Even when such a sentence might have been imposed, the Cities of Refuge and other sanctuaries, were at hand for those unintentionally guilty of capital offences.

Somewhere, perhaps on the southeastern shore, would be the cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis which were said to have been destroyed in the time of Abraham: Sodom and Gomorra ( Genesis 18 ) and the three other " Cities of the Plain "-Admah, Zeboim and Zoar ( Deuteronomy 29: 23 ).

First the Latin league was forcibly dissolved during the Latin War, then the power of the Samnites was broken during the three prolonged Samnite wars, and the Greek cities of Magna Graecia who were unified after Pyrrhus of Epirus finally left Italy, requiring the Greek Cities in southern Italy to submit to Roman authority at the conclusion of the Pyrrhic War.

Cities all around the eastern Mediterranean were sacked within a span of a few decades by assorted raiders.

Several cities such as Cologne became Imperial Free Cities, which did not depend on princes or bishops, but were immediately subject to the Emperor.

Cities and towns which have Roman origins, or were extensively developed by them are listed with their Latin names in brackets ; civitates are marked C

The electors, like the other princes ruling States of the Empire, were members of the Reichstag, which was divided into three collegia: the Council of Electors, the Council of Princes, and the Council of Cities.

In the first, dated to the reign of Ramses III, they were limited to the coastal plain, the region of the Five Cities ; in the second, dated to the collapse of Egyptian hegemony in southern Canaan, their influence spread inland beyond the coast.

Cities as far north as New York, Philadelphia, and Boston were hit with epidemics.

Barker was a Professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota during the period when David Arneson, Gary Gygax and a handful of others were developing the first role-playing games in the Twin Cities and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

* In Illinois and Iowa: three of the four Quad Cities — Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and Davenport in Iowa — were formerly known as the Tri-Cities, before the inclusion of East Moline, Illinois and later, Bettendorf, Iowa

Cities were usually Federalist ; frontier regions were heavily Republican.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

* 1874: It is exactly as if there were a sex in mountains, and their contours and curves and complexions were here all of the feminine gender — Henry James, ' A Chain of Italian Cities ', The Atlantic Monthly 33 ( February, p.

The changes wrought by Sixtus on the street plan of Rome were documented in the film, " Rome: Impact of an Idea ", featuring Edmund N. Bacon and based on sections of his book Design of Cities.

Cities, towns and villages were founded all over East African territories by the Portuguese, especially since the 19th century, like Lourenço Marques, Beira, Vila Pery, Vila Junqueiro, Vila Cabral and Porto Amélia.

Cities such as Telmessos and Krya were sometimes listed by Classical authors as Carian and sometimes as Lycian.

Works such as Ildefons Cerda's General Theory of Urbanization ( 1867 ), Camillo Sitte ’ s City Planning According to Artistic Principles ( 1889 ), and Robinson ’ s The Improvement of Cities and Towns ( 1901 ) and Modern Civic Art ( 1903 ), all were primarily concerned with urban design, as did the later City Beautiful movement in North America.

Cities such as Enkomi were rebuilt on a rectangular grid plan, where the town gates correspond to the grid axes and numerous grand buildings front the street system or newly founded.

Cities were built with precise, unmatched stonework, constructed over many levels of mountain terrain.

Cities that primarily consisted of wooden buildings were especially susceptible.

The changes wrought by Haussmann on the streetscape of Paris were documented in the film, Paris: Living Space, featuring Edmund N. Bacon and based on sections of his book Design of Cities.

Cities, towns and villages were founded all over the territory by the Portuguese, like Lourenço Marques, Beira, Vila Pery, Vila Junqueiro, Vila Cabral and Porto Amélia.

Cities were founded in his name, medals struck with his likeness, and cities throughout the east commissioned godlike images of the dead youth for their shrines and sanctuaries.

Cities are founded, significant architectural structures emerge to which fortifications are later added.

Cities such as Lyon were founded by them and the region traded with both northern and southern Europe.

In 1899 he founded the Garden Cities Association, known now as the Town and Country Planning Association and the oldest environmental charity in England.

In 1913 Ebenezer Howard founded the ‘ Garden Cities and Town Planning Association ’-presently the International Federation for Housing and Planning ( IFHP ).

Manufacturing continued to rise: Eastman Kodak in Rochester, General Electric in Schenectady, and Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company in the Triple Cities are some of the well-known companies founded during that time.

Xuthus then founded the Tetrapolis (" Four Cities ") of Attica, a rural district.

Cities founded prior to Christian influence were built around temples and other structures of cultural significance.

Cities and towns founded by the Teutonic Knights along the river Łyna ( Alnā ) include:

-Association of Expo Cities and Regions, founded in Seville in 2002.

As such, it is nicknamed " Madre de Ciudades " ( Mother of Cities ), as it is the first city founded in the actual territory of Argentina.

As a licensed drug and alcohol counselor, Eller founded a group of substance-abuse clinics in the Twin Cities called Triumph Life Centers in 1986.

The Organization of World Heritage Cities ( OWHC ) was founded on September 8, 1993 in Fez, Morocco.

After his first large-scale exhibition-performances in Houston in the late 1980s ( Description of a Landscape, Invisible Cities ), he founded an ensemble, AlienNation Co .. which has toured internationally and presented work at festivals, theatres, cultural centers and conferences.

The Seven Cities of Gold is a strategy video game created by Dan Bunten ( and the game development team Bunten founded, Ozark Softscape ) and published by Electronic Arts in 1984.

It was founded as the Garden Cities Association in 1899 by Ebenezer Howard, initially to promote the development of Garden Cities.

Avon Cities Skiffle Group featuring Ray Bush were founded in Bristol, England, during 1952 by members of the Avon Cities Jazz Band.

Cities were rebuilt on a rectangular grid plan, like Enkomi, where the town gates now correspond to the grid axes and numerous grand buildings front the street system or newly founded.

The Carlson School of Management was founded in 1919 in response to requests from business people in the Twin Cities to establish a business school at the University of Minnesota.