Birmingham

Birmingham
Birmingham industrial city in central England, 1086, Bermingehame, lit. "homestead of the place (or people) named for Beorma, some forgotten Anglo-Saxon person, whose name probably is a shortening of Beornmund. The Birmingham in Alabama, U.S., was founded 1871 as an industrial center and named for the English city.

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