Inde
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{{short description|River in Belgium and Germany}}
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{{Infobox river
| name = Inde
| native_name ={{native name|fr|L'Inde}}
| image = Inde in Kornelimuenster 31-01-2005.jpg
| image_size =
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Inde in Aachen-Kornelimünster
| map = Indeverlauf.png
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| map_alt =
| map_caption = Map of the Rur Basin, including the Inde
| source1_location = Hautes Fagnes
| mouth_location = Rur
| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|50|53|58|N|6|21|46|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type1 = Countries
| subdivision_name1 = Germany and Belgium
| length = {{convert|54.1|km|abbr=on}} {{GeoQuelle|DE-NW|GSK3C}}
| source1_elevation = ±{{convert|400|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| discharge1_avg =
| basin_size = {{convert|374|km2|abbr=on}} {{GeoQuelle|DE-NW|GSK3C}}
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The Inde ({{langx|fr|L'Inde}}) is a small river in Belgium and in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
The Inde is a left (western) tributary of the Rur/Roer, in eastern Belgium and in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany.
Its source is near Raeren, in Eastern Belgium. The Inde runs through Aachen-Kornelimünster, Eschweiler, and Inden. Its mouth is on the Rur near Jülich. Because of lignite opencast mining, a section of the course was diverted near Inden-Lamersdorf in 2003.
Tributaries of the Inde include the streams: Omerbach, Otterbach, Saubach, Vichtbach, and Wehebach.
File:Brücke über den Iterbach.jpg railway over the Inde]]
History
Its name is of Celtic origin: Inda. The Inde has a counterpart, a "small Inde", in France: the Andelle, which is a {{convert|55|km|mi|adj=on}} long river in the French département Seine-Maritime and whose original name was Indella.
The suffix -ella is an example for Celtic river names comparing for instance Mosella (= Moselle, i.e. "small Mosa (= Maas)"). For the name "Inde", the Indoeuropean stem *wed (= water) is supposed, like in words like Italian "onda" and French "onde" (= wave). {{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}
The Inde acquired historical importance when Emperor Louis the Pious founded the Kornelimünster Abbey monastery along one of its old courses in 815.
See also
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