In one of the dev diaries the devs talked about the possibility of splitting Pomerania a bit. Since the duchy were not united in 1444 it is a highely doable task, though due to the often fragmented nature of these internal feudal split it can create some weird borders and give rise to states with names like, Pomerania-Stettin, Pomerania-wolgast. Pomerania-Wolgast was itself divided, primarily into Pomerania-Stolp and pomerania-barth but also smaller temporal divisions did exist.,
There was also the bishopric of Cammin, which is commonly suggested. But Cammin never had imperial immediacy and remained a sub-fief of the duchy of pomerania, and I think it more agreeable to remain so.
Furthermore, several cities in pomerania were de facto independent as members of the hanseatic league (such as Stralsund and Greifswald) monasteries and nobility could also have strong control over land making the actual territorial control of the dukes often very weak and small.
Their has been a modder who has created an accurate map of the Pomeranian situation in 1444 (without doing the further splits of Pomerania-Wolgast I mention above)
map mod is done by @Ratka
This map could be copied straight of if PDX wants an exact representation of the area, note how the current duchy of pomerania has very careless borders to Brandenburg compared to this map. If PDX decides this map has too many provinces, weird province shapes, want to allow for better borders emulating some of the later border changes etc I will look at how the area can be split, Im not gonna dwelve deep into map changes, I believe there could be 1-2 more provinces in pomerania, but the most important part is to fix it's borders, which would also entail fixing the borders of Mecklenburg, Neumark and Uckermark
Something we might not also want is the naming convention of duchy-city, personally I think that would be nicely avoided and PDX done so well with Brunswick and Lüneburg already.
Using other existing names for areas in pomerania (which were also included in the full ducal title) would be a more agreeable option to using city names.
The principality of Rügen had been an independent state before being inherited by the pomeranian dukes, who bore the title until the end of the duchy then it was carried on by the swedish kings and brandenburgian margraves.
The western part of Pomerania-Wolgast were split into Pomerania-Barth (similiar in scope to historical principality of Rügen) and Pomerania-Wolgast. The duke of Pomerania-Wolgast (and there were actually two dukes sharing this title, Barnim VII and Wartislav IX, who currently is put as the duke of the entirety of pomerania). Their territory would be a strip of land including the island of usedom, with the city of Wolgast and the area around Gützkow, Their territory would be the northern part of Greifswald province with the city itself, the island of Usedom and the county of Gützkow.
When the Pomerania-Barth line went extinct in 1451 it reverted back to Pomerania-Wolgast.
While having Stralsund and Greifswald as seperate OPM's is possible, they could go together as the principality of Rügen. That would be my suggestion
While Pomerania-Wolgast did have it's griffin style own coat of arms, it would be nicer to use the historical CoA used by Rügen and carried as part of the larger CoA of pomerania
Besides Dukes of Stettin, Pommern and Prince of Rügen. The pomeranians dukes also styled themselves as dukes of Kashubs and Wends, a territory in general composing the eastern part of the duchy, around Kolberg and Stolp. Using either Kashubia or Wenden/Vandalia for a duchy compromising current Kolberg and Stolp province ruled by Bogislav IX is a working suggestion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogislav_IX
(Northern parts of current Stettin province, around Cammin and Stargard would be part of this duchy though)
Stettin then could remain as the duchy of Pomerania, ruled by Joakim the younger (the only of the pomeranian dukes who doesn't have his own wikipage in either english or german. Making an effort to add a second province to the duchy would be preferable (Southern half of current Greifswald province would be part of this duchy)
Pomerania-Stettin is marked on the map, Pomerania-Wolgast would be split into an eastern Pomerania-Stolp controling all territory east of usedom, with pomerania-wolgast (and pomerania-barth) controling all territory west of said island.
There was also the bishopric of Cammin, which is commonly suggested. But Cammin never had imperial immediacy and remained a sub-fief of the duchy of pomerania, and I think it more agreeable to remain so.
Furthermore, several cities in pomerania were de facto independent as members of the hanseatic league (such as Stralsund and Greifswald) monasteries and nobility could also have strong control over land making the actual territorial control of the dukes often very weak and small.
Their has been a modder who has created an accurate map of the Pomeranian situation in 1444 (without doing the further splits of Pomerania-Wolgast I mention above)
map mod is done by @Ratka
This map could be copied straight of if PDX wants an exact representation of the area, note how the current duchy of pomerania has very careless borders to Brandenburg compared to this map. If PDX decides this map has too many provinces, weird province shapes, want to allow for better borders emulating some of the later border changes etc I will look at how the area can be split, Im not gonna dwelve deep into map changes, I believe there could be 1-2 more provinces in pomerania, but the most important part is to fix it's borders, which would also entail fixing the borders of Mecklenburg, Neumark and Uckermark
Something we might not also want is the naming convention of duchy-city, personally I think that would be nicely avoided and PDX done so well with Brunswick and Lüneburg already.
Using other existing names for areas in pomerania (which were also included in the full ducal title) would be a more agreeable option to using city names.
The principality of Rügen had been an independent state before being inherited by the pomeranian dukes, who bore the title until the end of the duchy then it was carried on by the swedish kings and brandenburgian margraves.
The western part of Pomerania-Wolgast were split into Pomerania-Barth (similiar in scope to historical principality of Rügen) and Pomerania-Wolgast. The duke of Pomerania-Wolgast (and there were actually two dukes sharing this title, Barnim VII and Wartislav IX, who currently is put as the duke of the entirety of pomerania). Their territory would be a strip of land including the island of usedom, with the city of Wolgast and the area around Gützkow, Their territory would be the northern part of Greifswald province with the city itself, the island of Usedom and the county of Gützkow.
When the Pomerania-Barth line went extinct in 1451 it reverted back to Pomerania-Wolgast.
While having Stralsund and Greifswald as seperate OPM's is possible, they could go together as the principality of Rügen. That would be my suggestion
While Pomerania-Wolgast did have it's griffin style own coat of arms, it would be nicer to use the historical CoA used by Rügen and carried as part of the larger CoA of pomerania
Besides Dukes of Stettin, Pommern and Prince of Rügen. The pomeranians dukes also styled themselves as dukes of Kashubs and Wends, a territory in general composing the eastern part of the duchy, around Kolberg and Stolp. Using either Kashubia or Wenden/Vandalia for a duchy compromising current Kolberg and Stolp province ruled by Bogislav IX is a working suggestion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogislav_IX
(Northern parts of current Stettin province, around Cammin and Stargard would be part of this duchy though)
Stettin then could remain as the duchy of Pomerania, ruled by Joakim the younger (the only of the pomeranian dukes who doesn't have his own wikipage in either english or german. Making an effort to add a second province to the duchy would be preferable (Southern half of current Greifswald province would be part of this duchy)
Pomerania-Stettin is marked on the map, Pomerania-Wolgast would be split into an eastern Pomerania-Stolp controling all territory east of usedom, with pomerania-wolgast (and pomerania-barth) controling all territory west of said island.
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