In 1823, Light had fondly written of the Sicilian city of Catania: " The two principal streets cross each other at right angles in the square in the direction of north and south and east and west.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

The city consists of two principal parts: the downtown and the old Inner City ( 21. 5 ha ).

It is also the principal city of the Columbus, Indiana, metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Bartholomew County.

It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.

Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's principal city following the Norman invasion.

Grafton Street is a principal shopping street in Dublin's city centre.

Francisco de Orellana, yet another lieutenant of Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish city of Trujillo, put down the native rebellion and in 1537 reestablished this city, which a century later would become one of Spain's principal ports in South America.

Gdańsk ( or ; ; Kashubian: Gduńsk, ) is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the center of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.

From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was organist of the principal church ( St. Agapito ) of his native city, and in 1551 he became maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia, the papal choir at St Peter's.

The town is often called " media city " since it is the principal centre for radio and television broadcasting in the Netherlands.

In Eritrea, Italian is a principal language in commerce and the capital city Asmara still has an Italian-language school.

It is the principal city of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Jackson County and has a population of 160, 248.

In 1504, the city fell to Babur from the north and made into his headquarters, which became one of the principal cities of his later Mughal Empire.

It was to be the first major city of the southern Baltic and, after 1282, a principal trading centre in the Hanseatic League.

It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens.

Its principal expression was prishut, the practice of a married Talmud student going into self-imposed exile from his home and family to study in the kollel of a different city or town.

Syracuse, the principal city of Sicily, was not much smaller than Athens, and conquering all of Sicily would have brought Athens an immense amount of resources.

Until the late eighteenth century, the principal towns were on the east coast — Al Huwayla, Fuwayrit, and Al Bida — and the modern city of Doha developed around the largest of these, Al Bida.

An Eastern body of Christian Sabbath-keepers mentioned from the 8th century to the 12th is called Athenians (" touch-not ") because they abstained from uncleanness and intoxicating drinks, called Athinginians in Neander: " This sect, which had its principal seat in the city of Armorion, in upper Phrygia, where many Jews resided, sprung out of a mixture of Judaism and Christianity.

First, it cut off the principal city from communicating with other cities where they might expect aid.

The reports from these cities and the streaming hordes of refugees not only reduced the morale of the inhabitants and garrison of the principal city, it also strained their resources.

Seoul is the principal tourist destination for visitors ; popular tourist destinations outside of Seoul include Seorak-san national park, the historic city of Gyeongju and semi-tropical Jeju Island.

U. S. 1 was the principal highway from Maine to Key West, and U. S. 80, at that time, ran from Tybee to San Diego.

It is one of two principal cities of and included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area ( which is part of the Portland-Lewiston-South Portland, Maine combined statistical area ).

It is one of two principal cities of and included within the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area, which as of 2006 census estimates has a combined population of 107, 702.

It is the principal city of the Bangor, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Penobscot County.

A principal American composer of marching music, he was born in Bowdoinham, Maine and seldom left his native state during his lifetime, dying in Portland.

Often heard among crews was " crummy " ( as in a crummy place to live, not elegant, often too hot or too cold, and perhaps not especially clean ), " clown wagon ", " hack ", " waycar ", " dog house ", " go cart ", " glory wagon ", " monkey wagon " ( a term that indirectly insulted the principal functionary who rode therein, no doubt coined by an engineer ), " brain box " ( the conductor was supposedly the brains of the train, as opposed to the " hogger " or engineer, who was presumed to be pigheaded ), " palace ", " buggy " ( Boston & Maine / Maine Central ), " van " ( eastern and central Canada, usage possibly derived from the UK term for the caboose ), and " cabin ", or a variation heard at least on the Southern Railway, " cab ".

Ashmun was appointed as the first principal, and one of the first two professors, of the Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine.

* University of Southern Maine ; three main campuses, principal campus is in Portland, Maine

On 11 March 1910 the Montparnasse station was renamed Avenue du Maine and on 30 June 1933 it was renamed Bienvenüe in honour of the principal engineer of the Paris Métro, Fulgence Bienvenüe ( accounting for the unusual diaeresis in the station's name ).

Charlie Decker, a Maine high school senior, is called to meeting with his principal over a previous incident in which Decker attacked his chemistry teacher with a heavy wrench.

Old Sow is the largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere, located off the southwestern shore of Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada, between that island and Moose Island, the principal island of Eastport, Maine.

He was also the principal benefactor of Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine.

Fishing is a principal employer for residents of Westport Island, as with much of this part of Maine.

Later in his career he became principal for a high school in Lewiston, Maine.

He graduated from Amherst College in 1855 and moved to Maine, where he was the principal of the Washington Academy in East Machias.

However, his bearing as an academic principal seems to have impressed others because he was elected colonel of the 11th Maine Infantry regiment on November 12, 1861.

He lives in Camden, Maine, and is presently both a principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild, and a fellow and Senior Consultant of the Cutter Consortium.

The development of this beautiful region into a summer resort and the holding of Indian and arbitration conferences here have been due to Albert Keith Smiley ( b. 1828 ), a graduate of Haverford College ( 1849 ), who conducted an English and classical academy in Philadelphia in 1853-1857, was principal of the Oak Grove academy at Vassalboro, Maine, in 1858-1860, was principal and superintendent of the Friends ' school at Providence, Rhode Island, in 1860-1879, and became a member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners in 1879.