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Sydney, is one of the oldest settlements in Australia. Although in every respect, including the country’s economic center is not actually the capital. (capital, Canberra.) founded the shores of Port Jackson.
Sydney, Botany Bay and Pittwater known as the homeland of the tribe who lived between the Darut. For this reason, where a large number of prehistoric settlements to remain there, in the names of most of this comes from the old settlements.
A colonial life in Sydney in 1778, began as a colony of sixty years of British society and the city the unwanted, criminal contacts housed. Despite this bad start, Sydney is currently the world has managed to become a famous cultural and art center.
Sydney’s original inhabitants, the 18th here century by the British soldiers have been forcibly displaced. A large part of the local people were murdered by British troops, a significant portion of the rest of the crowd is usually due to diseases caused by poor working conditions in the form of communities died.
Sydney in January of 1788 a proposal to the city from the British navy commander James Cook Britain’s overcrowded prisons have been convicted of 759 pieces. With this settlement in the British navy, the city developed in the bay north of Sydney today.