Stettin POLAND Szczecin Fort Leopold ,City Plan,1894 Antique Colour Map

HISTORICAL MAP CHART SHOWING LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY - Rail and Route Map

Szczecin, German: Stettin ; Kashubian: Sztetëno; Latin: Stetinum, Scecinum, andSedinum) is the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodship in Poland. It is the country's sixth-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. Szczecin is located on the Oder River (Odra), south of the Lagoon of Szczecin and the Bay of Pomerania. The city is situated along the southwestern shore of Da;bie Lake, on both sides of Oder and on several large islands between western and eastern branch of the river.A stronghold of the Lusatian culture was here in the early Iron Age period. Another stronghold of the Slavic Pomeranians was built in the 8th century at the ford of the Oder River. The city was already a flourishing trading centre with 10,000 inhabitants when it was subjugated and baptized by Duke Boleslaus III of Poland. A medieval municipality was granted autonomy in 1243. Till the 1630s Stettin was the capital of the Duchy of Pomerania ruled by the Griffin dynasty, of Slavic origins, while the city and western Pomerania became gradually German. For centuries the Slavic dukes, oriented towards the west, invited West and Central German settlers to colonize Pomeranian wastelands and to found villages. After the extinction of the Griffin dynasty, Stettin, along with the rest of western Pomerania, was granted to Sweden at the Peace of Westphalia (1648), despite the protests of the Elector of Brandenburg, who had a legal claim to inherit all of Pomerania. In 1720 after the Great Northern War, the Swedes were forced to cede the city to King Frederick William I of Prussia. Stettin became a major Prussian (and, after 1871 German) city. COMES WITH A SEPERATE INDEX PAGE THAT SHOWS STREETS AND SITES

1890s Wood Engraving, Antique Map

Approximate Overall Size: 12 X 9 1/2 inches

CONDITION: Book Plate Map - Excellent Condition. Folded. German Text. Beautiful with excellent detail. Map Print is Blank on Reverse Side