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Rheindahlen

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Rheindahlen (called Dahlen until 1878 and, from the Early Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period around 1700, Dalen) is a town in the western and largest borough of the city of Mönchengladbach in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. [1]

60 relations: Amt (country subdivision), Bernkastel-Kues, Carolingian dynasty, Climate, Dahlen, Saxony, Düsseldorf (region), Early Middle Ages, Early modern period, Eifel, Eifelgau, Etymology, Fault block, Fief, Fossil, Garzweiler surface mine, Groundwater, Gulf Stream, Hamlet, Heinsberg (district), Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Human settlement, Jülich-Zülpich Börde, JHQ Rheindahlen, Last glacial period, Lignite, Loess, Lothair II, Lower Rhine Bay, Lower Rhine Plain, Matres and Matronae, Mönchengladbach, Merovingian dynasty, Metre, Moselle, Motte-and-bailey castle, Neanderthal, Neolithic, Nette (Niers), Nideggen, Niers, North Rhine-Westphalia, Open-pit mining, Paleolithic, Prüm, Prüm Abbey, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, Prussia, Rheydt, Rhine Province, ..., Schwalm (Meuse), Schwalmtal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Spangdahlem, Tertiary, Thickness (geology), Tithe, Vassal, Viersen, William I, German Emperor, World War II. Expand index (10 more) »

Amt (country subdivision)

Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe.

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Bernkastel-Kues

Bernkastel-Kues is a well-known winegrowing centre on the Middle Moselle in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Carolingian dynasty

The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family founded by Charles Martel with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.

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Climate

Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.

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Dahlen, Saxony

Dahlen is a town in the district Nordsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

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Düsseldorf (region)

Düsseldorf is one of the five Regierungsbezirke of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the north-west of the country.

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Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages or Early Medieval Period, typically regarded as lasting from the 5th or 6th century to the 10th century CE, marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history.

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Early modern period

The early modern period of modern history follows the late Middle Ages of the post-classical era.

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Eifel

The Eifel (Äifel) is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium.

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Eifelgau

The Eifelgau was a Frankish gau in the region of the present day Limestone Eifel in Germany.

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Etymology

EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".

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Fault block

Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in the Earth's crust.

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Fief

A fief (feudum) was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Garzweiler surface mine

The Tagebau Garzweiler is a large surface mine (Tagebau) in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia.

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Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Gulf Stream

The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Heinsberg (district)

Heinsberg is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with the town of Heinsberg as its capital.

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Homo erectus

Homo erectus (meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic humans that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch.

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Homo heidelbergensis

Homo heidelbergensis is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo of the Middle Pleistocene (between about 700,000 and 200,000-300,000 years ago), known from fossils found in Southern Africa, East Africa and Europe.

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Human settlement

In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live.

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Jülich-Zülpich Börde

The Jülich-Zülpich Börde (Jülich-Zülpicher Börde) is a landscape in the Rhineland in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the northern edge of the Eifel.

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JHQ Rheindahlen

JHQ (Joint Headquarters) Rheindahlen was a military base in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany active from 1954 to 2013.

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Last glacial period

The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.

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Lignite

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

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Loess

Loess (from German Löss) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.

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Lothair II

Lothair II (835 –) was the king of Lotharingia from 855 until his death.

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Lower Rhine Bay

The Lower Rhine Bay (Niederrheinische Bucht), sometimes called the Lower Rhine Bight, is a lowland plain in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that cuts into the Rhenish Massif.

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Lower Rhine Plain

The Lower Rhine Plain (German: Niederrheinisches Tiefland) is one of the natural regions of Germany and lies on either side of the Rhine north of the city of Düsseldorf.

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Matres and Matronae

The Matres (Latin "mothers"Lindow (2001:224).) and Matronae (Latin "matrons") were female deities venerated in Northwestern Europe, of whom relics are found dating from the first to the fifth century.

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Mönchengladbach

Mönchengladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Merovingian dynasty

The Merovingians were a Salian Frankish dynasty that ruled the Franks for nearly 300 years in a region known as Francia in Latin, beginning in the middle of the 5th century.

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Metre

The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI).

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Moselle

The Moselle (la Moselle,; Mosel; Musel) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg, and Germany.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Neanderthal

Neanderthals (also; also Neanderthal Man, taxonomically Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo, who lived in Eurasia during at least 430,000 to 38,000 years ago.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Nette (Niers)

The Nette is a small river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, a left tributary of the Niers.

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Nideggen

Nideggen is a town in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Niers

The Niers (spoken-out like neerce) is a river in Germany and The Netherlands, a right tributary of the river Maas (Meuse).

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North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen,, commonly shortened to NRW) is the most populous state of Germany, with a population of approximately 18 million, and the fourth largest by area.

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Open-pit mining

Open-pit, open-cast or open cut mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.

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Prüm

Prüm is a town in the Westeifel (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany.

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Prüm Abbey

Prüm Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Prüm, Lorraine, now in the diocese of Trier (Germany), founded by the Frankish widow Bertrada the elder and her son Charibert, Count of Laon, on 23 June 720.

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Prince-Bishopric of Liège

The Prince-Bishopric of Liège was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, situated for the most part in present Belgium, which was ruled by the Bishop of Liège.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen) was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia.

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Rheydt

Rheydt is a borough of the German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Rhine Province

The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1946.

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Schwalm (Meuse)

The Schwalm (German) or Swalm (Dutch), is a small river in Germany and the Netherlands, tributary to the river Meuse.

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Schwalmtal, North Rhine-Westphalia

Schwalmtal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Spangdahlem

Spangdahlem (Verbandsgemeinde ''Speicher'') is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.

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Thickness (geology)

Thickness in geology and mining refers to the distance across a packet of rock, whether it be a facies, stratum, bed, seam, lode etc.

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Tithe

A tithe (from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.

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Vassal

A vassal is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.

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Viersen

Viersen is the capital of the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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William I, German Emperor

William I, or in German Wilhelm I. (full name: William Frederick Louis of Hohenzollern, Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Hohenzollern, 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), of the House of Hohenzollern was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and the first German Emperor from 18 January 1871 to his death, the first Head of State of a united Germany.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheindahlen

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