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Chronicle of Vorpommern

6./7. Jhd. Slavic Luticians settle West Pomerania.
936 Region conquered by the German King, later Kaiser Otto I.
1140 Bishopric of Wollin founded.
1168 Rügen conquered by the Danes.
1181 Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa enfeoffs Pomerania to Duke Bogislaw I.
Pomerania elevated to a principality.
1231 Pomerania enfeoffed to Brandenburg.
1295 Pomerania divided into the Duchies of Stettin and Wolgast.
1370 Danish rule over the Baltic region ended by the Hanseatic League in the 
Stralsund Pact.
1456 University of Greifswald founded.
1684 Pomerania passes to Sweden and Brandenburg in the Westphalian Pact.
1679 As a result of the Nordic War the Isle of Usedom and Wollin fall to Brandenburg-Prussia.
1815 The Swedish parts of Vorpommern and Rügen fall to Prussia after the 
War of Liberation.
1945 Division of Pomerania. 
East Pomerania placed under Polish administration. Vorpommern and 
Mecklenburg combined to make the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
1952 After new regionalisation of the state Vorpommern is divided into
the GDR districts of Rostock and Neubrandenburg.
1990 Vorpommern becomes part of the newly formed State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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