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Wisby

American  
[vis-bee] / ˈvɪs bi /

noun

  1. German name of Visby.


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There also came into existence at Wisby the first association of German traders abroad, which united the merchants of over thirty towns, from Cologne and Utrecht in the West to Reval in the East.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

He'd get awfully bored, lying here till Wisby caught the signal in ten days or so and came to find him, but he'd last.

From Duel on Syrtis by Poul William Anderson

Wisby, a city in the island of Gothland, was chosen for this purpose, as being most central.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

It would be tedious to lie fully conscious for days waiting for the automatic signal to call Wisby.

From Duel on Syrtis by Poul William Anderson

The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were a period of growing, independent or quasi-independent cities; Venice, Florence, Genoa, Lisbon, Paris, Bruges, London, Antwerp, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Novgorod, Wisby and Bergen for example.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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