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{{See Wiktionary||Inde|French proper noun}}
{{Infobox River | river_name = Inde
| image_name = Inde in Kornelimuenster 31-01-2005.jpg
| caption = The Inde in Kornelimünster.
| origin = [[Hautes Fagnes]]
| mouth = [[Rur]]
| basin_countries = [[Germany]], [[Belgium]]
| length =
| elevation = ±400 m
| discharge =
| watershed =
}}
[[Image:Indeverlauf.png|thumb|left|River Inde as a tributary of the Rur]]
The '''Inde''' is a small [[river]] in [[Belgium]] and [[Germany]], left tributary of the [[Rur]]. It has its source near [[Raeren]] in Eastern Belgium, runs through [[Aachen|Aachen-Kornelimünster]], [[Eschweiler]] and [[Inden]], and flows into the river [[Rur]] near [[Jülich]]. Because of [[lignite]] opencast mining, it has been diverted in [[2003]] near to Inden-Lamersdorf.
The [[brook]]s Omerbach, Otterbach, Saubach, Vichtbach and Wehebach flow into the Inde.
Its name is of Celtic origin: Inda. The Inde has a counterpart, a "small Inde", in [[France]]: the Andelle, which is a 55 km 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).
The river Inde acquired historical importance, when Emperor [[Louis the Pious]] founded the monastery of Kornelimünster at one of its old passages in [[815]].
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'''Inde''' is also the name that the [[Apache]] tribe of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] used to describe themselves.
[[Category:Rivers of Germany]]
[[Category:Rivers of Belgium]]
[[Category:Geography of North Rhine-Westphalia]]
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