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The Region of Stettin ( German: Regierungsbezirk Stettin, Polish: rejencja szczecińska) was a unit of territorial division in the Prussian Province of Pomerania, with Prussia forming part of the German Empire from 1871. It was established in 1816 and existed until 1945. On 1 October 1932 the Stralsund Region was incorporated into the Stettin ...
Stettin liegt in der Nähe der südlichen Ostseeküste an der Mündung der Oder in das Stettiner Haff, etwa 105 km südöstlich von Greifswald, 125 km nordöstlich von Berlin und 151 km südwestlich von Koszalin ( Köslin ). Das Stadtgebiet grenzt mit seinen Vororten im Westen an die Länder Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Brandenburg.
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Szczecin, port city and capital, Zachodniopomorskie województwo (province), northwestern Poland, on the western bank of the Oder River near its mouth, 40 miles (65 km) from the Baltic Sea. Shipbuilding and shipping are the main occupations. Evidence suggests that the area was first inhabited by seafaring people 2,500 years ago. Szczecin, Poland.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Prehistory
- Slavonic Stronghold, Medieval Poland
- Capital of The Duchy of Pomerania
- Under Swedish Rule
- Major Prussian and German Port
- Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany
- Polish People's Republic
- Voivodeship Capital in Poland
- Demographics
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Tacitus located the East Germanic tribe of the Rugians in the area around Szczecin, as did modern historians. The Rugians left during the Great Migrations in the 5th century AD.
Another stronghold was built in the 8th century-first half of the 9th century at the ford of the Oder River, (at the same location where later was a ducal castle) and a few craftsmen, fishermen and traders settled in the vicinity. Later it became the main centre of a Western Slavic tribe of Ukrani (Wkrzanie) living in the fork of the Oder between t...
Szczecin was held by Denmark until 1235, when it fell under the suzerainty of the multi-ethnic Holy Roman Empire. In the second half of the 12th century, a group of German tradesmen (from various parts of the Holy Roman Empire) settled in the city around St. Jacob's Church, which was founded by Beringer, a trader from Bamberg, and consecrated in 11...
During the Thirty Years' War, Stettin refused to accept German imperial armies, instead the Pomeranian dukes allied with Sweden. After the Treaty of Stettin (1630) manifested Swedish occupation, Stettin was fortified by the Swedish Empire. After the death of the last Pomeranian duke, Boguslaw XIV, Stettin was awarded to Sweden with the western part...
In 1713, Stettin was occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia; the Prussian Army entered the city as neutrals to watch the ceasefire and refused to leave. In 1720 the city was officially awarded by Sweden to Prussia. In the following years Stettin became the capital of the Prussian Province of Pomerania, and the main port of the Prussian state. From 1740...
In 1918, the city became part of the new Free State of Prussia, part of the Weimar Republic. After World War I, the economy of Stettin declined again because the seaport was separated from its agricultural supply areas in Posen with the creation of the Second Polish Republic.[citation needed] In the deeply flawed March 1933 German federal election ...
After World War II, the Polish-German border was preliminarily moved by the Allies to the west of the Oder-Neisse line, which would have made Stettin remain German. On 28 April 1945 Piotr Zaremba, nominated by Polish authorities as mayor of Szczecin came to the city. In early May the Soviet authorities appointed the German Communists Erich Spiegel ...
Old inhabitants and new settlers did a great effort to raise the Szczecin from ruins, rebuild, reconstruct and extend the city's industry, residential areas but also the cultural heritage (e.g. the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin), and it was still harder to do this under the communist regime. Szczecin became a major industrial centre of and a...
Since the medieval Christianization of the region, the population of Szczecin was largely Catholic. After the Reformation it was predominantly composed of Protestants, and since the end of World War II the majority of the population is once again composed of Catholics.
Matthäus Merian; Martin Zeiler (1652). "Stetin". Topographia Electoratus Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae. Topographia Germaniae(in German). Frankfurt."Stettin", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424, ***Please note that no wikisource link is available to the EB1911 article [Stettin]***People also ask
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Feb 29, 2024 · Furthermore, it may have begun and ended as a Slavic centre, but between its first mention in the 8th century and the end of WWII, Szczecin/Stettin would change hands numerous times. Put simply: there's a reason why, today, Szczecin is just 14km from the border with Germany! Szczecin, formerly Stettin, is a city with over a millennia of history ...
Szczecin ( German: Stettin) is a large city in Poland in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. As of 2005, 411,119 people live there. The city is on the river Odra ( German: Oder ), near the border to Germany. It is one of the largest sea ports on the Baltic. It is the historical capital of the German province of Pomerania.
