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Definition: Capital city: Schwerin Situated in north-central Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin was bordered by the Prussian provinces of Pomerania to the northeast, Brandenburg to the south, Hanover to the southwest, and Schleswig-Holstein to the northwest. The state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was also bordered by its sister state, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, to the southeast and northwest. By the seventh century A.D., the Slavic Obodrites and Lutycy in the west and east had replaced the area's earlier Germanic inhabitants. In 1160, under Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, Christianity and German domination were introduced. Obodrite ruler Niklot became Henry's vassal and founded the Mecklenburg dynasty. In 1348 German king Charles IV made Mecklenburg's princes dukes of the empire. Mecklenburg's dynasty was divided into several branches at various times. Mecklenburg-Schwerin came into being in 1621 and Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1701. In 1808 both duchies joined the Confederation of the Rhine set up by Napoleon; the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15 recognized them as grand duchies and members of the German Confederation. They sided with Prussia in the Seven Weeks' War (1866) and joined the North German Confederation in 1867. The grand duchies became constituent states of the German Empire in 1871. After the downfall of the German Empire in the aftermath of World War I, the grand ducal regime was abolished in favor of elected governments. In 1919 Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz became constituent states of the Weimar Republic. In 1934 the Nazi government merged the two states into the single state of Mecklenburg. After World War II, Mecklenburg underwent some territorial adjustments. It was a state of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1952, then was dissolved and divided among the districts of Rostock, Schwerin, and Neubrandenburg. In the reunified Germany, the two states were reconstituted into the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Westpommern). (en-US)

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The Times Atlas of World History. Edited by Geofrey Barraclough. Third Edition. Maplewood, New Jersey: Hammond, 1989.

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• Meclemburgo (Germany : State)(generic)

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• Ludwigslust (Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germania)