Founded circa 700 BC by the Sogdians, Samarkand has been one of the main centres of Sogdian civilization from its early days.

* Community Press Features Founded circa 1971

* FPS Founded circa 1971 as a high school student news service with a sanitized name: " Free Public Schools.

* People ’ s Translation Service Founded circa 1972

* Zodiac News service Founded circa 1972

* Zoo World Newservice Founded circa 1972

* Earth News Service Founded circa 1972

* Tricontinental News Service Founded circa 1973

* New York News Service Founded circa 1973 by Rex Weiner and Deanne Stillman

* Appalachian News Service Founded circa 1974

* Her Say Founded circa 1977 by Marlene Edmunds of Zodiac News Service.

Founded circa 1983, still active as of 2007.

Founded circa 1911, it is the oldest high school in Cabarrus County and one of the oldest in North Carolina.

Founded circa 1845, it was established at a high elevation in the " low country " of South Carolina and it gave an escape from mosquitoes and uncomfortable heat.

Founded in 437 BC, the city was finally abandoned in the 8th century AD.

Founded by the Phoenicians in the mid-9th century BC, it was a powerful thalassocratic city-state with a vast commercial network.

Founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon, Thessaloniki's history spans some 2, 300 years.

Founded in 350 BC, it used to be one of the most important trade areas of the Mediterranean Sea.

Founded around 250 BC, Tempio Pausania is located 560m above the sea level.

Founded by Greek colonists in the 8th century BC, Messina was originally called Zancle, from the meaning " scythe " because of the shape of its natural harbour ( though a legend attributes the name to King Zanclus ).

Founded by the Romans in 268 BC, throughout their period of rule Rimini was a key communications link between the north and south of the peninsula, and on its soil Roman emperors erected monuments like the Arch of Augustus and the Tiberius Bridge, while during the Renaissance, the city benefited from the court of the House of Malatesta, which hosted artists like Leonardo and produced works such as the Malatesta Temple.

Founded in 300 BC on the old settlement of Arsinoe, Famagusta remained a small fishing village for a long period of time.

Founded in the 7th century BC by Greek colonists from Corinth and Corcyra under the name Epidamnos, it has been continuously inhabited for 2, 700 years and is one of the oldest cities in Albania.

Founded as the Roman military encampment of the Legio VI Victrix around 29 BC, its standing as an encampment city was consolidated with the definitive settlement of the Legio VII Gemina from 74 AD.

Founded as an ancient Greek colony in the 6th century BC by the name of Aulon and continuously inhabited for about 26 centuries, Vlorë is home to the Port of Vlorë and University of Vlorë as the most important economical and cultural city of southwestern Albania.

Founded as a Gallo-Roman settlement in the 1st century BC under the name Augustodurum, Bayeux is the capital of the former territory of the Bodiocassi people of Gaul, whose name appears in the writings of Pliny the Elder.

Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BC, by the Terminal Formative ( ca. 100 BC-AD 200 ) Monte Albán had become the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states such as Teotihuacan to the north ( Paddock 1983 ; Marcus 1983 ).

Founded in 1863, Boston College High School ( also known as BC High ) is an all-male Jesuit Roman Catholic college preparatory secondary school with historical ties to Boston College.

Founded around the end of the 7th century BC by colonists from the Greek city of Sybaris, and originally known as Poseidonia.

Founded in 1910 and now having over 470, 000 individual members and 1100 locals or union sections, the BC Federation of Labour is the provincial Canadian Labour Congress affiliate and the umbrella organization for working people in British Columbia.

Founded by King Artashes I in 176 B. C., Artashat served as the capital of the Kingdom of Armenia from 185 BC until 120 AD, and was known as the " Vostan Hayots " or " court " or " seal of the Armenians.

Founded in the 11th century BC, its rulers were from a cadet branch of the House of Ji ( 姬 ) that ruled the Zhou Dynasty.

Founded by Thucles the Chalcidian in 734 BC, Naxos was never a powerful city, but its temple of Apollo Archegetes, protecting deity of all the Greek colonies, gave it prominence in religious affairs.

Founded by the Romans as Antunnacum in 12 BC on the site of an old Celtic settlement probably called Antunnuac, Andernach is one of the oldest towns in Germany which as such held its " Bimillenary feast " in 1988.

Founded in the 3rd century BC, it served as a residence of the eristavi ( dukes ) of Argveti ( also known as the Duchy of Shorapani ) in the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Founded in 14 BC by Augustus, Alpes Maritimae initially had its capital at Cemenelum, modern Cimiez, which is now a district within the city of Nice, France.

Founded about 600 BC, the city was occupied by duke Otto of Worms in 985.

Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,

Founded by the Gallic tribe of the Cavares or Cavari, it became the centre of an important Phocaean colony from Massilia ( present Marseilles ).

Founded in 1706, Chestertown rose in stature when it was named one of the English colony of Maryland's six Royal Ports of Entry.

Founded in 1824, as San Felipe de Austin, the town served as the capital of Stephen F. Austin's first colony and the founding spot of the Texas Rangers.

Founded in 1880 by English author Thomas Hughes, Rugby was built as an experimental utopian colony.

Founded in 1616 by the Kingdom of Portugal, Belém was the first European colony on the Amazon but did not become part of Brazil until 1775.

Founded as a haven for the Huguenots, the colony was ultimately destroyed by the Portuguese in 1567.

Founded as a military outpost and colony in 1778, it became strategically important with the opening of the Paraguay River to international trade after the Paraguayan War ( 1865 – 70 ).

Founded in 1792 by Reverend John Stuart based upon a grant for secondary education in the colony of Upper Canada, it moved to its present location in 1892.

Founded as a Spanish colony in 1510 by Diego de Nicuesa, it was one of the first European settlements on the Isthmus of Panama.

Founded in antiquity as a Phoenician colony, it became a haven for pirates as an independent republic before being incorporated into Alaouite Morocco.

Founded in the autumn of 1872 as an outgrowth of the Union Colony in nearby Greeley, the colony was instrumental in the early growth of Fort Collins, as well as in making it an agricultural center in the Colorado Territory at a time when the region was still known primarily for its mineral resources.