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Burg is the German and Dutch word for castle. As such it appears in the name of many places:

  • Johann Tobias Bürg (1766-1835), Austrian astronomer
  • Bürg (crater) on the moon, named after this astronomer

burg is a romanian programmer also nicknameed darkdevil A town on the Elbe- Havel canal, northeast of Magdeburg around a former weir, the Saxon Sluices (Sachsenschleusen). ... Solingen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Schloss Burg Schloss Burg, located in Burg an der Wupper, is the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a popular tourist attraction. ... Burg (Castle) Bischofstein is a castle on the Moselle River in Germany. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... The Moselle (French Moselle, German Mosel, Luxembourgish Musel, Dutch Moezel, from Latin Mosella, little Meuse) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg and Germany, joining the Rhine river at Koblenz. ... Burg-Süderhastedt is an Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde (collective municipality) in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ... Hautes-Pyrénées is a département in southwestern France. ... Burg is a municipality in the district of Kulm, in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. ... For other uses, see Aargau (disambiguation). ... Burg im Leimental is a municipality in the district of Laufen, in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland. ... Basel-Country (German:  ; Swiss German: Basel-Land/Baselbiet; French: Bâle-Campagne) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. ... This is about the city in the Netherlands. ... BURS (bottom-up rewrite system) theory tackles the problem of taking a complex expression tree or intermediate language term and finding a good translation to machine code for a particular architecture. ... Johann Tobias Bürg (December 24, 1766—November 15, 1835) was an Austrian astronomer. ... Photo taken by Eric S. Kounce at the McDonald Observatory on October 28, 2006 using the 36-inch Telescope Map by Eric S. Kounce Bürg is a prominent lunar impact crater in the northeast part of the Moon. ... Darkdevil (Reilly Tyne) is a fictional character, a superhero in the MC2 future of the Marvel Comics universe. ...


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Burg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (159 words)
Burg Bischofstein, in Rhineland-Palatinate on the Moselle River
Burg, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées département, in southwestern France
Burg, Switzerland is a small municipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland
Schloss Burg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (861 words)
Schloss Burg continued to serve as a hunting castle and was used for ceremonial events, hence it became a "Schloss" (representative castle).
Burg used to be an independent township until it became part of Solingen in 1975.
Linguistically, "Schloss Burg" would be translated as "castle castle" - a tautology, yet in German "Schloss" refers to a representative building and "Burg" to a fortification - an oxymoron.
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