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Housing Units (2000): 3782
Land area (2000): 2.090989 sq. miles (5.415636 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005457 sq. miles (0.014134 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.096446 sq. miles (5.429770 sq. km)
FIPS code: 23744
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.609295 N, 77.506031 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Wikipedia
Dumbarton (; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990.
Dumbarton was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Alclud, and later the county town of Dunbartonshire. Dumbarton Castle, on top of Dumbarton Rock, dominates the area. Dumbarton was a Royal burgh between 1222 and 1975.
Dumbarton emerged from the 19th century as a centre for shipbuilding, glassmaking, and whisky production. However these industries have since declined, and Dumbarton today is increasingly a commuter town for Glasgow east-southeast of it. Dumbarton F.C. is the local football club.
Dumbarton is home to BBC Scotland's drama studios.
Dumbarton is a town in Scotland. It may also refer to:
- County of Dumbarton in Scotland
- Dumbarton (Scottish Parliament constituency)
- Dumbarton (UK Parliament constituency), a former UK Parliament constituency.
- Dumbarton, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
- Dumbarton Bridge (California), a bridge across the San Francisco Bay in California
- Dumbarton Bridge (Washington, D.C.), a bridge across Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.
- Dumbarton Oaks, in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
- Dumbarton House, in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
- Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks), a 1938 concerto by Igor Stravinsky
- Dumbarton Oaks Conference, the meeting where the United Nations was formulated and negotiated
- Dumbarton F.C., a Scottish Second Division football (soccer) team
- Dumbarton Parish, New Brunswick a Parish in New Brunswick Canada
- Dumbarton, Virginia, a census-designated place and neighborhood in Henrico County, Virginia
Dumbarton was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It was largely absorbed into the new constituency of Dunbartonshire West, with Helensburgh joining Argyll and Bute.
The Dumbarton constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which created in 1999 with the same boundaries, continues to exist.
Dumbarton is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Dumbarton was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
After the Acts of Union 1707, Dumbarton, Glasgow, Renfrew and Rutherglen formed the Glasgow district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.
Usage examples of "dumbarton".
Two days before this, the ship from the sky arrived, landing between Aberdeen and Dumbarton.
Caithness will send forth, by fastest steed, two criers to give warning to two other towns, and Dumbarton will do the same.
It comprehended all England, Wales, and the Lowlands of Scotland, as far as the Friths of Dumbarton and Edinburgh.
I have not forgotten Hume and Heriot nor has Lennox, I imagine~ dismissed the events at Dumbarton.
We know now that we owe to you other gifts of money and of secrets over the years, and that we have had ignorantly the use of your talents and your abilities at Hume and at Heriot, at Carlisle and Dumbarton.
Much of his research on the period, on Turks, and on Manzikert in particular appear in the following: “Nomadization and Islamization in Asia Minor,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 29, 1975, and “The Internal History of Byzantium During the Time of Troubles, 1057-81,” which is drawn from Professor Vryonis’ doctoral dissertation at Harvard University.
Hiss supervised the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, which helped create the United Nations, and he later served as secretary general of the San Francisco Conference, which drafted the United Nations Charter.
Antoninus Pius, having gained new victories over the Caledonians, by the ability of his general, Lollius, Urbicus, caused a new rampart of earth to be constructed between Edinburgh and Dumbarton.