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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 883 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PASEWALK , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Pomerania, on the Ucker, 26 m. N.W. from See also:Stettin by the railway to See also:Strassburg. Pop. (1905), 10,519. Pasewalk became a town during the 12th See also:century and was soon a member of the Hanseatic See also:League. In 1359 it passed to the See also:duke of Pomerania. Frequently ravaged during the See also:wars which devastated thedistrict, it was plundered several times by the imperialists during the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War; in 1657 it was burnt by the Poles and in x713 by the Russians. By the See also:peace of See also:Westphalia in 1648 it was given to See also:Sweden, but in 1676 it was conquered by See also:Brandenburg, and in 1720, by the peace of See also:Stockholm, it was definitely assigned to Brandenburg-See also:Prussia. See Huckstadt, Geschichte der Stadt Pasewalk (Pasewalk, x883).

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