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Marburg

American  
[mahr-boork, mahr-burg] / ˈmɑr bʊərk, ˈmɑr bɜrg /

noun

  1. a city in central Germany.

  2. German name of Maribor.


Marburg British  
/ ˈmɑːˌbɜːɡ, ˈmaːrbʊrk /

noun

  1. a city in W central Germany, in Hesse: famous for the religious debate between Luther and Zwingli in 1529; Europe's first Protestant university (1527). Pop: 78 511 (2003 est)

  2. the German name for Maribor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Around 10 million jobs are estimated to be directly or indirectly tied to Iran’s digital economy,” said Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, an economist specializing in the Middle East at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

After the war, Habermas studied philosophy and earned a doctorate from Marburg University before joining the University of Frankfurt's Institute of Social Research.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

Working with Professor Roland Lill and his team at the University of Marburg, the researchers uncovered how D-Cys harms cancer cells.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

These three additional monkeys were not quarantined, which is required by law to prevent deadly diseases — such as Ebola, Marburg and mpox — from spreading from primates to humans, prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2025

He thought, Even if the virus is Marburg, the situation is still no different from before.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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