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'Burg' is a German, Dutch (as 'burg' or 'burcht') word meaning (fortified) ''castle''. It is a cognate to various English words and place name affixes, such as 'burgh', 'borough', and 'burrow' among others. It appears in the name of many places:

★ places in Germany:

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★ Burg bei Magdeburg, in Saxony-Anhalt

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★ Burg, Brandenburg, in Brandenburg

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★ Burg, Bernkastel-Wittlich, in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate

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★ Burg, Bitburg-Prüm, in the district Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate

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★ Burg an der Wupper, part of Solingen

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★ Burg in Dithmarschen, part of the ''Amt'' Burg-Süderhastedt, Schleswig-Holstein

★ castles in Germany:

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★ Burg Bischofstein, in Rhineland-Palatinate on the Moselle River

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★ Schloss Burg, in Solingen

★ Burg, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées ''département'', in southwestern France

★ places in Switzerland:

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★ Burg, Switzerland is a small municipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland

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★ Burg im Leimental is a small municipality in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland

★ Den Burg, a town on the island of Texel, the Netherlands

★ BURG, a computer program for generating a fast tree parser using BURS technology

★ Johann Tobias Bürg (1766-1835), Austrian astronomer

★ Bürg (crater) on the moon, named after this astronomer