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The Grade II listed Shrewsbury Unitarian Church was founded in 1662 according to the inscription above the main door. The current building was built between 1839 and 1840. [268] Shrewsbury has a Roman Catholic Cathedral, by the Town Walls. [269] Designed by Edward Pugin after the death of his father, Augustus, it was consecrated in 1856. [270]
The town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire,western England, has a history that extends back at least as far as the year 901, but it could have been first settled earlier. [1] [2] During the early Middle Ages, the town was a centre of the wool trade, and this was a peak in its importance.
There is a tradition that Shrewsbury was "founded in the 5th century, on occasion of the decay of the Roman Uriconium." The historian, John Wacher, suggests that Shrewsbury may have been refortified by refugees fleeing an outbreak of a plague in Viroconium around this time. [21]
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Alexander the Great Founding Alexandria by Placido Costanzi (1736-1737) Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC (the exact date is disputed) as Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Aleksándreia). Alexander's chief architect for the project was Dinocrates. Ancient accounts are extremely numerous and varied, and much influenced by subsequent ...
Old Town Alexandria is one of the original settlements of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, and is located about 15 minutes by car from Washington, D.C., of which it used to make up the southern part. [1] It was the oldest district of D.C. until it was ceded back to Virginia in 1846.
Whether the city was founded before or after Alexander's visit to the Siwa Oasis is disputed; his motives for founding Alexandria are also controversial, with military, political, economic and trading factors often cited. The settlement would later grow into one of the most important cities in the world, with an estimated population of 500,000 ...
Ben H. Miller departed from Liverpool, on 13 November, for Alexandria, Egypt, arriving on 26 November. She sailed on 11 December, for Haifa, Israel, where she arrived the next day. [7] In 1947 Ben H. Miller was sold to her managers, who transferred her to their subsidiary Ellerman & Bucknall SS Co., and renamed her City of Shrewsbury. [5]