Wrzeszcz
thumb|Location of Wrzeszcz within Gdańsk Wrzeszcz (pronounced , ; ) is one of the boroughs of the Northern Polish city of Gdańsk. With a population of more than 65,000 in an area of (population density 6,622), Wrzeszcz is the most populous part of Gdańsk.
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thumb|Location of Wrzeszcz within Gdańsk Wrzeszcz (pronounced , ; ) is one of the boroughs of the Northern Polish city of Gdańsk. With a population of more than 65,000 in an area of (population density 6,622), Wrzeszcz is the most populous part of Gdańsk.
== History == thumb|Gdańsk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska) in Wrzeszcz. Built in [[Brick Gothic style, the building originally housed the Königliche Technische Hochschule zu Danzig.]] thumb|A Fokker F.II of Danziger Luft-Reederei (DzLR) landing at Wrzeszcz airport in 1922. The current name Wrzeszcz comes from the old name of the area – Wrzost, which derives from wrzos, a Polish and Kashubian word for heather. The area of modern Wrzeszcz used to be forest and fields of heather. In modern Polish, the literal meaning of the word "wrzeszcz" is the second-person singular imperative form of "wrzeszczeć", meaning 'to scream/shout/yell', but this is not related to the etymology of this place name.