Birmingham, in the 6th Century, was a Saxon settlement, or Hamlet, on the banks of the river Rea. It's recorded in the Doomsday Book of 1086, as a small village. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham
They had houses schools and shops and transport.
Birmingham has been a settlement since the Anglo Saxon period and there is evidence of habitation going back 500,000 years. Although locally important, Birmingham has not been the capital of England
it had many fertile soil , flat land and water and many buildings.
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It has flat land, fertile soil, water and building material like stone and wood.
Because people could get easy acess to food, shelter water and good soil
it was a better place were they could trade with other colonies.
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-ham is the Anglo-Saxon word for homestead or farm or settlement. Birmingham, Nottingham, Rotherham, Gillingham, Westerham, Swaffham, Billingham, Ledsham, Wattisham, Cheltenham etc.
Birmingham in French is Birmingham.
The name "Birmingham" comes from the Old English Beormingahām, meaning the home or settlement of the Beormingas - a tribe or clan whose name literally means "Beorma's people": homes and settlements/cities often had hearths either scared or private, which in Greek myth were the domain of Hestia.