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Belfast - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Belfast is the largest city in Northern Ireland, with a population of 277,391. |
| | Belfast is situated at the mouth of the River Lagan on Belfast Lough and is surrounded by hills (Black Mountain and Cavehill - the famous Napoleon's nose is a basaltic outcrop here which forms the border with neighbouring Glengormley- and to the south the Castlereagh Hills). |
| | Belfast became the centre of Irish Protestantism, and in 1922 it was declared the capital of Northern Ireland after Ireland was partitioned into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State (later to become the Republic of Ireland, when it withdrew from the British Commonwealth in 1949). |
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