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Pomerelia is a
historical region in northern
Poland. Pomerelia was situated in eastern
Pomerania on the southern shore of the
Baltic Sea, centered on the city of
Gdańsk at the mouth of the
Vistula. It is now located in the Polish geographic region of
Gdańsk Pomerania.
Early history
The territory is situated entirely in the eastern part of what
Greek and
Roman historians called "
Magna Germania", a cultural rather than ethnographic concept. When the territory began to be called Pomerania in the 11th century, Pomerelia, along with the rest of Pomerania was inhabited by
West Slavic tribes and was under the rule of
Duchy of Polans.
Duchy of Pomerelia
In 1136, following the death of Duke
Bolesław III, Poland was fragmented into several semi-independent principalities. Governors in Pomerelia gradually gained more power, evolving into semi-independent dukes, in contrast with other Polish territories that were governed by
Piast descendants of Bolesław III. Gdańsk (Danzig) was the capital of an entire dynasty of the
Dukes of Pomerania, the most famous being
Mściwój I (1207–1220),
Świętopełk II (1215–1266), and
Mściwój II (1271–1294).
Polish dukes regained
suzerainty later in the 12th century, while
Christianity was introduced by Emperor
Lothar and
Otto von Bamberg. In 1181 Pomerania came under the direct control of the
Holy Roman Empire. It was under
Danish suzerainty from 1210-1227, after which it became independent again.
End of independence
After the death of
Mściwój II in 1294, his co-ruler
Przemysł II of Poland claimed Pomerelia basing it on the
treaty of Kępno from 1282 (in which Mestwin declared Przemysł II his sole successor).
Disputing this claim, the
Margraviate of Brandenburg invaded the territory in 1308, leading
Władysław I the Elbow-high to request assistance from the
Teutonic Knights, which evicted the Brandenburgers. After Władysław refused to pay the substantial fee to the Teutonic Knights, the province was annexed and incorporated in into the
monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in 1309 (
Teutonic takeover of Danzig). After the
Second Peace of Toruń in 1466, parts of the region became part of the Polish province of
Royal Prussia.
As part of Polish province of Royal Prussia, Pomerelia was annexed by the
Kingdom of Prussia during the 18th century
Partitions of Poland, becoming part of the Province of
West Prussia. After
World War I (1914-1918), the
Treaty of Versailles transferred most of the region from
Weimar Republic to the new
Second Polish Republic, as the so-called
Polish Corridor.
Population
Some of the minority indigenous population of Pomerelia are the
West Slavic Kashubians, the
Kociewiacy, and the
Borowiacy.
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