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	Swedish Pomerania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a consequence Pomerania would lapse into a state of anarchy, thereby forcing the Swedes to act and from 1641 the administration was led by a council ("Concilium status") from Stettin, until the peace treaty in 1648 settled rights to the province in Swedish favour.
		Pomerania became involved in the Thirty Years' War during the 1620's, and with the town of Stralsund under siege by imperial troops its ruler Bogislaus XIV, the Duke of Stettin, concluded a treaty with the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus in June 1628.
		The nobility of Pomerania was firmly established and held extensive privileges, as opposed to the other side of the spectrum which was populated by a numerous class of serfs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedish_Pomerania

	Pomerania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Pomerania continued as a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire until the death (1637) of Bogislav XIV, when the region was granted to the elector of Brandenburg.
		In the rest of Swedish Pomerania, the kings of Sweden remained princes of the Holy Roman Empire until the dissolution of the empire in 1806.
		Pomerania had by then been thoroughly Germanized; Pomerelia, like the rest of Prussian Poland, was subjected to intense Germanization.
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Pomerani.html

	Subnational Flags 1815-1918 (Prussia, Germany)
		Prussia - Province of Eastern Prussia - Province of Hohenzollern (1882-1934).
		The coat of arms of the Prussian province and later Land of Hanover was Gules a horse Argent.
		The colours of the [Prussian] province adopted in 1887 were the same as the ones of the former kingdom : yellow over white.
	www.z6.com /z6files/z6files/fotw/flags/de-pr-.html

	Pomerania - InfoSearchPoint.com
		Since the wealth of the province was incurred by the trade and the main trade route for the country was the Vistula river, that linked the Pomerania with the rest of Poland, citzens of the province, with no difference of their language and nationality were driven more and more into links with Poland.
		Pomerania (Pomeranian/Kashubian : Pòmòrze, Polish : Pomorze, German : Pommern, Latin : Pomerania, Pomorania,) is the historical region on the south coasts of the Baltic Sea centered around the mouth of River Oder on the present-day border between Poland and Germany, reaching from River Reknitz in the west to River Vistula in the east.
		All of Pomerania in the Kingdom of Prussia (1815-1870)
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Pomorze

	History of Pomerania
		Pomerania was conquered by Heinrich "the lion", the duke of Saxonia and Bavaria.
		Pomerania was originally inhabited by the Germanic trunk of the Rugier The Slaves (Wenden) followed them, which the country Pomorje ("coastal country") called and already 600 A. important commercial centres at the Baltic Sea possessed (Julin-Wollin).
		West- (Vor-) Pomerania was combined with Mecklenburg as a country of the GDR.
	www.ruegenwalde.com /rwalde/pgesch_e.htm

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pomerania
		By the Treaty of Stockholm of 1720, Hither Pomerania as far as the Peene was given to Brandenburg-Prussia; the rest of the province and the island of Rügen were obtained by Prussia in the treaty of 4 June, 1815.
		The victory of German civilization in Pomerania was assured in the fourteenth century, and the diocese became dependent upon the dukes.
		In 1824 the seven hundredth anniversary of Pomerania's conversion to Christianity was celebrated, and a monument was erected to Bishop Otto of Bamberg at Pyritz.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12225a.htm

	PrussianProvince.html
		Pomerania suddenly became a border territory after the Corridor for the newly revived Poland was established and East Prussia found itself separated from the rest of Germany.The Pomeranian province and its capital lost a large section of their original trading partners, but Stettin managed to maintain its position as the third biggest German port.
		When (initially class-based) provincial parliaments were established in the Prussian provinces in 1823, two of them were established in Pomerania: one communal parliament for the governmental districts of Stettin and Koeslin and a separate communal parliament for the governmental district of Stralsund, New Hither Pomerania (until 1881).
		All of Pomerania had now become a part of a modern, rational, strict and economically administered, differentiated unitary State, in which up to the middle of the century a renewed enlightened absolutism was restored, by very capable and responsible officials.
	members.tripod.com /~radde/PrussianProvince.html

	PrussianSwedish.html
		The whole Prussian Pomerania was subject to the strict conditions of the "Kantonsreglement" of 1733.
		The orthodox Lutheran church was prevalent in all of Pomerania.
		Just the border of East Pomerania was shifted toward the west in favor of Brandenburg which received a parcel strip of land with the cities of Bahn, Greifenhagen, and Kammin, as well as the parts of Sweden's duty taxes that had been collected in the East Pomeranian ports.
	radde.tripod.com /PrussianSwedish.html

	Historical Maps of the Prussian Province of Posen - Poznan: Map guide (text)
		The main part of the Prussian Province of Posen was handed to Poland and became the Voivodship of Poznan.
		Therefore, the Province of Posen existed from 1846 until 1918 with the (outer) boundaries of in the 1900 map.
		Nearly the entire German population of those provinces either escaped the Red Army in 1945 westward or was later expelled to Germany by the Polish administration.
	www.tr62.de /maps/po-text.html

	Pomerania (Prussian province)
		Province of Pomerania (German: Provinz Pommern) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia, acquired in three stages in 1653, 1720 and 1815.
		It covered western parts of the historical region of Pomerania.
		This page was last modified 02:59, 25 Sep 2004.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pomerania_%28Prussian_province%29

	Pommern History
		The earliest inhabitants of Pomerania were Germanic tribes that migrated southwards from Scandinavia prior to 100 B.C. By the fifth century A.D., these tribes, known as the Goths, Vandals, Germanii, and Teutoni, had migrated westward and the area was settled by Slavic tribes that entered from the east.
		On September 14, 1811, serfdom in Pomerania was abolished and the serfs who had been under hereditary bondage to the estates were now free to move from village to village, choose their own trade, and marry a spouse of their choice.
		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.
	www.genemaas.net /Pommern.htm

	Regional Flags (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany)
		These colours had been determined as the colours of the Prussian province of Pommern (Pomerania) by Cabinets Ordre of 22 October 1882.
		The traditional colours of Mecklenburg may be used in the part of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania that was formerly part of Mecklenburg, however the use of a flag with the coat-of-arms seems to me not appropriate.
		Although the traditional blue-white colours of Pomerania may be used in the part of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania that was formerly part of Pomerania, there was probably never an [officially adopted] state flag i.e.
	www.fotw.net /flags/de-mv_.html

	Middle Pomerania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1773 After the first partition of Poland, included to Pomerania, Province of Kingdom of Prussia.
		Middle Pomerania is a geographical and historical region in the middle of Pomerania in northern Poland, between Western and Eastern Pomerania.
		Sometimes it was considered part of Western Pomerania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Middle_Pomerania

	The Demise of Pomerania and Prussia
		Pomerania was a Prussian province and not a German one.
		Prussia with 13 provinces was bigger than Germany and played in the history since the Grosse Kurfuerst a role about equal to that of Austria, France and England.
		Thousands of Swiss Protestants, Palatinate Protestants, Walloon Protestants, Bohemian Protestants and Alsatian Protestants found asylum in Prussia.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~mikebartelt/pruss-demise.htm

	Background to my Prussian Ancestors- the Streich, Hohnke, Kramp, and Wagner Families from the Provinces of Posen and Hinterpommern (Pomerania)
		The Provinces of Posen, Pomerania and West Prussia which were regions in the Kingdom of Prussia during the 19th century were partially surrendered to the Republic of Poland when that nation was reestablished after WW I. After the Second World War, these Provinces were totally encompassed by Poland.
		In the area called Hinterpommern, = farther or eastern Pomerania, that is usually the case, especially for the Lutheran churches, which constituted an estimated 99 percent of the population.
		Unfortunately, Posen is also the capital city of the Province of Posen.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~dadsweb/pruesbkg.html

	Digital Clendening: Rudolf Virchow Manuscripts, Autobiographical Outline, page 2
		Pomerania was a Prussian province located on the northern Baltic Sea coastline of what is now Poland and partly Germany.
		During Virchow’s lifetime, the Prussian provinces bordering Pomerania would have been as follows: Mecklenburg on the west, West Prussia on the east, and Posen and Brandenburg provinces to the south.
		On recounting the call later in his life, Virchow himself referred to the office as the "preussischen Medicinalministers" or the Prussian Minister of Medicine.
	clendening.kumc.edu /dc/rv/cv2.html

	Pomerania
		German inhabitants of the province escaped or were expelled and Poles from the formerly Polish regions in the East settled in Pomerania.
		the Province of Pomerania was ruled by native princes but under the dependence on Poland (up to the 12th century), and later on Brandenburg and Sweden.
		The Prussian province of Pomerania in this point was practically entirely German-speaking and Protestant, except for the easternmost districts (once Polish) where a Polish-speaking, partially Catholic minority remained.
	www.polishroots.com /genpoland/pom.htm

	German Genealogy: Pommern / Pomerania
		In 1938 areas from the former provinces of Westpreussen and Posen which were lost after WWI were added in an administrative reform.
		Pomerania - The Land by the Sea: http://hinterpommern.de/
		Before 1900 the court districts in Pommern province were as follows:
	www.genealogienetz.de /reg/POM/pommern.html

	Geschichte Pommerns
		The German Settlement of Pomerania : 1150 - 1350
		Pomerania between Poland, Denmark, Saxony and Brandenburg : 1135 - 1194
		Pomerania under Prussian and Swedish Rule : 1648 - 1815
	radde.tripod.com /HistoryPomerania.html

	Easter Visit to Pomerania, April 1999
		In that same year the whole of Pomerania became a Prussian province, and maintained it's borders till 1945.
		With the death of Bogislaw XIV in 1637, this indeed happened, and led directly to the "30 Years War" during which time Pomerania was occupied by the Swedes.
		Pomerania was at one time a country, an "empire" if you will, and the Pomeranian people were real people who had occupied that area for 800 years.
	www.pautz.net /pautzmark/travel/pomerania9904/9904_pomerania_intro.html

	FAQ.pommern - Pomerania, Prussia
		In 1938 areas from the former provinces of Westpreussen and Posen which were lost after WWI were added in an administrative reform.
		Q3: What were the administrative areas of Pommern (Pomerania)?
		The Landrat was in charge of passport and emigrations matters and reported to the district Regierung who in turn gave data to the provincial Oberpräsidium in Stettin.
	users.foxvalley.net /~goertz/faq.pom.html

	Science Fair Projects - Chojnice
		Part of Eastern Pomerania, later Prussian Province of West Prussia.
		Situated in the Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999 and before 1975), previously in Bydgoszcz Voivodship (1975-1998), capital of the Chojnice County.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Konitz

	Unke Genealogy Page, The
		Pomerania was formed as a Prussian province in 1815, and became part of a unified Germany in 1871.
		Germany's defeat in World War II led to the loss of its eastern provinces, and that part of Pomerania which was east of the Oder River became a part of Poland.
		Descendants of these families left Pomerania in the next 2 centuries, usually to come to America in the 19th, and to move to other places in Germany in the 20th, especially after World War II.
	www.unke-genealogy.de

	Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Germany)
		Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a German [Federal] State, formed in 1945 by unification of the [Federal] State of Mecklenburg and that part of the Prussian province of Pomerania (Provinz Pommern) which remained German.
		The English name is officially Mecklenburg West Pomerania, according to an e-mail from the Staatskanzlei (office of the prime minister).
		The Dienstflagge (state flag) is the same as the civil flag but adds the symbols from the coat-of-arms in the centre: a black ox head for Mecklenburg, a red griffin for Pomerania.
	www.fotw.net /flags/de-mv.html

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Magdeburg
		Capital of the Prussian Province of Saxony, situated on the Elbe; pop.
		The so-called Magdeburg Rights were also adopted by many towns in eastern and northeastern Germany in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (in Pomerania, Schleswig, and Prussia).
		Recently the opinion has been emphasized that unfortunate circumstances, such as the springing up of the northeast wind, contributed towards it.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09524b.htm

	Posen Resources for Jewish Genealogy
		Most of the former Prussian province of Posen is now located in the Polish province of Wielkopolska.
		However, the northern third of Posen Province, centered on Bydgoszcz (called Bromberg during Prussian rule) is now located in the Polish province of Kujawsko-Pomorskie.
		An allegation by a Jew that he had lived in the Province since before June 1, 1815 was almost never challenged until after 1835, and then very rarely.
	www.jewishgen.org /InfoFiles/PosenResources.html

	Research and Resources - E-Resources - Burton Historical Collection - German Genealogy
		Wellauer, Maralyn A. Immigrants to America from the Prussian Province, Pomerania (Pommern), Germany, 1853-1854.
		Nineteenth century emigration fo"Old Lutherans" from eastern Germany (Mainly Pomerania and Lower Silesia) to Australia, Canada and the United States.
		Tubingen: published by the author with the cooperation of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1972, 1018 p.
	www.detroitpubliclibrary.org /burton/german_guide.htm

	Prussian provinces
		All provinces are listed until the end of Prussian central government in Apr 1945.
		Note : Recorded here are the provinces of the kingdom, later state, of Prussia.
		7 Feb 1849 Province of Posen (autonomy abolished).
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Ger_Pruss.html

	Regional Genealogy: Mecklenburg
		It is an artificial state: after World War II the state Mecklenburg - Vorpommern was created from Mecklenburg and the western part of the former Prussian province Pomerania.
		Map scale of the provinces varies from 1:850,000 to 1:1,700.000.
		The area remained behind the Iron Curtain and part of East Germany until 1990 when Germany was unified and the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania was created.
	www.genealogienetz.de /reg/MEC/mec.html

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