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Gelsenkirchen

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of Germany in the Prussian province of Westphalia, 27 m. W. of Dortmund on the railway Duisburg-Hamm. Pop. (1905) 147,037. It has coal mines, iron furnaces, steel and boiler works, and soap, glass and chemical factories. In 1903 various neighbouring industrial townships were incorporated with the town.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gelsenkirchen'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​g/gelsenkirchen.html. 1910.
 
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