DEMMIN  , a

town of Germany, kingdom of Prussia, on the navigable river Peene (which in the immediate neighbourhood receives the Trebel and the Tollense), 72 M . W.N.W. of Stettin, on the Berlin-Stralsund railway . Pop . (1905) 12,541 . It has manufactures of textiles, besides breweries, distilleries and tanneries, and an active trade in corn and timber . vm—i The town is of Slavonian origin and of considerable antiquity, and was a place of importance in the time of Charlemagne . It was besieged by a German army in 1148, and captured by Henry the Lion in 1164 . In the Thirty Years' War Demmin was the object of frequent conflicts; and even after the peace of Westphalia was taken and retaken in the contest between the electoral prince and the Swedes . It passed to Prussia in 1720, and its fortifications were dismantled in 1759 . In 1807 several engagements took place in the vicinity between the French and Russians .