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Heerlen

Town in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands, 21 km/13 mi northeast of Maastricht; population (2006 est) 91,500. Heerlen is an important industrial centre. The Thermen Museum incorporates the excavations of a Roman bath complex.



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After the discovery of natural gas in the north of the country in the late 1950s and with the advent of cheaper coal production facilities in other countries, the city of Heerlen was among several towns that saw its mines close and its communities shrink as thousands of jobs were lost.
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