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Pomeranian duck (also Pommern duck, Pommernente) Pomeranian goose (also Rügener goose, Pommerngans) Pomarine skua, carnivorous seabird sometimes erroneously called "Pomeranian skua" Places. Western Pomerania and Farther Pomerania. Swedish Pomerania; Province of Pomerania; West Pomeranian Voivodeship, an administrative region in Poland
Aaron Isaac (also known as Aron Isak; Hebrew: אהרון יצחק; 16 September 1730 – 21 October 1816) was a Jewish seal engraver and merchant in haberdashery. He came from Swedish Pomerania, a German-speaking area then part of the Swedish Empire, during the reign of Gustav III, and was persuaded to come to Sweden where there were no seal engravers at the time.
The Swedish Empire ( Swedish: stormaktstiden, "the Era of Great Power") [1] was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region. The beginning of the period is usually taken as the reign of ...
Province of Pomerania (1815–1945) Swedish Pomerania ( Swedish: Svenska Pommern; German: Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control over the lands on the southern Baltic ...
The Swedish House of Nobility in Stockholm, Sweden. Ruins of Alsnö Castle, where the first known ordinance of Swedish nobility was given in 1280 by King Magnus III. The Swedish nobility (Swedish: Adeln or Ridderskapet och Adeln, Knighthood and Nobility) has historically been a legally and/or socially privileged class in Sweden, and part of the so-called frälse (a derivation from Old Swedish ...
The Fersen family, stylized as the von Fersen ( German: Versen ), is a Baltic-German noble family grouped into several ennobled branches that settled in and around the kingdoms bordering the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. [1] The most well-known holders of the surname settled in modern day Sweden and Livonia (modern day Latvia and Estonia ...
