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WOLLIN , an See also:

island of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Pomerania, the more easterly of the islands at the mouth of the See also:Oder which See also:separate the Stettiner Haff from the Baltic See also:Sea. It is divided from the mainland on the E. by the Dievenow Channel, and from See also:Usedom on the W. 'by the See also:Swine. It is roughly triangular in shape, and has an See also:area of 95 sq. m. See also:Heath and See also:sand alternate with swamps, lakes and See also:forest on its See also:surface, which is See also:flat, except towards the See also:south-See also:west, where the See also:low hills of Lebbin rise. See also:Cattle-rearing and fishing are the See also:chief resources of the inhabitants, who number about 14,000. Misdroy, on the N.W. See also:coast, is a favourite sea-bathing resort, and some of the other villages, as Ostswine, opposite See also:Swinemunde, Pritter, famous for its eels, and Lebbin, are also visited in summer. Wollin, the only See also:town, is situated on the Dievenow, and is connected with the mainland by three See also:bridges. It carries on the See also:industries of a small seaport and fishing-town. Pop. (1900) 4679. Near the See also:modern town once stood the See also:ancient and opulent Wendish See also:city of Wolin or Jumne, called Julin by the Danes, and Winetha or Vineta (i.e.

Wendish town) by the Germans. In the loth and 11th centuries it was the centre of an active and extensive See also:

trade. See also:Adam of See also:Bremen (d. 1076) extols its See also:size and See also:wealth, and mentions that Greeks and other foreigners frequented it, and that See also:Saxons were permitted to See also:settle there on equal terms with the See also:Wends, so See also:long as they did not obtrude the fact of their See also:Christianity. The Northmen made a See also:settlement here about 970, and built a fortress on the " See also:silver See also:hill," called Jomsburg, which is often mentioned in the sagas. Its See also:foundation was attributed to a legendary See also:Viking exiled from See also:Denmark, called Palnotoke or Palnatoki. The stronghold of Jomsburg was destroyed in 1098 by See also:King See also:Magnus Barfod of See also:Norway. This is probably the origin of the See also:legend that Vineta was overthrown by a See also:storm or See also:earthquake and overwhelmed by the sea. Some submarine See also:granite rocks near Damerow in Usedom are still popularly regarded as its ruins. The town of Wollin became in 1140 the seat of the Pomeranian bishopric, which was transferred to See also:Kammin about 1170. Wollin was burnt by Canute VI. of Den-See also:mark in 1183, and was taken by the Swedes in 163o and 1759 and by the Brandenburgers in 1659 and 1675. See Khull, See also:Die Geschichte Palnatokis and der Jomsburger (See also:Graz, 1892) ; See also:Koch, Vineta in See also:Prose and Poesie (See also:Stettin, 1905) ; W. von See also:Raumer, Die Insel Wollin (See also:Berlin, 1851); Haas, Sagen and Erzdhlungen von den Inseln Usedom and Wallin (Stettin, 1904).

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