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After the last Griffin duke had died during the Thirty Years' War in 1637, the duchy was partitioned between Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden. The Kings of Sweden and the Margraves of Brandenburg, later Kings of Prussia, became members as Dukes of Pomerania in the List of Reichstag participants .
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- High Middle Ages
Sweden, which had been present in Pomerania with a garrison at Stralsund since 1628, gained effective control of the Duchy of Pomerania with the Treaty of Stettin in 1630. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and the Treaty of Stettin in 1653 , Sweden received Western Pomerania (German Vorpommern ), with the islands of Rügen , Usedom , and Wolin ...
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Dec 7, 2022 · Sweden, present in Pomerania with a garrison at Stralsund since 1628, had gained effective control of the Duchy of Pomerania with the Treaty of Stettin in 1630.
Invasion of the Swedish Rügen by Brandenburg-Prussia, 1678 Pomerelia as a part of Royal Prussia (light blue), 16th century; Duchy of Pomerania in brown The former Duchy of Pomerania (center) partitioned between the Swedish Empire and Brandenburg after the Treaty of Stettin in 1653.
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.
The Duchy of Pomerania was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania . The country had existed in the Middle Ages, in years 1121–1160, 1264–1295, 1478–1531 and 1625–1637.
May 23, 2018 · POMERANIA, former duchy, subsequently Prussian territory; divided between Poland and Germany since 1945. The earliest references to Jewish settlement in Pomerania date from the 13 th century, when (in 1261) Duke Barnim I decreed that the clauses of the Magdeburg *Law concerning the Jews would apply to Stettin ( *Szczecin ) and the rest of ...
