Word: pomerania
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Monarchism. The Monarchist movement, hitherto confined to Bavaria, is spreading. Recent documents seized by the police made it clear that the movement had spread to Mecklenburg and Pomerania, two of the northern provinces of Prussia...
...ceded to the new Poland. One only need look at the facts of population and history to refute this argument. In 1910 the population of West Prussia was 1,703,474 of which 980,-571 were of Polish stock. Frederick the Great added West Prussia to his kingdom, comprising Pomerania and East Prussia, in 1772 by the first partition of Poland. That province had been a part of the Polish kingdom since the treaty of Thom in 1466, when it had been acquired from the Teutonic Knights. In those three centuries West Prussia had become thoroughly Polish in population...
...German ball. Lieutenant-"Did you not say your father has an estate in Silesia?" Young lady-"Yes, and two in Pomerania." Lieutenant-"And can you still doubt my love...