List of nicknames for Birmingham

This is a list of nicknames for Birmingham:

• The Magic City, the city's most recognized nickname, refers to its rapid growth, first used by James Powell in 1873
• Steel City, referring to the city's major industrial product
• Pittsburgh of the South, comparing the city's industrial economy to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Bombingham, referring to the string of unsolved racially-motivated bombing cases which began in 1947, in use before 1963
• City of Perpetual Promise, referring to the areas vast resources and the bottlenecks of poor leadership in exploiting them, used in a 1937 Harpers magazine article.
• Bad Birmingham, referring to violence and lawlessness in Birmingham's boom period in the late 19th and early 20th century
• "Inland Metropolis" used in a 1909 promotional book
• "Mineral City of the South" used in a 1909 promotional book
• Murder Capital of the World, in use at least by 1931 to refer to the rampant violence in Birmingham
• Rabies Capital of North America, used in the early 20th century due to frequent fatal attacks by rabid dogs

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