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Sauerland

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The Sauerland is a rural, hilly area spreading across most of the south-eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, in parts heavily forested and, apart from the major valleys, sparsely inhabited. [1]

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  1. 136 relations: Abellio Deutschland, Altena, Archbishop of Cologne, Arnsberg, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park, Atta Cave, Attendorn, Balve, Balve Cave, Bark beetle, Bergisches Land, Bestwig, Biggesee, Black stork, Brilon, Bundesautobahn 4, Bundesautobahn 44, Bundesautobahn 45, Bundesautobahn 46, Carboniferous, Coal, Cologne, County of Mark, Cyclone Kyrill, Dam, DB Regio, Devonian, Diemelsee, Dortmund, Dortmund Airport, Drolshagen, Duchy of Westphalia, Eifel, Electorate of Cologne, Ense, Eslohe, Eurasian eagle-owl, European bison, Fault (geology), Festspiele Balver Höhle, Finnentrop, Fold (geology), Forest, Frankfurt, Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Geomorphology, German language, Great grey shrike, Greywacke, Hagen-Hohenlimburg, ... Expand index (86 more) »

  2. Cultural landscapes of North Rhine-Westphalia
  3. Mountain ranges of North Rhine-Westphalia
  4. Regions of North Rhine-Westphalia
  5. Rhenish Massif
  6. Westphalia culture

Abellio Deutschland

Abellio Deutschland is a public transit operator in Germany operating bus and rail networks.

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Altena

Altena (Westphalian: Altenoa) is a town in the district of Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Archbishop of Cologne

The archbishop of Cologne governs the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne in western North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Arnsberg

Arnsberg (Arensperg) is a town in the Hochsauerland county, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Arnsberg Forest Nature Park

The Arnsberg Forest Nature Park (Naturpark Arnsberger Wald) is a nature park in the districts of Hochsauerlandkreis and Soest within the administrative region of Arnsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Atta Cave

The Atta Cave (Atta-Höhle) or Attendorn Dripstone Cave (Attendorner Tropfsteinhöhle) in Attendorn is one of the largest dripstone caves in Germany.

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Attendorn

Attendorn is a German town in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Balve

Balve is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Balve Cave

The Balver Höhle (German for Balve Cave) is the biggest cave used as a cultural venue in Europe. Sauerland and Balve Cave are Westphalia culture.

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Bark beetle

A bark beetle is the common name for the subfamily of beetles Scolytinae.

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Bergisches Land

The Bergisches Land (Berg Country) is a low mountain range in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, east of the Rhine and south of the Ruhr. Sauerland and Bergisches Land are cultural landscapes of North Rhine-Westphalia, mountain ranges of North Rhine-Westphalia, regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhenish Massif.

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Bestwig

Bestwig is a municipality in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Biggesee

The Biggesee or Bigge Reservoir (Biggetalsperre) is a reservoir in Germany.

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Black stork

The black stork (Ciconia nigra) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.

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Brilon

Brilon (Westphalian: Brailen) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany, that belongs to the Hochsauerlandkreis.

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Bundesautobahn 4

is an autobahn in two discontinuous segments that crosses Germany in a west–east direction.

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Bundesautobahn 44

is a German Autobahn.

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Bundesautobahn 45

is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Dortmund in the west with Aschaffenburg in the southwest.

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Bundesautobahn 46

is an Autobahn in Germany.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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County of Mark

The County of Mark (Grafschaft Mark, Comté de La Marck colloquially known as Die Mark) was a county and state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle.

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Cyclone Kyrill

Cyclone Kyrill was a low-pressure area that evolved into an unusually violent European windstorm, forming an extratropical cyclone with hurricane-strength winds.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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DB Regio

DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany.

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Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.

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Diemelsee

The Diemelsee or Diemel Reservoir (Diemelstausee) is a reservoir with a surface area of 1.65 km² and about capacity of 19.9 million m³ on the River Diemel in the counties of Waldeck-Frankenberg in North Hesse, and Hochsauerlandkreis, Westphalia, Germany.

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Dortmund

Dortmund (Düörpm; Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany.

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Dortmund Airport

Dortmund Airport is a minor international airport located east of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Drolshagen

Drolshagen (Westphalian: Draulsen, or Draulzen) is a town belonging to the district of Olpe in the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, lying roughly 5 km west of Olpe.

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Duchy of Westphalia

The Duchy of Westphalia (Herzogtum Westfalen) was a historic territory in the Holy Roman Empire, which existed from 1102 to 1803.

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Eifel

The Eifel (Äifel) is a low mountain range in western Germany, eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. Sauerland and Eifel are cultural landscapes of North Rhine-Westphalia, mountain ranges of North Rhine-Westphalia, regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhenish Massif.

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Electorate of Cologne

The Electorate of Cologne (Kurfürstentum Köln), sometimes referred to as Electoral Cologne (Kurköln), was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the 10th to the early 19th century.

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Ense

Ense is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Eslohe

Eslohe is a municipality in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Eurasian eagle-owl

The Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl, a type of bird that resides in much of Eurasia.

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European bison

The European bison (bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent, the zubr, or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, is a European species of bison.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Festspiele Balver Höhle

Festspiele Balver Höhle is an arts festival, featuring musical and theatrical performances, in Balve, Germany. Sauerland and Festspiele Balver Höhle are Westphalia culture.

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Finnentrop

Finnentrop is a Gemeinde (municipality) in Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Fold (geology)

In structural geology, a fold is a stack of originally planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, that are bent or curved ("folded") during permanent deformation.

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Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Frankfurt Rhine-Main

The Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: Rhein-Main-Gebiet or Frankfurt/Rhein-Main, abbreviated FRM), is the second-largest metropolitan region in Germany after Rhine-Ruhr, with a total population exceeding 5.8 million.

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Geomorphology

Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek:,, 'earth';,, 'form'; and,, 'study') is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features generated by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near Earth's surface.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Great grey shrike

The great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a large and predatory songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae).

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Greywacke

Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

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Hagen-Hohenlimburg

Hagen-Hohenlimburg (formerly known as Limburg an der Lenne, changed to Hohenlimburg in 1903; Westphalian: Limmerg), on the Lenne river, is a borough of the city of Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Hallenberg

Hallenberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Halver

Halver is a town in Germany.

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Heavy industry

Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); or complex or numerous processes.

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Hemer

Hemer is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Herscheid

Herscheid is a municipality in the southern Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Hesse

Hesse or Hessia (Hessen), officially the State of Hesse (Land Hessen), is a state in Germany.

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High Fens

The High Fens (Hohes Venn; Hautes Fagnes; Hoge Venen), which were declared a nature reserve in 1957, are an upland area, a plateau region in Liège Province, in the east of Belgium and adjoining parts of Germany, between the Ardennes and the Eifel highlands. Sauerland and high Fens are Rhenish Massif.

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Hochsauerlandkreis

Hochsauerlandkreis (meaning “High Sauerland District” in German) is a (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Hunsrück

The Hunsrück is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Sauerland and Hunsrück are Rhenish Massif.

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Iserlohn

Iserlohn (Westphalian: Iserlaun) is a city in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Kahler Asten

The Kahler Asten is an 841.9-metre-high mountain in the Rothaar range in the district of Hochsauerland, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Karst

Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

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Kassel

Kassel (in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, in central Germany.

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Kierspe

Kierspe is a town in the district Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Kirchhundem

Kirchhundem is a German community in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Langenberg (Rothaar)

The Langenberg rises on the state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse in Germany and, at, is the highest peak in the Rothaar mountain range, as well as the highest point in the North Rhine-Westphalia and also in the north of Germany outside the Harz Mountains.

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Lüdenscheid

Lüdenscheid is a city in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Lenne

The Lenne is a tributary of the river Ruhr in the Sauerland hills, western Germany.

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Lennestadt

Lennestadt (occasionally also die Lennestadt) lies in the Sauerland in southeast North Rhine-Westphalia and is a community in Olpe district.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of castles in North Rhine-Westphalia

This list encompasses castles described in German as Burg (castle), Festung (fort/fortress), Schloss (manor house, palace, country house or stately home) and Palais/Palast (palace).

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List of nature parks in Germany

Nature parks in Germany (Naturparks) have been established under section 22, paragraph 4 of that country's Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG).

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Marsberg

Marsberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Märkischer Kreis

The Märkischer Kreis is a district (Kreis) in central North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Möhne Reservoir

The Möhne Reservoir, or Moehne Reservoir, is an artificial lake in North Rhine-Westphalia, some 45 km east of Dortmund, Germany.

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Möhnesee

Möhnesee is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Medebach

Medebach is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Meggen

Meggen is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

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Meinerzhagen

Meinerzhagen (sometimes spelled Meinertzhagen) is a town in the Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Menden

Menden (official name: Menden (Sauerland); Westphalian: Mennen) is a city in the district Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Meschede

Meschede is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde

Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde is a municipality in the Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Neuenrade

Neuenrade is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the hills of the Sauerland in the Märkischer Kreis.

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North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.

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Old Saxon

Old Saxon (altsächsische Sprache), also known as Old Low German (altniederdeutsche Sprache), was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German (spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, the northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas and parts of Eastern Europe).

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Olpe (district)

Olpe is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Olpe, Germany

Olpe is a town situated in the foothills of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, roughly 60 km east of Cologne and 20 km northwest of Siegen.

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Olsberg, Germany

Olsberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Ore

Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.

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Peneplain

In geomorphology and geology, a peneplain is a low-relief plain formed by protracted erosion.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.

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Plettenberg

Plettenberg (Westphalian: Plettmert) is a town in the Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Province of Westphalia

The Province of Westphalia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 to 1946. Sauerland and province of Westphalia are Westphalia culture.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Quartzite

Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.

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Rüthen

Rüthen is a town in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Red-backed shrike

The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) is a carnivorous passerine bird and member of the shrike family, Laniidae.

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Reef

A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water.

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Rhenish Massif

The Rhenish Massif, Rhine Massif or Rhenish Uplands (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge,: 'Rhenish Slate Uplands') is a geologic massif in western Germany, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Rothaar Mountains

The Rothaar Mountains (Rothaargebirge,, also Rotlagergebirge), or Rothaar, is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 843.1 m in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, Germany. Sauerland and Rothaar Mountains are mountain ranges of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Ruhr

The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet, also Ruhrpott), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Sauerland and Ruhr are cultural landscapes of North Rhine-Westphalia and regions of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Ruhr (river)

The Ruhr is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia), a right tributary (east-side) of the Rhine.

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Ruhr Valley Railway

The Ruhr Valley Railway (Ruhrtalbahn) is a partly abandoned railway line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, running from Düsseldorf-Rath via Old Kupferdreh station, Bochum-Dahlhausen, Witten-Herbede, Hagen-Vorhalle and Schwerte to Warburg.

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Ruhr–Sieg railway

The Ruhr–Sieg railway is a 106 km long double-track, electrified main line from Hagen to Siegen via Iserlohn-Letmathe, Finnentrop and Kreuztal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sauerland Net

The Sauerland Net (Sauerland-Netz) is a group of railway services in the western Sauerland and the eastern Ruhr of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and consists of four Regionalbahn services, RB 43 (Dortmund–), RB 52 (Dortmund–Hagen–Lüdenscheid), RB 53 (Dortmund–Schwerte–Iserlohn) and RB 54 (Unna–Fröndenberg–Menden–Neuenrade), and the Regional-Express service RE 57 (Dortmund–Bestwig–Winterberg/Brilon Stadt).

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Sauerländer Heimatbund

The Sauerländer Heimatbund (English: Sauerland Home Federation) Heimat is a German word that has no simple English translation. Sauerland and Sauerländer Heimatbund are Westphalia culture.

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Schalksmühle

Schalksmühle is a municipality in district Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Schmallenberg

Schmallenberg (Westphalian: Smalmereg) is a town and a climatic health resort in the High Sauerland District, Germany.

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Siegerland

The Siegerland is a region of Germany covering the old district of Siegen (now part of the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia) and the upper part of the district of Altenkirchen, belonging to the Rhineland-Palatinate adjoining it to the west. Sauerland and Siegerland are cultural landscapes of North Rhine-Westphalia, regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhenish Massif.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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Skiliftkarussell Winterberg

Skiliftkarussell Winterberg is one of the major ski resorts in central Germany.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.

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Soest (district)

Soest is a Kreis (district) in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Sorpe Dam

The Sorpe Dam (Sorpetalsperre) is a dam on the Sorpe river, near the small town of Sundern in the district of Hochsauerland in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Sundern

Sundern is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Tectonic uplift

Tectonic uplift is the geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics.

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Teutoburg Forest

The Teutoburg Forest (Teutoburger Wald) is a range of low, forested hills in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Upland (mountain range)

The Upland (Low German for Oberland "highland") is a low mountain region forming the northeastern part of the High Sauerland and belongs the German state of Hesse, unlike the remainder of the High Sauerland which lies in Westphalia.

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Variscan orogeny

The Variscan or Hercynian orogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea.

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Waldeck-Frankenberg

Waldeck-Frankenberg is a Kreis (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany.

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Warstein

Warstein is a municipality with town status in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Warsteiner

Warsteiner beer is brewed in the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park outside of Warstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Wenden (Sauerland)

Wenden is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Werdohl

Werdohl is a town in the district Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Westerwald

The Westerwald (literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. Sauerland and Westerwald are mountain ranges of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhenish Massif.

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Whinchat

The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in central Africa.

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Willingen

Willingen (official name: Willingen (Upland)) is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, some 80 km west of Kassel.

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Winter sports

Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice.

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Winterberg

Winterberg (Westphalian: Winnenmerg) is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland.

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Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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See also

Cultural landscapes of North Rhine-Westphalia

Mountain ranges of North Rhine-Westphalia

Regions of North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhenish Massif

Westphalia culture

References

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

Also known as Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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