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Map of the Prussian Province of Pomerania (Pommern)in 1905 Karl August von HardenbergAlthough there had been a Prussian Province of Pomerania before, the Province of Pomerania was newly reconstituted in 1815, based on the "decree concerning improved establishment of provincial offices" (German: Verordnung wegen verbesserter Einrichtung der Provinzialbehörden), issued by Karl August von ...
The Province of Pomerania (German: Provinz Pommern; Polish: Prowincja Pomorze) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945. Pomerania was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, an expansion of the older Brandenburg-Prussia province of Pomerania, and then became part of the German Empire in 1871.
Gdynia, a major port city constructed in 1921 as Poland's harbour within the Polish Corridor Map of the Prussian province Pomerania (Pommern) in 1905 Acquisitions of land from ethnic Poles for settling ethnic German commoners by the Prussian Settlement Commission in the provinces of Posen and West Prussia (outside Prussian Pomerania) Map of ...
Administrative divisions of the Province of Pomerania (1939). 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.
The name Pomerania comes from Slavic po more, which means Land at the Sea. [1] These lists are based on the information found in Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis für das Deutsche Reich auf Grund der Volkszählung 1939 [2] and Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neiße [3] For a list of towns in the former Province of ...
A series of wars affected Pomerania in the following centuries. As a consequence, most of the formerly free peasants became serfs of the nobles. [12] Brandenburg-Prussia was able to integrate southern Swedish Pomerania into her Pomeranian province during the Great Northern War, which was confirmed in the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720. [13]
Pomerania is the area along the Bay of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea between the rivers Recknitz, Trebel, Tollense and Augraben in the west and Vistula in the east. [1] [2] It formerly reached perhaps as far south as the Noteć river, but since the 13th century its southern boundary has been placed further north.
Old Hither Pomerania (purple, centre of the map at the coast), the former south of Swedish Pomerania. Old Western Pomerania [1] or Old Hither Pomerania (German: Altvorpommern or Alt-Vorpommern, Polish: Stare Pomorze Przednie) was the part of Western Pomerania that went to Prussia under the terms of the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720, now divided between Poland and Germany.