Glasgow Scotland Phone Directory

Glasgow is the largest city of Scotland and one of the most densely populated cities from the United Kingdom, fact proved by the Glasgow Scotland phone directory, which has only about 600,000 people, but there are distributed 3,300 per square kilometer. Scotland is informally divided into the Highlands and the Lowlands, and according to this division Glasgow is situated in the central Lowlands of Scotland. Although this region is part of the United Kingdom and its official language is English there are a few dialects used in this area, and in Glasgow the dialect used is Glaswegian, which is the language of the working people, the immigrants that came from Ireland and the workers from the docks. This dialect is very much used in the every day spoken language of Glasgow and is sometimes used even in newspapers and local television shows.

This city used to be an ordinary town until the middle of the 14^th century, when the University of Glasgow was founded and the church became stronger because the bishop transformed into an archbishop following the king’s new organization plan. This meant that Glasgow begun transforming into an important religious and cultural center and its population will increase because many young people would come here and study.

Beginning with the 1700s Glasgow became a very important trading center, due to its favorable position as a deep water port, where the big cargo ships were able to land. It used to be the most important commercial center for the tobacco, cotton and sugar trade with the United  States, but it also produced textiles, chemicals, engineering products and raw steel, and this is the time when many foreigners moved to the city, dyeing the Glasgow Scotland phone directory with foreign names. The city became a major center for the building of ships also due to the river Clyde which crossed it and made transportation much easier than that made on the ground.

The 20^th century took the city to the bankruptcy and back, there were periods of time when the city flourished, but there were times when most of the city’s population was living from welfare. They realized that when it came to industrial profitability they couldn’t beat the Japanese and the German, so they started diversifying the economy sectors and started promoting the town and making money out of tourism. The tourism registered a boom in the 1990s, when it was declared for a week one of the European Cities of Culture, so there were a great lot of visitors that year and the city benefited from the publicity made all over Europe. Although it started to bounce back, Glasgow still has one of the highest unemployment rates in the United Kingdom, any many people live here at the limit of poverty.