Stralsund

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Stral·sund

(sträl′so͝ont′, shträl′zo͝ont′)

A city of northeast Germany on an inlet of the Baltic Sea opposite Rügen Island. Chartered in 1234, it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League and changed hands many times before it passed to Prussia in 1815.

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Stralsund

(German ˈʃtraːlzʊnt)

(Placename) a port in NE Germany, in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania on a strait of the Baltic: one of the leading towns of the Hanseatic League. Pop: 59 140 (2003 est)

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Stral•sund

(ˈstrɑl zʊnt, ˈʃtrɑl-)

n.

a seaport in NE Germany. 75,408.

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Pomerania

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He explained how an army, ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand men was to attack the French from different sides.

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The German chancellor said she'd like to cruise on Crystal Endeavor after attending a keel-laying ceremony for the ship at a yard in her constituency of Stralsund, near Hamburg, on Tuesday.

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During Hollande's visit to Germany's northern port city of Stralsund, the two leaders issued a joint statement on the Ukraine crisis.

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A workshop was held in Stralsund, Germany in September 2010 where researchers and practitioners in law and the environmental sciences explored the ecosystem approach in international and European law.

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P+S Werften was created from the 2010 merger of two German shipbuilding firms, Volkswerft Stralsund GmbH and Peene Werft GmbH.

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Stralsund, Germany, Rajab 9, 1433, May 30, 2012, SPA -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel was hosting a meeting Wednesday with the leaders of nations around the Baltic Sea, with the two-day meeting expected to focus on energy cooperation, according to dpa.

Merkel hosts energy talks with Baltic leaders

Muscat: A group of students of Masters in Tourism Development Strategies from the University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund and their professors visited the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) last week.

Stralsund university students visit GUtech

Denmark's Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd sells German shipyard Volkswerft Stralsund GmbH to Hegemann Group

Bush and Merkel will meet Thursday in a historic town of Stralsund in the German chancellor's hometown, a former East Germany region on the Baltic Sea coast.