11 Facts About Western Pomerania

Name Western Pomerania comes from Slavic po more, which means "land by the sea".

Largest city in Western Pomerania is Szczecin on the Polish side and Stralsund on the German side.

Region is mentioned in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state constitution as one of the two constituting regions of the state with the right to form a Landschaftsverband, which is an administrative entity subordinate only to the state level.

Western Pomerania invited Otto von Bamberg again to mission in these pagan areas West of the Oder River, too.

Bogislaw I duke of Western Pomerania made his duchy a part of the Holy Roman Empire in 1181, after he had allied with Henry the Lion since 1164.

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Rugen and Western Pomerania dukes called in many German settlers and aristocrats to resettle parts of their duchies devastated in the wars before and to settle new areas by turning woodland into fields.

Between the 12th century and 13th century, Western Pomerania changed from a pagan and Slavic to a Christian and German country .

Western Pomerania then was part of the Duchy of Pomerania, the areas north of the Peene River joined the duchy in 1325.

Western Pomerania came under Swedish military control in 1630 during the Thirty Years' War.

Under the Treaty of Kiel, the remnants of Swedish Pomerania were briefly transferred to Denmark in 1814, but the 1815 Congress of Vienna ceded the territory to Prussia.

From 1815, all of Western Pomerania was integrated into the Prussian Province of Pomerania, administered as the Region of Stralsund and Region of Stettin .