RÜgen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...industry. The famous chalk cliffs rise on the eastern shore. Rugen was conquered by Denmark in 1168, passed to Pomerania in 1325, and shared the history of Swedish Pomerania from 1648 to 1815, when the island was taken by Prussia. It is...