Swedish Pomerania Puns

Pomeranians of Germany, what is the extent of swedish legacy or influence in Pomerania?

Edit: here is a question that better represents what I'm asking. Is there any swedish influence in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern?

My ancestors came from there and I'm wondering what it's role through history as been.

Got some time on my hands the coming 2-3 hours so if anyone needs help with Swedish genealogy I'd be happy to help!

Following the death of his father, King Gustav III was rushed back to Stockholm from his winter residence in Swedish Pomerania. His coronation, unlike his fathers, was a relatively austere affair, something that would symbolise his reign as king.

Gustav IV had grown to greatly dislike his own father and his lavish spending, as well as his love of theatre, art, and music. Gustav IV stopped funding cultural works, greatly reduced the size of the royal court, and sold off several artworks made during Gustav III’s rule. This was both to strip away the legacy of his father, as well as to reduce state expenditure, for, unlike his father, Gustav IV was a bureaucrat and not an artist, preferring to spend his evenings going over expenditure records rather than watching theatre.

Internal Politics

The king’s policy of economic austerity would not remain confined to the court, but would be thrust upon both the aristocracy and the government. He would create The Committee for the Review of Expenditure whose job was to reduce expenditure as well as to streamline the running of the state.

The committee would quickly succeed in its goals by cutting pensions, reducing government staff, and harshly cracking down on corruption.

Gustav IVs insistence on balancing the Swedish budget also led to him implementing several new laws aimed at increasing state revenue. The Monopoly of The Roma Settlement Act and the Jewish Land Ownership and Settlement Act, both ratified in 1820, gave Jews and Romani people the right to settle anywhere in Sweden and lifted the regulations on Jewish land ownership. This would begin a new wave of Jewish migration to Sweden, mainly from former Prussia and made it easier to tax the existing Romani population.

In the end, the austerity combined with tax reform helped Gustav IV pay off a third of the national debt, mostly to German and Dutch banking houses, and made Sweden able to survive without more French subsidy agreements for the time.

The austerity measures forced upon the aristocracy, combined with the king’s undiplomatic personality would make him even less liked than his father among the aristocrats.

Foreign Politics

Gustav IV had grown to greatly dislike his wife, the Russian princess Alexandra Romanov. This was mostly due to their marriage having been forced upon him by Gustav III, but also because he greatly disagreed with his father’s policy of detente with Russia. Gustav IV’s Russophobia was similar to that of most of his

#An Overview of the European Grain Trade

Grain is produced in several key regions across Europe and the Mediterranean.

• Egypt
• Po Valley
• Carpathian Basin
• Lower Danube
• Rhine Valley
• Upper Burgundy
• Northern France
• Vistula Region
• Bohemian Basin
• Elbe-Pomerania Region

Other, smaller grain growing regions do exist, but do not produce grain in such quantity as to be major exporters on the global market.

##Egypt

The Nile basin is the single largest producer of grain in this period – it has done so for nearly 2000 years by this point. The fertile flooding of the valley means that grains such as wheat, barley, and rye, grow extremely plentifully. Grain from Egypt is shipped to the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Spain, and southern France. From these regions, the grain is further exported as far away as Scotland.

##Po Valley

The Po River flows from the Alps, carving a fertile valley through northern Italy where it outputs into the Adriatic Sea. Carrying nutrients and minerals from the mountains, the plains of the Po Valley have been heavily exploited by the Italian population since the region fell under Roman control. The Po River produces grains in decent quantity. Most of this grain would normally be used to supplement grain imports, as well as sell grain on to Germany and Southern France. Due to the wars in the region, grain production has plummeted, and the region is heavily dependent on food imports from Carpathia and Egypt.

##Carpathian Basin

The Carpathian Basin is a region surrounded by the Carpathian mountains, and is largely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Formed by an ancient seabed, the soil in the region is rich with minerals, and the Danube carving a path from the alpine regions of Southern Germany and Austria through the basin provides ample resources for grain to grow – and a convenient way to transport said grain. Along the Danube, grain grows in great quantities. Branching from the Danube are a series of tributaries and rivulets that make for natural irrigation ditches. Although the productive capacity of the region is great, the region is not heavily exploited for the grain industry, due to a fractitious nobility preventing unified production of grain in the region. Small walled estates ruled by petty nobles produce grain with the help of serfs on the land, but outside of these estates, much of the Basin is still wild land, crawling with bandits, marauding Szekely nomads, and the occasional Turkish raiding party.

##Lower Danube

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Hello, my name is CelestialDalek, I narrated a part once and was late, and this is my voting guide for Europe. I will not waste your time and get to my picks with some amount of explanation of why I will be voting for them. I mainly pick off of everything: AI, colors, icon, uniques, ability to expand, the usual. I have some preferences for types of civs, but all of my picks are, in my opinion, good.

North Atlantic: Greenland

Greenland is easily my top pick here. Alba has nice colors but I don't really care about Britain that much, the Faroes are, in my opinion rather overused (Lefon please come back :sadsperm:), and I have no opinions about Dal Riata and The Isles. Greenland, however, encourages colonization, has seals which are funny, and looks like it's going to be pretty strong. Greenland is always cool to see civs fighting in, and they could potentially be fun with their navy. They will be interesting if they get in.

England-Ireland-Wales: Pitt the Younger

Everyone loves a good naval civ, and Pitt the Younger is that. Their unique unit, the Flagship, gets better when attacking cities farther away from the capital, which is great for naval conquests, and better when defending close to the capital, which helps cement their position in the British Isles. Their colors are good too.

Most of this region looks really good: Wessex and the Britons are neat, Tyrone is neat. Pitt is just a really good civ in a sea of good civs.

France: Anglo-Dutch

Based on what I've seen on Discord, everyone loves Robespierre. Chop head. Yeah. It's basically a bunch of old JFD civs here, and though I like them, because of their age they've been in games a lot.

However, I personally think that this region should be getting the Anglo-Dutch. If they get a religion and spread it around a lot, their uniques mean that units may defect once war happens, and their unique Frigate can boost that! This could peter out, but maybe it won't! I don't know, we haven't seen a whole lot of them in AI games.

Germany: Pomerania

What do you mean the Hanseatic League isn't available?? Brandenburg is another good civ for domination: their unique Potsdam Giants buff and some other stuff...

However, I'm not too enthused by them. We've already had two very German civs in the new cycles, and I'm sort of tired by them. Bogislaw has a very longly-named unique lighthouse, the Fischerteppichknupferei. This merits them for inclusion immediately. There's city-state stuff in there which

March-June 1507

As the snow melts, a dark shadow looms over Pomerania. Half the country is already occupied, and now the Hohenzollern menace marches east. Garrisons are left across from Bergen auf Rugen, the only remaining western holdout. Deals are struck with much of the rural nobility, promising major tax exemptions for 20 years in return for their passive cooperation. Now the army of Brandenburg moves to deal the killing blow.

They march on Stargardt, which promptly surrenders. Then Frienwoldt, which promptly elects to resist. They last a week. Treplow, Colberg, Belgard, Slage, some surrender, some fight, all fall. The mercenaries take great liberties in the towns and villages they cross, cause a swathe of destruction. By late May they are approaching Stolp.

Battle of Stolp

It is here that Bogislaw will fight to defend his Duchy once more with honor. His army is not as large, nor as quality as that of Brandenburg, but it is an army of die hard loyalists. Before Stolp they crash, the sounds of battle echoing over the city. The Landsknecht advance to break the enemy infantry, but are miraculously rebuffed multiple times. Enraged, they prepare for a final great assault to break the Pomeranians when scouts coming running.

It seems a large number of banners have been seen rapidly approaching, of Polish and Swedish design. The BB commander panics, and orders a withdrawal, believing himself to be the target of an evolving pincer attack by a great Polish army. The armies quickly pull from the battle and withdraw towards Slage.

The Polish and Swedish mercenaries finally arrive, having not known there was a battle going just an hour before. Happy for the reprieve, Bogislaw attaches them to his own force, and sends scouts to watch for BB movements. They ascertain the enemy army is still superior in quality to his own, and he elects to fight another defensive battle here at Stolp. Meanwhile, Brandenburg's scouts report on the arrived mercs but underestimate their number, leaving their commander to believe the whole thing was a ruse meant to humiliate him. He will advance again in early June.

2nd Battle of Stolp

Brandenburg advances on the city once more, determined to end the campaign at long last and rescue what little money Brandenburg has left. The Pomeranian force assembles much closer to the city walls, and as the forces meet the defensive position allows them to outgun and outshoot Brandenburg to great effect. However, such tight positioning leav

On the first of February 1817, a great man died. That man was Gustav III, king of Sweden and Grand Duke of Pommerania, known throughout Europe as the Swedish Sun king.

This man had done great things, from a Swedish cultural renaissance to great military victories against the nation's rivals.

But now the time had come for his son, Gustav Adolf to take the throne. That he eagerly did, becoming Gustav IV, King of the Swedes, Goths, and Wends.

But we also have to ask, how does the realm of which this king will rule, look like?

The Kingdom of Sweden (Kungariket Sverige)

The Kingdom of Sweden is the largest of the constituent parts of the Swedish Realm, stretching from Bergen in the West to Ilomantsi in the east. The Kingdom of Sweden had grown greatly during the rule of Gustav III, who during his reign conquered Norway from Denmark and integrated it into the Swedish crown.

The aristocracy of Sweden is very weak, especially compared to its continental counterparts. The weakness of the nobility had been a feature of Swedish society for centuries, but Gustav III was instrumental in truly breaking the power of the nobility. The Union and Security Act, a law that was mainly used to strengthen the king, also included several clauses on the equalization of the estates and included revoking of several aristocratic privileges.

This combined with a rising third and fourth estate (bourgeoisie and farmers respectively), meant that by the end of Gustav III's rule, the dominant forces in Swedish politics were bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and non-aristocratic landowners.

The Swedish parliament is dominated by the third and fourth estates. While they have a better relationship with the crown than the aristocracy, Gustav III's authoritarian tendencies had damaged their relationship. While the Union and Security act greatly strengthened the crown, it still left several powers in the hand of the Riksdag (parliament), so while it wasn't as powerful as in earlier days, the Riksdag certainly held enough power to counterbalance the crown.

The Swedish economy is dominated by three large industries, iron, lumber and shipping. Recently the profitability of both lumber and steel. This is thanks to the increasing need for these products in the growing industries of Europe, especially in Britain, which is Sweden's main export partner. This close connection with Britain has influenced Sweden greatly. British immigrants helped make Gothenburg one of the greatest cities in the Ki

1. "Northern Shores" (Emphasizing on fishing industry) | I mean, sure but this is more Norwegian and perhaps Danish.
2. "Boreal Forests" (Emphasizing on forestry) | Boreal forests doesn't nor have ever existed in Denmark. Danish forestry industry wasn't close to anything special comparing Norway and Sweden whom actually had a major and significant forestry industry.
3. "The Navigators" (Naval attrition and navy tradition) | This idea should be exclusively for Norway. Historically, Swedes went to Russia and Danes went to places where they mostly didn't have to cross opean oceans. People from modern-day western Norway, Northern Isles and Iceland (whom where all discovered by a Norwegian if you don't count the Irish) were widely known for crossing entire oceans and were excellent at navigating and planning long travels. Danes and Swedes hasn't had anything close to "The Navigators" as Norway has. Heck, they even discovered Greenland while there were no permanent population there and further all the way to Maine, USA.
4. "The Conquerers" (When Danes conquered huge chunks of Estonia, England and Pomerania) | Norwegians and Swedes haven't had any significant back-story about conquering stuff. Norwegians and Swedes mostly "conquered" by colonizing far-away lands. Denmark on the other hand has a fascinating history of conquering random stuff like Estonia, England and Pomerania.
5. "Crossroads of Trade" (About Scandinavia being a crossroad between the Atlantic and the Baltic sea) | Okay, this one I can accept
6. "Freeholding" (People owning properties outside of the feudal system, I believe) | As described in the description, this was typical outside of continental europe, making Denmark invalid for this, though I'm not completely sure about this.
7. "Things" (Traditional politics from the viking age) | This I can accept aswell.

Here we have only 2 out of 7 ideas making completely sense for a common Scandinavian national idea. I'm a hobby historian so excuse me if I have anything wrong :P. I think the reason you removed the initial 3 national ideas from Scandinavia is because you wanted to focus on the "legacy"-thing but even though we spoke the same language in the Viking age, we still had compleeeetely different trading routes and raiding routes. Even in year 1000, Norwegian had become its completely own language and Norwegian (Old West Norse) was still a dialect using some other words than their Swedish and Danish counterparts in year 800. I think the legacy-th

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

History of Prussia:

In 1190, a religious order known as the Teutonic Knights had formed as a result of the Holy Land’s crusades, and the siege of Jerusalem 1099. The Teutonic Knights were charged with controlled Acre’s portholes, however they didn’t stay

In 1211, they relocated to Transylvania to assist the Hungarians against the ever encroaching Cumans, for the latter half of the 12th and 13th century the Teutonians wounded up fighting side by side with the Polish against the Pagans at the Baltic Coast, this is when the Teutonians established the reputation for invading anywhere where riches were to be won

But peculiarly enough thanks to men like King Andrew who encouraged rapid Christianization of Pagans, the Baltic coast and North Germany became a huge part of the Teutonians focuses, as well as for its valuable trade routes

Colonizing Prussia however became a frustrating task, significantly more brutal than any of the Teutonians latter endeavors

Which involved the near total extermination of the native peoples known as the Old Prussians

Consequently little information about the original Prussians survives to this day

It would take hundreds of years until there were no more pagans to take the sword and cross to and by 1450 the Order became embroiled in a sequence of wars with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

At this point the Teutonic Order had conquered modern day Kaliningrad and the Baltic Peninsula

Hostilities ceased after the second Peace of Thorne in 1466 and the Order lost its independence to Poland, West Prussia was taken over entirely and East Prussia remained under the Order’s jurisdiction, but was officially recognized as Polands.

In 1525 Grand Master Albrecht von Prieston, known as Albert of Prussia wrote about an end to the order he led converting to protestantism and installing himself as Duke of Prussia in order to elevate himself to the status of a futile ruler, which would be an easy transition as Albrecht already had Kinsmen in power and was part of the House Hohenzollern, the ruling family of Brandenburg a small royal family based around Berlin.

A union between the two states seemed inevitable but it would take almost a century for the Hohenzollern Brandenburgs to inherit Prussia. This was because Brandenburg was an electorate within the Holy Roman Empire. Which was important because it gave an outside country the chance of obtaining the title Holy Roman Emperor, which was no good and could allow inner political struggl

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "