Aberdeen
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/64268
- Note
- "During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen´s buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, which can sparkle like silver because of its high mica content. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, Aberdeen has been known as the off-shore oil capital of Europe.The area around Aberdeen has been settled for at least 8,000 years, when prehistoric villages lay around the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don. The city has a long, sandy coastline and a marine climate, the latter resulting in chilly summers and mild winters.
Aberdeen received Royal burgh status from David I of Scotland (1124–1153),[10] transforming the city economically. The city has two universities, the University of Aberdeen, founded in 1495, and Robert Gordon University, which was awarded university status in 1992, making Aberdeen the educational centre of north-east Scotland. The traditional industries of fishing, paper-making, shipbuilding, and textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen´s seaport. Aberdeen Heliport is one of the busiest commercial heliports in the world[11] and the seaport is the largest in the north-east of Scotland.[12]" - (en.wikipedia.org 16.09.2020) - Latitude
- 57.150001525879
- Longitude
- -2.0999999046326
- Population
- 196,670
- Time zone
- Europe/London
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