In conjunction with another disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Naum, he created a flourishing Bulgarian cultural center around Ohrid, where over 3, 000 pupils were taught in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script in what is now called Ohrid Literary School.

Their capital was the large oasis of Hail, now a flourishing urban center.

With the elimination of pirates along the Dalmatian coast, the city became a flourishing trade center between Western Europe and the rest of the world ( especially the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world ).

In the Early Christian era it remained a flourishing center, and after the end of the Western Roman Empire ( in 476 ), Trieste was a Byzantine military outpost.

The town of Liberty is nearly in the center of the township and is quite a flourishing little town.

Subsequently, Lakeville became a flourishing milling center and its agriculture industry is still in operation.

By mid-century Maumee was already a flourishing center of river trade, commerce and shipbuilding.

After 1127 it became a center of the defenses of the Southern Song dynasty ( 1126 – 1279 ) against the Jin ( Jurchen ) invaders, as well as a flourishing center of trade between the two states.

Greer also became a textile-manufacturing center, with flourishing mills that included Victor, Franklin, Apalache and Greer Mills.

Meanwhile, South Jiangsu continued to be an important center of trade in China ; some historians see in the flourishing textiles industry at the time incipient industrialization and capitalism, a trend that was however aborted, several centuries before similar trends took hold in the West.

It was also a flourishing center of scientific ideas and discoveries.

Incomes from flourishing trade allowed the town center to be rebuilt in two decades.

The kingdom, with a flourishing Mon language and culture, became a center of commerce and Theravada Buddhism.

The area is now flourishing as one of the newest urban business districts in the Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area, symbolized by Landmark Tower, Japan's tallest skyscraper, the three Queens Square Towers, which contain a large shopping mall, the Pacifico Yokohama convention center, the Intercontinental Hotel, the Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris wheel, and more.

Eastern Rite, Church of the East Christianity took hold in Persian ruled Mesopotamia, particularly in Assyria from the 1st Century AD onwards, and the region became a center of a flourishing Syriac-Assyrian literary tradition.

Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang visited the site on 30 April 630 CE, and described Bamiyan in the Da Tang Xiyu Ji as a flourishing Buddhist center " with more than ten monasteries and more than a thousand monks ".

While the city of Yangzhou was the center of trade, flourishing and prosperous, it was considered part of Jiangnan, which was known to be wealthy, even though Yangzhou was north of the Yangzi river.

Alongside the Great Depression, many musicians from poor, rural Southern states like Louisiana moved to the north, especially New York City and Chicago, Louis Armstrong was among them, and he helped make Chicago the center for musical innovation in the country before moving on to New York, where clubs like Cotton Club, Village Vanguard and Minton's were flourishing.

Enrollment declined owing to the distance of the new neighborhood from the center, but the Jesuits persevered and by the end of the 19th century the school was once again flourishing.

Today, Leimert Park is considered the center of the African-American arts scene in Los Angeles, with flourishing blues and jazz clubs, as well as venues for hip hop and numerous dramatic performances and poetry readings.

While the city of Yangzhou was the center of trade, flourishing and prosperous, it was considered part of Jiangnan, which was known to be wealthy, even though Yangzhou was north of the Yangzi river.

In time, the barrio became the flourishing trading center of eastern Laguna and attracted families from the surrounding communities of Cavinti and Pila.

The communities prosperity extended into the 19th century, when the village was the center of a flourishing ceramic industry and distillation of alcohol and spirits.

He wrote his Rule for these flourishing communities, which embodied the customs of Bangor and other Celtic monasteries.

Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

It became the most important city around the Øresund, with the German Hanseatic League frequenting it as a marketplace, notable for its flourishing herring fishing.

Olive trees, Olea europaea, show a marked preference for calcareous soils, flourishing best on limestone slopes and crags, and coastal climate conditions.

By the middle of the 3rd century, the conditions for the flourishing of a refined legal culture had become less favourable.

Even in daily, physical action, the flourishing human ’ s “… Act is determined by the higher phase of the Soul .” ( Enneads III. 4. 6 ) Even in the most dramatic arguments Plotinus considers ( if the Proficient is subject to extreme physical torture, for example ), he concludes this only strengthens his claim of true happiness being metaphysical, as the truly happy human being would understand that which is being tortured is merely a body, not the conscious self, and happiness could persist.

:" Jerusalem during the second quarter of the twelfth century possessed a flourishing and well-established scriptorium which could, without difficulty, undertake a commission for a royal manuscript de grand luxe ".

During the Imperial age Apulia was a flourishing area for production of grain and oil, becoming the most important exporter to the Eastern provinces.

This suggests that genetic monomorphism did not prevent the cheetah from flourishing across two continents for thousands of years.

However, it was the flourishing of Christian Hebraist interpretations of Job 29: 18 that brought the Joban phoenix to life for Christian readers of the seventeenth century.

Germany and the Lowlands had large flourishing towns that grew in comparative peace, in trade and competition with each other, or united for mutual weal, as in the Hanseatic League.

The reign of his successor, Maria Theresa of Austria, marked the beginning of a flourishing era for the city.

He was employed by Richard of Dover, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on various ecclesiastical missions in Wales, wherein he distinguished himself for his efforts to remove supposed abuses of consanguinity and tax laws flourishing in the Welsh church at the time.

Although the dockyard has long been closed and is now being redeveloped into a business and residential community as well as a museum featuring the famous submarine, HMS Ocelot, major naval buildings remain as the focus for a flourishing tourist industry.

However, this house had been the venue for presentations of all of the works of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini up to this time, and a flourishing operatic culture existed in Modena.

Responsible for the flourishing business of people smuggling are a combination of interacting factors, from weak legislation and lax border controls to corrupt officials and the power of organized crime.

In imitation of his father, and so many others of the Greek rulers of Asia, he determined to perpetuate his own name by the foundation of a new capital and the site that he chose, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Megarian colony of Astakos, was so judiciously selected that the city of Nicomedia continued for more than six centuries to be one of the richest and most flourishing in Anatolia.

Apparently “ in preparing the ground for the usurpation and in consolidating his position, Richard found it more expedient to appease than to alienate the house of Stanley .” Thus, Lord Stanley was soon at liberty and continued as steward of the royal household, apparently flourishing at the heart of the new regime.

By the mid-1850s, with the flourishing of opera performed by touring companies, the need for a new theatre became obvious.

However by the late 1990s the canal network and British Waterways was flourishing ; revenues generated for canal maintenance reached £ 100, 000, 000 for the first time in 1998, large grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund allowed the canal network to expand again by restoring former canals and additional funding was announced for British Waterways in 1999 by the then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

Although Spanish pop music is currently flourishing, the industry suffered for many years under Francisco Franco's regime, with few outlets for Spanish performers during the 1930s through the 1970s.