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The Stralsund government region is divided into four counties, three of which take their name from the towns in which the district councils are located. The fourth, however, takes its name after the island of Rügen, of which it is composed alone.
Stralsund (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʁaːlzʊnt] ⓘ; Swedish: Strålsund), [3] officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: Hansestadt Stralsund), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state.
The Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park [1] (Nationalpark Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft) is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's largest national park, situated at the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Vorpommern-Rügen District was established by merging the former districts of Nordvorpommern and Rügen; along with the former district-free city of Stralsund as part of the local government reform of September 2011. [2] The name of the district was decided by referendum on 4 September 2011. [3] The project name for the district was Nordvorpommern.
In the course of time, German monks, nobility, peasants and traders arrived to settle here. After the 12th century, the territory remained stable and relatively independent of its neighbours; one of the few German territories for which this is true. Mecklenburg first became a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1348. Though later partitioned and ...
Siege of Stralsund (1628) Siege of Stralsund (1678) Siege of Stralsund (1711–1715) Astronomical clock, St. Nicholas Church, Stralsund; Great Sortie of Stralsund; Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen (electoral district) Stralsund (region) Siege of Stralsund (1807) Stralsund dugouts; Stralsund Hauptbahnhof; Stralsund Museum; Stralsund Theatre
The List of towns in Western Pomerania includes all towns in present-day German Pomerania, and thus excludes towns which lie west of the Oder river, but east of the Oder-Neisse line (Stettiner Zipfel area), and thus historically are associated also with Western Pomerania.
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