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Cöln

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[kœln] / kœln /

noun

  1. former German name of Cologne.


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Dorothea Sibylla, Duchess of Brieg, was born at Cöln, on the River Spree, in Prussia, on the 19th of October, 1590.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

You shall not see a better sight in all de city—ach! not in Nuremburg nor Cöln.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

They thought that as it concerned the Church of the Mark generally it should not be limited to Berlin and Cöln, and that it was a subject requiring mature consideration.

From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Gerhardt, Paul

The Lutheran clergy of the three chief churches in Berlin and Cöln, and the Reformed court preachers, Bartholomew Stosch and Johann Kunschius, the rector of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, and the philologue Joh.

From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Gerhardt, Paul

The elder, Cöln, was incorporated as a municipality in 1232: the other, Berlin, is mentioned for the first time in 1244.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various