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Parramatta

 
Dictionary: Par·ra·mat·ta   (păr'ə-măt'ə) pronunciation

A city of southeast Australia, a manufacturing suburb of Sydney. It was founded in 1788. Population: 148,000.

 

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Parramatta (pâr'əmăt'ə), city (1996 pop. 139,157), New South Wales, SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney, on the Parramatta River. It is the regional center for the western suburbs of Sydney. Founded in 1788, it is the second oldest settlement in Australia.


 
 

 

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