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    [ˈʁuːɐ̯pɔt] ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia...
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    The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (‹See Tfd›German: Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr) is the largest metropolitan region in Germany, with over ten million inhabitants...
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    Ruhr (‹See Tfd›German: Ruhrbesetzung) was the period from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925 when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr region of...
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    The Ruhr uprising (‹See Tfd›German: Ruhraufstand), or March uprising (Märzaufstand), was a left-wing workers' revolt in the Ruhr region of Germany in...
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    The Ruhr Red Army, also Red Ruhr Army (German: Rote Ruhrarmee), was an impromptu army of 50,000 to 80,000 left-wing workers that fought in the Ruhr uprising...
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    Duisburg (category Düsseldorf (region))
    the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 15th-largest...
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    Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr (Low German: Mölm; Kölsch: Müllem; German pronunciation: [ˈmyːlhaɪm ʔan deːɐ̯ ˈʁuːɐ̯] ) and also described as "City...
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    Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest urban area in Germany and the fourth-largest on the European continent. The location of the Rhine-Ruhr at the...
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    region lies within the larger Rhine-Ruhr region, and forms a counterbalance to the more integrated Ruhr area, which also lies within the Rhine-Ruhr....
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  • actual boundaries of the Ruhr vary slightly depending on the source, but a good working definition is to define the Lippe and Ruhr as its northern and southern...
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  • as prostitutes. Arabaci also controlled several brothels in the Rhein-Ruhr region of Germany. While already in prison, he reputedly still controlled the...
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    Revierderby (redirect from Ruhr derby)
    name given to any association football match between two clubs in the Ruhr region – also known in German as the Revier, a contraction of Bergbaurevier...
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    Hattingen-Blankenstein. It gets drained from Pleßbach northwards into the Ruhr. The valley got its name in the 19th century by the forging hammers, which...
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    for the Ruhr (IAR) was an international body established in 1949 by the Western Allies to regulate the coal and steel industries of the Ruhr area in West...
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    The Ruhr is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia), a right tributary (east-side) of the Rhine. The source of the Ruhr is near the town of...
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    Bochum (category Ruhr)
    the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg. It lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the...
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    The Battle of the Ruhr (5 March – 31 July 1943) was a strategic bombing campaign against the Ruhr Area in Nazi Germany carried out by RAF Bomber Command...
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    Ruhrpolen (redirect from Ruhr Polish)
    (German: [ˈʁuːɐ̯ˌpoːlən], “Ruhr Poles”) is a German umbrella term for the Polish migrants and their descendants who lived in the Ruhr area in western Germany...
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    Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (‹See Tfd›German: S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr) is a polycentric and electrically driven S-bahn network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in...
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    locality within the independent city of Hagen in the eastern part of the Ruhr region, in Germany. It lies in the valley of the river Volme, about 13 km upstream...
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  • Rhine-Ruhr (German: Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr, also called Rhein-Ruhr-Region or simply Rhein-Ruhr) usually refers to the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in...
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    Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, and the sixth-biggest...
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    operation in Oberhausen, as the first heavy-industry enterprise in the Ruhr region. In 1808, the three ironworks "St. Antony", "Gute Hoffnung" (English:...
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    Bonn (category Cologne (region))
    southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area and the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union...
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    Dortmund (category Arnsberg (region))
    population) of the Ruhr as well as the largest city of Westphalia. It lies on the Emscher and Ruhr rivers (tributaries of the Rhine) in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan...
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  • finance the costs that arise due to the former mining activities in the Ruhr region. The foundation plans on using about 220 million euro per year from 2019...
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    areas of the German Empire. Many Polish-named Germans reside in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin, though they are mostly "Germanized"...
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    Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region. Events scheduled for 2004 and 2005 in Berlin and for 2009 in Bochum...
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    Möhne and Edersee dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley; the Sorpe Dam sustained only minor...
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    Leonard Tölle was born in Lünen, a small town north of Dortmund in the Ruhr region of Germany in 1948. In 1961 he moved to Spain to live with his father...
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