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Definition of Memel

1. Noun. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Memel

Literary usage of Memel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Northern Germany as Far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1897)
"from Insterburg to memel (90 M.) in З1/» hrs. (fares 11 M 80, 8 Л 90, 5 M 90 pf. ... The train crosses the valley of the memel (which is here 21/« &I. wide) ..."

2. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1855)
"Owing to the remoteness of the place, only four churches were represented, viz : memel, Elbing, Stolzen- berg and Berlin. But these are the largest, ..."

3. Northern Germany: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1877)
"FROM KÖNIGSBERG то memel, 141 M., railway in б-9'/4 hrs. by Inster- ... Hôtel du Nord), a town with 19787 inhab. on the memel. On a raft anchored below the ..."

4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"memel, the northernmost town of Prussia, in the district of Königsberg, ... memel was built in the middle of the 13th century by the Teutonic knights. ..."

5. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"CHAPTER LIII . . .v-if1--- RUSSIAN RAID ON memel A$ event in which no great number of troops were concerned, but which is of importance, because of the ..."

6. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"CHAPTER XLI RUSSIAN RAID ON memel AN event in which no great number of troops were concerned, •*•*• but which is of importance, because of the feeling which ..."

7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"Its confluence with the Baltic is formed by what is called the 'memel Deeps,' which are from 800 to 1200 feel Jr. width. It cannot properly be called a part ..."

8. Life of General Sir Robert Wilson ...: From Autobiographical Memoirs by Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1862)
"The king is at memel. There is a strong rumour of peace. ... memel, June 22, 1807. On the 19th the army defiled all day and night across the bridge of the ..."

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