Scots in Poland,
Scottish merchants saw profit in the huge empire of Poland in the 15thC , or even earlier. There was a suburb in Danzig, called Alt-Schottland or Old Scotland before 1433, as Danzig, was the major port for trade to Poland.
With Scots in towns like Warsaw, Crakov, and Danzig, as rich merchants, with pedlars also selling cloth who were Scottish, In 1556 Scots were accused by people in Thorn, of faulty weighst and such. King James VI, tried to reduce the amount of poorer Scots going to here, in 1625 claiming they brought scandal, to the Scots. With people in Konigsberg, now known as Kaliningrad, condemning Scots merchants even in 1700, but that might have been Germans, doing that complaining. as they were very German these places. Gordon's College in Aberdeen was but forward by a Scottish Polie merchant.
Some claim in the 17thC there were 50,000 Scots in the Polish Empire. ,
Some Scots were also in Poland, and Germany seen as pedlars.
In the post WW2, era, many Poles migrated to Scotland, and after joining the EU.
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