* 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.

Abadan is thought to have been further developed into a major port city under the Abbasids ' rule.

Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.

Many major cities are on or near good harbors and have port facilities.

The major Danube port is Vukovar.

Glace Bay served as the hub of the Sydney & Louisburg Railway and also as a major fishing port.

The Boulaq district, which lies in the northern part of the city, was born out of a major 16th-century port and is now a major industrial centrer.

In 2007 China agreed to lend the DRC US $ 5bn for two major transport infrastructure projects to link mineral-rich Katanga, specifically Lubumbashi, by rail to an ocean port ( Matadi ) and by road to the Kisangani river port, and to improve its links to the transport network of Southern Africa in Zambia.

Roseau, the nation's capital and major port, is favorably situated on the sheltered, southwestern coast.

Later that July, he met San Martín at the Guayaquil conference and convinced the Argentine general, who wanted the port to return to Peruvian jurisdiction, and the local Criollo elite in both major cities of the advantage of having the former Quito Audiencia join with the liberated lands to the north.

The city also functions as the main port of entry into the country, with international airport, La Aurora International Airport and most major highways in the country originating or leading to the city.

The strategic importance of the site was increased by the fact that it lay on a major river estuary, where vessels could dock at the port of Suso.

Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers ' shelter took place on 23 April 1923, and the first major seagoing ship arrived on 13 August 1923.

This charter, along with Hamburg's proximity to the main trade routes of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, quickly made it a major port in Northern Europe.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

Some Greeks grew rich as merchants and shipowners, and Piraeus became a major port, but little of this wealth found its way to the Greek peasantry.

London's traditional status as a major port declined dramatically in the post-war decades as the old Docklands could not accommodate large modern container ships.

Kochi is another major Indian port on the Arabian Sea.

Aden is a major port in Yemen and controls ships entering the Red Sea.

It is well developed, with each of the major islands having at least one significant port city.

The last major canal to be built in the United Kingdom was the Manchester Ship Canal, which upon opening in 1894 was the largest ship canal in the world, and opened Manchester as a port.

He also wanted to convert Ostia to a major port, and cut a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth.

The harbour area became known as Sunda Kelapa and by the fourteenth century, it was a major trading port for Sunda kingdom.

Drifting through a third illness, apparently without any provision for the handling of a major national emergency other than a talk with the vice-president, Eisenhower revealed the singularly static quality of his thinking.

They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction ; ;

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

of his championship of many of the progressive social measures which adorn our statute books today, and of his cooperation in times of adversity with Presidents of both of our major parties in helping to pilot the Ship of State through the shoals of today's stormy international seas.

The latter jobs include major management responsibilities and have been filled by those who have come up primarily through the engineering-management side.

Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.

Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

`` This is one of the major items in the Fulton County general assistance program '', the jury said, but the State Welfare Department `` has seen fit to distribute these funds through the welfare departments of all the counties in the state with the exception of Fulton County, which receives none of this money.

The current exhibition, which remains on view through Oct. 29, has tapped 14 major collections and many private sources.

From the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.

Historians of anthropology, such as Marvin Harris, indicate two major frameworks within which empirical anthropology has arisen: interest in comparisons of people over space and interest in longterm human processes or, humans as viewed through time.

The oceans are the major source of the atmospheric moisture that is obtained through evaporation.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

The crew entered the Lunar Module through the docking tunnel connecting it with the Command Module to inspect its systems, at which time they did not spot any major issues.

* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

Colangelo ’ s willingness to go into debt and acquire players through free agency had led to one of the quickest free falls in major sports history.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

His success in spreading his reputation across Europe through prints were undoubtedly an inspiration for major artists such as Raphael, Titian, and Parmigianino, all of whom collaborated with printmakers in order to promote and distribute their work.

Another major flaw of the controllers was that the design did not translate into a linear acceleration from the center through the arc of the stick travel.

Clinton made a major speech to Congress regarding a health care reform plan on September 22, 1993, aimed at achieving universal coverage through a national health care plan.

Minsk has a digital metropolitan network ; waiting lists for telephones are long ; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be undeserved ; intercity-Belarus has developed fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities ( 1998 ); Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries ' systems ; an inadequate analogue system remains operational.

An " inner circle " highway connecting all major towns and district capitals is completely paved, and the all-weather Trans-Kalahari Highway connects the country ( and, through it, South Africa's commercially dominant Gauteng Province ) to Walvis Bay in Namibia.