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Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast

Also known as Fischhausen

Primorsk, in German Fischhausen, is a small town on the Vistula Lagoon in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. In the Middle Ages its castle was the residence of the bishops of Samland, whose cathedral stood in Königsberg. After 1525 it belonged to the Duchy of Prussia and later East Prussia, and it passed to the Soviet Union in 1945.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/primorsk-kaliningrad-oblast
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