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Recorded as ''Loidis'' by the [[Venerable Bede]] in the 8th century AD as the house of the kings of the Brittonic kingdom [[Elmet]], Leeds was a manorial borough in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]] by the 13th century and a market town by the 15th century. It saw significant expansion with the wool industry in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially with the advent of the [[Industrial Revolution]] and opening of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. [[Coal]], which may have been extracted in the area as early as the Roman period, was also a big industry locally until the 20th century.
Recorded as ''Loidis'' by the [[Venerable Bede]] in the 8th century AD as the house of the kings of the Brittonic kingdom [[Elmet]], Leeds was a manorial borough in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]] by the 13th century and a market town by the 15th century. It saw significant expansion with the wool industry in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially with the advent of the [[Industrial Revolution]] and opening of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. [[Coal]], which may have been extracted in the area as early as the Roman period, was also a big industry locally until the 20th century.
==Geography==
Leeds is mostly split between the [[Skyrack]] and [[Agbrigg and Morley]] wapentakes of the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]].
==The People==
==The People==
Despite the old image of a grim northern industrial town, Leeds now has a thriving multicultural community with thousands of students and workers choosing to live here. Despite the influx of Muslim people from neighboring Bradford, UK,<ref>[http://weaselzippers.us/2011/07/27/british-islamists-expand-campaign-to-set-up-sharia-law-zones-in-uk-cities/ British Islamists Expand Campaign To Set Up Sharia Law Zones In UK Cities…]</ref> Leeds citizens have lost none of their reputation for friendliness and hospitality except if you might espouse Christianity.
Despite the old image of a grim northern industrial town, Leeds now has a thriving multicultural community with thousands of students and workers choosing to live here. Despite the influx of Muslim people from neighboring Bradford, UK,<ref>[http://weaselzippers.us/2011/07/27/british-islamists-expand-campaign-to-set-up-sharia-law-zones-in-uk-cities/ British Islamists Expand Campaign To Set Up Sharia Law Zones In UK Cities…]</ref> Leeds citizens have lost none of their reputation for friendliness and hospitality except if you might espouse Christianity.