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Armidale Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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Armidale The historic court house in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.

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New South Wales, Australia
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Armidale, city, northeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the valley slopes of Dumaresq Creek in the New England Range. Armidale was founded in 1839 by G.J. Macdonald, commissioner of crown lands, who named it for his fatherā€™s Scottish baronial estate on the Isle of Skye It developed a pastoral-agricultural economy. The city has become a regional cultural centre with Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, several private and state schools, and the University of...

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