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The subdivisions of Belfast are a series of divisions of Belfast, Northern Ireland that are used for a variety of cultural, electoral, planning and residential purposes.. The city is traditionally divided into four main areas based on the cardinal points of a compass, each of which form the basis of constituencies for general elections: North Belfast, East Belfast, South Belfast, and West Belfast.
Preserving and enhancing South Belfast's townscape character; Improving health, education and social services; Retaining maternity services at the Jubilee hospital; Working on social justice and cultural issues; Working for social inclusion; First diagnosed with cancer in 2000, she resigned on 18 January 2010 as an MLA on grounds of ill-health.
The Belfast metropolitan urban area had a population of 579,276 in 2001 [4] and a population of 626,339 in 2021, [5] or 89% of the total population of the metropolitan area. The area is made up of established towns, their overspill and the general conjoining of settlements as Belfast expands.
The townlands of Belfast are the oldest surviving land divisions in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The city is split between two traditional Counties by the River Lagan , with those townlands north of the river generally in County Antrim , while those on the southern bank are generally part of County Down .
The Holylands, The Holy Land or The Holyland is a residential area of inner-south Belfast, Northern Ireland.Composed of a series of streets behind The Queen's University of Belfast near to the River Lagan, the area has been dubbed 'the Holyland' from its street names: Jerusalem Street, Palestine Street, Damascus Street, Carmel Street and Cairo Street.
A 1685 plan of Belfast by the military engineer Thomas Phillips, showing the town's ramparts and Lord Chichester's castle, which was destroyed in a fire in 1708. The name Belfast derives from the Irish Béal Feirste (Irish pronunciation: [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]), [4] "Mouth of the Farset" [6] a river whose name in the Irish, Feirste, refers to a sandbar or tidal ford. [7]
An often forgotten corner of Belfast city centre is due to be transformed with the opening of the new Grand Central Station. The £200 million transport hub, set to be the largest on the island of ...
The area now known as the New Lodge was once open farmland within the original 17th-century city walls of the town of Belfast.. The name of the area probably derives from the farm lodge at Solitude, now the location of the home ground of Cliftonville F.C.