List of Pomeranian Duchies and Dukes - Further History of Pomerelia

Further History of Pomerelia

  • 1296–1299 Part of Kujavia
  • 1299–1308 Part of Poland
  • 1308–1466 Part of the Teutonic Order State of Prussia
  • 1454–1466 13-years war of Polish-supported Prussian separatist forces against the Teutonic Order
  • 1466–1569 Royal Prussia, in personal union with the Crown of Poland
  • 1569–1772 Part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • 1772–1919 West Prussia (province of the Kingdom of Prussia which was part of the German Empire from 1871)
    • 1772–1793 Gdańsk, Toruń and Elbląg remained with Poland, then annexed to West Prussia, except of the latter annexed to East Prussia
    • 1807–1814 Free City of Danzig a Napoleonic client state, with François Joseph Lefebvre ennobled as Duc de Dantzic (1808–1820), before returned to West Prussia
  • 1920–1939 Part of Poland as the Pomeranian Voivodeship, except of Danzig
  • 1920–1939 Free City of Danzig, a League of Nations mandate
  • 1939–1945 Danzig-West Prussia, province of Nazi Germany, including Polish Pomerania and Danzig
  • 1945–present Part of Poland again

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