Dortmund
Dortmund
Dortmund is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city of the Ruhr as well as the largest city of Westphalia. It lies on the Emscher and Ruhr rivers in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, and is considered the administrative, commercial, and cultural centre of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area, after Hamburg. Founded around 882, Dortmund became an Imperial Free City. Throughout the 13th to 14th centuries, it was the "chief city" of the Rhine, Westphalia, and the Netherlands Circle of the Hanseatic League. During the Thirty Years' War, the city was destroyed and decreased in significance until the onset of industrialisation.
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- Entity: German Place
- Wikidata description: City In North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Wikidata label: Dortmund
- Wikidata aliases: Dortmund
- Related Topics: Dortmund Category, Kievan Rus' - Kievan Rus', Also Known As Kyivan Rus', Was The First East Slavic State And, Later, An Amalgam Of Principalities, In Eastern Europe From The Late 9Th To The Mid-13Th Century., 9Th-Century Establishments In Germany, Cities In North Rhine-Westphalia, Members Of The Hanseatic League