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  2. London - Wikipedia

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    London is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium. [36] Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: Latin (usually Londinium), Old English (usually Lunden), and Welsh (usually Llundein), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages.

  3. City of London - Wikipedia

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    The City of London's role in illicit financial activity such as money laundering has earned the financial hub sobriquets such as 'The Laundromat' and 'Londongrad'. [110] London's role as the world's dirty money clearing house is well-documented but efforts are being made to clean up through legislation, e.g. authorising unexplained wealth ...

  4. Category:History of London - Wikipedia

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    The History of London is split by location within London, by period within history and by broad topic. Subcategories This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.

  5. Portal:London - Wikipedia

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    London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 8,866,180 in 2022. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million.

  6. Covent Garden - Wikipedia

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    Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. [1] It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". [2]

  7. List of areas of London - Wikipedia

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    John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.

  8. History of London - Wikipedia

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    Field, Jacob F. London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery (2018) Fowler, James. London Transport: A Hybrid in History 1905-48 (Emerald Group Publishing, 2019). Hanlon, W. Walker. Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century (UCLA and NBER, 2015) online; Jackson, Lee. Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth ...

  9. East End of London - Wikipedia

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    Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss. The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.