Leicester, UK
City of
Leicester, England
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On first impression, LEICESTER is a
resolutely modern city, but further inspection reveals traces of its medieval
and Roman past, situated immediately to the west of the downtown shopping area,
near the River Soar. The Romans, choosing this site in the middle of the
territory of the rebellious Coritani, developed
Leicester's precursor, Ratae Coritanorum, as a fortified town on the
Fosse Way, the military road running from Lincoln to Cirencester, and Emperor
Hadrian kitted it out with huge public buildings. Subsequently, in the eighth
century, the Danes colonized the town and later still its medieval castle became
the base of the earls of Leicester.
Since the late seventeenth century, Leicester
has been a centre of the hosiery trade and it was this industry that attracted
hundreds of Asian immigrants to settle here in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, about
one third of Leicester's population is
Asian.
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