During his reign, Gustavus Adolphus (1594–1632) continued the efforts of King Charles IX of Sweden to transform the Baltic Sea into an internal body of water of the House of Vasa (Dominium Maris Baltici), aiming to secure Sweden’s role as a Baltic superpower. To this end, Gustavus Adolphus engaged in conflicts with Denmark (1611–1613) and…
In 1713, at the time of King Frederick William I’s accession to the throne, Brandenburg-Prussian Pomerania constituted one of the primary provinces of the Prussian state. It covered an area of approximately 370 square miles. Shortly after ascending the throne, the king joined the anti-Swedish coalition (Russia, Saxony, Denmark) in the ongoing Great Northern War…
ChatGPT powiedział: On March 10, 1637, Bogislaw XIV, the last Duke of Pomerania from the Griffin dynasty, died. According to succession treaties, including the one concluded in 1529 (Gramenz), the Pomeranian dominion was to pass to the Elector of Brandenburg. However, the Swedes, who had controlled Pomerania since 1630, refused to relinquish the inheritance,…
After the end of the Thirty Years’ War, Stargard had endured the first of two great cataclysms that marked its history. The events that unfolded over those several years halted the city’s development for more than half a century. The first blow was an epidemic that took a deadly toll among the townspeople between 1623…
In the 16th and early 17th centuries, Pomerania possessed 21 seaports owned by local towns. These ports, together with their respective cities, formed integrated economic entities, differing in size and consequently in the scope of their trade activities. In general, Pomeranian ports can be divided into three categories: Large ports — Stralsund, Szczecin,…
From the end of the 15th century and the Italian Wars onward, Europe saw a rapid increase in the number of modern fortifications designed to withstand sieges carried out with advanced weaponry, above all artillery. The construction of defensive works went through successive phases over the following decades: from the so-called Old Italian style, through…
