Stralsund

[ shtrahl-zoont ]

noun

1. a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.

Stralsund

/ ˈʃtraːlzʊnt /

noun

1. a port in NE Germany, in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania on a strait of the Baltic: one of the leading towns of the Hanseatic League. Pop: 59 140 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Those captured in Stralsund were taken to Brest and sentenced to penal servitude.

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To effect this object, it was of extreme importance to gain possession of Stralsund, a town on the Baltic.

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The independence of Stralsund, as securing the free navigation of the Baltic, was equally important to the two Northern kings.

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We had now made up our minds that Stralsund, one of the rumoured destinations, was to be our new "home."

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In 1835, when he was six years old, his father was transferred to the position of Inspector of Waterworks in Stralsund.

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