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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GREIFENHAGEN , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany,- in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

POMERANIA (German, Pommern)

Pomerania, on the Reglitz, 12 m. S.S.W. of See also:

STETTIN

Stettin by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1905) 6473. Its prosperity depends chiefly on See also:

agriculture and it has a considerable See also:

trade in See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. There are also See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt manufactures and saw See also:

mills. Greifenhagen was built in 1230, and was raised to the See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of a town and fortified about 1250. In the See also:

THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

War it was taken both by the imperialists and the Swedes, and in 1675 it was captured by the i3randenburgers, into whose See also:

possession it came finally in 1679. Greifswald was founded about 1240 by traders from the See also:

NETHERLANDS

Netherlands. In 1250 it received a town constitution and See also:

LUBECK

Lubeck rights from See also:

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

Duke Wratislaw of Pomerania. In 1270 it joined the Hanse towns, See also:

STRALSUND

Stralsund, See also:

ROSTOCK

Rostock, See also:

WISMAR

Wismar and Lubeck, and took See also:

PART

part in the See also:

WARS

wars which they carried on against the See also:

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of See also:

Denmark and See also:

Norway. During the Thirty Years' War it was formed into a fortress by the imperialists, but they vacated it in 1631 to the Swedes, in whose possession it remained after the See also:

peace of See also:

In 1678 it was captured by the elector of See also:

BRANDENBURG

Brandenburg, but was restored to the Swedes in the following See also:

YEAR

year; in 1713 it was desolated by the Russians; in 1715 it came into the possession of Denmark; and in 1721 it was again restored to See also:

Sweden, under whose See also:

PROTECTION

protection it remained till 1815, when, along with the whole of See also:

SWEDISH

Swedish Pomerania, it came into the possession of See also:

Prussia. See J. G. L. Kosegarten, Geschichte der Universitlit Greifswald (1856); C. Gesterding, Beitrag zur Geschichte der Stadt Greifswald (3 vols., 1827–1829) ; and I. Ziegler, Geschichte der Stadt Greifswald (Greifswald, 1897).

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