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Borken (Hessen), Schwalm-Eder, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germanyi
Regional Level Types
Borken (Hessen)Town
Schwalm-EderDistrict
Kassel RegionRegion
HesseCity-State
GermanyCountry

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Type:
Largest Settlements:
PlacePopulation
Borken13,531 (2015)
Mindat Locality ID:
427806
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:427806:4
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
French:
Borken , Arrondissement de Schwalm-Eder, Hesse, Allemagne
German:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hessen, Deutschland
Italian:
Borken , Circondario dello Schwalm-Eder, Assia, Germania
Russian:
Боркен, Швальм-Эдер, Гессен, Германия
Simplified Chinese:
博爾肯, 施瓦尔姆-埃德尔县, 黑森, 德国
Spanish:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Alemania
Afrikaans:
Borken , Hesse, Duitsland
Arabic:
بركن, هسن, ألمانيا
Aragonese:
Borken , Hesse, Alemanya
Asturian:
Borken , Hessen, Alemaña
Basque:
Borken, Hessen, Alemania
Bavarian:
Borken , Hessn, Deitschland
Breton:
Borken , Hessen, Alamagn
Catalan:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder, Hessen, Alemanya
Cebuano:
Borken, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Alemanya
Chechen:
Боркен , Гессен, Германи
Corsican:
Borken , Assia, Germania
Croatian:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Njemačka
Czech:
Borken , Zemský okres Schwalm-Eder, Hesensko, Německo
Danish:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Tyskland
Dutch:
Borken, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Duitsland
Dutch Low Saxon:
Borken , Hessen, Duutslaand
Egyptian Arabic:
بركن, المانيا
Esperanto:
Borken, Distrikto Schwalm-Eder, Hesio, Germanio
Estonian:
Borken , Hessen, Saksamaa
Farsi/Persian:
برکن, شوالم-ادر, هسن, آلمان
Finnish:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Saksa
Franco-Provençal:
Borken , Hesse, Alemagne
Friulian:
Borken , Assie, Gjermanie
Galician:
Borken , Hessen, Alemaña
Hungarian:
Borken , Hessen, Németország
Icelandic:
Borken , Hessen, Þýskaland
Ido:
Borken , Hesia, Germania
Indonesian:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Jerman
Interlingua:
Borken , Hessen, Germania
Interlingue:
Borken , Hesse, Germania
Irish Gaelic:
Borken , Hessen, An Ghearmáin
Japanese:
ボルケン, シュヴァルム=エーダー郡, ヘッセン州, ドイツ
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Боркен, Швальм-Эдер, Гессен, Германия
Kongo:
Borken , Hessen, Alemanyi
Kurdish (Latin Script):
Borken, Hessen, Almanya
Kyrgyz:
Боркен, Гессен, Германия
Ladin:
Borken
Ligurian:
Borken , Assia, Germania
Limburgian:
Borken , Hesse, Duitsland
Low Saxon/Low German:
Borken , Hessen, Düütschland
Luxembourgish:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Krees, Hessen, Däitschland
Malagasy:
Borken , Alemaina
Malay:
Borken, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Jerman
Minangkabau:
Borken , Jerman
Narom:
Borken , Hesse, Allemangne
Neapolitan:
Borken , Assia, Germania
Norwegian:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Tyskland
Norwegian (Nynorsk):
Borken , Hessen, Tyskland
Occitan:
Borken , Èssa, Alemanha
Picard:
Borken , Alemanne
Piedmontese:
Borken , Assia, Almagna
Polish:
Borken, Powiat Schwalm-Eder, Hesja, Niemcy
Portuguese:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder, Hesse, Alemanha
Romanian:
Borken, Districtul Schwalm-Eder, Hessa, Germania
Romansh:
Borken , Hessen, Germania
Sardinian:
Borken , Germania
Scots:
Borken , Hesse, Germany
Scottish Gaelic:
Borken , Hessen, A' Ghearmailt
Serbian:
Боркен, Хесен, Њемачка
Serbo-Croatian:
Borken, Hessen, Njemačka
Sicilian:
Borken , Hessen, Girmania
Slovak:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder, Hesensko, Nemecko
Slovenian:
Borken , Hessen, Nemčija
South Azerbaijani:
برکن, هسن, آلمان
Swahili:
Borken , Hesse, Ujerumani
Swedish:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Tyskland
Tatar:
Боркен , Hessen, Алмания
Turkish:
Borken, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Almanya
Ukrainian:
Боркен, Швальм-Едер, Гессен, Німеччина
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Borken, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Germaniya
Venetian:
Borken , Assia, Germania
Vietnamese:
Borken , Schwalm-Eder, Hessen, Đức
Volapük:
Borken, Hesän, Deutän
Walloon:
Borken , Almagne
Waray:
Borken, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Alemanya
Welsh:
Borken , Hessen, Yr Almaen
West Flemish:
Borken , Hessen, Duutsland
Wolof:
Borken , Almaañ
Zulu:
Borken , IJalimani


Centre of lignite mining in the 20th century.

Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded from this region.


List of minerals for each chemical element

Fossils

There are 1 fossil locality from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

These data are provided on an experimental basis and are taken from external databases. Mindat.org has no control currently over the accuracy of these data.

Occurrences6
Youngest Fossil Listed28.4 Ma (Oligocene)
Oldest Fossil Listed33.9 Ma (Oligocene)
Fossils from RegionClick here to show the list.
Accepted NameHierarchy Age
Ptychogaster
genus
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Geoemydidae : Ptychogaster33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene
Palaeoemys hessiaca
species
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Testudinidae : Palaeoemys : Palaeoemys hessiaca33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene
Borkenia oschkinisi
species
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Borkenia : Borkenia oschkinisi33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene
Trionyx messelianus
species
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Trionychidae : Trionyx : Trionyx messelianus33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene
Fossil LocalitiesClick to show 1 fossil locality

Other Databases

Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borken,_Hesse
Wikidata ID:Q565488
GeoNames ID:2946230

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