Offer Gold Mine - Offer Gold Mine

Japanese: オファー金鉱 - おふぁーきんこう

…A city in Moscow Oblast, western European Russia, Russian Federation. Population 135,000 (1993). Located about 90 km east of Moscow on the Klyazma River, it is one of the oldest centers of the cotton industry. At the end of the 18th century, the Morozov family, one of Russia's largest cotton industrialists, opened a factory there. In the mid-19th century, cotton factories in the villages of Zuyevo, Nikolskoye, Orekhovo, and Dubrovka were organically combined, and the city adopted its current name in 1917. It was a place where labor movements were active, such as the Morozov factory strike in 1885. …

From Orange

...A city located 265 km (by road) west-northwest of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Population 30,000 (1991). It is the center of fruit orchards, mixed farming, and meat sheep, and is especially known for cherries. Light industries, including electrical equipment, are well developed, and there is also a Japanese woolen textile factory. It developed due to the gold rush (1851) at the nearby gold mine (Ofer). It was incorporated as a city in 1946. The city's name comes from the name of a member of the British royal family (later the Dutch royal family). [Tatsuya Taniuchi]...

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Japanese:

…ロシア連邦，ヨーロッパ･ロシアの西部，モスクワ州の都市。人口13万5000(1993)。モスクワの東方約90km，クリャジマ川にのぞむ綿工業最古の中心地の一つ。18世紀末にロシア最大級の綿工業資本モロゾフ家が工場を開設した。19世紀中ごろ，ズエボ，ニコリスコエ，オレホボ，ドゥブロフカの各村の綿工場が有機的に結合し，1917年には現名を採用した。1885年のモロゾフ工場ストライキ等労働運動が盛んな土地であった。…

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…オーストラリア，ニュー･サウス･ウェールズ州，シドニーの西北西265km(道路距離)にある都市。人口3万(1991)。果樹，混合農業，肉用羊地帯の中心地で，とくにサクランボで知られる。電気機器工業をはじめ軽工業が発達し，日系企業の毛織物工場もある。近くの金鉱(オファー)のゴールド･ラッシュ(1851)をきっかけに発展。1946年市制。市名はイギリス皇族(後のオランダ王家)名に由来する。【谷内達】…

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