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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region of north-central Europe bordering on the Baltic Sea in present-day northwest Poland and northeast Germany. It was inhabited by Slavic tribes in the 10th century and conquered by Poland in the 12th century. The territory was later split up and controlled by various powers, including the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.
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- proper noun A region of
Europe on the southern shores of theBaltic Sea , now split betweenGermany andPoland . It was formerly aduchy , and later a province ofPrussia .
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Examples
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He was born in Pomerania and rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the German Army by 1911.
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He worked primarily in Pomerania, in the II Army Corps (based in Stettin), and Schleswig-Holstein, in the IX Army Corps (with headquarters in Altona).
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Pomerania is in Northern Europe, and partly contains the section of Poland from which my ancestors departed when the fled to America (apparently, outspoken university professors aren't popular with either Fascists or Communists).
A Pomeranian Feast 2004
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Pomerania is in Northern Europe, and partly contains the section of Poland from which my ancestors departed when the fled to America (apparently, outspoken university professors aren't popular with either Fascists or Communists).
unbillable hours: 2004
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His feast is kept on 30 September, partly also on 30 June; in Pomerania on 1 October.
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Meanwhile, 10,000 adventurers, lunatics, criminals, dreamers, and lost souls who had volunteered for Hitler's Charlemagne Division were sent to fight the Red Army in Pomerania.
France's Downfall 2001
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Meanwhile, 10,000 adventurers, lunatics, criminals, dreamers, and lost souls who had volunteered for Hitler's Charlemagne Division were sent to fight the Red Army in Pomerania.
France's Downfall 2001
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The Swedes are on the frontiers, or rather within my territories, for they hold possession of Pomerania, which is mine.
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Almost at the close of the year 1878 the loss of the S.S. "Pomerania," in collision in the English Channel, was a disaster of the sea that I denounced as nothing short of murder.
T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Mrs. T. de Witt Talmage 1867
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514 THE LAW OF TANISTRT now called Pomerania and Pruffia, the latter of which, as I have already repeated, was called Oven-land, the fame as Lxx: h-land in the time of Jornandes, and his Goths, according to Quveriusj and that the naval expeditions which were pre - pared for that difcharge might have fetoutftois the fea - ports of thefe countries, fuch as Dantad,
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