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  1. Industrial city (wire, cement, iron, brewing
  2. and distilling) in North Rhine-Westphalia, NW
  3. West Germany, formerly the capital of
  4. Westphalia; population (1988) 268,000. The
  5. Treaty of Westphalia was signed
  6. simultaneously here and at Osnabruck 1648,
  7. ending the Thirty Years' War. Its university
  8. was founded 1773. Badly damaged in World War
  9. II, its ancient buildings, including the
  10. 15th-century cathedral and town hall, have
  11. been restored or rebuilt.
  12.