Belfast

Belfast (Irish: Béal Feirste) is a town in the United Kingdom and is the largest City (city) and a district in Northern Ireland and Ulster, and the province has a population of 286,000 according to an estimate from 2012. It is the capital of Northern Ireland since 1922, and it is the capital of County Antrim.

The name Belfast originates from the Irish Béal Feirste, or the mouth of the FarsetRiver, around which the city is built. The River, which itself is part of the larger River Lagan, has nowadays little fame, and flows in a pipe under the city.

Belfast is, as mentioned, at the mouth of the river Lagan on the arm of Belfast Lough. Through this arm of the sea is Belfast in direct connection to the Irish Sea. The city is surrounded by hills (Black Mountain and Cavehill). Belfast has a number of old buildings, including the seat of Queen's University (1849) and the City Hall (1903). Among the best preserved are two former banks: Ulster Bank (1860) and Northern Bank (1769).

the world's largest dry dock is also here, and the great cranes of the port can be seen from far away. In this dock was built the famous Titanic . Other important historical industries are the Irish linen and rope making.

The city has two airports, George Best Belfast City Airport, on the outskirts of the city and at Holywood, Belfast International Airport, near Lough Neagh.



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[hide] *1 demographics  ==Demographics[ Edit] == Most residents of the West Belfast are Catholic. Some neighborhoods have a Catholic majority of 90%. The city is by the religion still strongly divided into segregatedProtestant and Catholic (loyalist) (Republican) neighborhoods. To which the majority of the neighborhood belongs to is identified by graffiti, murals and flags at the entrances to the neighborhoods.
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Chinese British are the largest non-white ethnic group. Further live in Belfast also small numbers of Muslims and Hindus. Since the accession of most Central and Eastern European countries to the European Union, there are also many Polandlive. Belfast also has a small community of Irish travellers. More than half of the ethnic minorities live in the South Belfast. ==History[ Edit] == The region where Belfast is located has been inhabited since the bronze age and iron age remains of forts from the can still be observed. At the mouth of the River was in 1177 for the first time a castle built by John de Courcy. Its castle, and the adjacent settlement, were destroyed, and 20 years later the region came under the administration of the O'Neill family. Early in the 17th century, Belfast a place where the English and Scots settled, according to the plan of Sir Arthur Chichester, to colonizethe area. This resulted in a rebellion by the indigenous population in 1641. Later it pulled many Huguenots to Belfast, which set up a widespread linen industry. Belfast was also the center of the Irish Protestantism.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The contrast between the Catholic and Protestant populations was only really visible in the 19th century. Since then the city plagued by the division between the Catholics and the Protestants, and was hit hard in the fight (The Troubles) between 1960 and 1997. Half of the victims in this period fell in Belfast. The 4-star Europe Hotel in the Center was about 30 times hit by bomb attacks of the IRA, and is since then known as the hotel with most bomb attacks in Europe. Since the Armistice from 1997, the number of violent outbursts have dropped sharply, and is there hope for a lasting peace.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Since that time, Belfast a growth, with many investments in the Centre (it is now a pedestrian area with all major international stores), a sports stadium and a modern theatre (The Waterfront Hall).


 * <p lang="en" len="231" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Photochromic printing of Albert Memorial at the end of the 19th century.
 * <p lang="en" len="56" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Photochromic printing of the Royal Avenue about 1890-1900


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==Sports<span class="mw-editsection" len="319" 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:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the city is the Windsor Park football stadium, where the Northern Irish national football team play their home games and Linfield FC . The stadium has a capacity of 20.332 spectators. Ice hockey is a popular sport, and the Odyssey Arena is the home of the ' Belfast Giants '. ==Born<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);">] ==
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