DEMMIN, town in the Land of Prussia, Germany, on the navigable river Peene, 72 m. W.N.W. of Stettin, on the Berlin Stralsund railway. Pop. (1933) 14,283. It has manufactures of textiles, and an active trade in corn and live stock.
An ancient Slav town, it was important under Charlemagne. It was besieged by a German army in 1148, and captured by Henry the,Lion in 1164. In the Thirty Years' War Demmin was the object of frequent conflicts, and even after the Peace of Westphalia was taken and retaken in the contest between the electoral prince and the Swedes. It passed to Prussia in 1720, and its fortifications were dismantled in