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Melbourne - Australia
3,384,000 in the real town and 3,730,212 in the conurbation are the population. Melbourne became 1837 after the British prime minister then, Lord Melbourne, named and is a Roman Catholic archbishop seat.
The town is Victoria's most important economic, cultural and political center. Numerous Chinese, British, Greek, Italian, Irish and Vietnamese immigrants belong to the population of the town. In addition, Melbourne is a center of the Jewish Immigration.
Story of Melbourne
1803 became the field the town is located in, found out by Europeans for the first time. Groups rival there established themselves from Tasmanien and 1835 gave it the name port Phillip.
John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner are regarded as founders. A representative was this one Batman in the same year port Phillip Association founded by a group of business people from Launceston. Aborigine bought about 240,000 hectares of land of the resident and it a settlement founded on the northern side of the Yarra river. John Pascoe Fawkner who full of determination advanced the Siedlungaktivitäten in the following and a group of Tasmanian settlers followed in October 1835.
Melbourne was never a punishing colony in the southeast of Australia unlike other settlements but was planned from the beginning as a residential area with broad streets and spacious parks. The town got in honor of the prime minister of Great Britain then, William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne, its name of today, in 1837. Over 10,000 people already lived around Melbourne at 1840 in the region.
The town got from New South Wales to newly founded British colony Victoria and 1851 the capital turned. Melbourne's greatest growth period started within the early 1850s years when gold was discovered in Victoria. The town developed into the trade and Geschäftsszentrum of the gold-diggers here pouring from overseas at that time.
The town became an important railroad junction at the end of the 19th century, its port was extended and important industrial plants established themselves. After the foundation of the Australian federation in 1901 Melbourne was headquarters of the Australian Federal Government at times. Canberra became the new federal capital in 1913 but the government of the country moved only 1927 there. The Olympic summer Games took place in Melbourne in 1956.
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