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Name: rostock

Type: Cluster

Start: 1228 AD

End: 1323 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Principality of Rostock
  • Principality of Rostock (Denmark)
  • Establishment


  • January 1228: Establishment of the Principality of Rostock.
  • Chronology


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    1. Mongol invasions and conquests


    Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

    1.1.Mongol Invasions of Germany

    Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.

    1.1.1.First Mongol Invasion of Germany

    Was a Mongol raid in the Holy Roman Empire.

  • May 1241: The Mongols invaded the Holy Roman Empire without major clash of arms.The army invaded eastern Germany, and crossed the March of Moravia in April-May 1241.
  • June 1241: The Mongols left eastern Germany and Moravia.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1301: In 1300 Rostock fell under the protection and feudal rule of King Eric of Denmark.

  • May 1323: After another war, Henry II of Mecklenburg conquered Rostock and made peace with the Danish king Christopher II on May 21, 1323. He received the lordships of Rostock, Gnoien and Schwaan as hereditary fiefdoms from Denmark and the Principality of Rostock ceased to exist.

  • Disestablishment


  • May 1323: After another war, Henry II of Mecklenburg conquered Rostock and made peace with the Danish king Christopher II on May 21, 1323. He received the lordships of Rostock, Gnoien and Schwaan as hereditary fiefdoms from Denmark and the Principality of Rostock ceased to exist.
  • Selected Sources


  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), p. 26-49
  • Strakosh-Grassmann, G. (1893): Der Einfall der Mongolen in Mitteleuropa in den Jahren 1241 und 1242, Innsbruck (Austria), pp. 53-67
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