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hierorts (adv)  here, in this place (literary)

Zur Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges wütete die Pest auch hierorts.
At the time of the Thirty Years War the plague raged here, too.

Related: hiesig (adj) local, from here; domestic, heutig (adj) today's > die heutige Zeitung today's newspaper

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