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Bottrop

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Bottrop (bôt`rôp), city (1994 pop. 119,680), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, in the Ruhr Ruhr , region, c.1,300 sq mi (3,370 sq km), W Germany; a principal manufacturing center of Germany and formerly known as one of the world's greatest industrial complexes. In the 1980s the coal and steel industries declined, leading to serious unemployment.
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 district. It was a small town until 1863, when it began to develop as a coal-mining center. In 1975 the annexation of Kirchhellen and Gladbeck practically doubled the population of Bottrop. Today the city is an industrial center. In addition to its coal output, manufactures include chemicals, machinery, and steel. There are large carbonization plants there. Bottrop was known around the 11th cent. as Borgthorpe.
Bottrop
an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ruhr. Pop.: 120 324 (2003 est.)

Bottrop 

a city in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Land of North Rhine–Westphalia. Population, 109,500 (1968). Bottrop is a port on the Emscher River and the Rhine-Herne Canal. It is one of the Ruhr valley’s industrial centers. Its major industries are coal mining, coal-tar chemistry, and machine construction.



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de Major Products: Water-based liquid inks and screen inks Fujifilm Sericol Deutschland GmbH Weusterstrasse 9 46240 Bottrop Tel: +49 (0)2041 4757 0 Fax: +49 (0)2041 4757 101 Web: www.
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Time change + 1 hour) 8pmStop at service station at Jabbeke, near Bruges, Belgium SUNDAY 12amStop at service station at Bottrop, near Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund, Germany 3.
 
 
 
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