Veletian County was a county of the District of Western Pomerania, within Poland, during the administration of the Provisional Government of National Unity. Its capital was Nowe Warpno. It existed from 4 October 1945 to 29 May 1946.
History It was established on 4 October 1945,Gerard Labuda: Ziemie zachodnie w granicach Macierzy, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 1966, p. 144.Tadeusz Białecki, Zdzisław Chmielewski, Kazimierz Kozłowski: Szczecin w dokumentach 1945, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Kraków 1980, p. 78. from western part of Ueckermünde District, that was part of the territory ceased to Poland, after the fall of Nazi Germany.Kazimierz Kozłowski, Krystyna Muszyńska, Mieczysław Stelmach: Pomorze Zachodnie w dokumentach 1945, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warsaw, 1986, p. 27. The eastern part of the former Ueckermünde District was ceased to the Enclave of Police.Jan Matura: Historia Polic od czasów najstarszego osadnictwa do II wojny światowej. vol. 2. Police: Urząd Gminy w Policach, 2002, p. 153–154. ISBN 83-914853-5-8. The county stretched from the border of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on the west, to the administrative boundaries of the city of Szczecin on the east.Jan Musekamp: Zwischen Stettin und Szczecin. Metamorphosen einer Stadt von 1945 bis 2005, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 42–43. It was named after the tribe of Veleti, that inhabited the area from the 8th to 10th century.Zbigniew Mazur: Wokół niemieckiego dziedzictwa kulturowego na Ziemiach Zachodnich i Północnych, Instytut Zachodni, Poznań 1997, p. 383.Tadeusz Marczak: Granica zachodnia w polskiej polityce zagranicznej w latach 1944-1950, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław, 1995, p. 158. Nowe Warpno become the capital of the county.Tadeusz Białecki (editor): Encyklopedia Szczecina. 2nd supplement. Szczecin: Wydawnictwo "Dokument" – Oficyna Archiwum Państwowego w Szczecinie, 2007, p. 201. As the German population was subjected to the expulsion from Poland, the area was resettled with Polish population. As the county was located at the German border, it was reserved for the military settlement, which included demilitarised soldiers, and then their families, and people resettled from the Eastern Borderlands.Wojciech Łopuch: Nowe Warpno i okolice, Herausgeber, Szczecin 2010, p. 326. The county existed until 29 May 1946, when it was incorporated into then-established Szczecin County.Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 29 maja 1946 r. w sprawie tymczasowego podziału administracyjnego Ziem Odzyskanych.. Journal of Laws 1946, no. 28 position 177.
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