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	Pomesania
		Pomesania is the name of an area in Prussia, adjacent to the Baltic Sea near the Vistula river, which in 98 AD was described by Tacitus in his Germania.
		From 1243 to 1821 Pomesania was a diocese of the Catholic Church of Prussia.
		The diocese of Pomesania and the diocese of Prussia's Sambia[?] came under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Bydgoszcz.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Pomesania.html (282 words)

	Pomesania
		Pomesania is the former name of an area now in northern Poland, in the vicinity of the cities of Elblag (formerly Elbing) and Malbork (Marienburg), to the east of the lower Vistula river.
		From 1243 to 1821 Pomesania was a diocese of the Catholic Church of Prussia, under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Bydgoszcz.
		The region became a part of the Polish province called Royal Prussia with the 1466 Second Treaty of Thorn, but was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia at the First Partition of Poland in 1772, becoming with the rest of Prussia a part of the German Empire in 1871.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/p/po/pomesania.html (277 words)

	Talk:Pomesania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pomesania is one of the four dioceses, which were erected in Prussia in 1243, the other three being Ermland/Warmia, Culmerland and Samland.
		In 1243 Pomesania and the other three dioceses of the Catholic Church of Prussia, were put under the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Riga.
		The region became a part of Ducal Prussia in 1525, when it became protestant and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia at the First Partition of Poland in 1772, becoming with the rest of Prussia a part of the German Empire in 1871.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Pomesania (990 words)

	Pomesania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pomesania is the former name of an now in northern Poland in the vicinity of the cities Elblag (formerly Elbing) and Malbork (Marienburg) to the east of the Vistula river.
		The territory is said in legend to been named after Pomeso a son of Widewuto chieftain of the Prussians the Baltic who inhabited the area at the time its takeover and Christianization by the Teutonic Order in the 13th century.
		The region became a part of the province called Royal Prussia with the 1466 Second Treaty of Thorn but was incorporated into the Kingdom Prussia at the First Partition of Poland in 1772 becoming with the rest of Prussia part of the German Empire in 1871.
	www.freeglossary.com /Pomesania (225 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pomesania
		The Potsdam Agreement, or the Potsdam Proclamation, was an agreement on policy for the occupation and reconstruction of Germany and other nations after fighting in the European Theatre of World War II had ended with the German surrender of May 8, 1945.
		It is located in a border area which has been under the rule of many different rulers from several countries over its long history; the most notable of these rulers were those of the Teutonic State, Poland and the Kingdom of Prussia.
		To the west of Warmia is Pomesania, to the south Culmerland (Ziemia Chelminska) and Sassinia, Galindia(later called Masuria) and to the east Sambia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pomesania (1194 words)

	Elblag
		The city of Elblag was founded in 1237 by German tradesmen near the ruins of the Prussian fortress and trading settlement of Truso, on the ancient Amber Road in Pomesania.
		As a result of it the city of Elblag came under the suzerainty of Poland and became a part of Poland called Royal Prussia.
		Elblag in Pomesania came under the archdiocese of Warmia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/el/Elbing___Elblag.html (421 words)

	Kwidzyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From east a cathedral church is connected with castle.
		Kwidzyn was built in the historical Prussian province of Pomesania after the conquest by Teutonic Knights.
		Populated by Polish settlers from Masovia became part of Masuria.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Kwidzyn (273 words)

	Pomesania: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After 1920, when most of Royal Prussia returned to Poland as Polish Corridor (Polish Corridor: the polish corridor was the name given to a strip of territory which was transferred from...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]), Pomesania remained part of the German exclave (exclave: an exclave is a territory that belongs to a political entity but is not connected to...
		In 1945 Pomesania was returned to Poland under the Potsdam Agreement (Potsdam Agreement: the potsdam agreement, or the potsdam proclamation, was an agreement on policy for...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/pomesania (350 words)

	Wikipedia: Warmia
		It is located in a border area which has been under the rule of many different rulers from several countries over its long history; the most notable of these rulers were those of the Teutonic Knights, Poland and the Kingdom of Prussia.
		To the west of Warmia is Pomesania, to the south Culmland (Ziemia Chelminska), Sassinia and Galindia (later called Masuria) and to the east Sambia.
		All four dioceses, including Warmia, came under the rule of the archbishop of Riga.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/w/wa/warmia.html (892 words)

	ALBERT OF PRUSSIA
		The most important of all, however, was the carrying out of Luther's advice with regard to the transformation of the territory of the order into a hereditary secular duchy under the suzerainty of Poland, after the period of the truce had expired and peace had been made with Poland.
		He induced Speratus (who had succeeded Queiss as bishop of Pomesania) to prepare an outline of doctrines, which was published under the title Christliche statuta synodalia, and distributed among the ministers as the sovereign's own confession, as is indicated by the preface, dated Jan. 6, 1530.
		The vacant episcopal sees of Pomesania and Samland were filled by the appointment of G. Venediger (Venetus) and J. Mörlin, respectively, after arrangements had been made with the estates as to the election, jurisdiction, and salary of the bishops, whereby the old episcopal constitution of the Prussian Church was established and assured.
	www.cblibrary.net /schaff_h/ag/albert_of_prussia.htm (2131 words)

	Prussia (Baltic)
		Instead they used the name of the region from which they came - Galindians, Sambians, Bartians, Nadrovians, Natangians, Scalovians and Sudovians.
		It is not known when and how the first general names came into being in the lands that did not have a tribe name tradition such as Pomesania, Pogesania or Sasinia in the western peripheries of the Prussian settlements.
		In 1243, the Papal legate William of Modena divided Prussia into four bishoprics, Kulmerland, Pomesania, Ermland (Warmia), and Samland under the archbishopric of Riga.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/p/pr/prussia__baltic_.html (806 words)

	Prussia
		By 1250, the Papal legate William of Modena[?] had divided Prussia into four bishoprics, Culmer Land, Pomesania, Ermland (Warmia), and Samland under the archbishopric of Riga.
		In 1492 a life of the Blessed Dorothea of Montau[?] was published in Prussia: the first known publication from that region.
		The four Prussian dioceses of Pomesania, Ermeland or Warmia, Culmer Land and Samland had been under the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Riga since 1245 and from 1539 to 1561 under Wilhelm, Margrave of Brandenburg, a member of the Hohenzollern family.
	www.factspider.com /pr/prussia.html (2384 words)

	Elblag - Wikipedia
		Truso was the first city in Prussia and was on the direct route of the Gotland traders and of the later Vikings.
		Truso and Elblag are situated at the ancient Amber Road, in Pomesania.
		In 1241 it received Luebeck Law city rights, unlike many other cities in Eastern Europe, which received Magdeburg Law city rights.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elblag (169 words)

	Pomesania - TheBestLinks.com - Bishop, Christian, Catholic Church, Elblag, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Pomesania.html (305 words)

	HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Book 7 Chapter 06
		In the mean time the evangelical doctrines had already spread in Prussia, and facilitated the proposed political change by undermining the monastic constitution of the order.
		Erhard von Queiss renounced popery in a public sermon, 1524, and resigned his worldly possessions and authority to the Duke (1527), in order to attend better to the spiritual duties of an evangelical bishop.
		In 1519 he was raised to the episcopal chair, and consecrated by the neighboring bishops of Ermland and Pomesania in the Dome of Konigsberg.
	www.godrules.net /library/history/history7ch06.htm (10554 words)

	Masuria - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sanctioned by the allied Potsdam Conference, Masuria became part of Poland in 1945.
		The name comes from the ethnic name of Polish settlers from Masovia called Mazurs, who resettled the area following the bloody conquest of the Old Prussian provinces of Pomesania, Pogesania, Galindia and Bartia by the Teutonic Knights.
		These lakes were ground out of the land by glaciers during the ice age, when ice covered northeastern Europe.
	www.unipedia.info /Mazury.html (842 words)

	Navigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After seven years of fighting the provinces of Kulm and Pomesania are completely conquered.
		The Prussian castle Honeda (Balga), one of the most important in Prussia, is being destroyed by Markgraf Heinrich von Meissen and replaced by a fortified castle of the Order.
		July: Subdivision of the territory of Prussia into the dioceses Kulm, Pomesania, Warmia and Samland by the papal Legate Wilhelm of Modena by order of Pope Innozenz IV.
	www.ostpreussenheimat.de /03-datenbanken/Historisches/P-%281+2%29.htm (5710 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Stanislaus Hosius
		Upon his return to Poland he received episcopal consecration at Cracow on 23 March, 1550, and immediately took possession of his see.
		On 25 July, 1550, Pope Julius III appointed him "Inquisitor hæreticæ pravitatis" for the neighbouring Diocese of Pomesania, which was rapidly turning Protestant.
		The enticing doctrines of Protestantism were also making alarming headway in the Diocese of Culm, and it was with great difficulty that Hosius succeeded in stemming their progress.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07473a.htm (2187 words)

	World War 1 and 2 - Sambians
		One of them was named Sambia, after the tribal territory of Sambians.
		The other three dioceses, arranged by the papal legate William of Modena, were Pomesania, Warmia and Chelmno Land.
		Sambians (mixed with Sudovians resettled there from Sudovia) were able to keep their Baltic language till beginning of 18th century.
	www.worldwardiary.com /history/Sambians (119 words)

	Old Prussian (from Baltic languages) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The earliest Old Prussian (and, for that matter, Baltic) written record is a German-Prussian vocabulary—the so-called Elbing vocabulary, compiled about 1300 and extant in a copy dated around 1400.
		This vocabulary, consisting of 802 Old Prussian words (and the same number of German words), was written in a South Prussian dialect (in Pomesania).
		Somewhat poorer than the Elbing vocabulary is the vocabulary compiled by Simon Grunau, consisting of 100 Old Prussian (and German) words, written between 1517 and 1526.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-74879?tocId=74879 (1045 words)

	Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Poland - first draft
		Pomezania / Pomesania (vacant/extinct due to the Reformation) - Poland/Germany
		Pomezania / Pomesania (extinct upon request of Prussian authority) - Poland/Germany
		White Russia / Mohilev (erected by the tsarina, later approved by the Holy See, detached from....
	www.katolsk.no /utenriks/kronologi/poland.htm (861 words)

	Thirteen Years' War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As a result, the Teuton Order was totally dependent on help from the German Reich.
		To save the situation, King Casimir started hiring more Czech and Silesian soldiers and sending them to the cities of Pomerania, Pomesania and Culmer land.
		He also decided to call for another levee en masse from the whole Polish kingdom.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /articles/content/t/th/thirteen_years__war.html (5427 words)

	Covenant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There's a few things to keep in mind.
		Polania is made up of several provinces, including "Greater Poland" (Wielkopolska), "Little Poland" (Malopolska), Mazovia, Pomerania, Pomerelia, Pomesania, and Silesia.
		Each of these principalities is ruled by a Polanian Prince who traces his lineage back to Boleslaus the Wrymouthed, who divided the kingdom among his five sons when he died in 1138.
	webpages.charter.net /jtondro/Gaming/Ars/Covenant.html (1391 words)

	Prussia/Talk - Wikipedia
		Paul: you do have a point (to state it mildly), but I must admit, that Prussia/Waid shit was pretty fun to read.
		Further east is Pomesania, one of the lands of Old Prussia,later called East Prussia, City of Elbing (Polish Elblag) is in the land of Pomesania.
		Took out the following because: a) it just sat there not fitting in, and; b)WHAT Bavarian geographer?
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussia/Talk (2434 words)

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