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PASEWALK

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 883 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PASEWALK  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Pomerania, on the Ucker, 26 m . N.W. from
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Stettin by the railway to Strassburg . Pop . (1905), 10,519 . Pasewalk became a town during the 12th century and was soon a member of the Hanseatic
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League . In 1359 it passed to the duke of Pomerania . Frequently ravaged during the
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wars which devastated thedistrict, it was plundered several times by the imperialists during the
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Thirty Years' War; in 1657 it was burnt by the Poles and in x713 by the Russians . By the peace of Westphalia in 1648 it was given to Sweden, but in 1676 it was conquered by
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Brandenburg, and in 1720, by the peace of
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Stockholm, it was definitely assigned to Brandenburg-Prussia . See Huckstadt, Geschichte der Stadt Pasewalk (Pasewalk, x883) .

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