Glasgow
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- Names
Glasgow
Glas Chu
UKV2
Glas Cau
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Country's largest city & site of early Industrial Revolution in 18th cen.; religious center founded by St. Kentigern in 550; American Revolution disrupted trade until shipbuilding & textile industries began; notorious slums disappeared during 1980s.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Blue Guide: Scotland (1980); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
David Young Cameron (Scottish, 1865-1945)
- Active
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