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| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
| Derby, city, United States |
(dûr´b ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 12,199), New Haven co., SW Conn., at the confluence of the Naugatuck and Housatonic rivers, opposite Shelton; founded 1642 as a trading post, inc. as a city 1893. Its copper industry and pin manufactures date from the 1830s. |
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