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| City of Norwich | |
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Shown within Norfolk | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | City (1195) |
| Region: | East of England |
| Admin. County: | Norfolk |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 322nd 39.02 km˛ |
| Admin. HQ: | Norwich |
| ONS code: | 33UG |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( 2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 156th 121,643 3,117 / km˛ |
| Ethnicity: | 96.8% White |
| Politics | |
Norwich City Council http://www.norwich.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Liberal Democrats |
| MPsThis is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at: | Ian GibsonIan Gibson (born 26 September 1938) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party member of Parliament for Norwich North, and was first elected in 1997. He had previously been dean of biology at the University of East Anglia where he was the h, Charles ClarkeThe Right Honourable Charles Rodway Clarke (born September 21, 1950) is a British Labour Party politician. He is Member of Parliament for Norwich South and Secretary of State for Education and Skills. The son of a senior civil servant, Charles Clarke read |
The city of Norwich is the regional administrative centre and capital city of the county of Norfolk, England.
The city is twinned with RouenRouen (population 110,000) is a city situated on the Seine river in Normandy, northern France. Population of the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine at the 1999 census was 518,316. Administration Rouen is the prefecture ( capital) of the Seine-Mari, France, KoblenzThis article is about the German city Koblenz. For other places with the same name see Koblenz (disambiguation). Koblenz (also Coblenz and the french Coblence is after Mainz and Ludwigshafen am Rhein the third largest city in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany., Germany & Novi SadNovi Sad ( , Slovak Novy Sad Hungarian Ujvidek German Neusatz (city population of 205,378 and some 299,294 in the county in 2002) is a city in northern Serbia, located at 45. 25° North, 19. 85° East on the banks of Danube river, capital of the province Vo, Serbia
Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, was shaped by the Iceni, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Late Saxons, the Vikings and the Normans.The word Norvic appears on coins minted during the reign of King Athelstan (early 10th century AD). The ancient city was already a thriving centre for trade and commerce in East Anglia when Swein Forkbeard the Viking destroyed it in 1004 AD. The main area of the city south of the River Wensum was destroyed by the construction of the Norman castle during the 1070s creation of a "New" or " French" borough.
In 1096 Bishop Losinga began construction of the cathedral, which became and remains the cathedral church for the Diocese of Norwich .
At the time of the Norman Conquest the city was one of the largest in England, and it continued to be a major centre for trade, especially wool. The Wensum was a convenient exporting route to the sea.
The wealth generated by the wool trade throughout the Middle Ages resulted in the construction of many fine churches. Norwich still has one of the highest number of splendid medieval churches in western Europe.
Ever since the great immigration of 1567 the Walloon community had been granted by successive bishops the right to use a chapel for their own worship. Norwich has been the home of various dissident minorities, notably the French Huguenot and the Belgian Walloon communities in the 16th and 17th centuries. Primarily through trading connections with mainland Europe, ideas of religious reform and radical politics were introduced to Norwich.
The Norwich Canary was first introduced into England by Flemish refugees fleeing from Spanish persecution in the 1500s. They brought with them not only advanced working skills in textiles but also their pet canaries, which they began to breed. The canary is the emblem of the city's football team, "The Canaries", Norwich City F.C.
Norwich's geographical isolation was such that until 1834 when a railway connection was established, it was often quicker and safer to travel to Amsterdam than to London!
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