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German: Binnenort

English translation: inland village



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German term or phrase:Binnenort
English translation:inland village
Entered by:Courtney Sliwinski
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German term or phrase: Binnenort
Im Landesinneren liegt das zum UNESCO Weltkulturerbe zählende Kirchdorf Alt Luleea (Gammel-staden), das durch die Landhebung von einer Küstenstadt in einen *Binnenort* verwandelt wurde.

Does anyone know the term for this in English?
Courtney Sliwinski
Germany
inland village
Explanation:
context: ...from a coastal town to an inland village (it‘ s referred to as a 'Kirchdorf‘ before)... the sentence seems to express that the location change, coast to inland, turned the former town into a village....
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Eike Seemann DipTrans
Germany
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Thanks!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2village stranded inlandGeorginaW
3 +2inland municipalityErika Berrai-Flynn
3 +2inland village
Eike Seemann DipTrans
2inland resort
Chetan Sampat
2landlocked town/villagehazmatgerman


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
binnenort inland municipality

Explanation:
Binnen = inland

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Note added at 10 mins (2008-04-28 21:03:44 GMT)
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binnen ist plattdeutsch und bedeutet "innen" oder "innerhalb".


    Reference: http://books.google.de/books?id=_60YAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35&lpg=PA3...
    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songdalen
Erika Berrai-Flynn
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Claire Cox: or just inland town
40 mins
  -> Danke Clair

agree Ingeborg Gowans
42 mins
  -> Danke Ingebprg
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
binnenort inland village

Explanation:
context: ...from a coastal town to an inland village (it‘ s referred to as a 'Kirchdorf‘ before)... the sentence seems to express that the location change, coast to inland, turned the former town into a village....

Eike Seemann DipTrans
Germany
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Trudy Peters: it was always referred to as a village, though // Touché :-) I should learn to read properly...
1 hr
  -> thanks, Trudy! ...always?...well, what I was trying to convey: in the first part of the sentence it‘s referred to as a village, then it‘s described as a former coastal town....but I don‘t mean to be pedantic ;-)

agree LittleBalu
7 hrs
  -> thank you, Balu!
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
landlocked town/village

Explanation:
Wird zwar meist für Länder gebraucht, kann aber hier den Einschnitt mit seinen Folgen deutlicher machen.

hazmatgerman
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
village stranded inland

Explanation:
This is a travel itinerary: a stranded village is interesting! Over centuries it's been cut off from the sea, like Rye in East Sussex e.g. If you have space, it would be good to enlarge

Example sentence(s):
  • ... centuries of silting and long shore drift have shifted the coastline away, leaving the town stranded two miles inland. It remains a river port,

    Reference: http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/propert...
GeorginaW
Germany
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Nicole Schnell: That's the one.
47 mins

agree hazmatgerman: Must agree.
4 hrs
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
inland resort

Explanation:
Perhaps?

Chetan Sampat
India
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