Liverpool

Liverpool is a City and district of the County of Merseyside in the North West of England, on the north side of the river Mersey. Until 1974, the city was located in the far south west of the County of Lancashire. Liverpool was founded as a borough in 1207 and got it in this county of City rights in 1880. Liverpool had such a 466.415 In 2012 inhabitants (called scousers ), in the Liverpool Urban Area population of approximately 816.216 people.

In the 18th century the port city grew enormously thanks to the trade to the Caribbean, Ireland and mainland Europe, but also the trans-Atlantic slave trade promoted the economic expansion. By the nineteenth century passed more than 40% of world trade the Liverpudlian port.

Nowadays the port function of the city, and is the tourist sector grown thanks to exponents of the Merseyside, including The Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers.Liverpool also houses two of the football clubs in the English Premier League, Everton FC and Liverpool FC and Woolworths department store in Liverpool is set up. Since 2004, the port area and part of the town of Liverpool on the World Heritage list of the UNESCO. In 2007 the city celebrated its 800th birthday and the following year the city was (along with the Norwegian Stavanger) the European capital of culture.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == In 1207 King John of England decided (King John) establishing the borough of Liverpool. Four centuries later, however, the population was barely grown and the population stagnated around 500. In the 17th century started trading and thus also followed a growth of the population. In the same century there was also a part of the English civil war fought in Liverpool and left the first slave ship to Africa. The City benefited from the increase in the slave trade and grew steadily by. At the end of the century the port had 41 percent of Europe's slave trade and nearly 80% of the British interest in it in hands.
 * 2 politics and Government
 * 3 Culture
 * 3.1 Music
 * Theater 3.2
 * 3.3 Museums
 * 4 Sports
 * 4.1 Football
 * 5 Education
 * 6 traffic and transport
 * 7 Climate
 * 8 Sister cities
 * Born 9
 * 10 see also
 * 11 external links

At the beginning of the 18th century Liverpool passed 40% of world trade. Opened In 1830 first intercity line Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Manchester. Later it pulled the city many Irish immigrants, because in Ireland the great famine had struck. Against 1851 was about a quarter of the residents of Irish descent. To the beginning of the 20th century Liverpool continued to attract European immigrants.

During the twenties and thirties of the 20th century new districts were constructed to house the inhabitants from the town. This continued after the Second World War, but then were also smaller cities near in the plan concerned.

Liverpool suffered major damage during the Second World War by the eighty bombing that above the city were carried out. Over 2500 people were killed and almost half of the houses were destroyed. This also saw one compelled to commit large-scale new construction after the war. Since 1952 Liverpool is a sister city of Cologne that also suffered major damage during the war by the bombing.

Liverpool was In the sixties thanks to The Beatles and many other Liverpudlian bands the capital of the Merseybeat.

During the 1970s and the decade that followed was the city with large unemployment rates thanks to the entry of the container and the end of the function as a world-class harbour. At the same time, Liverpool a metropolitan borough in the new County of Merseyside (Greater Liverpool) with 1, 365, 900 inhabitants.

Since the beginning of the 21st century the city develops itself into a modern bustling city without heavy industry. Nowadays the economy in the city also draws on again thanks to the art galleries, museums and architecture, but also by the continued popularity of The Beatles and other rock bands of the 1960s. ==Politics and Government<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The city is controlled by the Liverpool City Council (The Liverpudlian City Council), which is one of the five metropolitan boroughs of the County of Merseyside. The Council consists of 90 members who represent all small parts of the city. In addition, there are also a few Board members who go about the daily routine of the Council<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] .The city also has a Lord Mayor (Mayor) and a Chairman of the City Council. Which features are currently (2014) exercised by, respectively, Frank Prendergast and Joe Anderson.

<p lang="en" len="426" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are thirty constituencies called wards, also called, these are: ==Culture<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Superlambananas, 2010<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Liverpool was In June 2003, together with the Norwegian Stavanger, chosen as European capital of culture for 2008. There was a lot of work done to Liverpool a pretty appearance. All this took roughly 750 million pounds (955 million euros).<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="311" style="line-height:1;">  In 2004, the old port and part of the town of Liverpool recorded on the World Heritage list of the UNESCO as the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the 1960s Liverpool was the capital of the Merseybeat. In addition to The Beatles Liverpool also has one of the oldest orchestras, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. ===Theatre<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="629" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Every year in the summer The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival held at Liverpool Cathedral, in which the organization is concerned. ===Museums<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Liverpool has besides London most galleries and museums. The National Museums Liverpool is the only English collection that is itself completely outside London. Tate Liverpool was until the opening of Tate Modern in London the largest exhibition space for modern art throughout the United Kingdom. ==Sports<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Football<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Anfield Road, Liverpool FC Stadium<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Two well-known football teams play In Liverpool, called Liverpool FC and Everton FC.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although Everton Liverpool to date is the oldest, most successful of both proven. The club won the National Championship for 18 times, the FA Cup seven times and eight League Cups. On the European stage the club won the UEFA Champions League five times and three UEFA Cups. In contrast to Everton won the League Championship nine times but that, once the FA Cup five times and the European Cup II. With a total of 24 trophies Liverpool is the fourth most successful English team (after except Liverpool Manchester United and also Arsenal).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Liverpool, however, was also involved in two of the biggest disasters in the history of football, namely the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, in which 39 people were killed and 400 wounded. Subsequently all English teams were excluded from European football for five years, Liverpool got there as cause another year on top. In 1989 followed the Hillsborough disaster, where 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives. As a result, required to grow their top clubs were all English stadiums to all-seaters.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1888 Everton played at Anfield by a payment dispute, but the club moved to Goodison Park in 1892 and a new formation, Liverpool FC, which would play at Anfield Road.Both teams In the future will probably play in a new location. Liverpool FC has plans for the construction of the Stanley Park Stadium, while Everton are looking for a new playing field in Kirkby (North-East of the city). A proposal to share a stadium by both clubs was to go in the trash deposited. ==Education<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The city is home to three universities: the University of Liverpool, the Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Hope University. The University of Liverpool was founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool and three years later became part of a national Victoria University. However, was incorporated In 1903 . The oldest university, the Liverpool Hope University was founded in 1844 and is nowadays the only ecumenism University in Europe. The newest institution, the Liverpool John Moores University was a Technical University, but got its current status in 1992. ==Traffic and transport<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The city has an extensive public transport network and connections with the national road and rail network. In addition, the John Lennon Airportand the port in international connections. ==Climate<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="440" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are no weather stations with Office in Liverpool, so the nearest weather station is at Blackpool. ==Sister Cities<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Liverpool is partner city of three cities.

<p lang="en" len="74" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The city also maintains contacts with several other cities, including:
 * Cologne (Germany), since 1957
 * Dublin (Ireland), since 1997
 * Shangai (China), since 1999

==Born<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Halifax (Canada)
 * Naples (Italy)
 * New York (United States)
 * Stavanger (Norway)
 * James Whitfield (1770), Archbishop of Baltimore
 * William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Walter Crane (1845-1915), artist
 * Jimmy Ashcroft (1878-1943), footballer
 * Robert Runcie (1921-2000), Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Alan Bridges (1927-2013), film director
 * Kenneth Cope (1931), actor
 * Brian Epstein (1934-1967), businessman, the manager of The Beatles
 * John Conway (1937), mathematician
 * Clive Swift (1936), actor
 * Vicki Brown (1940-1991), singer
 * John Lennon (1940-1980), musician
 * Ringo Starr (1940), musician
 * Rita Tushingham (1942), actress
 * Paul McCartney (1942), musician
 * Gerry Marsden (1942), musician
 * Cilla Black (1943), singer and presenter
 * George Harrison (1943-2001), musician
 * Paddy Chambers (1944-2000), singer, guitarist and songwriter
 * John Dransfield, (1945), botanist
 * Terence Davies (1945), film director
 * David Garrick (1946), singer
 * Aynsley Dunbar (1946), drummer
 * Jacqueline Foster (1947), politician
 * Clive Barker (1952), film director, writer and painter
 * Paul Barber (1952), actor
 * Kim Cattrall (1956), actress
 * Stephen Baxter (1957), writer
 * Sammy Lee (1959), football player and coach
 * David McNally (1960), film and television Director
 * Holly Johnson (1960), singer
 * Mark Roberts (1964), streaker
 * David Morrissey (1964), actor
 * Steve McManaman (1972), football player
 * Robbie Fowler (1975), football player
 * Jamie Carragher (1978), football player
 * Jenny Frost (1978), singer
 * Michael Ball (1979), football player
 * Steven Gerrard (1980) footballer
 * Francis Jeffers (1981), footballer
 * Liz McClaron (1981), singer
 * Natasha Hamilton (1982), singer
 * Heidi Range (1983), singer
 * Michael Higdon (1983), football player
 * Ryan Taylor (1984), footballer
 * Matthew Brammeier (1985), Irish cyclist
 * Wayne Rooney (1985), footballer
 * Scott Dann (1987), footballer
 * Aaron Cresswell (1989), football player
 * Hope Apkan (1991), footballer
 * Conor Coady (1993), football player
 * John Lundstram (1994), football player