430: burg Feb 11, 2016

Old English burgs were established by Albert the Great to defend, especially Wessex, against the Vikings. In Old English, the word 'burg' first meant 'fortress', but later meant a 'walled town', from Latin 'burgus' which means 'castle'. Nowadays, we don't need walled-cities anymore, and in North American informal language, the word simply means "a town or city", such as the suffix in 'Harrisburg'.