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- A city of northwest Poland near the mouth of the Oder River. It was ruled by Sweden from 1648 to 1720, when it was ceded to Prussia. After World War II the city became part of Poland.
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- proper noun A
city in what is nowPoland ; the capital of West Pomeranian Voivodeship;Stettin .
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Examples
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He and his girlfriend, a painter, will soon commute to Szczecin from the German village of Wetzenow, a 25-kilometer hop across what used to be a tightly guarded border.
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"Cyprus" arrive in Szczecin on July 26, 1921, after having crossed the sea from Riga.
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The Court of Appeal acquitted Anna K. - mieszkanka Szczecin, which is zasłynęła sunbathing topless on one of the sites.
WordPress.com News 2009
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'The biggest beneficiaries of the growing economy have been major Polish cities like Warsaw, Krakow, and Gdansk, and regional capital cities such as Szczecin and Rzeszow,' according to the Poland Market Performance Report published by Property Secrets.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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The bad weather was also blamed for a collision between a tram and a car that killed one person in Szczecin.
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The bad weather was also blamed for a collision between a tram and a car that killed one person in Szczecin.
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Alberstein was born in 1946 in Szczecin, Poland, and immigrated to Israel with her parents in 1951.
Chava Alberstein. 2009
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Szczecin also wants to attract British tourists and exchange students.
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During the following years, the Polish government pumped millions of dollars into the other Polish shipyards - Gdynia and Szczecin - to protect them from following in the footsteps of Gdansk.
The Mossad takes over Polish shipyards.... GayandRight 2009
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As I say, things are different east of Szczecin; that veneer of western civility has not yet been imposed, which is why David Cameron has had so much trouble with his new allies in the European parliament, such as the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom party, whose views would make Heydrich wince.
Stick to buying perfume and forget about kids, Sir Elton 2009
ry commented on the word Szczecin
Sounds dope. What is a lodging society?
also how does Polish pronounce this? Is it kind of a rhyme with "mention"? stɛt͡ʃɪn?
January 27, 2020
alexz commented on the word Szczecin
clicking the word above sounds a bit like ch-ch-ch-chia
Google translate has a shch ech een
January 29, 2020