Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)
| Province of Pomerania | |||||||||||||
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| Province of Prussia | |||||||||||||
| 1815–1945 | |||||||||||||
The Province of Pomerania (red) within the Kingdom of Prussia (blue) in 1914 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Stettin (Szczecin) | ||||||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 53°26′N 14°32′E / 53.433°N 14.533°E | ||||||||||||
• 1905 | 30,120 km2 (11,630 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
• 1939 | 38,400 km2 (14,800 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 1905 | 1,684,125 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1815 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1945 | ||||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Köslin Stettin Stralsund (1818−1932) Posen-West Prussia (1938−1945) | ||||||||||||
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The Province of Pomerania (German: Provinz Pommern; Polish: Prowincja Pomorze) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945. Pomerania was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, an expansion of the older Brandenburg-Prussia province of Pomerania, and then became part of the German Empire in 1871. From 1918, Pomerania was a province of the Free State of Prussia until it was dissolved following World War II by decree of the Allied Control Council with the de jure abolition of Prussia on 25 February 1947, and its territory divided between Poland and Allied-occupied Germany. The city of Stettin (present-day Szczecin, Poland) was the provincial capital.