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    cities of Remscheid and Solingen form the Bergisches Städtedreieck (Berg City Triangle). The Bergisches Land emerged from the historic Duchy of Berg. The...
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    Schwarzbach (German pronunciation: [ˈʃvaʁtsˌbax]) is a river of the Bergisches Land, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Rhine...
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  • their Residence a small dominion, which later came to be called the Bergisches Land. At the beginning of the twelfth century the Counts donated the site...
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    its present name in 1930. It is the capital and largest city of the Bergisches Land. The city straddles the densely populated banks of the River Wupper...
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    the west, and Lippe to the north. In the southwest it borders the Bergisches Land. It is considered part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region...
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    south-west of that state and covers the hills of the Eifel as well as the Bergisches Land. It was created on 30 April 1815, as district of the province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg...
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    Bergish dialects (category Bergisches Land)
    Bergish (Bergisch or bergische Mundarten) is a collective name for a group of West Germanic dialects spoken in the Bergisches Land region east of the Rhine...
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    Wesergebirge and the Teutoburg Forest in the east, the Sauerland, the Bergisches Land, the Siegerland and the Siebengebirge in the south, as well as the...
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    northern edge of the Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr. After Wuppertal, it is the second-largest city in the Bergisches Land, and a member of the regional...
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    meat ("Kottenwurst") or Balkenbrij. The sandwich is common in the Bergisches Land region of Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This local...
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    the county lives on in the modern geographic term Bergisches Land, often misunderstood as bergiges Land (hilly country). The Counts of Berg emerged in 1101...
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    adjoining Hessian landscape. To the west the hills continue into the Bergisches Land, to the south into the Siegerland, and to the north-east into the Teutoburg...
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    The Bergische Kräher is a German breed of domestic chicken from the Bergisches Land, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. It is...
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    eastern side it encompasses the towns and cities along the river and the Bergisches Land area up to the Westphalian (Siegerland) and Hessian regions. Stretching...
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    other trains runs via the Bergisches Land to Cologne. Since December 2023, ICE 19 runs every two hours via the Bergisches Land, providing an hourly service...
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    provinces of the Rhineland and Westphalia, for example, these were Bergisches Land, the County of Mark and the Siegerland region with spurs into the Sauerland...
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    Mettmann – with the southern suburbs of Düsseldorf to the north, and the Bergisches Land to the south. It consists of the city districts (from north to south)...
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    Barmen is a former industrial metropolis of the region of Bergisches Land, Germany, which merged with four other towns in 1929 to form the city of Wuppertal...
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  • cities Cologne, Leverkusen, Solingen and Remscheid. The area of the Bergisches Land belonged to the earldom of Berg for most of medieval times, which gives...
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    Waffle (section Bergische)
    New York World's Fair. Bergische waffles, or Waffles from Berg county, are a specialty of the German region of Bergisches Land. The waffles are crisp...
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  • Altenberg (Bergisches Land), an area in Odenthal, North Rhine-Westphalia Altenberg Abbey, Cistercian monastery in Altenberg (Bergisches Land) Altenberger...
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    also act a part of the southern boundary of the plain: the Eifel, Bergisches Land and the Sauerland. In the east the North German Plain spreads out beyond...
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    de/cms200/kultur_tourismus/museum/schloss/index.shtml, 19.09.2005 Artikel Bergische Morgenpost: Grünes Licht für Schloss-Ausbau, 24.03.2005 Wikimedia Commons...
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    New Year's pretzel in a Stuttgart bakery (Swabia) Pretzel from Burg (Bergisches Land), typically carried around the neck Laugenbrezel, observe the cut In...
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  • Mettmann (district) (category Bergisches Land)
    Mettmann (German pronunciation: [ˈmɛtman]) is a Kreis (district) in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring are the Ennepe-Ruhr, Rhein-Kreis...
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    historic regions of the Sauerland, Upland, Siegerland, Wittgenstein Land, Bergisches Land and parts of the Hessian Hinterland. The subdivisions of the Rothaar...
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    published his first crime novel Bullenmord, set in his native region Bergisches Land. He followed this with two other standalone books, published in 1998...
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    districts of Heinsberg and Viersen at the Dutch-German border to the Bergisches Land region and includes the cities of Mönchengladbach, Viersen, Düsseldorf...
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    the river. Further west the Sieg valley forms the boundary of the Bergisches Land (northern) and Westerwald (southern). The river finally runs through...
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  • Oberbergischer Kreis (category Bergisches Land)
    Remscheid and Wuppertal. The district was named after the region known as Bergisches Land, which belonged to the County of Berg for most of the medieval era...
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