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The Duchy of Pomerania ( German: Herzogtum Pommern; Polish: Księstwo pomorskie; Latin: Ducatus Pomeraniae) was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania ( Griffins ). The country existed in the Middle Ages between years 1121–1160, 1264–1295, 1478–1531, and 1625–1637.
Eastern Europe. The territory of Pomerania (Pommern in German) stretched along the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, from the island of Rügen (now within north-eastern Germany) to the mouth of the Vistula at Gdansk (now part of Poland ). In the Bronze Age, prior to expansion of the Central European Lusatian culture around 1300-1200 BC, the ...
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Post-war Polish borders were agreed upon in Teheran (1943) and finalized in Yalta (1945) by the "Big 3". The land was taken from Germany on the grounds of Germany having started the war, to weaken it so that it would never be able to do that again.
The Poles did not do the ethnic cleansing of those landssinglehandedly - at first the Germans ran away themselves, spurred by Goebbels's wildly exaggerated reports of the Red Army's atrocities (the atrocities were real, but the reports were exaggerated; in fact, there are some indications that the Red Army behaved differently in the areas which wer...
I think one has to look at this episode in context: a horrible war just ended and the leaders set to the task of resolving the tensions which led to the war.The major source of tensions was people of one nationality living on the territory controlled by another (e.g., Germans in Sudetenland). So, to prevent those issues from re-appearing, massive p...
Early History. In the Early Stone Age, some 15,000 years ago, the glaciers of the last Ice Age moved northwards, leaving tundra, hills and numerous small lakes in the regions of present northern Germany and Poland. During the Iron Age, the area was inhabited by numerous tribes. In the early centuries of the first millennium however, many tribes ...
May 23, 2018 · POMERANIA. POMERANIA, former duchy, subsequently Prussian territory; divided between Poland and Germany since 1945.The earliest references to Jewish settlement in Pomerania date from the 13 th century, when (in 1261) Duke Barnim I decreed that the clauses of the Magdeburg *Law concerning the Jews would apply to Stettin and the rest of Pomerania.
The Duchy of Eastern Pomerania, [a] was a duchy centred on Pomerelia, with Gdańsk as its capital. The duchy was formed after gaining independence from the Kingdom of Poland in the 11th century, following the death of Bolesław I the Brave in 1025. The duchy was then integrated back into Poland in 1046 or 1048 by Casimir I the Restorer, and its ...
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The Duchy of Pomerania (yellow) in 1400, P.-Stettin and P.-Wolgast are indicated; purple: Diocese of Cammin (BM. Cammin) and the Teutonic Order state; orange: Margraviate of Brandenburg; pink: duchies of Mecklenburg. The last duke of Demmin had died in 1264, and the 1236 territorial losses left Demmin at the westernmost edge of the Duchy of ...
