Stettin
Proper noun
Meaning
Stettin
Alternative form of Szczecin (especially, but not exclusively, when it was a German-speaking city, i.e. until 1945)
Examples
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
A further group was stationed at Stargard near Stettin to protect the large synthetic fuel plant at Pölitz (today Police, Poland ).
From 1683 to 1812, one Jew was permitted to reside in Stettin, and an additional Jew was allowed to spend a night in the city in case of "urgent business".
He joined him in the Stettin War of Succession with the Pomeranian dukes, until Frederick resigned in 1470 and was succeeded by John's father, who in 1473 appointed him regent of the Brandenburg lands.
The other major formation in Army Group Vistula was the aristocratic General Hasso Freiherr (Baron) von Manteuffel’s Third Panzer Army, on the Oder River to the north of the Ninth Army and stretched as far as Stettin.
In March 1809 Romberg was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for giving up Stettin without a fight.