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Gel⋅sen⋅kir⋅chen

  [gel-zuhn-kir-khuhn]
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a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley. 287,600.
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Gel·sen·kir·chen   (gěl'zən-kîr'kən, -KHən)   
A city of west-central Germany in the Ruhr Valley northeast of Essen. It is a major industrial and coal-mining center. Population: 267,000.
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Gelsenkirchen

city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies just north of Essen. Gelsenkirchen was a village of fewer than 1,000 inhabitants in 1850, but the opening in 1853 of its first coal mine and its favourable position on the Rhine-Herne Canal stimulated its rapid development as a Ruhr inland port and industrial centre. It was chartered in 1875 and absorbed the neighbouring towns of Buer and Horst in 1928.

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