A German made art postcard using very fine paper sent in 1912 from Поланген/Polangen (now Palanga, Lithuania) during the Imperial Russian rule. The beach in the artwork is probably not Palanga but it matches because it is famous for its beach! Palanga's appearance in historic source is surprisingly old. A German Tutonic chronicle mentions that King Valdemar I of Denmark captured a castle of Curonian tribe in Palanga in 1161, but historical fact shows us that unlike Tallinn, it wasn't a full scale invasion and the Danes had no intention to stay there to claim its territorial possession.
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