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confluence
1. A flowing together of two or more streams, or a point at which streams combine to be one; such as, the Mississippi River's confluence with the Missouri River.
2. A stream formed by others which are combining: "Koblenz, is a city of west-central Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers southeast of Bonn.

The city was founded in about 9 B.C. as Castrum ad Confluentes by Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (38 B.C.–9 B.C.). Confluentes (now Koblenz) was prominent in Carolingian times as a residence of the Frankish kings and as a meeting place for churchmen.

3. A gathering, flowing, or meeting together at one juncture or point: "It was a rare confluence of events."
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