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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

Pomerania

drawn on the map 1139–1187

Ruled by the native Griffin (Gryf) dynasty. Western Pomerania oscillated between Polish, Danish, and Imperial (Holy Roman) overlordship, ultimately becoming an Imperial fief.

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Shown on the map
1139–1187
Peak area
29k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

Ruled by the native Griffin (Gryf) dynasty. Western Pomerania oscillated between Polish, Danish, and Imperial (Holy Roman) overlordship, ultimately becoming an Imperial fief. (Eastern Pomerania/Pomerelia around Gdańsk was seized by the Teutonic Order in 1308.) The Griffin duchy endured until the death of the last duke, Bogislaw XIV, in 1637, after which it was partitioned between Sweden and Brandenburg at the Peace of Westphalia (1648).

Common questions

What was Pomerania?
Ruled by the native Griffin (Gryf) dynasty. Western Pomerania oscillated between Polish, Danish, and Imperial (Holy Roman) overlordship, ultimately becoming an Imperial fief.
When is Pomerania shown on the map?
The border data draws Pomerania 1139–1187. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was Pomerania?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Pomerania covered about 29,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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