The German word Burg means castle. Burg or Bürg may refer to:
Places
Placename element
* ''
-burg
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
History
In the Middle Ag ...
'', a combining form in Dutch, German and English placenames
* Burg, a variant of
burh, the fortified towns of Saxon England
Settlements
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Burg, Aargau, Switzerland
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Burg, Bernkastel-Wittlich
Burg (Mosel) is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a '' Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is purely a winegrowing and tourism ce ...
, Germany
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Burg, Bitburg-Prüm
Burg is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe ...
, Germany
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Burg, Brandenburg, Germany
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Burg, Dithmarschen
Burg is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Ru ...
, Germany
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Burg auf Fehmarn, Germany
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Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany
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Burg im Leimental, Switzerland
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Den Burg, Netherlands
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The Burg, Illinois, United States
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Burg, Hautes-Pyrénées
Burg is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in southwestern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a hig ...
, France
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Burg, Kilninian and Kilmore, a place on the
Isle of Mull
The Isle of Mull ( gd, An t-Eilean Muileach ) or just Mull (; gd, Muile, links=no ) is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides (after Skye) and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the Council areas of Scotland, council area of Arg ...
, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
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Melber, Kentucky, United States, also known as Burg
Other uses
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Burg (surname) or Bürg
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Bürg (crater)
Bürg is a prominent Lunar craters, lunar impact crater in the northeast part of the Moon. It lies within the lava-flooded, ruined crater formation designated Lacus Mortis. To the south and southeast is the crater pair Plana (crater), Plana and ...
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Burg (ship, 2003)
The German word Burg means castle. Burg or Bürg may refer to:
Places Placename element
* ''-burg'', a combining form in Dutch, German and English placenames
* Burg, a variant of burh, the fortified towns of Saxon England
Settlements
* Burg, Aar ...
, a car ferry operating on Switzerland's Lake Zurich
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Burgs (fast-food chain)
See also
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Burgh (disambiguation)
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Borg (disambiguation)
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Bourg (disambiguation)
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Borough and
-bury
A burh () or burg was an Old English fortification or fortified settlement. In the 9th century, raids and invasions by Vikings prompted Alfred the Great to develop a network of burhs and roads to use against such attackers. Some were new constru ...
, common English variants of burg
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Burgh
A burgh is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burg ...
, the common Scottish variant of burg
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Burger (disambiguation)
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Bürger
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Burgher (disambiguation)
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Berg (disambiguation) Berg may refer to:
People
*Berg (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Berg Ng (born 1960), Hong Kong actor
* Berg (footballer) (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
Former states
*Berg (state), county and duchy of the Holy ...
, a placename meaning "mountain" or "rock", frequently confused with burg
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Burgk, a settlement in Germany
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