Pomerania
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See also: Pomerânia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *po + Proto-Slavic *morje
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪniə
Proper noun[edit]
Pomerania
- (geography) A region of Europe on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, originally a duchy, then a province of Prussia, and now an area shared by Germany and Poland.
- 1759, George Sale et al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, volume XXIX: History of the German Empire, page 2:
- Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.
- 1759, George Sale et al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, volume XXIX: History of the German Empire, page 2:
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
region of Europe on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea
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Italian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Pomerania f
