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Hamburg , village (1990 pop. 10,442), Erie co., W N.Y., S of Buffalo; settled c.1808, inc. 1874. Part of a township of 48,000 people, Hamburg is a residential and industrial suburb of Buffalo. Its manufactures include rubber goods and optical products. Hilbert College is there.

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Hamburg, Germany, Suriname, USA Germany: a state and a city once known as Hammaburg. Said to have originated as a church with a moated fortress built c.825 between two rivers to protect it from heathens; it means ‘Fortress in the Nook’ from hamma ‘nook’ and burg. It may have given its name to the hamburger, or burger, taken by 19th‐century German emigrants to the USA.

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