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Ruhr Valley
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Noun1.Ruhr Valley - a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany
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Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
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