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Ruhr
[ roor ]
noun
- a river in W Germany, flowing NW and W into the Rhine. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- a mining and industrial region centered in the valley of the Ruhr River.
Ruhr
/ ruːr; rʊə /
noun
- the chief coalmining and industrial region of Germany: in North Rhine-Westphalia around the valley of the River Ruhr (a tributary of the Rhine 235 km (146 miles) long) German nameRuhrgebietˈruːrɡəˌbiːt
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From there, it hopes to pipe hydrogen through a 130-kilometer network in the industrial Ruhr region.
For a full discussion of the relation of dysentery to typhus, see Virchow, Kriegstypus und Ruhr.
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M. Briand had found it necessary to placate his Chamber by announcing that he intended to occupy the Ruhr on May 1.
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The twin cities, Barmen-Eberfeld, in the Ruhr coal-field, form one of the principal centres of cotton manufacture in the world.
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Spinola had established his headquarters at Ruhrort, a place where the river Ruhr empties into the Rhine.
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The river Ruhr was a wide but desultory stream, easily fordable in many places.
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