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  1. Industrial port and city (chemicals,
  2. textiles, shipbuilding, iron and steel goods;
  3. headquarters of Du Pont enterprises) in
  4. Delaware, USA; population (1992) 70,000.
  5. Founded by Swedish settlers as Fort Christina
  6. 1638, it was taken from the Dutch and renamed
  7. by the British in the 1664.
  8.