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There’s something about London
3 minute read Yesterday at 2:00 AM CDTLondon has always captivated me. One of the largest and most significant cities in the world, I have always imagined it to be fascinating and full of fancy tales. On a recent trip to the U.K., I discovered a lot of interesting things about the city.
For starters, I didn’t know it was originally called Londinium. The name dates back to 43 A.D., when ancient Romans founded a shipping port and trading site in the marshy valley of the River Thames. They established a settlement, constructed a bridge across the waterway, and the town became a hub of trade and commerce.
Less than 20 years later, this entire first town would be burned to the ground during battle. In centuries to follow, Londinium would be rebuilt, burned down again, rebuilt again, and regularly attacked by marauding groups of raiders and invaders. By the eighth century, still enduring after various forms of destruction, it’s name had been shortened to ‘London’.
The city became more permanent in 960 A.D., when Benedictine monks built a house of worship near the riverbank. One hundred years later, King Edward I built his royal palace on a nearby tract of land, and expanded the monastery. He commissioned the construction of a Romanesque stone church, which would become the original Westminster Abbey. In the middle of the 1200s, King Henry III had it rebuilt into the Gothic style we are familiar with today, with the new cathedral officially dedicated in 1269.
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