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Essen

American  
[es-uhn] / ˈɛs ən /

noun

  1. a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.


Essen British  
/ ˈɛsən /

noun

  1. a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr; university. Pop: 589 499 (2003 est)

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Its decision was criticised by both the Belgian and German governments and days later Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever attended a Munich Philharmonic concert with Lahav Shani conducting in the German city of Essen.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

Beyond airports, Verdi has also called for strikes in waste collection across several German cities, including Berlin, Essen and Kiel, where bins have gone unemptied since last week.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025

This is the “good price” offered by two small-boat smugglers to an undercover BBC journalist in Essen - a western German city where many migrants live or pass through.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

To explore these questions, researchers from the Social Brain Lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the University Hospital Essen conducted a large-scale analysis of studies exploring touch interventions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

Werner Pfennig grows up three hundred miles northeast of Paris in a place called Zollverein: a four-thousand-acre coal- mining complex outside Essen, Germany.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr