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A City that has been established about 2000 years ago, and is considered by many of its citizens to be England's second city. Located on the west side of the Pennine Hills, which form the backbone of England, and the place where the modern world as we know it today. Emperor Julius Agricola in 79 AD built a fort just north of Manchester, It was known as Mamucium (not Mancunian), when the Romans occupied much of United Kingdom meaning the fort near the breast-shaped hill. Romans rebuilt the fort again in and around 160 AD. Civilian settlement had grown on the out skirts of the fort where around 2,000 civilians lived and worked. Around 411 AD the Roman fort was abandoned, at the same time the Romans ended their occupation of Britain. In the sixth century, Anglo-Saxons of Germany decicded to establish colonies thoughout the eastern shores of England, and by the late sixth century they had begun to move their settlement into an area which is known today as Salford. It was not until the 18th century that a inconspicuous little town next sprang into the forefront of world attention by being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
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During the revolution Manchester was well known as Cottonopolis, and was one of the leading international cotton spinning towns during the Industrial Revolution. Surrounding towns and villages saw a rapid growth of factories manufacturing merchandise for the textile industry, and became the prime region for this industry until its decline in the 1950s, when cheaper foreign imports ended it's cotton dominance status. Manchester still produces more than half of the United Kingdom's manufactured consumables and goods, and is United Kingdom's third largest metropolitan conurbations, right after Birmingham in population. A city that started of as part of the county Lancashire, ended up becoming it's own metropolitan county from the Local Government Act of 1972. Manchester is a place where people come to work, or shop or visit many attractions and entertainments which only such a great city can have.
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