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Belfast City is located in the northeast part of the island green and is called the capital of Northern Ireland. In the Belfast population is about 410 000 people after Dublin and Belfast is the second largest city in the whole of Ireland.

Belfas t became the capital of Northern Ireland after the division of Ireland in 1920. Since this event is not in Northern Ireland began to appear religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics. Between 1969 - 1990, there were even just a few civil wars. In 1941, during the Second World War in Belfast, died during a single air raid thousands of people. Recently, however, despite continuing religious problems in Belfast, people live happily, happily, as in other parts of Northern Ireland and Great Britain. For most years, the Belfast is the main theater of unrest across Northern Ireland, since the conclusion of the Belfast Agreement in 1998, however, the city gradually changing, updates and develops. In Belfast today, see for example, is now two airports and three very prestigious university.

The memorable part of Belfast is the port in which saw the light of the legendary ship Titanic, which was first launched on the 31st level May 1911 and after the last adjustment in 1912 and successfully sailed to Southampton. 15th April 1912, Titanic sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The devastation brought on the terrible day of death, about 1500 people and was in their honor today in Belfast city built the Titanic Quarter, which should rise to a luxury restaurant, a huge industrial park and museum with the estate of this fascinating ship.

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