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Late medieval Brick Gothic architecture in Stralsund, nowadays a UNESCO World Heritage Site Flag of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Vorpommern, literally Fore-Pomerania, is the smaller, western part of the former Prussian Province of Pomerania; the eastern part became part of Poland after the end of World War II.
Current districts of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, including capitals. There are 6 district capitals in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Greifswald (Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald) Hanseatic city; Güstrow (Landkreis Rostock) Neubrandenburg (Landkreis Mecklenburgische Seenplatte) Parchim (Landkreis Ludwigslust-Parchim)
The region is mentioned in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state constitution as one of the two constituting regions of the state with the right to form a Landschaftsverband, which is an administrative entity subordinate only to the state level. Consideration was given during an unsuccessful district reform project in 1994 to restoring the ...
Mecklenburg (German pronunciation: [ˈmeːklənbʊʁk]; Low German: Mękel(n)borg [ˈmɛːkəl(n)bɔrx]) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Wismar and Güstrow.
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Pages in category "Towns in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Stralsund (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʁaːlzʊnt] ⓘ; Swedish: Strålsund), [3] officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: Hansestadt Stralsund), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state.
Waren (along with Gnoien, Bützow and several other settlements that cannot be placed) was mentioned as early as 150 A.D. by the Alexandrine geographer, Claudius Ptolemy, (as Virunum) and is thus one of the first places on the territory of the modern-day state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to be recorded.