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ID: 7010955
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Record Type: administrative |
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Birmingham (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 52 28 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 52.4667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 55 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.9167 decimal degrees |
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Note: Nation's second largest city; market town 13th cen.; devastated by plague 1665; as home of many steam engine pioneers, it became nucleus of Industrial Revolution in Britain; severely damaged in WW II; site of experimental town-planning in early 20th cen. |
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| Birmingham (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Bermingeham (H,V)
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............ | used in 12th cen., probably meaning "the ham (home) of Beornmund's people" |
| Bremingeham (H,V)
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| Bremishcham (H,V)
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| Brimingeham (H,V)
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| Burmingeham (H,V)
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Birmingham (unitary authority) (P) |
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Birmingham (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was important medieval center |
| city (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| commercial center (C) |
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| cultural center (C) |
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| administrative center (C) |
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administrative headquarters of West Midlands metropolitan county |
| regional capital (C) |
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