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Winkel, Haut-Rhin
Winkel (; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
The river Ill takes its source in the village. Its inhabitants are called Winkelois and Winkeloises. , France
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Oestrich-Winkel
Oestrich-Winkel () is a town with roughly 12,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Oestrich-Winkel, which culturally belongs to the Rheingau region, lies o ...
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Winkel, Rhineland-Palatinate
Winkel is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Daun, whose seat is ...
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Winkel, Saxony-Anhalt
Winkel is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 September 2010, it is part of the town Allstedt,Winkel, North Holland
Winkel is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Hollands Kroon, and lies about 11 km north of Heerhugowaard.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1289 as Winckele, and means "enclosed ...
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Winkel, Switzerland
Winkel is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Geography
Winkel has an area of . Of this area, 45.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 27.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 21.1% is ...
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Winkel, Illinois, United States
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Winkel (surname) Winkel is a Dutch language, Dutch and Low German toponymic surname. While ''winkel'' means "shop" in modern Dutch, its original meaning was "corner" or "enclosed piece of land", and the surname is thought to be toponymic only. Among multiple places ...
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Winkel tripel projection
The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world map, world, is one of Winkel projection, three projections proposed by German cartographer Oswald Winkel (7 January 1874 – 18 July 1953) in 1921. The p ...
, a map projection
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Winkle (disambiguation)
Winkle may refer to:
Snails
* Common periwinkle, an edible marine intertidal species found in Europe and North America
* Any species within the family Littorinidae, the winkles, small intertidal sea snails
* Some edible species of nerites which ...
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