Carlisle

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(kär-līl', kär'līl') pronunciation

A borough of northwest England near the Scottish border. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in Carlisle's 11th-century castle from May to July 1568. Population: 71,700.

Carlisle, city (1991 pop. 72,006) and district, Cumbria, NW England, near the junction of the Caldew, Eden, and Petteril rivers. The city of Carlisle is an important rail center. Manufactures include textiles, biscuits, and metal products, in addition to a substantial engineering industry. Carlisle also has an important livestock auction. The city's location was formerly strategic; the Roman camp Luguvallium stood there, near Hadrian's Wall. The site figured prominently in the border warfare between the English and the Scots during the Middle Ages. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned there in 1568. During the English civil war, parliamentarians captured Carlisle. A technical college is there.


Cumbria. Luguvalio 4th cent., Carleol (c.1106). An old Celtic name meaning ‘(place) belonging to a man called *Luguvalos’, to which Celtic cair ‘fortified town’ was added after the Roman period.

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The telephone dialing code for: Carlisle, United Kingdom

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The country code is: 44
The city code is: 1228


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In Antigua and Barbuda

  • Carlisle, Antigua and Barbuda, Capital of Saint Philip Parish, Antigua and Barbuda
  • Also another town called Carlisle in Saint George Parish, Antigua and Barbuda

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