Canberra Day
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For many years, the territory of the modern city was inhabited by aboriginal tribes. Archaeological excavations show that Canberra was inhabited 21,000 years ago.
The name "Canberra" is believed to have originated from the language of one of the local tribes - the Ghabri - as a variation of the word "Cambera" or "Camberi" ("meeting place").
Europeans began to settle in the city in the 20s of the 19th century. The official beginning of mass settlements can be considered 1826. It was then that entrepreneur Joshua John Moore bought the land here and named the property Canberry.
The population of Canberra is 325,000. It is the largest city in the country that has no access to the sea. Canberra was chosen in 1908 as a compromise in a dispute between Sydney and Melbourne.
Canberra is a very unusual, geometrically calibrated and carefully designed city, as it was built specifically to fulfill the metropolitan function. At one time, an international competition was announced for the best project of the city. The winner was Chicago architect Walter Burley Griffin. Construction of the modern city began in 1913. In the same year, on March 12, the wife of the Governor-General of the country, Lord Denman, the city was given the official name - Canberra.
Canberra is built as a garden city - with huge stretches of natural, pristine vegetation, which eventually led to the joking nickname bush capital.
Canberra is a government territory. It is home to the Parliament, the Supreme Court of Australia, the National Library of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery of Australia, an endless number of government departments and agencies, which attracts many domestic and foreign tourists.