Struga (german: Buchholz, Hohenkrug, Königsweg and Henningsholm) is a part of the
Szczecin City,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
situated on the right bank of
Oder river, east of the
Szczecin Old Town, and south-east of
Szczecin-Dąbie.
History
Hohenkrug near Stettin was the first village in the
Duchy of Pomerania
The Duchy of Pomerania (german: Herzogtum Pommern; pl, Księstwo Pomorskie; Latin: ''Ducatus Pomeraniae'') was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (''Griffins''). The country ha ...
clearly recorded as German (''villa teutonicorum'') in 1173, at the beginning of the medieval German settlement of Pomerania (''
Ostsiedlung'').
[Jan Maria Piskorski, Slawen und Deutsche in Pommern im Mittelalter, in Klaus Herbers, Nikolas Jaspert, Grenzräume und Grenzüberschreitungen im Vergleich: der Osten und der Westen des mittelalterlichen Lateineuropa, Akademie Verlag, 2007, p.85, ]
References
Struga
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