Middelburg

American  

[mid-l-burg] / ˈmɪd lˌbɜrg /

noun

1. a city in the SW Netherlands.

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Middelburg British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

Residents of Middelburg, in Mpumalanga, present at the report's launch, recounted the effects of air pollution they have experienced, including early-onset asthma in children, skin diseases, and other respiratory flare-ups.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

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.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2020

The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Middelburg says inside the magistrates' court, the two accused, Theo Martins Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen, stood with their heads bowed as journalists and community members took photographs of them.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2016

Government, and also differing from that contained in the Middelburg proposals.

From The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 by Velden, D. E. van