Inde 1120755 224566825 2008-07-09T13:16:47Z Olessi 220894 Quick-adding category "Geography of North Rhine-Westphalia" (using [[WP:HOTCAT|HotCat]]) {{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]]. ---- '''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]] [[de:Inde (Fluss)]] [[nn:Inde]] [[ksh:Inde (Floßß)]]