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 * 1346-1569: POL Przemysł II 1295 COA.svg Kingdom of Poland
 * 1569–1793: Chorągiew królewska króla Zygmunta III Wazy.svg Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
 * 1772–1807: Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1750-1801).svg Prussia
 * 1807–1815: Flag of the Duchy of Warsaw.svg Duchy of Warsaw
 * 1815–1871: Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1803-1892).svg Prussia
 * 1871–1919: Flag of the German Empire.svg German Empire
 * 1919–1939: Flag of Poland.svg Second Polish Republic
 * 1939–1945: Flag of German Reich (1935–1945).svg Nazi Germany
 * 1945–1952: Republic of Poland
 * 1952–1989: Flag of Poland.svg Polish People's Republic
 * 1989–present: Republic of Poland

German community
Since 1772, when the city came under the Prussian rule due to a millitary Partitions of Poland, its ethnic composition began to change. Frederick II quickly implanted 57,475 German families to Prussian Partition in order to solidify his new acquisitions. The process of German colonization and Germanization intensified in the nineteenth century and is known in Polish historiography as Drang nach Osten (German for "push eastward" ).

In 1910 the town had 57,696 inhabitants, of which 84 % were Germans and almost 16 % were Poles. When after World War I the regulations of the Treaty of Versailles became effective in 1920, the number of German inhabitants decreased rapidly. In 1921 the town had  88,000 inhabitants, including 24,000 Germans; until 1928 the number of Germans decreased further to almost 12,000. Between 1920 and 1928 despite significant outflow of Germans, population increased by 30 000, as Polish Authorities decided to include to the city an area of more than a dozen suburban communities, inhabited mainly by Poles.

A history of German community in Bydgoszcz ended up with the catastrophy of World War II. Upon the Potsdam Agreement German population living in Poland were transfered to Germany, and Poles living in what was before the war Polish "Eastern Borderlands" were moved to Poland.