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[Facts] Help needed on:- Battenberg/ Battenburg - German

by Bobby Darin (guest)

4/21/2005, 9:27 AM

Meaning?

#German

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- Anneza (guest) +1

4/22/2005, 12:34 AM

No clue about the Batten bit, but -berg = mountain and -burg = town.

- Anneza (guest)

4/22/2005, 12:36 AM

Still sleepy - sorry! The reason Lord Mountbatten got that name was to sidestep anitGerman feeling in Britain during the First World War. Battenberg with an E had been his family name. (Useful mnemonic.)

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