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Sopot (Kashubian: ''Sopòt''; German: ''Zoppot'') is a seaside resort town in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. Sopot is a town with powiat (county) status, in Pomeranian Voivodeship. Until 1999 it was part of the Gdańsk Voivodeship. It lies between the larger cities of Gdańsk to the southeast and Gdynia to the northwest. The three cities together make up the metropolitan area of Tri-City. Sopot is a major health-spa and tourist resort destination. It has the longest wooden pier in Europe, at 515.5 metres, stretching out into the Bay of Gdańsk. The city is also famous for its Sopot International Song Festival, the largest such event in Europe after the Eurovision Song Contest. Among its other attractions is a fountain of bromide spring water, known as the "inhalation mushroom". == Etymology == The name is thought to derive from an old Slavic word ''sopot'' meaning "stream"〔(www.sopot18.webpark.pl )〕 or "spring".〔Maria Malec, ''Słownik etymologiczny nazw geograficznych Polski''〕 The same root occurs in a number of other Slavic toponyms; it is probably onomatopeic, imitating the sound of running water - murmur (''Šepot''). (Today several streams run into the sea in the area of the town.) The name is first recorded as ''Sopoth'' in 1283 and ''Sopot'' in 1291. The German ''Zoppot'' is a Germanization of the original Slavic name. In the 19th century and in the interwar years the German name was Polonized as ''Sopoty'' (a plural form, closer to the German pronunciation).〔 "Sopot" was made the official Polish name when the town came again under Polish rule in 1945. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sopot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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