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Basin size: 4,485 km 2 (1,732 sq mi) [1] ... The Ruhr is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia), a right tributary (east-side) of the Rhine.
The 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica has only one definition of "Ruhr": "a river of Germany, an important right-bank tributary of the lower Rhine". The use of the term "Ruhr" for the industrial region started in Britain only after World War I, when French and Belgian troops had occupied the Ruhr district and seized its prime industrial assets in lieu of unpaid reparations in 1923.
Category:Ruhr basin is a sub-category of Category:Drainage basins and part of WP:WikiProject Rivers. Content. This category is intended for all waterbodies (i.e. rivers, lakes, canals, marshes, etc.) that form part of the drainage basin of the main river. To search geographically, use the Category:Rivers by country and Category:Rivers by ...
branch of river Oder (from Oder Lagoon) Świna/Swine (in Świnoujście, Poland) Uecker (into Oder Lagoon in Ueckermünde) Oder (into Oder Lagoon near Szczecin, Poland) Lusatian Neisse (Lausitzer Neiße) (near Eisenhüttenstadt)
The Lenne is a tributary of the river Ruhr in the Sauerland hills, western Germany.It has caused flooding in recent years. [2]Having its source on top of the Kahler Asten near Winterberg in an intermittent spring at an elevation of 2,687 ft (819 m), the Lenne ends after a course of 129 km flowing into the Ruhr river near the city of Hagen.
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The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
Sigillara specimen (bark removed), found in the Nordstern mine, Flöz Zollverein 2/3 at a depth of 1000m.. During the Carboniferous Period, in the Paleozoic era, which began 360 million years ago and ended 300 million years ago, layers of slate, coal and sandstone were formed. 400 to 300 million years ago, new mountains were uplifted during the Variscan mountain-building period.