Editing Glasgow (section)

===Early history===
[[File:Glasgow-Cathedral-old-photo.jpg|thumb|right|The Cathedral of [[Glasgow Cathedral|St Mungo's]]. Saint Mungo is reputed to have founded the city in the 6th century]] 

The area around Glasgow has hosted communities for millennia,{{specify|reason="millennia" is the plural of millennium. Two millennia, ten millennial, 17 millennia?|date=July 2024}} with the [[River Clyde]] providing a natural location for fishing. The [[Roman Empire|Romans]] later built outposts in the area and, to protect Roman [[Britannia]] from the [[Brittonic languages|Brittonic speaking]] ([[Insular Celts|Celtic]]) [[Caledonians]], constructed the [[Antonine Wall]]. Items from the wall, such as altars from [[Castra|Roman forts]] like [[Balmuildy]], can be found at the [[Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery|Hunterian Museum]] today.

Glasgow itself was reputed to have been founded by the Christian [[missionary]] [[Saint Mungo]] in the 6th century. He established a church on the [[Molendinar Burn]], where the present [[Glasgow Cathedral]] stands, and in the following years Glasgow became a religious centre.
Glasgow grew over the following centuries as part of the [[Kingdom of Strathclyde]] and the [[Kingdom of Scotland]]. The [[Glasgow Fair]] reportedly began in 1190.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lindsay |first1=Sir John |title=The City of Glasgow : its origin, growth and development; with maps and plates |date=1921 |publisher=Royal Scottish Geographical Society |location=Edinburgh |page=26 |url=https://archive.org/stream/cityofglasgowits00newb#page/26/mode/2up/search/1190 |access-date=3 December 2017}}</ref> A bridge over the River Clyde was recorded from around 1285, where [[Victoria Bridge, Glasgow|Victoria Bridge]] now stands. As the [[lowest bridging point]] on the Clyde it was an important crossing. The area around the bridge became known as Briggait. The founding of the [[University of Glasgow]] adjoining the cathedral in 1451 and elevation of the [[Diocese|bishopric]] to become the [[Archdiocese of Glasgow]] in 1492 increased the town's religious and educational status and landed wealth. Its early trade was in agriculture, brewing and fishing, with cured salmon and herring being exported to Europe and the Mediterranean.<ref name="ReferenceA">The City of Glasgow – The Third Statistical Account of Scotland, published 1958</ref> By the fifteenth century the urban area stretched from the area around the cathedral and university in the north down to the bridge and the banks of the Clyde in the south along [[High Street, Glasgow|High Street]], [[Saltmarket]] and Bridgegate, crossing an east–west route at [[Glasgow Cross]] which became the commercial centre of the city.<ref>{{cite book |title=Glasgow Central Conservation Area Appraisal |date=2012 |publisher=Glasgow City Council |location=Glasgow |page=6 |url=https://glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=10838&p=0 |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>