The Farther Pomerania or Pomerania proper (Polish: Pomorze Zaodrzańskie, German: Hinterpommern, Latin: Pomerania Superior) is part of Pomerania east of the Odra river. It can be further subdivided into West Pomerania and East Pomerania. Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze, German: Pommern and Pommerellen, Pomeranian (Kashubian): Pòmòrze and Pòmòrskô, Latin: Pomerania, Pomorania) is a geographical and historical region in northern Poland and Germany on the south coasts of the Baltic Sea between and on both sides of the Vistula and Oder (Odra) rivers... The Oder (or Odra) River (German: Oder, Polish/Czech: Odra, Ancient Latin: Viadua, Viadrus, Medieval Latin: Odera, Oddera) is a river in Central Europe (mostly in Poland). ... West Pomeranian voivodship since 1999 West Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze Zachodnie or West Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish: województwo zachodniopomorskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in the northwestern part of Poland. ... Eastern Pomerania (also Pomerelia, East Pomerania, Gdansk Pomerania, Vistula Pomerania) is a geographical and historical region in the east of Pomerania in northern Poland. ...
The Farther Pomerania was the original territory of Pomeranians. Only in 12th century, after the conquests of Duke Warcisław I, the lands west of Odra were incorporated into Pomerania as well. Pomeranians (Pomorzanie) are a group of Slavic tribes living in historical region of Pomerania along the shore of Baltic Sea between Oder and Vistula rivers. ...
Pomerania became involved in the Thirty Years' War during the 1620's, and with the town of Stralsund under siege by imperial troops its ruler Bogislaus XIV, the Duke of Stettin, concluded a treaty with the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus in June 1628.
As a consequence Pomerania would lapse into a state of anarchy, thereby forcing the Swedes to act and from 1641 the administration was led by a council ("Concilium status") from Stettin, until the peace treaty in 1648 settled rights to the province in Swedish favour.
At the peace negotiations in Osnabrück Brandenburg received LowerPomerania except Stettin, a strip of land east of the Oder containing the districts of Damm and Gollnow and the island of Wollin.
Lower Saxony borders on (from north and clockwise) the North Sea, the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, and the kingdom of the Netherlands.
The northwestern portion of Lower Saxony is a part of Frisia; it is called Ostfriesland (Eastern Frisia) and lies on the coast of the North Sea.
In the southwest of Lower Saxony is the Emsland, a sparsely populated area, once full of inaccessible swamps.
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