Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

A group of native trees or plants which are outstanding in a particular county can be featured at the site.

The fish, animals, and birds which may be found at the site are another interest.

-- Some areas may already have been improved and contain buildings, roads, utilities, cleared land, etcetera which may raise the cost of the site.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.

Elevated levels of americium were also detected at the crash site of a US B-52 bomber, which carried four hydrogen bombs, in 1968 in Greenland.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

The death itself occurs in at an old cave site and offers some very descriptive details of sites which Christie herself would have visited in order to write the book.

Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.

At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.

The discovery of 26 individuals at one site provides evidence of pack behaviour and allows studies of ontogeny and population biology which are impossible with lesser-known dinosaurs.

The foundation by Augustus of Nicopolis, into which the remaining inhabitants were drafted, left the site desolate.

A quarry on the Lousberg, which was first used in Neolithic times, attests to the long occupation of the site of Aachen.

Tor Royal Lane is a dead end road which leads down from the town to the site of the disused Whiteworks tin mine, about 3 km or 2 miles to the south-east, which overlooks Fox Tor Mires, the presumed site of the Grimpen Mire to be found in Arthur Conan Doyle's tale The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Today the site of Xanthos overlooks the modern Turkish village of Kınık.

The site overlooks a gorge and small stream, locally known as The Loggin Brook, that flows into the River Wye, which was undoubtedly one reason for the construction of a motte and bailey castle there.

A neighbouring hill is the site of Brownlow House, which overlooks Lurgan Park.

The site includes William Murdoch's cottage and overlooks Black Patch Park.

The farm trail is open to the public during farm shop opening hours, and included along the path is the site of Fordhall Castle, an ancient motte and bailey structure which overlooks the River Tern valley.

A memorial to the 256 victims at the crash site overlooks Gander Lake, and another memorial was erected at Fort Campbell.

The area has been inhabited since stone age times and there are many places of historic interest ; one of the most interesting but only for the serious walker is " Carn Righ ", on the northmost tip of Ben Spionnaidh, which is a manmade cairn celebrating a long dead petty king or chief from the area, whether Pict or Viking now unknown ; but the reason for the site chosen is clear as the site overlooks all his lands.

Beginning in 1945, the Americans transferred two-thirds of their fallen from this site back to the United States while the remainder were reinterred at the new permanent American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks the Omaha Beach landing site.

The site overlooks an arm of the sea called the West Voe of Sumburgh and the nearby freshwater springs and building materials available on the beach will have added to the location's attraction as a settlement.

The bluff overlooks the former site of the Polo Grounds, where Major League Baseball's New York Giants played their home games prior to their move to San Francisco after the end of the 1957 season ; as a result, the name " Coogan's Bluff " was often used, particularly by journalists, to denote the Polo Grounds itself, in much the same way " Chavez Ravine " and " China Basin " are frequently used today to refer to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and AT % 26T Park in San Francisco, respectively.

Discovered there in a dilapidated and vandalised condition, it was moved by Kyle and Carrick District Council in 1986 to its present site in the gardens of the RAFA Club which overlooks the sea.

Located on the site of the former St Enoch Station, the building is just off Glasgow's famous shopping thoroughfare, Argyle Street and overlooks the historic St. Enoch Square and the original Subway station building ( on the right of the photograph ).

The area, renowned for its beauty, is the site of a famous lookout point named " Five Ways " which overlooks Kalorama Park, Silvan Reservoir, the National Rhododendron Gardens, and the R. J. Hamer Arboretum.

Historically a part of Westmorland, Milnthorpe is the site of the 19th-century Church of St Thomas, which overlooks The Green and The Square-prior to its construction Milnthorpe was in the parish of Heversham.

Trent View House transmitter site in west Scunthorpe, overlooks the Trent Valley, and was originally to be a site for the EMAP Digital Radio ( now Bauer Humberside ) multiplex

It sits on top of the Preseli ridge and overlooks the rocky outcrop of Carn Menyn, a site that has been suggested as a source for some of the bluestones used at Stonehenge.

.“ Battery Hill ” which overlooks the town of Tennant Creek is the site of one of the last two operating ten-head stamp batteries, a Government owned ore crushing machine.

Commissioned by the president of the Ottawa Silica Company, the Effigy Tumuli earthwork in Illinois is composed of five abstract animal earthworks reclaiming the site of an abandoned surface coal mine along the Illinois River ; the shapes ( 1983-85 )— a frog, a water strider, a catfish, a turtle, and a snake — reflect the environment of the site, which overlooks the river.

The harbour lies to the east of the foundation site at the original citadel on a hill overlooking a peninsula protecting the harbor on the south, where now are located the Quai de la Citadelle and the Jettée de la Citadelle.

They used the monsoon winds to sail across the Indian Ocean to land at the sheltered harbor located on the site of present-day Zanzibar City.

* 1270 – The ancient city of Ashkelon is captured from the crusader states and utterly destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baibars, who goes so far as to fill in its important harbor, leaving the site desolate and the city never to be rebuilt.

* The ancient city of Ashkelon is captured from the crusader states and utterly destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baibars, who goes so far as to fill in its important harbor, leaving the site desolate and the city never to be rebuilt.

A chapel known as Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (" Our Lady of Grace ") existed at the site before the city was established, and the denomination lent its name to the port, to be called Le Hable de Grâce ( already in 1489, " the harbor of Grace ").

De Ribas and Franz de Volan recommended the area of Khadzhibei fortress as the site for the region's basic port: it had an ice-free harbor, breakwaters could be cheaply constructed and would render the harbor safe and it would have the capacity to accommodate large fleets.

A city cemetery, dating from the 6th and 5th centuries BC, testifies to the occupation of the site by the Greeks, but the fine harbor was probably in use much earlier, perhaps by the Etruscans.

Due to transportation and other considerations which made the site of Jamestown impractical, the celebration was held at Sewell's Point in Norfolk, Virginia, on the harbor of Hampton Roads.

Caesarea has recently become the site of what bills itself as the world's first underwater museum, where 36 points of interest on four marked underwater trails through the ancient harbor can be explored by divers equipped with waterproof maps.

Monterey Bay is home to many species of marine mammals, including sea otters, harbor seals, and bottlenose dolphins ; as well as being on the migratory path of Gray and Humpback Whales and a breeding site for elephant seals.

Strawberry Spit was once the gathering site of harbor seals, who previously lived and fished here, but after development on the spit began in the 1980s they left.

Originally settled by the Nauset tribe, Eastham was the site where in 1621 a hunting expedition comprised from the crew of the sailing vessel Mayflower, which had stopped in Provincetown harbor on Cape Cod Bay after a rough crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, which led to the first encounter of the Pilgrims and the local Nauset Indians at First Encounter Beach.

It does not have a true harbor onto Lake Huron, but the village does have a boat launch site.

The Ashtabula River and harbor are a significant superfund site due to past industrial abuse of the waterway.

With the help of local leaders in Norfolk, ( and more funds from Rogers ), a route was obtained set which passed around the City of Norfolk ( and the N & W ) in a wide, 13-mile long circular path through rural Norfolk County to be headed almost due west again when it reached the site for a new coal pier on the harbor at Hampton Roads at Sewell's Point.

In November and December, these parties made three separate ventures from the Mayflower on foot and by boat, finally locating what is now Plymouth harbor in mid December and selecting that site for settlement.

That site is no longer visible ; the land has eroded into Charleston harbor, and the remains of Colonel Shaw and his men have been washed out to sea by Atlantic hurricanes.

Sandwich had proximity to a shallow harbor, was a possible canal site, and had local supplies of timber to fuel the glass furnaces.

Sandwich is also the site of Old Harbor Creek, a large inlet with several other small creeks feeding it, which once served to provide safe harbor for ships.

The city had seven guard towers on the harbor site to defend the inland city.

* 1289: Fall of Crusader Tripoli ( harbor city ) to Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun ; city site transferred inland at the foot of Mount Peregrinus ( Abu Samra ) for protection against the return of the knights still on Cyprus and Rhodes ; Arab Tripoli or medina built around inland citadel ( the castle of saint-Gilles ) over Crusader bourg and along the banks of Qadisha River ( Abu Ali ).

Due to its location near the Venezuelan oilfields, its political stability and its natural deep water harbor, Willemstad became the site of an important seaport and refinery.

Although Beaver Island is known mostly today for its beaches, forests, recreational harbor and seclusion, at one time it was the site of a unique Mormon kingdom.