North Rhine-Westphalia features 30 of the 81 German municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants, including Cologne (over 1 million), the state capital Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen (all about 600,000 inhabitants) and other cities predominantly located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest urban area in Germany and the fourth ...

Herne (German pronunciation: ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area, directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen History. This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the …

The unique principles of the 1648 Treaty which finally ended 140 years of religious warfare in Europe, enshrined the benefit or “Advantage of the other”—the common good—in the statecraft of sovereign nations. Two men— France’s Cardinal Jules Mazarin and Minister Jean- Baptiste Colbert (right)—were most responsible for this opening of the principles of nation-building.

Rhine River, German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Celtic Renos, Latin Rhenus, river and waterway of western Europe, culturally and historically one of the great rivers of the continent and among the most important arteries of industrial transport in the world. It flows from two small headways in the Alps of east-central Switzerland north and west to the North Sea, into which it …

Aug 28, 2018 · The Germany-Belgium border is about 83 miles long, and it separates the province of Liege (Belgium) and Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It begins at the Belgium, Germany and Holland tripoint at Vaalserberg and stretches to the Belgium-Luxembourg-Germany tripoint.