The history of Pomerania, an area in modern-day Germany and Poland, dates back more than 10,000 years. The name Pomerania comes from Slavic po more, which means Land at the Sea. Settlement in the area started by the end of the Vistula Glacial Stage, about 13,000 years ago.

Pomerania is a region on the southern Baltic coast between the Mecklenburg Lake District in the west and the Vistula in the east with a long history. The part west of the Oder is called Western Pomerania and today belongs (except for the area around Stettin) to the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.Eastern Pomerania, east of the Oder, - like the region around …

25/02/2014 · Pomerania became a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1181 when Bogislaw I swore his allegiance to Frederick I (Barbarosa), the German King and Roman Emperor. Thus began a Greif dynasty that continued for the next four centuries, with the crown passed down from generation to generation through inheritance.

Pomerania, Polish Pomorze, German Pommern (from Slavic po, “along,” and morze, “sea”), historic region of northeastern Europe lying along the Baltic coastal plain between the Oder and the Vistula rivers. Politically, the name also came to include the area west of the Oder as far as Stralsund, including the island of Rügen (Rugia).

History Pomerania (Pommern) is a beautiful land of lakes and forests, quaint and picturesque villages with steepled churches, and stork nests. The land looks surprisingly like Minnesota and Wisconsin. Many Pomeranians chose the Midwest for their new homes in the 1840’s and 1860's. Pomerania was scraped by glaciers thousands of years ago.