Birmingham Alabama

Birmingham (ˈbɝmɪŋˌhæm) is the largest city in the U. S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County. The population of the city proper is 242,820 (2000 U. S. census), and declined to 231,483 according to the 2005 estimate. A nationally-ranked teaching and research center, offering a full range of academic
programs including arts and humanities, business, education, engineering. [1] It also serves as the primary nucleus for a sprawling urbanization known as Greater Birmingham with 1,170,012 inhabitants constituting roughly one quarter of the state of Alabama's entire population. Birmingham was founded in 1871, just after the U. S. Civil War, as an industrial enterprise. It was named after Birmingham, the major industrial city of England. Home to a significant but rigorously segregated African American middle class, Birmingham was one of the battlegrounds of the American Civil Rights Movement throughout the 1960s. Birmingham Alabama Hotel.

Today, Birmingham ranks as one of the most important business centers in the Southeastern United States and is also one of the largest banking centers in the U. S. In addition, the Birmingham area serves as headquarters to two Fortune 500 companies: Regions Financial and Saks Incorporated. Birmingham has been recognized as the South's top city for income growth and among the top ten nationally over the last 20 years. [2]