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Memel   /mˈɛməl/   Listen
Memel

noun
1.
A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League.  Synonym: Klaipeda.






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"Memel" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fine Memel timber, we'd take—if we could— All tax, 'cause 'tis used in the palace and hall; On the cottager's, tradesman's coarse Canada wood, We will clap such a tax as shall pay us for all. That's the "dodge" for your Whigs—your poor-loving, true Whigs! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 14, 1841 • Various

... formed three great divisions. 1. The Venedi or Vandals, who took the latter name, (the Wenden,) having expelled the Vandals, properly so called, (a Suevian race, the conquerors of Africa,) from the country between the Memel and the Vistula. 2. The Antes, who inhabited between the Dneister and the Dnieper. 3. The Sclavonians, properly so called, in the north of Dacia. During the great migration, these races advanced into Germany as far as the Saal and the Elbe. The Sclavonian language is the stem from ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon



Words linked to "Memel" :   Lithuania, Republic of Lithuania, urban center, Lietuva, Hanseatic League, city, metropolis



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