Schleswig
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- A geographic area and former Danish duchy in Northern Europe, located on the southern Jutland peninsula between the rivers Eider and Kongeå; now politically divided between Denmark and Germany.
- A town, the administrative seat of Schleswig-Flensburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- A small city in Crawford County, Iowa.
- A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
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Borrowed from German Schleswig, from the Schlei, a narrow inlet of the Baltic.
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