Opladen, a suburb of Leverkusen, in the Prussian Rhine Province, 10 m. N.E. from Cologne by the railway to Elberfeld. Pop. (1905) 6338. It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church. It has dyeing works, and manufactures of dynamite, indigo products and railway plant. Before passing to Prussia, Opladen belonged to the duchy of Berg. Map of Germany showing Leverkusen Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Cologne Cathedral with Hohenzollern Bridge Cologne (German: (help· info) ; Kölsch: Kölle) is Germanys fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the largest... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The term evangelical has several distinct meanings: In its original sense, it means belonging or related to the Gospel (Greek: euangelion - good news) of the New Testament. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (Old Prussian: Prūsa, German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad... Berg is the name of: a Swedish municipality, see Berg, Sweden a Norwegian municipality, see Swiss municipality, see Berg, Thurgau a Belgian town, see Berg, Belgium a medieval state in the Holy Roman Empire, see Berg (earldom) a district in Stuttgart, see Berg, Germany a French commune, see Berg, Bas_Rhin...

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