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Lübeck

American  
[ly-bek] / ˈlü bɛk /

noun

  1. a seaport in N Germany: important Baltic port in the medieval Hanseatic League.


Lübeck British  
/ ˈlyːbɛk /

noun

  1. a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic: the leading member of the Hanseatic League, and a major European commercial centre until the 15th century. Pop: 212 754 (2003 est)

"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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Mann was born to a prominent mercantile family in Lübeck in 1875, just a few years after the various independent German states unified into a single nation.

From Seattle Times Sep. 1, 2021

Bad Segeberg is a town just north of Lübeck and is famous for the Kalkberg, a massive gypsum rock which is topped by the ruined medieval castle.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2020

In Lübeck, Germany, Rolf Hilgenfeld stopped packing boxes for his retirement and started preparing buffers for crystallography.

From Nature May 14, 2020

On the coast of northern Germany, Lübeck – a Unesco world heritage site – is famous for its Hanseatic merchant houses, river views and, most of all, its marzipan.

From The Guardian Aug. 11, 2018

Lind, now in her twenty-first year, embarked on the steamship Gauthiod for Lübeck.

From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling

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