| | LOVERS OF LIGHTHOUSES ASSOCIATION |
 | | The main shipping channel on this part of the Oder from Szczecin to Świnoujście runs along the northern stretch of the Świna, which separates the adjacent islands of Uznam and Wolin, and with the Piastowski and Mieliński Canals, which were constructed before the First World War. |
 | | In the 12th century there was a Slavonic principality, inhabited by the Wolinianie people, in the estuary of the Oder along the Baltic coast. |
 | | In 1945 the Soviet forces heading west along the 2nd Byelorussian Front to defeat Nazi Germany captured the island of Uznam and Świnoujście (Swinemünde) on 5th May, but it was not until 4th October of the same year that the district of Uznam and Wolin became part of the Polish State. |
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