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	MEMEL - KLAIPEDA
		Memel lies on the Baltic at the mouth of the River Niemen.
		That Memel was as German as Vilnius (polish Wilno) was Polish, i.e.
		Memel was formally incorporated as an autonomous region of Lithuania on March 8, 1924.
	worldatwar.net /nations/other/memel (1147 words)

	Memel, Germany - LoveToKnow 1911
		MEMEL, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, the most northerly town of the German empire, 91 m.
		Memel was founded in 1252 by Poppo von Osterna, grand master of the Teutonic order, and was at first called New Dortmund and afterwards Memelburg.
		The poet Simon Dach was a native of Memel.
	1911encyclopedia.org /Memel,_Germany (322 words)

	Klaipeda (Memel)
		Memel became the capital city of the Prussian Kingdom between the years 1807-1808, but after the defeat of Napoleon in the years 1812-1813 the Russian Army occupied Memel.
		After WW1 Memel and its region (Gebiet) were cut off from Germany, and in accordance with the Versailles Treaty the Allies (the Entente) ruled this area with a French garrison headed by a French general as from 1919.
		Memel Jews traded mainly in timber and grains, but many Jewish timber merchants from Minsk, Pinsk, Vohlin, Grodna and Bialystok would also stay in Memel, and although they were only provisional residents, they played an important role in the community.
	www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /memel/memel1.html (3537 words)

	Memel River - LoveToKnow 1911
		MEMEL, or Niemen, a river of Russia and Prussia, rising in the middle of the Russian government of Minsk at an altitude of 580 ft. and flowing generally west as far as Grodno.
		Thence it runs north to Kovno, separating Poland from Russia, and at Kovno it turns west again, still dividing Poland from Russia, until it enters the Prussian province of East Prussia, through which it flows west and north-west past Tilsit for a distance of 70 m.
		Considerable quantities of timber are floated down the Memel, and large amounts of corn shipped down it and its navigable tributary the Viliya.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Memel_River (219 words)

	Memel Welcomes You -- Memel Verwelkom U
		Memel is nestled in the heart of the Drakensberg Mountain range in the North Eastern Freestate Province of South Africa.
		And if you cannot find what you need on the site, you can send an e-mail to the webmaster, and your enquiry will be answered within 24 hours.
		A huge problem for visitors was that although Memel was a beautiful place, there wasn't much to do.
	www.memel.biz (321 words)

	Memelgebiet
		The Memel area is a narrow stripe of territory northern of the river Memel with a whole area of 1 100 square miles.
		The Memel Area wurde was separated from Germany on the 1st of October in 1920 when the Versailles Dictate came into force and subordinated under the administration of the League of Nations.
		Outside of Memel Town this Flag was nearly never in use, because the people in the Memel Area – the tract of land on both sides of Memel River – used traditionally a horizontally green-white-red striped flag.
	www.flaggenlexikon.de /fdtmemel.htm (1377 words)

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