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  1. Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States. [ 15 ] As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, [ 16 ] making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most-populous city after Nashville and Memphis. [ 17 ]

  2. Knoxville became the first capital of the State of Tennessee in 1796, and grew steadily during the early 19th century as a way station for westward-bound migrants and as a commercial center for nearby mountain communities. [1] . The arrival of the railroad in the 1850s led to a boom in the city's population and commercial activity. [1]

  3. Knoxville is the third-largest city in the state of Tennessee, in the United States of America. The largest city in the state is Nashville, followed by Memphis. Knoxville is the county seat of Knox County. In 2020, it had a population of 190,740.

  4. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with ten undergraduate ...

  5. Aug 13, 2024 · Knoxville, city, seat (1792) of Knox county, eastern Tennessee, U.S., on the Tennessee River, which is formed just east of the city by the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers. It is situated between the Cumberland Mountains to the northwest and the Great Smoky Mountains to the southeast and is the centre of a metropolitan area ...

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  6. Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, ma...

  7. Oct 8, 2017 · Founded as White's Fort in 1786, Knoxville served as the capital of the Territory South of the River Ohio (or Southwest Territory) and early capital of Tennessee and eventually grew to become the state's third largest city and a major commercial, industrial, and educational center.

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