Duchy of Pomerania
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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 existed as a united duchy between years 1121–1160, 1264–1
Plaque at the site of the first cathedral in Wolin
Former Cathedral, now Co-Cathedral in Kamień Pomorski
Medieval Greifswald, a typical Ostsiedlung town. Locators set up rectangular blocs in an area resembling an oval with a central market, and organized the settlement.
Słupsk castle
Swedish Pomerania
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Swedish Pomerania was a dominion of Sweden from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control ov
Duchy of Pomerania
…internal partitions. 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 Imperial Diet. In the 12th…
Gustav II Adolf
Johann Joachim Spalding, 1800
portrait of Caspar David Friedrich, c.1810
Philipp Otto Runge