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Bottrop

American  
[bawt-rawp] / ˈbɔt rɔp /

noun

  1. a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr region.


Bottrop British  
/ ˈbɔtrɔp /

noun

  1. an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ruhr. Pop: 120 324 (2003 est)

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This "accelerated" investigations in Bottrop, and DNA testing later confirmed Ms Pommer's identity.

From BBC

She had also been carrying a key that linked her to the German city of Bottrop, close to the Dutch border.

From BBC

More than 350 of the Jews deported on Jan. 27, 1942 were from Gelsenkirchen, and others came from places like Recklinghausen, Bocholt, Bottrop, Castrop-Rauxel, Datteln, Dorsten, Gladbeck, Haltern, Herten, Lembeck, Marl, Lüdinghausen, Münster and Selm — all part of the Ruhr area in western Germany.

From Seattle Times

While walking down the street in the West German city of Bottrop in 2015, a woman realized that she had attracted a furry stalker: a tiny red squirrel.

From Salon

A hill emerges incongruously from the table-flat landscape east of the Rhine River near Bottrop, Germany.

From Washington Post