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GlasgowGlasgow is a major city in Lanarkshire, standing proudly on the River Clyde which has been its origin and its fortune. Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. Glasgow grew from the mediaeval Bishopric of Glasgow and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the 15th century, which subsequently became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century. From the 18th century the city also grew as one of Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with British North America and the British West Indies. With the Industrial Revolution, the city and surrounding region shifted to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of shipbuilding and marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was known as the "Second City of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian and Edwardian period and today it is one of Europe's top twenty financial centres. (Read more) |