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Vorpommern
Vorpommern (Polish: Pomorze Przednie) - in English sometimes also called West, Upper, or Hither Pomerania - is a region of Pomerania, being that part of Western Pomerania west of the River Oder in north-eastern Germany, including the island of Rügen but excluding the city of Szczecin (German: Stettin), which was not transferred to Poland at the end of the Second World War in 1945. Today it forms part of the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Vorpommern was in the middle ages populated by the Slavic Obodrits people, who were related to the Pomeranians. In the 12th century it was conquered first by Danes and then by Pomeranians. From that time ithe region shared a common history with Pomerania, except for the 17th century when it was called Swedish Pomerania.
Towns in West Pomerania include Stralsund, Greifswald, Wolgast , and Barth.
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