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London attracts over 9 million visitors annually, drawn to its theaters, museums, and historic sites. The city's history dates back to Roman times when it was known as Londinium, experiencing significant events like the Great Plague and the Great Fire of 1666. Today, London has a population of over 6 million, although it faced a decline in central residents during the 1970s and 1980s.

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London attracts over 9 million visitors annually, drawn to its theaters, museums, and historic sites. The city's history dates back to Roman times when it was known as Londinium, experiencing significant events like the Great Plague and the Great Fire of 1666. Today, London has a population of over 6 million, although it faced a decline in central residents during the 1970s and 1980s.

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By Alif Ghulam, Salman Al-Farisi & Vicky Wahyudi

This is London. Every year, more than 9 million people come from
countries all over the world to visit London. They go to the theaters and
museums. They look at interesting old buildings. Many of them hundreds of
years old. They sit or walk in the beautiful parks. Or have a drink in a pub.
They go to Oxford Street. To look at the shops or to Harrod’s. 2 million
visitors go to the Tower of London. A million more go to see saint Paul’s
Cathedral. Yes, London is a big and beautiful city with lots to see and do. But
how did it all begin ?
In the beginning. The name of London comes from the Romans. There
were people living here before they came but we do not know very much
about them. The Romans came to England in AD forty-three. They built
houses and other buildings and made a town next to the river Thames. They
called the town Lundinium. They built a bridge over the river. And ships
came up to Londonium from the sea. The town got bigger and bigger.
Important new buildings went up. And you can see some of the roman city
wall today. Near the museum of London. It was a rich town with about 50
thousand people living in it. But soon after AD 400 the Romans left
Londonium to go back to Rome and nobody lived in the town for many
hundreds of years the buildings began to fall down Danish soldiers destroyed
more buildings nearly 500 years later. King Alfred was king of England then
he got the Danes to leave London and his men built the town again. In ten
sixty-six, William the conqueror came to England from France to be king.
Soon after, he began to build the tower of London. When Henry the eighth
was king in fifteen oh nine, 50 thousands people lived in London again. By
the year sixteen hundred, there were 200 thousands but a lot of them lived
in old and dirty buildings. In sixteen sixty-five 100 thousands people died
from an illness called the plague. This was called year of the great plague. A
year later, in sixteen sixty-six, there was a big fire. The fire of London, it
began in a house in Pudding Lane, near London Bridge. More than a quarter
of a million Londoners lost their homes in the fire. It destroyed Saint Paul’s
Cathedral and eighty-eight others churches. But the fire also destroyed most
of the worst old buildings. And the new houses that went up after this were
better for people to live in. a new saint paul’s cathedral was built between
1675 and seventeen eleven. By eighteen-eightyone, more than 3 million
people lived in London. Today, more than 6 million people live here. There
were 8 million in the nineteen sixties. But in the 1970s and nineteen eighties,
people moved out of the center of London.

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