Marek: The Teutons may never have 'dominated' Poznań, however, practically every major (and even some minor) Polish cities or towns still bear historical German place names given them by their supposed 'conquerors', e.g. "Poznań" = Posen etc..... By conquerors, I mean of course trading partners, who nonethless were the dominant players at the time, roughly around the Vasa period during the sovereignty of the Hanseatic League.
And we call Munich - Monachium Rome - Rzym, Paris - Paryæ, London - Londyn.
So what ?
Poznan has beautiful history. I don't know why you talk about Teutons I am talking about 19 and 20 century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulturkampf
Prussia's Germanisation policies in the Province of Posen mostly failed. Although most of the administrative measures aimed against the Poles remained in force until 1918, between 1912 and 1914 only four Polish-owned estates were expropriated, while at the same time Polish social organizations successfully competed with German trade organizations and even started to buy land from the Germans. The long-lasting effect of the Polish-German conflict in the area was development of a sense of Greater Polish identity, distinct from the identity common in other parts of Poland and primarily associated with nationalist ideas rather than socialism, prevailing in other parts of the country in 20th century.
One Polish town against economic power of whole German empire and Polish Poznań bought them out.
In 1918 Poles made uprise and joined Poland.
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