What is Pomerania?
{{one source|date=January 2025}}{{Restructure|date=January 2025}} [[File:Pomeraniamap.png|thumb|Map of Pomerania. Poland and Germany are seen, Pomerania is marked by a [[yellow]] line.]][[File:Steilküste bei Ahrenshoop.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|Pomerania Beach]] ''(Darss)''.]] '''Pomerania''' (''Pommern'' in [[German language|German]], ''Pomorze'' in [[Polish language|Polish]]) is a [[region]] on the [[Baltic Sea]]. It is now part of two countries, [[Germany]] and [[Poland]]. ==Prehistoric tribes== 20,000 years ago, the territory of present-day Pomerania was covered with ice, which did not start to recede until the late period of the [[Paleolithic]], or Upper Stone Age, some 10,000 years [[Before Christ|BC]], when the [[Scandinavia|Scandinavian]] [[glacier]] receded to the north. Various archaeological cultures developed in the [[Mesolithic]], [[Neolithic]], [[Bronze Age]] and [[Iron Age]]. ==Classical antiquity== Since around 500 BC and before 500 [[Anno Domini|AD]], Pomerania had been dominated by East Germanic tribes including several tribes of [[Goths]], who, as per [[Archaeology|archeological]] [[evidence]] of the Wielbark culture and their own tradition, originated from [[Scandinavia]]. Goths and Rugians were recorded by [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] historians in the areas of Pomerania in 98 AD. The Vistula Veneti, a non-Germanic tribe, which later assimilated with [[Slavs]], were recorded by [[Ptolemy]] and [[Pliny the Elder]] around Vistula in first century AD. By the 7th century, Slavic tribes including the Wends and Pomeranians settled the area. ==Polish conquest== Pomerania was first conquered by the Polish duke [[Mieszko I]] in the second half of the 10th century. [[Paganism|Pagan]] uprisings in 1005 and 1038 resulted in independence for Western Pomerania and Pomerelia, respectively. Regained by Poland in 1116/1121, the Polish could not hold the Pomeranian duchy longer than 1135, whereas Pomerelia after the 1138 [[Partitions of Poland|partition of Poland]] among the sons of Boleslaus Wrymouth