Bangor, town (1991 pop. 70,750), North Down dist., E Northern Ireland, on Belfast Lough. It is a seaport, resort, and yachting center (site of an annual regatta), with some light industry. The Elizabethan Bangor Castle is in the town along with the remains of an abbey founded c.555 by St. Comgall and destroyed by the Danes in the 9th cent. Rebuilt in 1120, it was taken over by Franciscans in 1469. The missionary abbey was dissolved in 1542.

Bangor, city (1990 pop. 33,181), seat of Penobscot co., S Maine, at the confluence of the Penobscot and Kenduskeag rivers; inc. as a town 1791, as a city 1834. It is a port of entry, commercial center, and gateway to an extensive resort and lumber region. Major industries include the production of shoes, pulp and paper, and wood products. The city was settled in 1769 and was known as Sunbury. During the War of 1812 it was occupied by the British. In the 19th cent., Bangor was a shipbuilding center that carried on an extensive coastal and overseas trade in lumber, stone, and ice. The city has a theological seminary, a conservatory of music, and three colleges. Bangor International Airport, part of which was once Dow Air Force Base, has one of the longest runways in the United States.

Bangor, town (1981 pop. 12,174), Gwynedd, NW Wales, at the northern end of Menai Strait. Slate is shipped from adjacent Port Penrhyn. The cathedral, on the site of a 6th-century church, dates from the 11th cent. and has been rebuilt several times. Bangor is the seat of a constitutent institution of the Univ. of Wales.

Town (pop., 2001: 58,388), seat of North Down district, Northern Ireland. It lies on the southern shore of Belfast Lough, 12 mi (19 km) northeast of Belfast. St. Comgall founded a monastery at Bangor circa 555, which became a celebrated seat of learning. The town was sacked by the Danes in the 9th century; it was partially rebuilt by St. Malachy in the 12th century. It is now a seaside resort.

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Bangor is a place-name found in a number of countries

Australia

• Bangor, New South Wales
• Bangor, South Australia
• Bangor, Tasmania

Canada

• Bangor, Nova Scotia
• Bangor, Ontario
• Bangor, Prince Edward Island
• Bangor (city), Saskatchewan
• Bangor (town), Saskatchewan
• Bangor Lodge, Saskatchewan
• Bangor Road, Prince Edward Island

France

• Bangor, Morbihan, Brittany

India

• Bangor, India

Ireland

• Bangor, County Mayo

United Kingdom

• Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland
• Bangor (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
• Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
• Bangor-on-Dee (also known as Bangor Is-Coed or Bangor-Is-y-Coed), Wrexham, Wales

United States

• Bangor, Alabama
• Bangor, California
• Bangor, Maine
• Bangor International Airport
• Bangor, Michigan (see also Bangor Township, Michigan, below)
• Bangor, New York
• Bangor, Pennsylvania
• Bangor Trident Base, Washington
• Bangor, Wisconsin (village)
• Bangor (town), Wisconsin
• Bangor Township, Iowa
• Bangor Township, Minnesota
• Bangor Township, Bay County, Michigan (see also Bangor, Michigan, above)
• Bangor Township, Van Buren County, Michigan
• Bangor Township, South Dakota
• East Bangor, Pennsylvania

Other uses

• Bangor Records, a record label
• Antiphonary of Bangor, an 18th Century Irish hymn from which the name of Bangor, Maine was supposedly derived.
• City of Bangor, a ship