Ruhr Valley
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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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