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Berkeley (/ËbÉrkliË/ BURK-lee) is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.It is named after the Irish eighteenth-century bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.here was a strong prohibition movement in Berkeley at this time. In 1876, the city passed the mile limit law, which forbade sale or public consumption of alcohol within one mile (1.6 km) of the new University of California.