Szczecin (in German: Stettin) is the capital of Poland's western region of Pomerania Voivodeship. It is the seventh biggest city in the nation and the biggest seaport in Poland neglecting the Baltic Sea. The number of inhabitants in the city of Szczecin, as indicated by 2009 measurements, has an aggregate populace of 420,638.
The historical backdrop of Szczecin goes back to the eighth century AD, when some Slavic clans settled in the site of Western Pomerania where they set up their fortification on the Oder River. Since the ninth century, the stronghold in Pomerania started to develop and the number of inhabitants in Western Pomerania extended along the two sides of the Oudor River, commanding a few regions along the two sides of the waterway. Stettsin turned into the focal point of the ravenousness of its neighbors from the Polynesian rulers in the east and the Holy Roman Empire in the south. In the winter of 1121-1122 the Duke of Poland Polislav III took control of the territory and figured out how to control it and grab the post and add it to its manage, where the Christian populace changed over and was the principal Christian church to be set up, the Church of St. Dwindle. In the reign of Duke Johann Friedrich Duke of Pomerania in 1570 a meeting was held in Stettin to end the seven years of war amongst Denmark and Poland and turned into a free and impartial Duchy of Pomerania. Since the marking of the Treaty of Szczecin in 1630. The city did not regard its impartiality, which was involved by the Swedish Empire after the demise of the Duke of Pugeslawal in 1637. After the Great Northern War Sweden surrendered from Pomerania to the German Prussian Empire in 1871. Pomerania came back to autonomy and union with Poland After the First World War. Be that as it may, in the mystery assention amongst Stalin and Hitler, which isolated the Polish between them incorporated the German district of Pomerania, including the city of Szczecin to its region and this was the purpose behind the episode of World War II. The city was decimated in World War II and freed from the Germans in 1944. Szczecin was remade and broadened after the mechanical city was based on its edges. Szczecin wound up noticeably a standout amongst the most critical mechanical focuses and the fundamental seaport in the Baltic locale and the region of Silesia, particularly after the revelation of coal. In 1999, the city of Szczecin was picked as the capital of the Vojvod locale of Western Pomerania.
