Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. It is situated on a bay on the east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region as of 2016 was 1,347,359. The name Dublin derives from the Irish word Dubhlinn.
About Dublin, Ireland in brief
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. It is situated on a bay on the east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region as of 2016 was 1,347,359. There is archaeological debate regarding precisely where Dublin was established by the Gaels in or before the 7th century AD. Later expanded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin, the city became Ireland’s principal settlement following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire after the Acts of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland. As of 2018 the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as a global city, with a ranking of \”Alpha minus\”, which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world. The name Dublin derives from the Irish word Dubhlinn, early Classical Irish DubhlindDuibhlind, from dubh,, ) meaning \”black, dark\”, and lind ) \”pool\”, referring to a dark tidal pool. The Viking settlement of about 841, Dyflin, and a Gaelic settlement, Áth Cliath, further up river, is the common name for the city in modern Irish. Other towns of the same name are also found in traditionally Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland, such as An Linne Dhubh, which is part of Loch Linnhe.
The area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, but the writings of Ptolemy in about AD 140 provide possibly the earliest reference to a settlement there. Dublin celebrated its first pol in 988, meaning the Irish government recognised it as the first settlement in which this city was settled and would later become the city of Dublin. In Modern Irish the name is DuibhlinN, and Irish rhymes from County Dublin show that in Dublin Leinster Irish it was pronounced Duílinn. Other localities in Ireland also bear the name DuibHlinn,. variously anglicised as Devlin, Divlin and Difflin. There are other towns of the same name in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which is anglicise as Hurlford. Baile Átha Cliath is a place name referring to an early Christian monastery, believed to have been in the area of Aungier Street, currently occupied by Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church. The town is also known as Wood Quay in an area now known as Quay Quay. The subsequent Scandinavian settlement which later became the modern Dublin was a tributary on the River Poddle, on the site of the castle gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle. This was finally infilled during the early 18th century.
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