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Encyclopedia Britannica



SAMLAND

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 114 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SAMLAND , a peninsula of Germany, in the province of
East
  Prussia, on the Baltic. It separates the Frisches Haff on the W. from the Kurisches Haff on the N.E., and is bounded on the S. by the river Pregel and on the E. by the Deime. Its shape is oblong; it is 43 M. long, and 18 broad, and has an area of 900 sq. m. The surface is mostly flat, but on the W. sand-hills rise to a height of 300 ft. The
chief
  product is amber. The former episcopal see of Samland was founded by
Pope
  Innocent IV. in 1249 and subordinated to the archbishop of
Riga
 .
Bishop
  Georg von Polentz embraced the Reformation in 1523i and in 1525 the
district
  was incorporated with the duchy of Prussia.
See
Reusch
 , Sagen des preussischen Samlandes (2nd ed.,
Konigsberg
 , 1863) ; Jankowsky, Das Samland and seine Bevolkerung (
Konigsberg
 , 1902); Hensel, Samland Wegweiser (4th ed., Konigsberg, 1905) ; and the Urkundenbuch des Bistums Samland, edited by Wolky and Mendthal (
Leipzig
 , 1891-1904).
' See Michael Praetorius, Synt. Mus. (Wolfenbiittel, 1618), p. 248 and pl. 42, where the
illustration
  resembles a tambourine, but the description mentions strings, showing that the author himself was puzzled.


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