The 'Province of Pomerania' () was a
province of the
Kingdom of Prussia and the
Free State of Prussia from 1815 until 1946. It was created from
Farther Pomerania and
Swedish Pomerania (''
Hither Pomerania''), which had belonged to
Brandenburg and
Sweden respectively since the
Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Sweden had awarded her part of Pomerania to
Denmark by the
Treaty of Kiel in 1814, but the treaty never entered into force and the territory was passed to Prussia by the
Congress of Vienna the following year.
After
World War II Pomerania was part of the
Soviet occupation zone and the section of Pomerania east of the
Oder-Neisse line was ceded to
Poland. The remaining territory became part of
East Germany in 1949 and, following the
German reunification in 1990, was merged with
Mecklenburg to form the new
state of
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Map of the Province of Pomerania (1905)
See also
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Pomerania
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Farther Pomerania
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Hither Pomerania
External link
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Gemeindeverzeichnis Deutschland 1900