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Perth

Perth

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Perth town (1991 pop. 41,916), Perth and Kinross, central Scotland, on the Tay River. It was called St. Johnstoun until the 17th cent. Perth is famous for its dye works and cattle markets. Other industries are linen and wool factories and whiskey distilling. Points of interest include Tay St., beside the river, and the Inches, parks that were formerly islands in the Tay.

Strategically located between the Highlands and the Lowlands, Perth was long an important military fortress. It was the capital of Scotland from the 11th to the mid-15th cent. James I of Scotland was murdered there in 1437. John Knox preached his famous sermon against idolatry in the Church of St. John in 1559; the resulting iconoclasm leveled the city's four monasteries. Gowrie House (no longer standing) was the scene (1600) of a plot to seize James VI (James I of England; see Ruthven , family). James I in 1618 issued the Five Articles of Perth, which opened the battle between crown and church. The earl of Montrose took the city after the battle of Tippermuir in 1644; Oliver Cromwell seized it again in 1651. It was held by Jacobites in 1689, 1715, and 1745. A prison was built in 1812 for French prisoners of war.

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Perth, Australia, Canada, UK, USA 1. Australia (Western Australia): founded in 1829 as the Swan River Settlement some 10 miles (16 km) from the mouth of the Swan River after the Dutch navigator Willem de Vlamingh had given the river that name in 1697 after the numerous flocks of black swans in the area. It was subsequently renamed after the Scottish county of Perthshire, the home and parliamentary constituency (1823–32) of General Sir George Murray (1772–1846), the British colonial secretary (1828–30).2. Canada (Ontario): founded in 1816 by Scottish immigrants, it was named after the city in Scotland.3. UK (Scotland): formerly Pert ‘(Place by a) Copse’ from the Pictish perta ‘copse’ or ‘thicket’. With the first church dedicated to St John the Baptist, the city was also known as St John's Town, or St Johnstoun, alongside Perth, until the 17th century. It was the Scottish capital until c.1452.
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Perth city (1991 pop. 1,018,702), capital of Western Australia, SW Australia, on the Swan River estuary. Fremantle is Perth's port. Perth is a communications and transportation center and the state's financial, commercial, and cultural hub. The suburbs of Fremantle, Kwinana, and Welshpool have heavy industries. Perth was founded in 1829 but did not gain importance until the Coolgardie gold rush (1890s), the development of the port at Fremantle, and the construction of rail lines (early 20th cent.). Perth evolved into a modern metropolis in the late 20th cent. and saw much new construction. The Univ. of Western Australia and Murdoch Univ. are there. It is also the seat of Roman Catholic and Anglican archbishops. Perth is very isolated; Adelaide, the closest major city, is nearly 2,000 mi (3,219 km) away.

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Perth City on the Swan River, sw Australia; capital of Western Australia. Founded in 1829, the city grew rapidly after the discovery of gold at Coolgardie in the 1890s, the development of the port at Fremantle and the construction of railways to the e in the early 20th century. Industries: textiles, cement, food processing, motor vehicles. Pop. (1999 est.) 1,364,200.
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Perth Perth. Pert c.1128, St Johnstoun or Perth 1220. ‘(Place by a) thicket or copse’. Pictish *perta-. Formerly also St Johnstoun, from the dedication of the church to St John the Baptist.
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Perth former county, Scotland: see Perthshire .

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Perth •berth, birth, dearth, earth, firth, girth, mirth, Perth, worth •stillbirth • childbirth • afterbirth •Edgeworth • Hepworth • Ellsworth •Whitworth • halfpennyworth •Bosworth • jobsworth • Iorwerth

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