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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.

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