English to afrikaans meaning of

"Petersburg" verwys tipies na Sint Petersburg, 'n stad in die noordweste van Rusland, geleƫ aan die Neva-rivier naby die Golf van Finland. Dit is die tweede grootste stad in Rusland en was voorheen die hoofstad van die Russiese Ryk. Die stad is in 1703 deur Petrus die Grote gestig en na hom vernoem.

Sentence Examples

  1. If I think carefully, I can trace everything back to that slave market in St Petersburg - an illegal affair trafficking mostly Persians and Kurds foolish enough to cross the badlands of Khiva.
  2. Petersburg, where he got into difficulties through want of a passport, from which he was rescued by the American consul and sent home.
  3. Despite the sultry heat of the St Petersburg summer, most buyers wore thick fur-lined leather coats and boots.
  4. Petersburg, we sail to Tallinn which is in Estonia, then to Gdansk in Poland, Oslo, and back to Copenhagen.