CLEVELAND


Meaning of CLEVELAND in English

I

City (pop., 2000: 478,403), northeastern Ohio, U.S. Located on the southern shore of Lake Erie , it is Ohio's second largest city.

Initially the site of French and Indian trading posts, it took its name from Moses Cleaveland, who surveyed the area in 1796. It expanded following the opening of the Erie Canal and the arrival of the railroad in 1851. The American Civil War provided the stimulus for iron and steel processing and oil refining ( I.M. Pei , opened in 1995.

II

Former administrative county, northeastern England.

Created in the government reorganization of 1974, it was located on the North Sea north of North Yorkshire ; the county seat was Middlesbrough . The county was reorganized in 1996. An industrial centre, it has one of the country's major concentrations of steel making, heavy chemicals, and petroleum refining.

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