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Definition: Glasgow from Philip's Encyclopedia

Largest city and port in Scotland on the River Clyde, Strathclyde Region. Founded in the 6th century, it developed commercially with the American tobacco trade in the 18th century and the cotton trade in the 19th century. Nearby coalfields and the Clyde estuary promoted the growth of heavy industry, chiefly iron, steel and shipbuilding. Glasgow is a cultural centre, with three universities, the Glasgow School of Art, and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. Industries: shipbuilding, heavy engineering, flour milling, brewing, textiles, tobacco, chemicals, textiles, printing. Pop. (2005) 832,000.

Glasgow

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
City and administrative headquarters of Glasgow City unitary authority, situated on the river Clyde in southwest Scotland, 67 km/42 mi west of Edinburgh; population (2001) 577,900. The city is the administrative, social, and service centre for the Glasgow conurbation, which extends from Gourock on the west to Carluke on the east; it is thus one of the largest continuously built-up areas in Britain. The largest city in Scotland, Glasgow used to be one of the world's great shipbuilding areas, but the industry is in decline. Despite this, the city is still the UK's fourth-largest manufacturing centre. The service sector has become increasingly important, and Glasgow was the third-most visited city in the UK in 2000. History There has been a settlement here since St Mungo arrived in the 6th century to convert the Strathclyde Britons. St Mungo formed a bishopric here in about 543, but it was not until 1178 that Glasgow was made a burgh of barony by William the Lion , and it became a royal…
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You must not look down on ... Glasgow which gave the world the internal combustion engine, political economy, antiseptic and cerebral surgery, the balloon, the mariner’s compass, the theory of Latent Heat, Tobias Smollett and James Bridie. [Letter to St John Ervine] [On leaving Glasgow, where he had…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
City and council area (pop., 2004 est.: city, 577,670; 2001: urban agglom., 1,168,270), western Scotland. Located on the River Clyde 20 mi (32 km) from its mouth on the Atlantic coast, Glasgow forms an independent council area that lies entirely within the historic county of Lanarkshire. The largest…
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From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
OCelt glas cau , ‘green hollow’, romantically translated as DEAR GREEN PLACE ; in modern Gaelic it is Glaschu. Scotland 's second city (after the capital, EDINBURGH ), but by far its largest in terms of population. Glasgow is situated on the western side of the Central Belt, on the River CLYDE , …
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From Collins Little Books: Scottish History: From Bannockburn to Holyrood
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Although it has never been the nation’s capital, Glasgow has been the largest city in Scotland since the 19th century. According to legend, Glasgow was founded on the banks of the River Clyde in the 6th century ad by the Christian missionary and patron saint of Glasgow, St Kentigern, who was also…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
an ancient burgh (1175–8), first developed as an ecclesiastical centre on a hill near the cathedral. Having a grammar school from the early 14th cent., in 1451 the burgh acquired its university by papal bull and became an archbishopric in 1492. An attractive residential market town with its annual…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
City and administrative headquarters of Glasgow City unitary authority, situated on the river Clyde in southwest Scotland, 67 km/42 mi west of Edinburgh; population (2001) 577,900. The city is the administrative, social, and service centre for the Glasgow conurbation, which extends from Gourock on…
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From Encyclopedia of American Literature Full text Article Volume 3
(b. 1873–d. 1945) American novelist Born in Richmond, Virginia, Ellen Glasgow was largely self-educated and read widely, with the thinking of Charles Darwin being especially important to her development. Finding her father's strict Puritanism and conservative Southern society stifling, she began to…
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From The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
this name was given posthumously to women artists of the period c. 1880–c. 1920 associated with the Glasgow School of Art (GSA). The label, modelled on that of the ‘Glasgow Boys’ (see McEwan 1994, pp. 234–5), was coined in part ironically, to draw attention to a remarkable generation of women…
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Full text Article Port Glasgow

From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
From GLASGOW , with ModE port ( see PORT ). A port on the south shore of the Firth of Clyde ( see under CLYDE ), in Inverclyde (formerly in Renfrewshire and then in Strathclyde region). It is situated 7 km (4 miles) east of Greenock, and was built in the 17th century on the site of the fishing…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(glăs'gō, –kō, glăz'gō), city (1991 pop. 688,500) and council area, S central Scotland, on the river Clyde. Glasgow is Scotland's leading seaport and largest city and is the center of the great Clydeside industrial belt. Once known for its large shipyards, metalworks, and engineering works, …
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