History of Dublin to 795
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 140 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5109-1333-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dublin is Ireland's oldest town. It is also the largest and most populous urban centre in the country, a position it has held continuously since first rising to prominence in the 10th century (with the exception of a brief period in the late 19th century when it was temporarily eclipsed by Belfast). The historic city grew up on the southern bank of the River Liffey, a few kilometres upstream from the river’s outfall into Dublin Bay. The original settlement was situated on a ridge overlooking a shallow ford in the river, which had probably been a regular crossing-point since earliest times. The bedrock underlying the city is calp limestone, a dark shaly sedimentary rock which was once quarried locally and whose mottled grey appearance can still be seen today in some of the city's oldest buildings. Overlying this is a layer of much looser boulder clay of varying thickness. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в...
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