Birk
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Birk may refer to:
- Birk (market place)Birk (market place)Birk was during the Scandinavian Middle Ages the name for a demarcated area, especially a town or a market place, with its own laws and privileges, the Bjarkey laws....
, a demarcated area with its own laws and privileges, the Bjarkey laws - Reykjavík AirportReykjavík AirportReykjavík Airport Reykjavík Airport Reykjavík Airport (Icelandic: Reykjavíkurflugvöllur, is the chiefly domestic airport serving Reykjavík, Iceland. The airport lies two kilometres from Reykjavík's city centre. Possessing rather short runways, it normally only serves flights within Iceland and to...
's ICAO code - Scots languageScots languageScots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster . It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.Since there are no universally accepted...
term for a BirchBirchBirch is a tree or shrub of the genus Betula , in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The Betula genus contains 30–60 known taxa...
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People with the name
- Ado Birk (1883–1942), Estonian former Prime Minister
- Kaj Birket-SmithKaj Birket-SmithKaj Birket-Smith was a Danish philologist and anthropologist. He specialized in studying the habits and language of the Inuit and Eyak. Birket-Smith was a member of Knud Rasmussen's 1921 Thule expedition...
(1893–1977), Danish anthropologist - Matt BirkMatt BirkMatthew Robert Birk is an American football center for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Harvard....
(born 1976), American professional football player - Birk SproxtonBirk SproxtonBirk Sproxton was a Canadian poet and novelist who lived in Red Deer, Alberta.Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Sproxton studied in Winnipeg before moving west to Alberta. He taught creative writing at Red Deer College for over three decades, while working on his own projects...
(1943–2007), Canadian poet and novelist