hamburg

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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noun a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League

At Hamburg it would be reckoned the greatest. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
Several houses in Hamburg made fortunes on this occasion. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
He left me at Hamburg and has been away since. — The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers

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