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Rivers that flow into the sea are sorted geographically, along the coast. Rivers that flow into other rivers are sorted by the proximity of their points of confluence to the sea (the lower in the list, the more upstream). Some rivers (the Meuse, for example) do not flow through Germany themselves, but they are mentioned for having German ...
"Seal of Dortmund, the city of Westphalia" [SIGILLVM TREMONIE CIVITATIS WESTFALIE] Dortmund was first mentioned in the Werden Abbey, which was built between 880 and 884.The Latin entry reads: In Throtmanni liber homo Arnold viii den nob solvit (German: In Throtmanni zahlt uns der freie Mann Arnold 8 Pfennige, and English: In Throtmanni the free man Arnold pays us 8 pfennigs). [17]
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.
Westphalia (/ w ɛ s t ˈ f eɪ l i ə /; German: Westfalen [vɛstˈfaːlən]; Low German: Westfalen [vεs(t)ˈfɔːln]) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
There are five Ruhr reservoirs on the river, often used for leisure activities. Hengsteysee between Dortmund and Hagen, surface area: 1.36 km 2, height of the weir 4.5 m; Harkortsee between Herdecke and Wetter; surface area: 1.37 km 2, height of the weir 7.8 m; Kemnader See between Witten and Bochum; surface area: 1.25 km 2, height of the weir 2 m
The Emscher (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a river, a tributary of the Rhine, that flows through the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. Its overall length is 83 kilometres (52 mi) with a mean outflow near the mouth into the lower Rhine of 16 m 3 /s (570 cu ft/s).
Dortmund-Ems Canal at Datteln: Hamm-Uentrop Dortmund–Ems Canal: Dortmund-Ems-Kanal: Dortmund: River Ems near Papenburg: Elbe–Havel Canal: Elbe-Havel-Kanal: River Elbe near Magdeburg: River Havel near Brandenburg: Elbe Lateral Canal: Elbe-Seitenkanal: River Elbe near Lauenburg: Mittelland Canal near Wolfsburg: Elbe–Lübeck Canal: Elbe ...
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