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Featuring the work of 78 artists and designers from 32 countries, the NGV Triennial surveys the worlds best art and design, across cultures, scales, geographies. Sovereign state United Kingdom. Constituent country England. Region. West Midlands. Ceremonial county West Midlands. Historic county Warwickshire. Settlementc. 6. 00. Seigneurial borough. Municipal borough. City status. 14 January 1. Metropolitan borough. April 1. 97. 4Administrative HQThe Council House,Victoria Square. Government  Type. Metropolitan borough  Body. Birmingham City Council  Leadership. Leader and cabinet  Executive. Labour  Leader. Vacant Deputy Leader Ian Ward, acting  Lord Mayor. Carl Rice  Chief Executive InterimStella Manzie CBEArea  City. Urban. 23. 1. 2 sq mi 5. Area rank. 15. 1st. Elevation. 46. 0 ft 1. Population mid 2. City. 1,1. 24,6. 00  Rank. Density. 10,8. 80sq mi 4,1. Urban. 2,4. 40,9. Metro. 3,6. 83,0. DemonymsBrummie. Time zone. Greenwich Mean Time UTC0  Summer DSTBritish Summer Time UTC1Postcode. BArea codes0. 12. ISO 3. 16. 6 code. GB BIRGSS code. E0. NUTS 3 code. UKG3. ONS code. 00. CNOS grid reference. SP0. 66. 86. 8Motorways. M6. M6 Toll. M5. M4. A3. 8MEthnicity2. Census 15. 7. 9 White 5. White British2. 6. Asian. 8. 9 Black. Mixed Race. 2. 0 Other. International airports. Birmingham BHXMajor railway stations. Birmingham New Street ABirmingham Moor Street BBirmingham Snow Hill C1GDPUS 1. Per capita. US 3. Councillors. 12. 0MPs. European Parliament. West Midlands. Websitewww. Birmingham   listen,3locally bmgm is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England standing on the small River Rea. It is the largest and most populous British city outside London, with a population of 1,1. A medium sized market town in the medieval period, Birmingham grew to international prominence in the 1. Midlands Enlightenment and subsequent Industrial Revolution, which saw the town at the forefront of worldwide advances in science, technology, and economic development, producing a series of innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial society. By 1. Birminghams distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided a diverse and resilient economic base for industrial prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 2. Perhaps the most important invention in British history, the industrial steam engine, was invented in Birmingham. Its resulting high level of social mobility also fostered a culture of broad based political radicalism, that under leaders from Thomas Attwood to Joseph Chamberlain was to give it a political influence unparalleled in Britain outside London, and a pivotal role in the development of British democracy. From the summer of 1. Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. The damage done to the citys infrastructure, in addition to a deliberate policy of demolition and new building by planners, led to extensive demolition and redevelopment in subsequent decades. Today Birminghams economy is dominated by the service sector. The city is a major international commercial centre, ranked as a gamma world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network 1. Its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of 1. London. 1. 4 Birminghams major cultural institutions including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Library of Birmingham and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts enjoy international reputations,1. Birmingham is the fourth most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors. Birminghams sporting heritage can be felt worldwide, with the concept of the Football League and tennis both originating from the city. Its most successful football club Aston Villa has won seven league titles and one European Cup with the other professional club being Birmingham City. Birmingham will host the 2. Commonwealth Games. People from Birmingham are called Brummies, a term derived from the citys nickname of Brum. This originates from the citys dialect name, Brummagem,1. Bromwicham. 2. 0 There is a distinctive Brummieaccent and dialect. HistoryeditPre history and medievaleditBirminghams early history is that of a remote and marginal area. The main centres of population, power and wealth in the pre industrial English Midlands lay in the fertile and accessible river valleys of the Trent, the Severn and the Avon. The area of modern Birmingham lay in between, on the upland Birmingham Plateau and within the densely wooded and sparsely populated Forest of Arden. There is evidence of early human activity in the Birmingham area dating back 1. The many burnt mounds that can still be seen around the city indicate that modern humans first intensively settled and cultivated the area during the bronze age, when a substantial but short lived influx of population occurred between 1. BC and 1. 00. 0 BC, possibly caused by conflict or immigration in the surrounding area. During the 1st century Roman conquest of Britain, the forested country of the Birmingham Plateau formed a barrier to the advancing Roman legions,2. Metchley Fort in the area of modern day Edgbaston in AD 4. Roman roads. 2. 7Birmingham as a settlement dates from the Anglo Saxon era. The citys name comes from the Old English. Beormingahm, meaning the home or settlement of the Beormingas indicating that Birmingham was established in the 6th or early 7th century as the primary settlement of an Anglian tribal grouping and regio of that name. Despite this early importance, by the time of the Domesday Book of 1. Birmingham was one of the poorest and least populated in Warwickshire, valued at only 2. Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. The development of Birmingham into a significant urban and commercial centre began in 1. Lord of the Manor Peter de Bermingham obtained a charter to hold a market at his castle, and followed this with the creation of a planned market town and seigneurial borough within his demesne or manorial estate, around the site that became the Bull Ring. This established Birmingham as the primary commercial centre for the Birmingham Plateau at a time when the areas economy was expanding rapidly, with population growth nationally leading to the clearance, cultivation and settlement of previously marginal land. Within a century of the charter Birmingham had grown into a prosperous urban centre of merchants and craftsmen. By 1. 32. 7 it was the third largest town in Warwickshire,3. Early moderneditThe principal governing institutions of medieval Birmingham including the Guild of the Holy Cross and the lordship of the de Birmingham family collapsed between 1. By 1. 70. 0 Birminghams population had increased fifteenfold and the town was the fifth largest in England and Wales. The importance of the manufacture of iron goods to Birminghams economy was recognised as early as 1. Equally significant was the towns emerging role as a centre for the iron merchants who organised finance, supplied raw materials and traded and marketed the industrys products. By the 1. 60. 0s Birmingham formed the commercial hub of a network of forges and furnaces stretching from South Wales to Cheshire4. IPMS Deutschland Neuigkeiten. Weitere Berichte und News es ist da Einiges aufgelaufen. Industrienews Airfix. Just landed Boeing Fortress Mk. III. Airfix Newsletter. AK Interactive. New Meng models. Newsletter. The AK Team. DACOHello. Today starts once again the annual DACOs Anniversary week with special discounts on all of my DACO books, kits, decals and other products. From Thursday 7th till Sunday 1. September 2. 01. 7 youll receive an extra 2. INCLUDING my books, the F 1. Improvement Set and the Boeing 7. So if you are still looking for the F 1. 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