After the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea, the church structure was patterned after the administrative divisions of the Roman Empire wherein a metropolitan or bishop of a metropolis came to be the ecclesiastical head of a civil capital of a province or a metropolis.

The first line, which has a length of 533 km from Istanbul ( Turkey's largest metropolis ) via Eskişehir to Ankara ( the capital ) is under construction and will reduce the travelling time from 6 – 7 hours to 3 hours and 10 minutes.

After the invasions by the Vandals, the Longobards and the Goths in the 5th-6th centuries AD, Reggio became the capital of the " metropolis of the Byzantine possessions in southern Italy " and several times between 536 and 1060 AD it was also the capital of the Duchy of Calabria and linchpin of the Greek church in Italy.

Although the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) capital at Chang ' an was the most thriving metropolis of China in its day, it was the city of Yangzhou — in proximity to the Grand Canal — that was the economic hub of the Tang era.

The first known mention was by the Greek geographer Strabo, who called it the " metropolis of the Arverni " ( meaning their oppidum, civitas or tribal capital ).

Though the capital of the Southern Dynasties kingdoms was ( almost by definition ) Jiankang, in the location of modern Nanjing, in the province of Jiangsu ; nevertheless, the Zhejiang area was home to the major metropolis and cultural center of Hangzhou, formerly known as Qiantang, but renamed in 589.

In the original 1920s and 1930s Buck Rogers stories and newspaper cartoons, Buck Rogers, in his adventures in the 25th century that take place on Earth, helps in the fight for a free Northern America from the liberated zone around Niagara, New York ( which by then has grown to large metropolis -- the capital of the liberated zone -- that includes Niagara Falls, New York, Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York ), against the Red Mongol Empire, a Chinese empire of the future which in the 25th century rules most of North America.

Nicomedia was the metropolis of Bithynia under the Roman Empire, and Diocletian made it the eastern capital city of the Roman Empire in 286 when he introduced the Tetrarchy system.

Kanto people on the other hand are perceived as more sophisticated, reserved and formal, in keeping with Tokyo ’ s history and modern status as the nation ’ s capital and largest metropolis.

Buda the old capital of Hungary and Óbuda were officially united with Pest, thus creating the new metropolis of Budapest in 1873.

The metropolis of Tehran is the capital city of the province and of Iran.

This concentration of capital in Paris also contributed to the concentration of the railway system in the metropolis.

In 1643, three years after the Portuguese regained the crown in the metropolis, Father António Vieira – frowned upon, persecuted by the Inquisition and admirer of Aboab – recommended the King of Portugal occupy the capital of the New Christian and Jewish immigrants to help the depressed Portuguese finances

Santos is about 79 km ( 49 mi ) from the metropolis São Paulo, capital of the state São Paulo.

In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop ( then more precisely called metropolitan archbishop ) of a metropolis ; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital.

Nicomedia was the metropolis of Bithynia under the Roman Empire ( see Nicaea ), and Diocletian made it the eastern capital city of the Roman Empire in 286 when he introduced the Tetrarchy system.

At the beginning of 2008 flights from Kiev to the Georgian capital Tbilisi and the Kazakh metropolis of Almaty were launched by Aerosvit, E-ticketing was introduced on all Aerosvit scheduled flights, and Aerosvit Airlines again became the official air carrier of the Ukrainian National Olympic team for the XXIX Olympic Games to be held in Beijing.

The epithet " Tollan " was also sometimes applied to any great metropolis or capital.

According to “ the twelfth five-year planning ”, Taiyuan is today making every endeavor to build the city into “ the first-rate capital city in China and regional modern metropolis with international influence ”.

Its capital, Giedi City, is described as a lush, perfectly planned metropolis, but it is devastated in an invasion by the thinking machines during the Butlerian Jihad.

Also the capital districts of Thonburi and Phra Nakhon provinces had the same name as the province, which they kept when the two provinces were merged to form Bangkok metropolis.

The driving force was the then tiny village of São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, and its capital was made São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro as a result of the Emboabas ' War against Portuguese recent arrivals and coloners from Bahia, and the consequent shift of economical power to the gold-producing Minas dos Matos Gerais: São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro was the port where the gold was sent to Portugal, and consequently the point of contact between metropolis and colony.

the schism between central city and suburb, Negro and White, blue collar and white collar can be viewed as symptomatic of this deeper polarization of trends in the metropolis.

A big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs.

Constantine divided the expanded city, like Rome, into 14 regions, and ornamented it with public works worthy of an imperial metropolis.

Although the Cairo metropolis extends away from the Nile in all directions, the city of Cairo resides only on the east bank of the river and two islands within it on a total area of.

The word " metropole " comes from the Greek metropolis " μητρόπολις "—" mother city ".

The first player with an improvement at the fourth level can claim any of their cities as a metropolis, worth four victory points instead of two for that city.

Each type of improvement has only one associated metropolis, and no city can be a metropolis of two different types ( because of this, a player without a non-metropolis city may not build improvements beyond the third level ).

Player B has 1 city, which is a metropolis, and no active knights.

Player B's city is a metropolis, and metropolises cannot be destroyed by the barbarians, so Player A loses a city because they have the next fewest number of active knights.

Player C has 1 city, which is a metropolis, and no active knights.

First in line to lose a city is player C, but because his city is a metropolis we need to look at the person next in line.

Only cities and metropolises may have walls, and each city or metropolis can only have one wall, up to three walls per player.

Edo grew from what had been a small, little-known fishing village in 1457 to a metropolis with an estimated population of 1, 000, 000 by 1721 ( the largest city in the world at the time ).

The city has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the " Peace Capital.

Frank Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party was reelected twice as Mayor of Kaohsiung, where he was widely credited for transforming the city from an industrial sprawl into an attractive modern metropolis.

By the time of independence of Pakistan in 1947, Karachi had become a bustling metropolis with beautiful classical and colonial European styled buildings, lining the city ’ s thoroughfares.

In this franchise, the player is a mayor that may, at their leisure, take a city from a single village to a successful metropolis, laying down zones, taking care of the public services and stimulating the city's economy.

Now firmly in the centre of a metropolis whose population eventually reached 4. 4 million, making it the third largest city in the world after London and New York, the area was ready to take on its most celebrated role.

Tyre also grew into a great city, and in subsequent years there was competition between the two, each claiming to be the metropolis (' Mother City ') of Phoenicia.

" The largest central cities within a metropolis ( possibly including the oldest " streetcar suburbs " that may now be a century old ) can be handily referred to as the " inner city.