Etymology. The name Pomerania comes from Slavic po more, which means "Land at the Sea".. Overview. The province was created from the former Prussian Province of Pomerania, which consisted of Farther Pomerania and the southern Western Pomerania, and former Swedish Pomerania.It resembled the territory of the former Duchy of Pomerania, which after the Peace …

The Province of Pomerania was a province of Brandenburg-Prussia, the later Kingdom of Prussia.After the Thirty Years' War, the province consisted of Farther Pomerania.Subsequently, the Lauenburg and Bütow Land, Draheim, and Swedish Pomerania south of the Peene river were joined into the province. The province was succeeded by the Province of Pomerania set up in …

Transport. Barth railway station is served by local services to Stralsund.; Stralsund Barth Airport (also referred to as Baltic Sea Airport) is serving Barth and the UNESCO World heritage city of Stralsund and the adjacent economy and tourism regions of the Vorpommern-Rügen district.; Vineta. According to a theory by Goldmann and Wermusch, Barth is the site of the sunken …

Koszalin (pronounced Koshalin [kɔˈʂalʲin] (); Kashubian: Kòszalëno; formerly German: Köslin, pronounced [kœsˈliːn]) is a city in northwestern Poland, in Western Pomerania.It is located 12 kilometres (7 miles) south of the Baltic Sea coast, and intersected by the river Dzierżęcinka.Koszalin is also a county-status city and capital of Koszalin County of West …

Borders. 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. It formerly reached perhaps as far south as the Noteć river, but since the 13th century its southern boundary has been placed further north.. Landscape. Most of the region is coastal lowland, being part of the …

History. Pasewalk became a town during the 12th century and was soon a member of the Hanseatic League.In 1359 it passed to the Duke of Pomerania.Frequently ravaged during the wars which devastated the district, it was plundered several times by Imperial troops during the Thirty Years' War.In 1657 it was burned down by the Poles and in 1713 by the Russians.

The Duchy of Pomerania (German: Herzogtum Pommern; Polish: Księstwo Pomorskie; Latin: Ducatus Pomeraniae) was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (Griffins).The country had existed in the Middle Ages, in years 1121–1160, 1264–1295, 1478–1531 and 1625–1637. The duchy originated from the realm …

Farther Pomerania comprised the eastern part of the Prussian Province of Pomerania.It stretched roughly from the Oder River in the West to Pomerelia in the East. It roughly correspond to today's Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.Along with Farther Pomerania a small area of Western Pomerania including Stettin (today Szczecin) and Swinemünde (today Świnoujście) …

The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern-day times Pomerania is split between Germany and Poland.Its name comes from the Slavic po more, which means "land at the sea".. Settlement in the area started by the end of …

The Pomeranian language (Polish: pomorszczyzna or język pomorski, German: Pomoranisch or die pomoranische Sprache) is in the Pomeranian group of Lechitic languages (Polish: grupa pomorska języków lechickich, German: die pomoranische Gruppe der lechischen Sprachen) within the West Slavic languages.. In medieval contexts, it refers to the dialects spoken by the …