HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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Polis
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City
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Ville
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Burg
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the German language, Burg means ‘castle’ or ‘fortress’, though so many towns grew up around castles that it almost came to mean city, and is incorporated into many placenames, such as Hamburg, Flensburg and Strasburg.
Detailed explanation-2: -A burh (Old English pronunciation: [burˠx]) or burg was an Anglo-Saxon fortification or fortified settlement.
Detailed explanation-3: -As place-name elements in Britain, they can be spelled-borough, as in Aldborough (in Norfolk), Gainsborough, Londesborough, Peterborough and Scarborough; -brough, as in Aldbrough (in the East Riding), Brough itself and Middlesbrough; and-bury, as in Bury, Bury St Edmunds and Canterbury.
Detailed explanation-4: -The German word Burg means castle.