Place · city

Unna

Unna is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the eastern edge of the Ruhr, east of Dortmund. A town of the County of the Mark and a member of the Hanseatic League, it prospered from the salt works of nearby Königsborn and from trade on the Hellweg road. It later became a coal-mining and commuter town.

Unna
Image: User Smial on de.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 1 state history

County of Mark

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Unna. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/unna
MLA
“Unna.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/unna. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Unna.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/unna.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Unna’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/unna (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻