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Ruhr Valley

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  1. Valley of the Ruhr River, in west-central Germany; Germany's principal industrial region.


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In 2016, Huseby, who’s now based in the city, founded the fashion label GmbH with Serhat Işik, a child of Turkish immigrants who grew up in the Ruhr Valley, West Germany’s industrial heartland.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023

He has been following a cohort of older women in the Ruhr Valley, an urban region of Germany, who are exposed to road-traffic pollution at levels similar to those in countless other communities worldwide.

From Nature • Nov. 20, 2018

The bombs caused catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr Valley, playing a role in "almost certainly shortening the war," according to Jonathan Humbert, of J P Humbert Auctioneers.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2017

Instead, pockets of industrialization appeared, as in the coal-rich Ruhr Valley of west central Germany.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

I realized than that I was directly over the� Ruhr Valley which was the industrial center of Germany.

From The Biography of a Rabbit by Benson, Roy, Jr.

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