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Glasgow History
Glasgow was the second university in Scotland grew up around the cathedral founded by Saint Mungo in the 6th century, and in 1451, the city became the site of the University of Glasgow. Unfortunately, with the exception of the cathedral, virtually nothing of the medieval city remains.In the 18th century, much of the tobacco trade between Europe and the USA was routed through Glasgow and provided a great source of wealth. Other New World imports included rum and sugar. Even after the tobacco trade declined in the 19th century, the city continued to prosper as a centre of textile manufacturing, shipbuilding and the coal and steel industries.The new industries created a huge demand for labour, and peasants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands to crowd the city's tenements. While the workers suffered, the textile barons and shipping magnates prospered, and Glasgow could justifiably call itself the second city of the empire.In the first half of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre of Britain's munitions industry, supplying arms and ships for the two world wars. After those boom years, however, the port and heavy industries began to decline and by the early 1970s, the city looked doomed. In 1999, Glasgow followed up the European City of Culture award it had won almost a decade previously by serving as the UK's City of Architecture & Design in 1999. And in 2003 Glasgow was made the European Capital of Sport.
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Glasgow History
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