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Pomerania
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Pomerânia
English
Etymology
en la Pomerania, from en de Pommern, from en sla-pro *pomorьjaninъ *pomorьjane coast dwellers p, from en sla-pro *pomorьje seaboard.
Pronunciation
en /ˌpɒməˈɹeɪniə/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Pomerania.wav Southern England
en eɪniə 4
Proper noun
en Q104520en A <<former duchy>>, <<historical province>> of Prussia, and now a <<geographic region>> of <<r/Central Europe>> split between <<c:also/Germany,Poland>> on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
en 1759 George Sale; et al The Modern Part of an Universal History XXIX History of the German Empire http://books.google.com/books?id=dFtjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2 2 Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.
en w:National Geographic 1989 May 175 5 The Baltic: Arena of Power Priit J. Vesilind 626 Between them hangs the potato kingdom, Pomerania, with its fields of white potato blossoms, tufts of dense forest, and seaside lagoons inhabited by wild swans.
Derived terms
en Pomeranian
en Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Translations
region of Europe on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea
Armenian: hy Պոմերանիա
Belarusian: be Памера́нія f
Catalan: ca Pomerània
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 波美拉尼亞
Czech: cs Pomořansko n
Danish: da Pommern
Dutch: nl Pommeren n
Finnish: fi Pommeri
French: fr Poméranie f
Friulian: fur Pomeranie f
Georgian: ka პომერანია
German: de Pommern n
Greek: el Πομερανία f
Hindi: hi पॉमेरेनिया m
Icelandic: is Pommern
Italian: it Pomerania f
Kashubian: csb Pòmòrskô n
Latin: la Pomerānia f
Lithuanian: lt Pomeranijos f
Maltese: mt Pomeranja f
Marathi: mr पॉमेरानिया
Occitan: oc Pomerania f
Old Church Slavonic: cu Поморьѥ n
Polish: pl Pomorze n
Portuguese: pt Pomerânia f
Russian: ru Помера́ния f
Serbo-Croatian: sh Pomorje f n, sh Померанија
Slovene: sl Pomeranija f n
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: hsb Pomorska
Spanish: es Pomerania f
Swedish: sv Pommern n
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: ota پومرانیا Pomeranya
en terms suffixed with -ia (place) exonyms
Italian
it:
Pronunciation
[rà]<r:DiPI>
Proper noun
f
it Pomerania Q104520
References
Anagrams
it aaeimnopr amperiano apriamone
it exonyms
Occitan
Proper noun
f
oc Pomerania Q104520
References
, page 154.
oc exonyms
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es Pomerania Q104520
Derived terms
es Mecklemburgo-Pomerania Occidental
Related terms
es pomerano
es exonyms