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Strasbourg

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Stras·bourg  (sträsbrg, sträz-, sträz-br)
A city of northeast France near the German border east of Nancy. Strategically important since ancient times, it became a free imperial city in 1262, was occupied by France in 1681, and passed to Germany in 1871. The city was recovered by France in 1919. Population: 273,000.
Strasbourg (French) [strasbur (English) ˈstræzbɜːg]
n
(Placename) a city in NE France, on the Rhine: the chief French inland port; under German rule (1870-1918); university (1567); seat of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament. Pop.: 263 940 (1999) German name Strassburg [ˈʃtraːsbʊrk]
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Noun1.StrasbourgStrasbourg - city on the Rhine in eastern France near the German border; an inland port
Strassburg
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Strasbourg [ˈstræzbɜːg] N → Estrasburgo m
Strasbourg [ˈstræzbɜːrg] n → Strasbourg
Strasbourg
n → Straßburg nt
Strasbourg [ˈstræzbɜːg] n → Strasburgo f
Strasbourg [ˈstræzbɜːg] n → Strasburgo f


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We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasbourg to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.
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And if we enter the interior of the edifice, who has overthrown that colossus of Saint Christopher, proverbial for magnitude among statues, as the grand hall of the Palais de Justice was among halls, as the spire of Strasbourg among spires?
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Stanislas Kapp was the son of and heir of a rich brewer of Strasbourg, a youth of a sanguineous--and sanguinary--temperament.
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