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Bristol (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 27 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.4500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 002 35 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -2.5833 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on River Avon; was a wool center in the 12th century; John and Sebastian Cabot sailed from here to New World 1497; center for sugar, tobacco, cotton and slave trade 17th-18th centuries; railway and dock expanded during Industrial Revolution; heavily bombed in World War II. |
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| Bristol (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| Bristou (C,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| בריסטול (C,U,Hebrew )
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Bristol (unitary authority) (P) |
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Bristol (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled in late-Saxon times, probably ca. 6th cen. |
| city (C) |
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chartered in 1155 |
| county seat (C) |
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| educational center (C) |
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| episcopal see (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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| port (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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| county (H) |
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from 1373-1974 |
| regional capital (C) |
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