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- proper noun
Szczecin , a city in what is now the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland (especially in reference to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Prussia or Germany).
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Examples
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Wrote one German knight who had faced their charge at a battle near Szczecin, which he referred to as Stettin, its German spelling:
Poland Michener, James 1983
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The Central Power prisoners arriving in Stettin from Russia were a somewhat different lot.
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Lowrie also mentions that Conrad Hoffman, who arrived in Stettin on the S.S. Lisboa, had adopted an orphaned Russian boy during his travels.
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Miller worked at ports in Stettin in Germany and in Narva, Estonia, Riga, Latvia, and Björkö, Finland and on transport ships plying between these ports.
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The 1st Army was commanded by Colonel General Alexander von Kluck and was based in Stettin in Pomerania.
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Grossmann seems to have been the music director in Stettin up until the mid-thirties.
Object lesson Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Hersey supported War Prisoners Aid (WPA) operations in Stettin, Germany and in Narva, Estonia, Riga, Latvia, and Björkö, Finland by providing relief operations on transport ships for former POW's and refugees.
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Many of these men were sick, the children were malformed and undernourished, and all bore traces of mental suffering; Davies described one ship that landed 125 insane prisoners in Stettin. 18
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"I must not leave the fact unmentioned," he notes, "that I was married in Stettin; my wife is a soldier's child too.
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'You know well' - and he indicated a large area to the west which had once belonged to Germany but which Russia had awarded Poland in compensation for the lost eastern lands: Szczecin, which the Germans had called Stettin; Wroclaw, which had been Breslau; Opole, which had been Oppeln.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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