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Burg is the word for castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...

 in various Germanic languages
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...

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Burg or Bürg or Buerg may refer to:
  • Burg bei Magdeburg
    Burg bei Magdeburg
    Burg bei Magdeburg is a town of about 24,700 inhabitants on the Elbe-Havel-Canal in Germany, northeast of Magdeburg. It is situated around a former weir, the Sachsenschleusen...

    , a city in Germany
  • Den Burg, a town in the Netherlands
  • Burg, former name of Melber, Kentucky
    Melber, Kentucky
    Melber is an unincorporated community in Graves and McCracken counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky....

  • BURG
    Burg
    Burg is the word for castle in various Germanic languages.Burg or Bürg or Buerg may refer to:*Burg bei Magdeburg, a city in Germany*Den Burg, a town in the Netherlands* Burg, former name of Melber, Kentucky...

    , a computer program using BURS
    BURS
    BURS theory tackles the problem of taking a complex expression tree or intermediate language term and finding a good translation to machine code for a particular architecture...

     technology
  • BuRg, a bootloader based on GNU GRUB
    GNU GRUB
    GNU GRUB is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference implementation of the Multiboot Specification, which provides a user the choice to boot one of multiple operating systems installed on a computer or select a specific kernel configuration available on a particular...

  • Bürg (crater)
    Bürg (crater)
    Bürg is a prominent lunar impact crater in the northeast part of the Moon. It lies within the lava-flooded, ruined crater formation designated Lacus Mortis. To the south and southeast is the crater pair Plana and Mason. To the west, beyond the rim of Lacus Mortis, is the prominent crater...

     on the moon

Surname

  • Avraham Burg
    Avraham Burg
    Avraham "Avrum" Burg is an Israeli author; he was formerly a member of the Knesset, a chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and a Speaker of the Knesset.-Biography:...

     (born 1955), Israeli politician, son of Yosef Burg
  • Johann Tobias Bürg
    Johann Tobias Bürg
    Johann Tobias Bürg was an Austrian astronomer.Born in Vienna, Bürg worked as a professor and astronomer in Klagenfurt, in Carinthia. He subsequently worked as astronomical assistant at the observatory at Vienna from 1792 until he retired in 1813.He published some astronomical tables on the Moon...

     (1766–1835), Austrian astronomer
  • Meno Burg
    Meno Burg
    Meno Burg , also referred to as Judenmajor , was a Prussian field officer. Burg reached the highest rank ever attained by a Jew in the Prussian Army of the 19th century...

     (1789–1853), Prussian field officer
  • Vernon Duncan Buerg (1947–2009), American shareware pioneer, author of LIST
  • Yosef Burg
    Yosef Burg
    Yosef Shlomo Burg was an Israeli politician. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset, and served in many ministerial positions for the next 40 years. He was one of the founders of the National Religious Party.-Biography:...

     (1909–1999), Israeli politician, father of Avraham Burg

See also

  • Berg (disambiguation)
  • Burj (disambiguation)
  • Burger (disambiguation)
  • Bourg (disambiguation)
  • Burk (disambiguation)
  • Burgk
    Burgk
    Burgk is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany....

    , a municipality in Germany
  • Burgh
    Burgh
    A burgh was an autonomous corporate entity in Scotland and Northern England, usually a town. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burgh status was broadly analogous to borough status, found in the rest of the United...

    , Scottish name for an autonomous town