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When was Pomerania merged into Posen-West Prussia?
When did Pomerania join the German Empire?
When did Pomerania become a province?
When did Pomerania become part of the Kingdom of Prussia?
On October 1, 1938, the bulk of the former Province of Posen-West Prussia was merged into the province of Pomerania, adding an area of 5,787 km 2 (2,234 sq mi) with a population of 251,000. On October 15, Stettin's city limits were expanded to an area of 460 km 2 (180 sq mi), housing 383,000 people.
1938: Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia and two Brandenburgian counties merged into the German Province of Pomerania. 1938: several counties from Mazovia and Greater Poland were joined to the Polish Pomeranian Voivodship , and her capital was moved from Toruń (Thorn) to Bydgoszcz (Bromberg).
On October 23, Swedish Pomerania was merged into the Prussian province, both now constituting the Province of Pomerania. After Napoleon's break-up of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Western Part was the member of the German Confederation.
Pomerania then came under control of the Elector of Brandenburg through marriage to the Bogislaw family. The Elector of Brandenburg also inherited the lands of the Teutonic Knights (East Prussia). The Elector assumed the title of King of Prussia, and Pomerania becaue part of Prussia.
When they died out around 1650, Pomerania was divided between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia, with the latter eventually absorbing the Swedish portion over the next century or so.
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The Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the following Treaty of Stettin (1653) arranged western Pomerania to become part of the Swedish Empire, and eastern Pomerania joining the Brandenburg-Prussia monarchy (Royal Prussia), which was established in 1618 and already included Pomeralia.
Besides Silesia, Frederick also acquired East Frisia on the North Sea coast, and later, at the First Partition of Poland in 1772, he obtained West Prussia, that is, Polish Royal Prussia, thus forming a territorial link between East (Ducal) Prussia and the rest of his domains to the west.
