Veletian County was a

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

of the District of Western Pomerania, within

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

, during the administration of the

Provisional Government of National Unity The Provisional Government of National Unity ( pl, Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej - TRJN) was a puppet government formed by the decree of the State National Council () on 28 June 1945 as a result of reshuffling the Soviet-backed Provisional ...

. Its capital was

Nowe Warpno Nowe Warpno (; formerly german: Neuwarp) is a historic town in northwestern Poland, within Police County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies on the shore of the Szczecin Lagoon, at the border with Germany. It is the seat of the urban-rural ad ...

. 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

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ceased to

, after the fall of

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. The eastern part of the former Ueckermünde District was ceased to the

Enclave of Police Enclave of Police was an area centred on the town of Police, in the District of the Western Pomerania, Poland, that was under the administration of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, from 5 October 1945 to 25 September 1946. It was independent of Pol ...

. The county stretched from the border of the

Soviet occupation zone of Germany The Soviet Occupation Zone ( or german: Ostzone, label=none, "East Zone"; , ''Sovetskaya okkupatsionnaya zona Germanii'', "Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany") was an area of Germany in Central Europe that was occupied by the Soviet Union as a c ...

on the west, to the administrative boundaries of the city of

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

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 The Veleti, also known as Wilzi, Wielzians, and Wiltzes, were a group of medieval Lechitic tribes within the territory of Hither Pomerania, related to Polabian Slavs. They had formed together the Confederation of the Veleti, a loose monarchic c ...

, that inhabited the area from the 8th to 10th century.

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

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population was subjected to the

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from Poland, the area was resettled with

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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 Eastern Borderlands ( pl, Kresy Wschodnie) or simply Borderlands ( pl, Kresy, ) was a term coined for the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period (1918–1939). Largely agricultural and extensively multi-ethnic, it ...

.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 The Szczecin County was a county centered around the town of Police, that existed from 1946 to 1975. Jan Matura: ''Historia Polic od czasów najstarszego osadnictwa do II wojny światowej.'' vol. 2. Police: Urząd Gminy w Policach, 2002, p. 153–1 ...

.
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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