Königsberg
Americannoun
noun
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The name Königsberg has been wiped from the map.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Previously known as Królewiec by Poles and Königsberg by Germans, it was renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviets after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
Despite a raging world war, in 1944, my mother was sent to finishing school in Königsberg, until that August when she escaped Britain's fiery bombing of the city under a wet blanket.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2021
It was last seen in Königsberg, then a Baltic port city in Germany but now the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2020
I was actually from Tilsit, just northeast of Königsberg.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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