Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

Today, the village is now a small town and a popular holiday resort with most of its past and traditions having rapidly evaporated in the course of time.

In Barnet, he was torn by depression ( perhaps from the temptations of the resort town near London ).

The town became a watering place in the 1760s, and then, with the coming of the railway, a seaside resort.

There are two international airports in Jamaica with modern terminals, long runways, and the navigational equipment required to accommodate the large jet aircraft used in modern air travel: Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston and Sangster International Airport in the resort town of Montego Bay.

Poles also arrived as the city became popular seaside resort and spa town among tourists from all over Germany with an amount of about 5-8 percent of Poles.

Zamárdi, another resort town on the southern shore, has been the site of Balaton Sound, a notable electronic music festival since 2007.

The Transhuman Space sourcebook In The Well places a University town, " Nix Olympia " and a ski resort " Zeus Tourist Resort " on Olympus Mons.

Main street of the tourist resort town of Saly.

In 1840 the first spa opened in Kuressaare ( then known as Arensburg ), and the town became a resort for Russians and Baltic Germans.

The resort town Moléson-Village caters for both summer and winter tourism.

Stravinsky was born on 17 June 1882 in the Russian resort town of Oranienbaum and was brought up in Saint Petersburg.

By the mid-1990s, Telluride had shed both its mining personality and drug image to establish itself as a premier resort town balancing modern culture with fascinating western history.

Originally a mining town, Telluride now is known for its ski resort, Telluride Ski Resort.

The town only acquired municipal rights after the Social War and was unimportant except as a seaside resort.

The town was for long a mere village, and started its expansion when the Norman Kings of Sicily chose the area as their hunting resort, building here a palace ( probably identifiable with the modern Town Hall ).

It is known as a spa and resort town and was the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

In the 19th century, Arnhem was a genteel resort town famous for its picturesque beauty.

Tamsui is a popular sea-side resort town.

* Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia, a resort town

In the U. S., the word château took root selectively, in the Gilded Age resort town of Newport, Rhode Island, the châteaux were called “ cottages ”, but, north of Wilmington, Delaware, in the rich, rural “ Château Country ” centred upon the powerful Du Pont family, château is used with its original definition.

Coal and shale mining was also carried out in the Jamison Valley for many years, but when the seams were completely exhausted by the early 20th century, Katoomba was an established resort town.

* Carrington Hotel: situated on the west side of Katoomba Street, the Carrington has played a significant role in the growth of Katoomba as a resort town.

* Ocean City, Maryland is a popular beach and resort town.

With its Georgian town houses converted into guest houses and small hotels, often overlooking one of the beaches, Falmouth has proven a popular holiday destination and it is now primarily a tourist resort.

* Queenstown, New Zealand, a resort town in Otago, New Zealand

Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.

As a resort centre, there are many bus services that operate into Queenstown, with most being for package tours, but daily services for the local or itinerant are available to and from Invercargill, Dunedin and Christchurch, which are the main cities closest to Queenstown.

* Millbrook Resort, a luxury resort near Queenstown

He is a successful golf course designer having had major input into the Formosa Country Club east of Auckland, Millbrook at the resort town of Queenstown, and ' The Dunes ' course at Matarangi on the Coromandel Peninsula.

It added another casino to its portfolio when it opened Skycity Queenstown in the alpine resort of Queenstown.

The river is used for commercial white water rafting trips and jet boating rides which operate out of the nearby tourist resort of Queenstown.

Dubbed the " original " resort ski area Coronet Peak is only 25 minutes from Queenstown.

For a resort area, Mackinack Island, Michigan, is the place to visit.

The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

The Christian writer's traditional re-interpretation is that the Hebrew word Sheol can mean many things, including " grave ", " resort ", " place of waiting " and " place of healing ".

The city is synonymous with Mount Uludağ which towers behind its core and which is also a famous ski resort.

The city is mainly a tourist and resort centre, serving many ski lodges.

The Pra Loup resort is 7 km from Barcelonnette ; Le Sauze is 5 km away.

The Las Vegas Strip is renowned for its high concentration of casino resort hotels.

Rather, it was a banquet hall for the Russian nobility which frequented this spa resort in the late 19th century, and is presently used as a restaurant.

Likewise, Roger Cohen, in an op-Ed for the New York Times propounded that, " captive minds ... resort to conspiracy theory because it is the ultimate refuge of the powerless.

The primary function of a central bank is to manage the nation's money supply ( monetary policy ), through active duties such as managing interest rates, setting the reserve requirement, and acting as a lender of last resort to the banking sector during times of bank insolvency or financial crisis.

Camelot Theme Park is a resort and theme park located in the English county of Lancashire, UK.

A caddy is not usually an employee of a private club or resort.

" A dictionary, for instance, insofar as it is a comprehensive list of lexical definitions, must resort to circularity.

He also lacked a symbol for a general number n. Where we would write, Diophantus has to resort to constructions like: ... a sixfold number increased by twelve, which is divided by the difference by which the square of the number exceeds three.

* Triathlon The resort Playitas on the south coast is since around 2008 equipped with a 50 m swimming pool and has become one of the most popular destinations for triathlon training camps for Europeans.

The use of guns for self-defense is only allowed if the gun is a last resort option.

It is with this technology that Lee and his bandmates are able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity that fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

When congenital hyperinsulinism is diffuse and refractory to medications, near-total pancreatectomy may be the treatment of last resort, but in this condition is less consistently effective and fraught with more complications.