West-Berlin

• Westberlin, Berlin (West)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛst.bɛʁˌliːn/, /ˌvɛst.bɛʁˈliːn/

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West-Berlin n (proper noun, genitive West-Berlins or (optionally with an article) West-Berlin)

1. West Berlin (the American, British and French sectors of Berlin between 1949 and 1990; the respective areas as part of reunified Berlin)

   Coordinate term: Ost-Berlin

• The spelling Westberlin with no hyphen was particularly common in East German usage, where East Berlin was simply called Berlin or, as its full title: Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR (“Berlin, capital of the GDR”). Berlin (West), on the other hand, was chiefly used in West Germany, corresponding to Berlin (Ost) for East Berlin.

• West-Berlin on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de