Middelburg

[mid-l-burg]

noun

1. a city in the SW Netherlands.

Middelburg

/ ˈmɪdəlˌbɜːɡ, ˈmɪdəlbyrx /

noun

1. a city in the SW Netherlands, capital of Zeeland province, on Walcheren Island: an important trading centre in the Middle Ages and member of the Hanseatic League; 12th-century abbey; market town. Pop: 46 000 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Born in Middelburg, South Africa, in 1932 to an immigrant English father of Irish descent and a mother from an Afrikaner family, Fugard lived through the rise and fall of apartheid.

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But his home town Middelburg, 100 miles east of Johannesburg, South Africa, was not exactly a centre of video game production.

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Born in 1935 on a farm in Middelburg, a small town in the South African province of Mpumalanga, Mahlangu learned to paint at the age of 10, taught by her mother and grandmother.

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Currently on show at Vleeshal in Middelburg in the Netherlands, Progressive Touch spares us almost nothing in the genital and oral departments, the universal mime of body parts, extrusions and insertions.

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About twenty others are still trapped at the Gloria coal mine in Middelburg, east of the capital, Pretoria.

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