Portsmouth (/ˈpÉ"Ë rtsməθ/ (listen)) is an English port city
primarily built on Portsea Island in the county of Hampshire. It is
also known colloquially as Pompey, a nickname shared with HMNB
Portsmouth and the Portsmouth Football Club. It is the United
Kingdom's only island city. Portsmouth is situated 70 miles (110 km)
south-west of London and 19 miles (31 km) south-east of Southampton.
Portsmouth's population was 205,100 in the 2011 UK Census. The city
forms part of the South Hampshire metropolitan area, which includes
the nearby city of Southampton and the towns of Gosport, Fareham,
Waterlooville, Havant and Eastleigh.Portsmouth's history can be traced
back to Roman Britain. A significant naval port for centuries, it has
the world's oldest dry dock. Portsmouth was England's first line of
defence during the 1545 French invasion. By the early nineteenth
century, the world's first mass-production line was set up in
Portsmouth Dockyard's Block Mills; this made it the world's most
industrialised site, and the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
Portsmouth was the most heavily-fortified town in the world and was
considered "the world's greatest naval port" at the height of the
British Empire, during the Pax Britannica. The Palmerston Forts were
built around Portsmouth in 1859 in anticipation of another invasion
from continental Europe.King Richard I first granted Portsmouth market
town status on 2 May 1194 with a royal charter and a coat of arms, "a
crescent of gold on a shade of azure, with a blazing star of eight
points". On 21 April 1926, Portsmouth was elevated from town to city
status. Its motto, "Heaven's Light Our Guide" (referring to the city's
eight-pointed star and crescent-moon emblem), was registered in 1929.
The 800th anniversary of the royal charter was celebrated on 2 May
1994. Portsmouth became a unitary authority on 1 April 1997, with its
city council gaining the powers of a non-metropolitan county and
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