Mülheim, a manufacturing town of Rhenish Prussia, on the river Ruhr, 16 miles N. of Düsseldorf. It has great ironworks and an extensive trade in coal. Pop. (1875) 15,445; (1890) 27,702.—MÜLHEIM-AM RHEIN, 3 miles above Cologne, carries on extensive manufactures of silk, velvet, thread, leather, &c. Pop. (1875) 17,350; (1885) 24,975.
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