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Nuremberg

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Nu·rem·berg  (nrm-bûrg, nyr-) also Nürn·berg (nrnbrk, nürn-)
A city of southeast Germany north-northwest of Munich. First mentioned in 1050, it became a free imperial city in the 13th century and a center of the German cultural renaissance in the 15th-16th century. From 1933 to 1938 it was the site of annual Nazi party congresses. Largely destroyed in World War II, the city served as the venue for the Allied trials of war criminals (1945-1946). Population: 501,000.
Nuremberg [ˈnjʊərəmˌbɜːg]
n
(Placename) a city in S Germany, in N Bavaria: scene of annual Nazi rallies (1933-38), the anti-Semitic Nuremberg decrees (1935), and the trials of Nazi leaders for their war crimes (1945-46); important metalworking and electrical industries. Pop.: 486 400 (1999 est.) German name Nürnberg
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Noun1.NurembergNuremberg - a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46)
Nurnberg
Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
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Nuremberg
n → Nürnberg nt


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The houses of the old town-- the side away from us, are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
, of which those of our readers who have had the good fortune to see a Gothic city entire, complete, homogeneous,--a few of which still remain, Nuremberg in Bavaria and Vittoria in Spain,--can readily form an idea; or even smaller specimens, provided that they are well preserved,--Vitré in Brittany, Nordhausen in Prussia.
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