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Topic: Borken, North Rhine Westphalia


  
  North Rhine-Westphalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia was established by the British military administration in 1947.
In 1947 the former state of Lippe was merged with North Rhine-Westphalia, hence leading to the present borders of the state.
The flag of North Rhine-Westphalia is green-white-red with the combined coats of arms of the Prussian Rhine province (white line before green background), Westphalia (the white horse) and Lippe (the red rose).
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 Encyclopedia: North Rhine-Westphalia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Euskirchen is a Kreis (district) in the south-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Olpe is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/North-Rhine_Westphalia   (4553 words)

  
 Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia
Borken is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
It is situated 10 km east of the Dutch border.
The village of Borken was founded around 800.
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 westphalia
Westphalia (in German, Westfalen) is a (historic) region in Germany, centred on the cities of Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and now included in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia (and the (south-)west of Lower Saxony).
Westphalia is roughly the region between the rivers Rhine and Weser, located north of the Ruhr river.
The present state of North Rhine-Westphalia is composed of the former Prussian province of Westphalia, the northern half of the former Prussian Rhine province, and the former state of Lippe.
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 North Rhine-Westphalia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The state is centred on the sprawling Rhine-Ruhr urbanised region, in turn centred on the great Ruhr industrial complex, consisting of the cities of Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg, Bochum and Gelsenkirchen.
The Ruhr is a tributary of the Rhine, which enters the state in the south and leaves northwest towards the Netherlands.
Major cities on the Rhine are Cologne, Düsseldorf and Bonn.
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 Station Information - Wesel (district)
Wesel is a Kreis (district) in the norther-western part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Neighboring districts are Borken, Recklinghausen, district-free cities Bottrop, Oberhausen, Duisburg and Krefeld, districts Viersen, Cleves.
The district was created in 1975 by merging the previous districts Dinslaken, Moers and Rees, which were created back in 1816 when the area became part of Prussia.
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 North Rhine Westphalia Article, NorthRhineWestphalia Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the southwest North Rhine-Westphalia shares in asmall part of the Eifel, located on the borders with Belgium and Rhineland-Palatinate.The southeast is occupied by the sparsely populated regions of Sauerland and Siegerland.
Originally it consisted of Westphalia and the northern partsof the Rhine Province, both formerly belonging to Prussia.
The flag of North Rhine-Westphalia is green-white-red with the combined coats of arms of the Prussian Rhine province (whiteline before green background), Westphalia (the white horse) and Lippe (the red rose).
www.anoca.org /state/spd/north_rhine_westphalia.html   (430 words)

  
 Borken (district) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Borken is a Kreis (district) in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
After the Napoleonic Wars the region became a part of the Prussian province of Westphalia in 1815.
It's depicted three times to show the three main parts the district was created from - the old district Borken, the district Ahaus and the city Bocholt.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Borken_%28district%29   (274 words)

  
 Recklinghausen (district) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Recklinghausen is a Kreis (district) in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Neighboring districts are Borken, Coesfeld, Unna, district-free cities Dortmund, Bochum, Herne, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Bottrop, and the district Wesel.
The district Recklinghausen is located at the north end of the Ruhr area where it changes from the urban parts into the rural Münsterland.
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 North Rhine-Westphalia Online Research :: Information about North Rhine-Westphalia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
North Rhine-Westphalia (German language : Nordrhein-Westfalen, short: NRW) is the largest in population (though only fourth in area) among Germany 's 16 States of Germany.
Originally it consisted of Westphalia and the northern parts of the Rhineland, both formerly belonging to Prussia.
The North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2005 on May 22, 2005 granted the CDU a landslide victory.
www.carolinamaps.net /search/North_Rhine_Westphalia.html   (576 words)

  
 Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Borken is a town in (Click link for more info and facts about North Rhine-Westphalia) North Rhine-Westphalia, (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany.
It is situated 10 km east of the (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch border.
The village of Borken was founded around (Click link for more info and facts about 800) 800.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Bo/Borken,_North_Rhine-Westphalia1.htm   (162 words)

  
 Bonn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bonn is a city in Germany (Population (2004 est): 313,605 ; the 19th largest city in Germany), in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the north of the Siebengebirge.
About 10 BC the Romans constructed a bridge across the Rhine close to a place called "Bonna".
After the Roman defeat in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest this small camp was enlarged to become a fort for 7000 legionnaires.
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 Borken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borken is the name of three places in Germany:
"borken" can also be internet slang for "broken," referring to a game or program that is either malfunctioning or exploited by soem programming flaw
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borken   (119 words)

  
 Lippe - RSCI, The Science Classification Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lippe is a Kreis (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
These continued to exist when in 1947 Lippe lost its status as a state of Germany and by order of the British military government was incorporated into the new federal state North Rhine-Westphalia; in 1949 it was approved by the parliament.
In 1969/70 the 168 cities and municipalities were merged to 16; and as the second part of the administrative reform in 1973 the two districts Lemgo and Detmold were merged to the district Lippe.
www.scienceindex.org /Lippe.html   (424 words)

  
 North Rhine-Westphalia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the southwest, North Rhine-Westphalia shares in a small part of the (Click link for more info and facts about Eifel) Eifel, located on the borders with Belgium and Rhineland-Palatinate.
Originally it consisted of (Click link for more info and facts about Westphalia) Westphalia and the northern parts of the (Click link for more info and facts about Rhine Province) Rhine Province, both formerly belonging to (A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland) Prussia.
In 1947 the former state of (Click link for more info and facts about Lippe) Lippe was merged with North Rhine-Westphalia, hence leading to the present borders of the state.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/north_rhine-westphalia1.htm   (1343 words)

  
 Hagen Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hagen is the 37th largest city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia.
It is located on the eastern edge of the Ruhr area - 15 km south of Dortmund.
Owing to the extensive use of water power along the rivers Ruhr, Lenne, Volme and Ennepe, metal processing played an important role in the region of Hagen in and even before the 15th century.
www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Hagen   (452 words)

  
 Country: NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Formula 1 world champion had said yes to his Corinna in 1995 in the small chapel next to the hotel and afterwards celebrated in the rotunda with a fantastic view of the Rhine.
Up to 100 years ago, the “Diebesturm” (thief’s tower) in Borken in the Münsterland, was the official town prison, where those senrtenced to life imprisonment had to serve their sentences.
A maximum of 30 "prisoners" can take part in the ceremony (Stadt Borken, Klaus Vogelgesang telephone: 0049 2861/939161, www.borken.de).
www.germany-tourism.de /e/dest_states_nrw_e_19108.html   (567 words)

  
 Borken -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Borken is the name of three places in (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany:
A district in North Rhine-Westphalia around Borken; see (Click link for more info and facts about Borken (district)) Borken (district)
A city in (Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962)) Hesse; see Borken, Hesse
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Bo/Borken.htm   (103 words)

  
 STUDYING FOR A DEGREE IN BOCHOLT
It was awarded town privileges as early as 1222 and today it is the largest town in the Borken District with around 74,000 inhabitants.
The whole district is dominated by the Münsterland park landscape with its woods, pastures, meadows and fields.
Actually, the opposite is the case: the excellent transport connections give speedy access to the major Dutch towns as well as the economic centres on the Rhine and Ruhr.
www.fh-ge.de /english_edition/degree_bocholt.html   (356 words)

  
 Articles - Wesermarsch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the north the Weser mouth and the Jadebusen (a bay of the North Sea) enclose the Butjadingen peninsula.
Here the largest town of the district is located: Nordenham, lying opposite to Bremerhaven at the Weser mouth.
Since February 1991 the district has a partnership with the German districts Borken (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Ludwigslust (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).
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 bentheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the dutch provinces Overijssel and Drenthe, the district of Emsland, and the districts Steinfurt and Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The small district of Bentheim is protruding into Dutch territory.
The Vechte River (Dutch Vecht) crosses the district from south to north and leaves to the Netherlands.
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 Nordrhein-Westfalen GenWeb Site
NRW is boardered on the West by the two countries The Netherlands and Belgium, on the North and East by the state, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), on the South and East by the state Hessen (Hesse) and on the South by the State, Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate).
NRW has 17.8 million inhabitants, 52% female and 48% male and is the most densly populated state of the Federal Republic.
Two thirds of NRW is lowland: The Lower Rhine and Westphalian Bay.
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 German News - English Edition We, 21.03.2001
The Secretary for the Ministry, Alexander Mueller, announced this afternoon that 1200 farms in North Rhine-Westphalia alone had imported pigs from the Dutch province of Gelderland in the last few weeks.
There has been a ban on the export of hooved animals from the Netherlands since March 13, but the shipments to North Rhine-Westphalia pre-dated that deadline.
Shipping on the central upper Rhine had to be suspended again.
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 North_Rhine-Westphalia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen) is the largest in population (though only fourth in area) among Germany's 16 federal states.
Their top candidate Jürgen Rüttgers will now build a new coalition government consisting of CDU and FDP that will replace the incumbent government headed by Peer Steinbrück.
Rüttgers will soon be elected new Minister President of the state.
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 BORKEN
"BORKEN" is a common misspelling or typo for: broken.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications.
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 Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The biographical sketches on these pages describe what we know about the first nine generations of our ancestors, starting with our oldest known ancestor in Generation 1.
We believe that earliest ancestor was Gerhard Nieland, born about 1615 in Gemen, which now lies within the limits the city of Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
For generation number 9 up please refer to the Obituaries section of the History page where you will find obituaries and funeral cards we have collected for the later generations.
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 the webeXodus news center presents the list of Germany Newspapers and News Rescources Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Full-text, local news from the Rhine River valley, as well as national and world news, all updated daily.
Full-text, local news from all over the Rhine valley, as well as selected national and world news, all updated daily.
Full-text, local news from Germany's industrial heartland in the Rhine River valley, as well as national and world news, all updated daily.
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