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Oxford (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 45 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.7500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 15 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.2500 decimal degrees |
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Note: City allegedly founded as a nunnery by Frideswide (died 735). Famous for the 12th-century Oxford University, the country's oldest; the first college, University College, dates from 1249. Oxford was first mentioned as a town in a Saxon chronicle dated 912. Headquarters of the Royalists during the 17th-century English Civil War. A center for auto production since 1918; noted for important sytems of canals and railways. |
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| Oxford (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| אוקספורד (C,U,Hebrew )
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| juxta murum (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| juxta Oxeneford (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Oxenaford (H,V)
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| Oxeneford (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Oxineford (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Oxnaford (H,V)
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............ | used in the 10th century, meaning "ford for oxen" |
| Oxonia (H,V)
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Oxford (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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first documented in the 10th century |
| city (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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| university center (C) |
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| transportation center (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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| episcopal see (C) |
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since the 16th century |
| regional capital (C) |
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