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Memel is the name for both a town and a river (the same river in the neighboring country has the name Nemunas/Neman River and Njemen in Belarus). Memel was derived from the Couronian-Latvian language: ''memelis, mimelis, mēms'' and means ''mute, silent''. It may refer to: *Memel, a city in East Prussia, Germany, now Klaipėda, part of Lithuania * *Memelburg, the ''Ordensburg'' in Memel, a castle built in 1252 by Teutonic Knights which was the nucleus for the city * *Memel Territory (''Memelland''), the area separated from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, later called Klaipėda Region * *Battle of Memel, a siege of the city, from late 1944 to early 1945. *Neman River (German ''Memel''), part of a river in East Prussia, Germany, mentioned in the ''Deutschlandlied'' (1841) as the eastern border of Germany *Nemunėlis River (German ''Memele'', Latvian ''Mēmele'') *Memel, Free State, a village in the Free State Province of South Africa, named after the city *, a German cargo ship in service 1934–45 *The indigenous name of Goat Island 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Memel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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