Maastricht definition

mästrĭkt, 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.

  • It stands at the junction of several important roads and railways from Maaseyck, Maastricht and Liege.

  • The powerful Dutch fortress of Maastricht was masked, and the French then moved towards Dusseldorf.

  • Louis' own army, originally collected for the relief of Charleroi in December, advanced on Maastricht, and after a brief siege, in which Vauban directed the besiegers, captured this most important fortress (June 29th, 1673).

  • Louis, after the capture of Maastricht led his army southwards into Lorraine and overran the electorate of Trier.

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