Birmingham (/ˈbÉœË rmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north
central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. With an estimated 2019
population of 209,403, it is the most populous city in Alabama.
Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous
and fifth largest county. As of 2018, the Birmingham-Hoover
Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 1,151,801, making it
the most populous in Alabama and 49th-most populous in the United
States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is
associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian regions of
the nation.Birmingham (/ˈbÉœË rmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is a city in
the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. With an
estimated 2019 population of 209,403, it is the most populous city in
Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most
populous and fifth largest county. As of 2018, the Birmingham-Hoover
Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 1,151,801, making it
the most populous in Alabama and 49th-most populous in the United
States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is
associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian regions of
the nation.Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the postâ€"Civil War
Reconstruction era, through the merger of three farm towns, most
notably Elyton. The new city was named for Birmingham, England, the
United Kingdom's second largest city and then a major industrial city.
The Alabama city annexed its smaller neighbors as it developed into a
major industrial center based on mining, the iron and steel industry,
and rail transport. Most of the original settlers were of English
ancestry. The city was developed as a place where low paid,
non-unionized immigrants (mainly Irish and Italian), along with
African-Americans from rural Alabama, who worked in the city's steel
mills and blast furnaces and gave it a competitive advantage over
unionized industrial cities of the Midwest and Northeast.:14From its
founding through the end of the 1960s, Birmingham was a primary
industrial center of the southern United States. Its rapid growth from
1881 through 1920 earned it the nicknames "The Magic City" and "The
Pittsburgh of the South". Its major industries were iron and steel
production. Major components of the railroad industry, including rails
and railroad cars, were made in Birmingham. The two primary hubs of
railroading in the "Deep South" have been Birmingham and Atlanta. The
economy began to diversify in the latter half of the twentieth
century, as the steel mills began to shut down. Banking,
Telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission,
medical care, college education, and insurance have become its major
economic activities. Birmingham now ranks as one of the largest
banking centers in the U.S. It is also one of the important business
centers of the Southeast. Birmingham, Alabama Top Movies & Young Movies