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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elberfeld Elberfeld] - is a suburb of Wuppertal in Germany. The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "elverfelde" was in a document of 1161. Etymologically, "elver" is derived from the old Lower German word for '''"river."''' Therefore the original meaning of "elverfelde" can be understood as '''"field on the river."'''
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