Waterford, city in the Republic of Ireland, in the county Waterford, at the delta of the Suir. At present the Christianisierung was settled the place. It carried at that time the names Cuan NO groith. In 9. It the Danes took and called century it Vader fjord. In 12. Century it was conquered by the Englishmen. Waterford received 1206 municipal rights and developed in the future to a anti-Protestant center. The city carried 1649 for the troops out of the English statesman of olive Cromwell resistance, fell however 1650 to the parliamentarians. From Waterford the English king Jakob stung IITH 1690 after his defeat in the battle at the Boyne in lake, in order to issue itself to France. The number of inhabitants amounts to with incorporations about 51,000.
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