Mecklinburg, not Germany
Teutonic peoples inhabited the area comprising present-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the first centuries of the Christian era, but early in the 6th century it was seized by various Slavic tribes. The Mecklenburg region was conquered by Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, in the latter half of the 12th century. In 1348 it was elevated to a duchy. The duchy was subdivided (1621) into the duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, which were elevated to grand duchies in 1815. They joined the German Empire in 1871 and after World War I were constituted states of the new German Republic.