Memel
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Memel is a name, mainly used by Germans, and both for towns and rivers. It supposedly was derived from Old Prussian language, meaning "surrounded by water". It may refer to:
- Memel -> Klaipėda city, formerly part of East Prussia and Germany, now as Klaipėda part of Lithuania
- Memelburg, the Ordensburg 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, known in German as (die) Memel, mentioned in Das Lied der Deutschen as eastern border of Germany
- Nemunėlis River, known in German as Memele, and in Latvian as Mēmele
- Memel, Free State, a village in the Free State Province of South Africa, named after Memel (Klaipeda)
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