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- The name Pomerania comes from Slavic po more, which means "land by the sea".
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Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (German: Vorpommern; Polish: Pomorze Przednie), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, located mostly in north-eastern Germany, with a small portion in north-western Poland.
Most of Western Pomerania remained in East Germany and was later merged into Mecklenburg. With the consolidation of Communism in East Germany and People's Republic of Poland, Pomerania became part of the communist Eastern Bloc.
After the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II as Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, Western Pomerania was part of the Free State of Prussia within the Weimar Republic, while the eastern part became a part of Poland, and organized into the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Most of Pomerania went to Poland after World War II, but Western Pomerania, along with Mecklenburg, became part of Soviet-occupied Germany and then part of Soviet-dominated East Germany.
Pomerania was originally a land in northeast Germany. It stretched along the Baltic Sea from Mecklenburg on the west to almost Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) on the east. Pomerania was divided into two sections: Vorpommern which was west of the Oder River, and Hinterpommern which was east of the Oder River.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or known by its anglicized name: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Low German: Mäkelborg-Vörpommern) is one of the 16 States of Germany. The capital is Schwerin .
Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania was created following the Second World War by the joining of two historic regions, Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Situated in north east Germany, the state has some 1,900 km of coastline on the Baltic Sea.
