The European Parliament (EP) hosted a ceremony on Tuesday marking the 100th anniversary of Poland's Wedding to the Sea, the country's regaining under the Versailles Treaty of access to the Baltic Sea, which it had lost in 1793.
The ‘Bambrzy’, who hailed from a northern Bavarian town in Germany, arrived in four waves at the invitation of King August II to make their homes in villages decimated by the Great Northern War (1700-1721) and a cholera epidemic. Many of these settlements are now parts of Poznań.
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