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  Pomerania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pomerania is called Pomerelia in Polish and in that sense Pomerania is mostly in Poland.
In the 14th century, Pomerelia was in turn divided into an eastern part under the Teutonic Knights (East Prussia) and a western part under Poland.
In 1466, all of Pomerelia was ceded to Poland, but East Prussia remained ethnically German.
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 Pomerania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pomerelia, as E Pomerania came to be known, became independent in 1227, was annexed to Poland in 1294, and was taken in 1308–9 by the Teutonic Knights, who incorporated it into their domain in East Prussia.
Pomerelia, including Danzig, was formally restored by the Teutonic Knights to Poland at the Treaty of Torun of 1466.
Although frequently overrun in the wars of the following three centuries, it remained an integral part of Poland until the first Polish partition (1772), when it passed to Prussia and was constituted into the province of West Prussia.
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 AllRefer.com - Pomerania : History, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
It was conquered by Boleslaus I (992–1025) of Poland but became an independent duchy early in the 11th cent.
The histories of Pomerania and Pomerelia after 1308 must be traced separately.
Pomerania had by then been thoroughly Germanized; Pomerelia, like the rest of Prussian Poland, was subjected to intense Germanization.
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 english   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The main purpose of its activities is collecting all materials concerning the history of underground resistance movement in Pomerelia during the World War II, the history of Polish Women's War Service of that time and the history of the Department of Foreign Communications of the Home Army Main Headquaters.
The first one on underground fight in Pomerelia in the period 1939-1945 was held in Toruń in 1989 before the Foundation activity was approved.
These are titles of sessions and issued books: Underground Struggle in Pomerelia in the period 1939-1945, ed.
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 Gdańsk - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It soon became the capital of Pomerelia (see Pomerania).
In 1308 it was conquered by the Teutonic Knights and became an object of struggle between them and Poland.
Pomerelia and Gdańsk passed to Poland in 1466.
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 Historical regions of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The historical regions of Poland are (political and geographical references in parenthesis): Greater Poland (Poznan); Little Poland (Cracow); Masovia (Warsaw); Masuria (northeastern Poland, formerly in East Prussia); Pomerelia (Polish Pomerania in northern Poland); Sandomir (southeastern Poland); Silesia.
Pomerelia or Polish Pomerania occupied most of Pomerania, which extended from west of the Oder river to the Vistula river.
Gdansk, former Danzig, is the main city in Pomerelia.
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 opis ang. cd.
The main purpose of its activity is collecting all materials concerning the history of underground ressistance movement in Pomerelia during the World War II, the history of
Other function is to give initiation of searching for a history of Pomerelian underground, and also to pervade community of Pomerelia about it.
Underground Struggle in Pomerelia in the period 1939-1945, ed.
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 Teutonic Knights - Armed Forces - German Archive: The Teutonic Knights or Teutonic Order (German: Deutscher Orden, ...
A dispute over the succession of the Duchy of Pomerelia, or Eastern Pomerania, embroiled the order in further conflict in the beginning of the 14th century.
Control of Pomerelia allowed the knights to connect their monastic state with the borders of the Holy Roman Empire.
The persecution and abolishment of the powerful Knights Templar beginning in 1307 worried the Teutonic Knights, but control of Pomerelia allowed them to move their headquarters in 1309 from Venice to Marienburg (Malbork) on the Nogat River, outside of the reach of secular powers.
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 Gdansk
Gdansk rose to become one of the more important of the many trading and fishing ports along the Baltic Sea coast and overtook the nearby city of Elblag.
During the period of Fragmentation Poland, the power in Eastern Pomerania (Pomerelia) was taken by local dynasty subdued to polish seignoral princes.
In 1295 the last of the Pomerelian ducal dynasty ceded Gdansk to polish king Przemysl II.
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 Weisel Coat of Arms
Towns were built according to plan, rather than allowed to expand by chance, one of the first uses of urban planning in the Middle Ages.
During the medieval period, members of the Weisel family were found in West Prussia and Pomerelia, where the name emerged in medieval times as one of the notable families in the western region.
From the 13th century onwards the surname was identified with the great social and economic evolution which made this territory a landmark contributor to the development of the nation.
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 european history
By the partition of Poland of 1772 (see Poland, partitions of) Prussia gained Pomerelia (except Danzig) and Ermeland.
Pomerelia was organized into the province of West Prussia, and the original Prussia became known as East Prussia.Frederick was succeeded (1786) by Frederick William II, who further added to Prussia by the partitions of Poland of 1793 and 1795.
However, under his rule and that of his successor, Frederick William III (1797–1840), Prussia underwent a period of eclipse as a result of the French Revolutionary Wars and the wars of Napoleon I. Defeated by the French, Prussia withdrew from the antirevolutionary coalition in the Treaty of Basel (1795) and remained neutral until 1806.
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 Teutonic_knights info here at www.messagingmarketplace.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Opposed to King Władysław I the Elbow-high of Poland, the Pomeranian nobles requested help from the Margraves of Brandenburg who thus occupied in 1308 all of Pomerelia except for the citadel of Danzig (Gdańsk).
Because Władysław was unable to come to the defense of Danzig, the Teutonic Knights were called upon to liberate the region from the control of Brandenburg.
Crusading reinforcements and supplies were able to travel from the Imperial territory of Western Pomerania through Pomerelia to Prussia, while Poland's access to the Baltic Sea was blocked.
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 Regents of Pomerania
About 995 was Pomerania conquered by Poland for the first time and it was thereafter struggling to retain as much of its autonomy as possible against Poland, Denmark and German states.
In the beginning of the eleventh century was the Pomeranian region divided into an eastern part that later came to be known as Pomerelia and which had a different history then the western parts, which evolved into the German duchy of Pomerania.
The branch of the Pomeranian princely house that ruled the most western part of Pomerania (Slawia) was called the house of Greif and they assumed the title duke 1170, which was confirmed by the German emperor 1181.
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 Joseph II. and His Court by L. Muhlbach (Luise) eBook by BookRags
Only a few cowards and hirelings obeyed the call for a convention; so that in all, there were only thirty-six members, who, under the surveillance of Austrian and Prussian hussars, signed their names to the act of partition.
The King of Prussia received Pomerelia, and the district of Nantz; Russia took Livonia, and several important waywodeships; and Austria obtained the county of Zips, a portion of Galicia and of Lodomeria, and half of the palatinate of Cracow.
Here and there an isolated voice was raised to protest against the stupendous robbery; but it was lost amidst the clash of arms and the tread of soldiery.
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 Teutonic Knights: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
In 1263 the pope allowed the knights to monopolize the grain trade.
Their seizure (1308–9) of Pomerelia (see Pomerania) from Brandenburg brought on intermittent warfare with Poland, which claimed the province.
In 1410 the Poles and Lithuanians routed the order at Tannenberg ; successive warfare with Poles ensued and by the second Treaty of Torun (1466) the knights were forced to cede West Prussia and Pomerelia to Poland, retaining only East Prussia as a Polish fief.
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 Family Background
After World War I, from 1919 to 1939, Pomerania was divided among Germany, Poland, and the Freed City of Danzig (Gdansk).
The Polish part formed the province of Pomerelia (German Pommerellen; Polish Pomorze) (6,335 sq.
Between 1945 and 1949 about 2 million Pomeranians were expelled by the Russians and Poles (Vertreibung) from the former German area and the area was taken over by the Polish government in 1945, with about 250,000 Pomeranians dying in the process (killed, death from exhaustion, starvation, or froze to death).
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 Annexation of Poland
He was a former lover, and in this way she had a hold on Poland.
The partition of 1772 gave Pomerelia and Ermeland to Prussia, Latgale and Belarus E of the Dvina and Dnieper rivers to Russia, and Galicia to Austria.
When in 1791 the remainder of Poland that was left to Poniatowski showed signs of attempting to reclaim its land, a Russian army invaded Poland (1792).
www.lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/modernworld/AnnexationofPoland.htm   (323 words)

  
 Timeline Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Peace of Thorn (Torún) ended the war between the Teutonic knights (a German military and religious order) and their subjects in Prussia, led by King Casimir IV (1427-1492) of Poland.
Poland was given Pomerelia and West Prussia, and the knights retained East Prussia, with a new capital at Königsberg (Kaliningrad).
The knights, formerly strictly a German order, were forced to accept Poles as members and their grand master became a vassal of the Polish king.
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 Teutonic Order
Subsequently, its authority and financial position also rapidly declined; it was unable to withstand the wars that Poland continued to wage, and when its own vassals joined the Poles in the Thirteen Years' War (1454-66), the order was finally defeated.
In 1466 it ceded Pomerelia, both banks of the Vistula, and the bishopric of Warmia (Ermland) to Poland (Treaty of Torún, 1466).
The order retained the rest of Prussia, but its grand master became a vassal of the Polish king for that territory.
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 www.Stolarz.org - Stolarz History
They contributed greatly to the emerging medieval society.
The first documented history of the Stolarz families in the region of West Prussia and Pomerelia, where the name emerged in medieval times as one of the notable families in the western region.
This ancient family descended as a member of the powerful and royal Jastrzebiec Clan of families who held the lands and castle in Sadomier as early as 999.
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 EARLY HISTORY OF POLAND
Moreover Casimir's difficulties were materially increased by the necessity of paying for Czech mercenaries, the pospolite ruszenie, or Polish militia, proving utterly useless at the very beginning of the war.
¹ By the second peace of Thorn, Poland recovered the provinces of Pomerelia, Kulm and Michalów, with the blshopric of Ermeland, numerous cities and fortresses, including Marienburg, Elbing Danzig and Thorn.
The territory of the Knights was now reduced to Prussia proper embracing, roughly speaking, the district between the Baltic, the lower Vistula and the lower Niemen, with Königsberg as its capital.
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 Data: 1401 AD to 1970 AD - The Ethnohistory Project
900 725 1466 # N Poles S Pomerelia (see ref 340), C Danzig(Gdansk) From Middle Vistula R (incl Warsaw), PL. + Middle Warta R around Poznan, PL. + Upper Oder R around Wroclaw, PL (see map ref 302).
900 730 1466 1970 N Poles S {Pomerelia (see ref 340), L Danzig(Gdansk)} *{900-725}* Start date to conform to (900-725).
End date: some Poles stayed in Pomerelia & Danzig until modern time.
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 Pomerania
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles created the Polish Corridor in part of Hinterpommern.
The Polish part formed the province of Pomerelia (German Pommerellen; Polish Pomorze)(6,335 sq.
After World War II, the Potsdam Conference in 1945 transferred to Polish jurisdiction the area east of the Oder River (former Hinterpommern), and a small part west of the Oder including the former Pomeranian capital city Stettin (Szczecin), the peninsula Wollin, and the eastern part of the peninsula Usedom with the city of Swinemünde.
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 The Teutonic Order
It was in Prussia that the order fought with the Polish dukes of Masovia and Silesia to subjugate the pagan Prussians and fight against Novgorod.
After the fall of Acre in 1291 the Grand Master went to Venice, and, following the conquest of Pomerelia in 1309, to Marienburg in Prussia.
Thus the Order, by now exclusively nobiliary, came to form an independent political entity.
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 Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
the Princes of Danzig (from 1234, the Princes of Pomerelia).
25 Dec 1294 Pomerelia inherited by the prince of Greater Poland and
14 Nov 1308 Danzig (and Pomerelia) conquered by the Teutonic Order.
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 Total War Center Forums - Polish factions
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There can be also the one province in souther pomerelia with capital city Bydgosz or another province with capital city in Tuchola.
This changes result from big size of pomerelia.And next the province with number 18 woul has name "Głogowska ziemia(land or state)" and her capital city would be rarely Santoka or Krosno.Besides Szczecin is in delta of Odra river.
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 1600 by Tommy Larsson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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There are no special rules, but you should notice that the provinces of Ingria, Novgorod, Pomerelia, Warsaw, Crimea, Voronezj, Bessarabia and Cracow are canal provinces, making it possible to the otherwise landlocked powers of Poland and Russia to build fleets.
5, Pomerania is abbreviated Pon and Pomerelia Pmr.
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