1806–1808
- Carlos de Hault de Lassus1807–1810
- Manuel Gutiérrez Varona1807–1808
- Charles d'Arberg de Valangin1808–1810
- Joaquín Mestre1810
- Sebastião Martins Mestre1810–1819
- Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse1812
- Dirk van Hogendorp1813
- Dirk van Hogendorp1815
- Franz Freiherr von Hauer1815
- Joseph von Werklein1815–1818
- François de Mercy-Argenteau1815–1818
- Jose Masot1816–1818
- Ivan Kalagheorghe1816–1817
- Ivan Kalagheorghe1817–1820
- William Williams1818–1826
- François-Xavier Donzelot1818–1826
- Benedictus Josephus Holvoet1820–1822
- Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy1823
- Sebastião Martins Mestre1824–1834
- Willem Hendrik Alexander Carel van Heeckeren van Kell1825–1846
- Jan Adriaan van Zuylen van Nijevelt1826–1840
- Alexandre François Ghislain van der Fosse1826–1830
- Pavel Kiselyov1828–1834
- Nikolay Prazhevsky1828–1829
- Pavel Kiselyov1829–1834
- John Pearse1829–1836
- Аkinfi Sorokunski1829–1833
- Ramón Músquiz1830–1831
- Andreas van den Bogaerde van Terbrugge1830–1842
- José Cafranga Costilla1832–1834
- James Hall1833–1836
- Vasily Perovsky1833–1842
- Domingo de Cabarrús y Galabert1834
- Ramón Músquiz1835
- John Brown Russwurm1836–1851
- Johannes de Veer1837–1854
- Juan Bautista Alvarado1837–1842
- Agustín Zaragoza y Godiner1838
- Hippolyte Gerbaix de Sonnaz1839
- Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine1841–1848
- Francisco Díaz del Castillo1841–1842
- Otto Abraham Boije1842–1847
- Edward Carstensen1842
- Sámuel Jósika1844–1848
- Maximilian Karl Lamoral O'Donnell1848
- Florencio Jiménez1848–1850
- Julián de los Reyes1848–1853
- Lajos Kossuth1849
- Vasily Perovsky1851–1857
- Andrew Wedderburn-Colvile1852–1856
- Eugène du Bouzet1854–1858
- Mihail Ilinski1854–1857
- Carlos de Chacón y Michelena1858
- Giuseppe Pasolini1860–1861
- Rudolf von Braunschweig1860–1864
- Francisco Álvarez1867
- Egor Gangardt1867–1871
- Ludwig von Borcke1868
- Antônio Cândido da Rocha1869–1870
- Mestchersky Ivan Vasilievich1869–1873
- Yamanaka Seiitsu1869
- Yamanaka Seiitsu1870
- Karl von Wrangel1872–1876
- Emil von Berger1874–1876
- Gustave de Mévius1876–1877
- Domingos Jaci Monteiro1876–1877
- Antonio Gayón1877–1880
- Léopold Renouard1877–1878
- Béni Kállay1878–1903
- Мodest Koniar1881–1883
- Rámon Fernández1881
- Domingos Antônio Raiol1882–1884
- Nikolay Andreyevsky1884–1889
- Félix Mariano Paz1884–1890
- Alejandro Posada1886–1888
- Aristides Augusto Milton1889
- Karl Friedrich Franz Victor von Alten1889–1893
- Noël Ballay1891–1900
- Julián González Parrado1892–1896
- Baldomero Llerena1893
- Boris Stürmer1894–1896
- Boris Stürmer1896–1902
- Alfred Sharpe1896–1907
- Antônio Pinto Nogueira Acioly1896–1900
- Joseph Gallieni1896–1905
- Fileto Pires Ferreira1896–1898
- Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly1897–1904
- Theodor Leutwein1898–1905
- Percy Alexander MacMahon1899–1924
- Boris Alexandrovich Ozerov1899–1914
- Ramón González Valencia1900–1901
- Adolphe Cureau1900
- Edward Alexander Stanton1900–1908
- Remigio Segundo Carol1901
- Jonathan Hogg1901–1902
- Pyotr Stolypin1902–1903
- Godfrey Estcourt Matthews1903–1909
- Ramón González Valencia1903–1904
- Juan Pimentel1903–1906
- Sergio Osmeña1904–1907
- Manuel de Leon1904–1905
- Mahmud Shevket Pasha1905–1908
- Segundo Dutari Rodríguez1905–1907
- Friedrich von Lindequist1905–1907
- Émile Merwart1906–1909
- Bruno von Schuckmann1907–1910
- Alfred Sharpe1907–1910
- Giuseppe Salvago Raggi1907–1915
- Antônio Pinto Nogueira Acioly1908–1912
- Francisco Cruz1909
- Theodor Seitz1910–1915
- Nikolai Sukhomlinov1911–1915
- Espiridión Lara1911
- Émile Moreau1911
- Marcos Franco Rabelo1912–1914
- Felipe Solís Castillo1913
- Juan Dozal1914–1915
- Djevdet Bey1914
- Nikolai Sukhomlinov1915–1917
- Nicolas Obolensky1915–1917
- Aram Manukian1915–1917
- Abraham Cornejo1916–1918
- José María Ferreira1917
- Edward Alexander Stanton1918–1920
- Manuel Roxas1919–1921
- Florentino Saguin1920–1925
- Léopold De Koninck1920–1921
- Giuseppe Volpi1922–1925
- Fernando Centeno1923–1926
- Álvaro Ribeiro1924
- Ricardo Aldao1924–1928
- James Leclerc1928–1936
- José Carlos de Matos Peixoto1928–1930
- Eduardo Henrique Girão1928
- Phraya Phichaiburinthra (Sa-at Phumirat)1932–1934
- Mary Trevelyan1932–1946
- José Manuel Baños1932–1941
- Milan Radosavljević1935–1939
- Arthur Lyon Bowley1936–1947
- François Bovesse1937–1940
- Karel Johann Alex Orie1937–1942
- Félix Éboué1938–1940
- Otto Wächter1939–1942
- Liu Wenhui1939
- Milan Radosavljević1941
- Otto Wächter1942–1944
- Justo Pablo Rojo1943
- Ángel Solari1944–1945
- Pedro Arrighi1944
- Henri Deroy1945–1955
Records (1)
- 1807 — Battle of DanzigBattle · France ▸ Prussia
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