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BridgetownPort, capital, and leading commercial centre of Barbados; population (2000 est) 7,000 (town), 97,500 (urban area). It lies in the southwest of the island on Carlisle Bay, and to the northwest includes a deep-water harbour, through which the products of traditional sugar manufacturing are exported. Tourism is also an important industry, and to the north of Bridgetown is the resort of Paradise Beach. Bridgetown was founded in 1628; it became the capital of Barbados at independence in 1966. A campus of the University of the West Indies in the town dates from 1963. Bridgetown was the birthplace of Edward Braithwaite, the poet and historian, and of the cricketers Clyde Walcott and Frank Worrell. |
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