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- Belfast (Irish: Béal Feirste) is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. Historically most of it lay in County Antrim west of the River Lagan, with about a third on the east bank in County Down, but it's always been governed as a separate metropolis, with a population in 2020 of about 630,000.
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Belfast is divided into four Northern Ireland Assembly and UK parliamentary constituencies: Belfast North, Belfast West, Belfast South and Belfast East. All four extend beyond the city boundaries to include parts of Castlereagh , Lisburn and Newtownabbey districts.
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Cave Hill or Cavehill is a rocky hill overlooking the city...
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In regards to Northern Ireland the cities of Belfast and...
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Although BT derives from Belfast, the BT postcode area...
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Northern Ireland is served by three airports—Belfast International near Antrim, George Best Belfast City integrated into the railway network at Sydenham in East Belfast, and City of Derry in County Londonderry.
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The English administration in Ireland in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland created counties as the major subdivisions of an Irish province. This process lasted a period from the 13th to 17th centuries; however, the number and shape of the counties that would form the future Northern Ireland would not be defined until the Flig...
Each county is divided into a number of baronies, midway between a county and a parish. Baronies are now obsolete as administrative units, partially derived from the territory of an Irish chieftain. By the time the process of turning local Irish kingdoms into baronies occurred throughout the whole of Ulster by the early 17th century as part of the ...
The counties were also used as the administrative unit of local government introduced in Ireland under the 1898 Local Government Act along with county boroughs. In regards to Northern Ireland the cities of Belfast and Londonderrybecame county boroughs. The administrative counties and county boroughs were abolished as local government areas in North...
Like the rest of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland is divided into lieutenancy areas (see map on right). These are areas that have an appointed Lord Lieutenant—the representative of the British monarch. Northern Ireland has eight lieutenancy areas: These boundaries of the above are contiguous with the six administrative counties and two county b...
Former counties which formed part of the six modern counties of Northern Ireland: 1. County Coleraine formed from the territory of the O'Cahans in 1584 by Queen Elizabeth I, formed the basis of modern County Londonderry. 2. Carrickfergus was formerly a county of itself, it extended further than the modern borough of Carrickfergus. It was merged int...
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1. Connolly, Sean J. (2002). Oxford Companion to Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923483-7. 2. Falkiner, C. Litton (Caesar Litton) (1904). "The Counties of Ireland". Illustrations of Irish history and topography, mainly of the seventeenth century. London: Longmans, Green. pp. 103–142: 127–128. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
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Although BT derives from Belfast, the BT postcode area extends across the whole of Northern Ireland. Belfast City Centre BT1 North of Belfast City Hall BT2 South of Belfast City Hall BT3 Industrial district East and South East of Belfast City Hall BT4 East Belfast BT5 East Belfast / Castlereagh BT6 East Belfast / Castlereagh
High Street, Belfast, c.1906. Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, and throughout its modern history has been a major commercial and industrial centre. In the late 20th century manufacturing industries that had existed for several centuries declined, particularly shipbuilding. The city's history has occasionally seen conflict between ...
4 days ago · Northern Ireland occupies about one-sixth of the island of Ireland and is separated on the east from Scotland, another part of the United Kingdom, by the narrow North Channel, which is at one point only 13 miles (21 km) wide.
4 days ago · Belfast is in Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. Belfast is in located in the northeastern quadrant of the island of Ireland; it is not part of the Republic of Ireland. What famous ship was built in Belfast?
