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The southward movement of Germanic tribes and Veneti during the Migration Period had left Pomerania largely depopulated by the 7th century. Between 650 and 850 AD, West Slavic tribes settled in Pomerania.
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The modern state of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania is coterminous with the historic region of Mecklenburg and the western parts of Pomerania. Germanic tribes had settled in the region by the year 500, though these people were displaced by Slavs before Germans resettled the area as part of a more general movement of Germans toward the east. In Mecklenbu...
The modern state of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania is coterminous with the historic region of Mecklenburg and the western parts of Pomerania. Germanic tribes had settled in the region by the year 500, though these people were displaced by Slavs before Germans resettled the area as part of a more general movement of Germans toward the east. In Mecklenbu...
Pomerania was inhabited successively by Celts, Germanic tribes, and, by the 5th century ce, the Slavic Pomeranians (Pomorzanie) and Polabs. Mieszko I, prince of Poland (died 992), mastered it, and in 1000 his successor, Bolesław I the Brave, organized a diocese in Pomerania with its seat at Kołobrzeg.
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Coat of arms of the House of Griffin. The Pomeranians ( German: Pomoranen; Kashubian: Pòmòrzónie; Polish: Pomorzanie ), first mentioned as such in the 10th century, were a West Slavic tribe, which from the 5th to the 6th centuries had settled at the shore of the Baltic Sea between the mouths of the Oder and Vistula Rivers (the latter Farther ...
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Pomerania ( Pomorze) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish) Pomerania ( Polish: Pomorze ⓘ ; German: Pommern ⓘ ; Kashubian: Pòmòrskô; Swedish: Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany.
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Vorpommern became part of East Germany at the end of World War II and then, in 1990, part of the combined Germany. It was included in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Hinterpommern became part of Poland at the end of WW II and remains part of Poland today. The Goth's, a Germanic tribe, were living in what was to be Pomerania during the time ...
During the Iron Age, the area was inhabited by numerous tribes. In the early centuries of the first millennium however, many tribes migrated from the region, leaving only a small number of Germanic tribes behind. Middle Ages. In the Early Middle Ages, West Slavic tribes settled in the largely abandoned region.
