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Pomerania is an ancient country. The name derives from the Slavic po more and means "Land on the sea".Towards the end of the 13th Century was a division of Pomerania by the rulers of the family of Access in the principalities of Stettin and Wolgast. From 1534 was the Reformation in Pomerania catchment. The Pomeranian Pastor Johannes Bugenhagen known as "Doctor Pomeranus" next to Luther, one of the best-known Reformers. The neutrality of Pomerania in the Thirty Years' War took advantage of the country not much. Pomerania was alternately by the imperial troops under Wallenstein and the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus plundered. By the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, Stettin-Pomerania came to Brandenburg andWolgast- Pomerania fell under Swedish rule. It remained so until 1815. Since Western Pomerania became Prussian, as nearly one hundred years earlier, East-Pomerania. At the end of World War, Pomerania in the spring of 1945 was conquered by the Red Army and divided in the following years by establishing the German-Polish border. From now decree was Vorpommern, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. To separate areas again to get closer to each other, was in the framework of European cooperation in 1995 founded the Euro Region of Pomerania. We say Welcome and look forward to your visit in Pomerania!