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Norwich (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 52 38 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 52.6333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 18 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 1.3000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located above River Wensum; sacked by Danes in 1004; center of wool trade in Middle Ages; suffered from Black Death in 1348; was one of country's largest cities in 17th-19th cen.; site of large shoe industry; noted for 11th-cen. Norwich Cathedral, founded in 1096 by the first bishop of Norwich. There is also a Norman castle here. |
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| Norwich (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| Norwich (British English-P,U,N)
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| נוריץ' (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Noruic (H,V)
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| Norwic (H,V)
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Norwich (inhabited place) (P) |
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Norwich (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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occupied since Saxon times |
| city (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| episcopal see (C) |
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since 1096 |
| commercial center (C) |
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| market center (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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