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Greifswald is the seat of the Pomeranian State Museum ( Pommersches Landesmuseum ). The recently built Ryck Barrier ( Rycksperrwerk) protects the city from exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the Baltic. The city's population was listed at 59,332 in 2021, including many of the 12,500 students and 5,000 employees of the ...
Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania. Mother. Clara of Brunswick. Philip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (29 July 1573 – 3 February 1618) was from 1606 to 1618 the reigning duke of Pomerania -Stettin and is considered to be among of the most artistic of the Pomeranian dukes. He married Sophia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg in 1607.
Poland portal. Germany portal. v. t. e. Pomerania during the Early Modern Age covers the history of Pomerania in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The name Pomerania comes from Slavic po more, which means " [land] by the sea". [1] The Duchy of Pomerania was fragmented into Pomerania-Stettin ( Farther Pomerania) and Pomerania-Wolgast ( Western ...
After Barnim III's death in 1368, his three surviving sons Casimir III, Swantibor I and Bogislaw VII ruled Pomerania-Stettin jointly. At the time of their succession to power, Denmark under King Waldemar IV of Denmark was at war with the Hanseatic League and its allies, in particular Duke Albert II of Mecklenburg. The late Duke Barnim III had ...
The Duchy of Pomerania (German language: Herzogtum Pommern, Polish language: Księstwo Pomorskie , 12th century – 1637) was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (Griffins). The duchy originated from the realm of Wartislaw I, a Slavic Pomeranian duke, and was extended by the Lands of Schlawe and Stolp in 1317, the Principality ...
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the least densely populated and least industrial German state, being the sixth largest in area, but only the 14th in population. Formerly, unemployment has been negatively affected by the breakdown of non-competitive former GDR industries after the German reunification in the 1990s.
The Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War, also known as the Great War, occurred between 1409 and 1411 between the Teutonic Knights and the allied Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Inspired by the local Samogitian uprising, the war began with a Teutonic invasion of Poland in August 1409.
