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Königsberg

American  
[-nikhs-berk, key-nigz-burg] / ˈkœ nɪxsˌbɛrk, ˈkeɪ nɪgzˌbɜrg /

noun

  1. German name of Kaliningrad.


Königsberg British  
/ ˈkɜːnɪɡzˌbɜːɡ, ˈkøːnɪçsbɛrk /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1946) of Kaliningrad

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While conducting research in the Prussian state archives in Berlin in the 1990s, he chanced upon the details of a “small vortex of turbulence” in Königsberg.

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

Dr. Lange was the director of the museum in Königsberg.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

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