* Virginia, as a division of a city under certain circumstances.

The city has served as the capital of Nevada since statehood in 1864 and for much of its history was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in the 1950s.

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

Only the states of Delaware, West Virginia, Vermont, Maine, North Dakota, and Wyoming do not have a single city with a population over 100, 000 as of the 2007 census estimates.

George Mason University ( often referred to as GMU or Mason ) is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax.

The city of Fairfax purchased and donated of land to the University of Virginia for the college's new site, which was referred to as the Fairfax Campus.

* William Mayo ( civil engineer ) ( c. 1685 – 1744 ), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia

Image: Wheeling West Virginia. jpg | Wheeling, West Virginia, a major city on the river, was the first city to have a bridge across the river.

Its course forms the northern borders of West Virginia and Kentucky ; and the southern borders of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, until it joins the Mississippi River near the city of Cairo, Illinois.

The first city police services were established in Philadelphia in 1751, Richmond, Virginia in 1807, Boston in 1838, and New York in 1845.

On June 23, 1952, the team moved to Charleston, West Virginia, that state's capital city, and became the Senators.

The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond ; and Virginia Beach is the most populous city.

, Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the Commonwealth, with Norfolk and Chesapeake second and third, respectively.

William Ford Gibson was born in the coastal city of Conway, South Carolina, and spent most of his childhood in Wytheville, Virginia, a small town in the Appalachians where his parents had been born and raised.

* November 14 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves the plan by General Ambrose Burnside to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.

* December 13 – Battle of Fredericksburg: The U. S. Army suffers massive casualties and abandons its attempts to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.

* Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.

Graduating from the Virginia Military Institute in 1877, Patton's father served as Los Angeles County, California, District Attorney and the first City Attorney for the city of Pasadena, California and the first mayor of San Marino, California.

When Gardner was seven years old, the family decided to try their luck in a larger city, Newport News, Virginia, where Mollie Gardner found work managing a boarding house for the city's many shipworkers.

The UNCF is headquartered at 8260 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive in an unincorporated area in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, east of the city of Fairfax.

In April, Longstreet besieged Union forces in the city of Suffolk, Virginia, a minor operation, but one that was very important to Lee's army, still stationed in war-devastated central Virginia.

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.

Archaeological evidence indicates that in the latter half of the Middle Bronze Age ( circa 1700 BCE ) the city enjoyed some prosperity, its walls having been strengthened and expanded.

The city Samaria was established as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel during the reign of Omri circa 884 BC.

The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a City State from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesh-Ane-pada.

* The city of Teotihuacán in what is now central Mexico begins to grow unstable, as they exhaust their resources until their inevitable collapse ( possibly caused by the Toltec ) circa 700.

Reproduction of a map of the city Batavia circa 1627, collection Tropenmuseum.

While the city had lost about a third of its 15, 000 citizens during the siege of 1574, it quickly recovered to 45, 000 inhabitants in 1622, and may have come near to 70, 000 circa 1670.

Appian, Dio Cassius, and Plutarch each report that city was once again destroyed in the Roman Civil Wars, circa 42 BC, by Brutus, but Appian notes that it was rebuilt under Mark Antony.

The old town jail ( circa 1880 ) still stands intact on Springfield St. near the new city hall.

Although Inez was not incorporated as a city until 1942, the vicinity was first settled circa 1810 by James Ward and was named Arminta Ward's Bottom.

The city originated as a real estate investment and planned resort established by Pontiac lawyer Joseph E. Sawyer circa 1900.

The community was settled circa 1856, and is named after the city of Trier, Germany.

Ysbrechtum (; ) is a small village ( circa 700 inhabitants ) one km from the city of Sneek in Friesland, Netherlands.

Augsburg has circa 275, 000 inhabitants, is a university city and is the third largest economic-and industrial center in Bavaria.

Reproduction of an Athenian tetradrachma with the image of Athena | Pallas Athena — protector of the city — on the front and an owl — symbol of wisdom — on the back ( circa 490 BC )

The world's earliest known dockyards were built in the Harappan port city of Lothal circa 2400 BC in Gujarat, India.

According to Buddhist traditions, circa 500 BC Prince Gautama Siddhartha, wandering as an ascetic, reached the sylvan banks of Falgu River, near the city of Gaya.

It is the state's largest city, with a population of circa 720, 000 ( about one sixth of the state's population ).

The name " Cochinchina " was coined by Portuguese traders circa 1516, who named it then " Cochin-China " to distinguish it from the city and princely state of Cochin in India, their first headquarters in the Malabar Coast., from the Malay Kuchi which referred to all of Vietnam, a term derived from the Chinese Jiāozhǐ, pronounced Giao Chỉ in Vietnam.

Another important architectural trend to arise in the Seljuk era is the development of mausolea including the tomb tower such as the Gunbad-i-qabus ( circa 1006-7 ) ( showcasing a Zoroastrian motif ) and the domed square, an example of which is the tomb of the Samanids in the city of Bukhara ( circa 943 ).

A historical plan of the city of Monrovia from circa 1830

It is situated to the west of the city of Smolensk ( about 18 km from its center ) and circa 60 km from the Russian borders with Belarus.