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ancient Glevum
City and administrative district (pop., 2001: 109,888), administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire , southwestern England.
The county seat of Gloucestershire, it lies on the River Severn and is linked by ship canal to docks in the Severn estuary. It was founded as the Roman colony of Glevum in AD 9698. An abbey was founded there in 681; the town later became the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia . Important economically even before the Norman Conquest (1066), it was incorporated in 1483 and continued to flourish as a trading centre. It has varied industries, including the manufacture of railway rolling stock and aircraft, and light and heavy engineering works.