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Bethlehem (USA)

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Bethlehem

City in eastern Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh River; population (1992 est) 72,400. The city forms part of the metropolitan area of Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton which occupies the river valley for some 30 km/19 mi. It still has a major iron and steel industry and is the headquarters of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, but high technology industries are of increasing importance.

Bethlehem was founded in 1741 by Moravian missionaries from Germany, and was incorporated as a city in 1917. It is the seat of Lehigh University (1865) and Moravian College (1742), and was the birthplace of the writers Stephen Vincent Benét and Hilda Doolittle.



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