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344:range, leaves the mountains at
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529:List of rivers of Lower Saxony
429:Brunswick–Bad Harzburg railway
196: • coordinates
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79:Physical characteristics
388:, a hamlet belonging to the
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600:Waterfalls of Germany
458:Radau in Bad Harzburg
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218:51.95806°N 10.57361°E
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390:Clausthal-Zellerfeld
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285:Basin features
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290:Progression
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535:References
468:Romkerhall
406:Goethe Way
370:Upper Harz
350:Vienenburg
242:Basin size
209:10°34′25″E
206:51°57′29″N
185:Vienenburg
123:10°32′27″E
120:51°47′56″N
476:Grane Dam
376:known as
312:Navigable
306:North Sea
254:Discharge
187:into the
523:See also
466:and the
464:Oker Dam
386:Torfhaus
103:Torfhaus
46:Location
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490:In the
486:History
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302:Weser
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169:Mouth
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494:the
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338:Oker
294:Oker
189:Oker
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