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ID: 7013390
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013390
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ruhrgebiet (general region)  Ruhrgebiet (general region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 25 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.4167  decimal degrees
Long: 007 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Industrial area comprising the valley of the Ruhr river; primarily a mining region; includes some of Germany's major industrial cities such as Essen, Bochum, Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen & Dortmund, which were virtually leveled in WW II.

Names:
Ruhrgebiet (preferred,C,V)
Ruhr (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of North Rhine-Westphalia (state)  ............  North Rhine-Westphalia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Ruhrgebiet (general region)  ................  Ruhrgebiet (general region) (P)

Place Types:
general region (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ruhr..........  [VP]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 791
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 168
Ruhrgebiet..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1035
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 791
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1853766
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 168
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1035
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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