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Knoxville| City and inland port in eastern Tennessee, USA, on the upper Tennessee River, 1,000 km/620 mi from its junction with the Ohio River; seat of Knox County; population (2000) 173,900. It is the centre of a mining and agricultural region, and the administrative headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority; it is also a tourist centre for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, located 40–50 km/25–31 mi to the south. Industries include textiles, clothing, and food products. |
| The community was laid out in 1792 and named after General Henry Knox, the first US secretary of war; the city was incorporated in 1815. Knoxville was the first state capital of Tennessee (1796–1812; 1817–19). Union troops captured the city in 1863 during the American Civil War. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the world's largest nuclear research facilities, is nearby. |
| Knoxville is the seat of the University of Tennessee (1794) and Knoxville College (1875). A world fair was held in the city in 1982, with the theme ‘Energy Turns the World’. |
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