Wismar
Americannoun
noun
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German public broadcaster NDR said several communities near the city of Wismar east of Hamburg experienced power outages.
From Reuters • Jan. 30, 2022
A general view of the shipbuilding hall at the Wismar location of the MV-Werften shipyards which file insolvency, in Wismar, Germany, January 11, 2022.
From Reuters • Jan. 11, 2022
The day they declared victory, I was back in a place called Wismar, on the Baltic in Germany, guarding the frontiers.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2015
The Wismar yards launched a 20,000-ton Russian passenger ship, the Shota Rustaveli, and Rostock's Neptune yards sent another 4,000-ton freighter, the 112th during the past eleven years, down the ways.
From Time Magazine Archive
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After a week of negotiations the emissaries of Lubeck, Rostock, and Stralsund assembled at Wismar offered to Duke Albrecht of Mecklenburg the throne of Denmark.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew
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