Maastricht meaning

mäs'trĭkt', mäs-trĭKHt'
A city of southeast Netherlands near the Belgian border. Founded on the site of a Roman settlement, it has long been a strategic frontier outpost.
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City in SE Netherlands, on the Maas River: a treaty signed here in 1991 led to the establishment of the European Union.
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Maastricht Sentence Examples

  • In the hope of drawing away the Spaniards from the siege of Leiden by a diversion in the south, Louis, with his brothers John and Henry, at the head of a force of mixed nationalities and little discipline, crossed the frontier near Maastricht, and advanced as far as the Mookerheide near Nijmv,-egen.

  • HELMOND, a town in the province of North Brabant, Holland, on the small river Aa, and on the canal (Zuid-Willems Vaart) between 'sHertogenbosch and Maastricht, 241 m.

  • S.E.) and by the ZuidWillem's canal with Maastricht (60 m.

  • 's Hertogenbosch is the market of the fertile Meiery district, and carries on a considerable trade, chiefly by water, with Dordrecht and Rotterdam, Nijmwegen, Amhem, Maastricht and Liege.

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