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Coblenz

American  
[koh-blents] / ˈkoʊ blɛnts /
Or Koblenz

noun

  1. a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Moselle rivers.


Coblenz British  
/ ˈkoːblɛnts /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Koblenz

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Coblenz was still 60 miles from Trier, across tough fighting country which must be crossed if the whole west bank of the Rhine is to be occupied.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides half a dozen occupation headquarters, there are the German government at Bonn, special agencies like the Allied Security Board at Coblenz, various provincial governments, and the separate officials at Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Coblenz area they reserved five mechanized divisions for a drive on Arlon and Longwy alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 500 prisoners rounded up in Coblenz were tatterdemalion survivors of 15 or 20 different outfits.

From Time Magazine Archive

On this occasion the factories and station and the barracks at Coblenz, at the junction of the Rhine and the Moselle, 135 miles north-northeast of Nancy and about fifty miles southeast of Cologne, were attacked.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

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