Dortmund was founded around 1882.
 During the Middle Ages, Dortmund was the only free imperial city in Westphalia, having already been regarded as an important centre of trade
Dortmund (German: [dtmnt] (listen); Westphalian Low German: Drpm [dypm]; Latin: Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Dsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021

