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Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, England. The Romans founded the city of Noviomagus Reginorum in 43 AD, amid the Roman conquest of Britain, and the original Roman city walls survived for 1,500 years. An amphitheatre was also built in 80 AD. King Aelle of Sussex conquered the city amid the chaos of Sub-Roman Britain and renamed it after his son, Cissa of Sussex, hence the name Cicestre. Chichester was transformed into a fortified burh by King Alfred the Great from 878 to 879, just a few years after it was sacked by raiding Vikings in 875 AD. A Roman Catholic cathedral was built in Chichester in 1075. By 1086, Chichester had a population of 1,500 people. Chichester Castle was built in the aftermath of the Norman conquest of England, and the castle fell to the French in 1216 during the Barons' War, only to be demolished a year later. In 1642, its small Royalist garrison fell to the Parliamentarians at the start of the English Civil War, and, from 1795 to 2014, the city was home to a British Army garrison. In 2011, Chichester had a population of 26,795 people, and, since the seat's creation in 1868 (with the exception of a Liberal interruption from 1923-1924), Chichester's constituency in Parliament was a Conservative Party safe seat.

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