The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.

Together with nearby Anglet, Biarritz, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and several smaller communes, Bayonne forms an urban area with 178, 965 inhabitants at the 1999 census, 40, 078 of whom lived in the city of Bayonne proper ( 44, 300 as of 2004 estimates ).

In the past Dublin city was regarded as a stronghold for Fianna Fáil, however following the Irish local elections, 2004 the party was eclipsed by the centre-left Labour Party.

Several other films dealing with inner city issues and Black Britons were released in the 2000s such as Bullet Boy ( 2004 ), Life and Lyrics ( 2006 ) and Rollin ' With the Nines ( 2009 ).

* 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

* 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Central part of the city in 2004

According to the 2004 Census in Transnistria, 555, 347 people lived in the breakaway Transnistria, including the city of Bender, and the other localities de facto controlled by Transnistrian authorities.

Since 2004, the team's home has been Citizens Bank Park in the South Philadelphia section of the city.

Another award winning tram network belongs to Eskişehir, ( EsTram ) a city with a new tram system opened in 2004.

However, in 2004 a tunnel was built under the city centre with two underground tram stations (" Spui " and " Grote Markt "); it is shared by RandstadRail lines 2, 3 and 4 and tram route 6.

At the Liverpool Biennial in 2004, Yoko flooded the city with banners, bags, stickers, postcards, flyers, posters and badges, with two images: one of a woman's naked breast, the other of the same woman's vulva.

** The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

From 19 January 2002 to November 2004, the opera company was transferred to the new Teatro degli Arcimboldi, built in the Pirelli-Bicocca industrial area 4. 5 miles from the city centre.

A six-month investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times resulted in a three-day series of articles in January 2004 that revealed some participating companies were being paid for doing little or no work, had mob connections or were tied to city employees.

In 2004 the city hosted a number of the football events as part of the 2004 Summer Olympics.

The Omaha Lancers, a United States Hockey League team that played at Aksarben until 2004, moved to neighboring city of Council Bluffs at the Mid-America Center, and moved back to Omaha in 2009 to play at the Civic Auditorium The University of Nebraska at Omaha Mavericks, is an NCAA Division I team that plays at the CenturyLink Center.

At the end of 2004 the Turku region ( including the economic districts of Turku and Åboland ) had a population of 319, 632, out of which 174, 824 people lived in the city of Turku.

In the 2004 general elections, the city of Tigard won approval from its voters to annex the unincorporated suburbs on Bull Mountain, a hill to the west of Tigard.

In November 2004, the County and the City of Beaverton agreed to a plan where the city would annex both unincorporated residential neighborhoods as well as high-value areas of land.

In 2004, it was announced that a branch of the Louvre would be opened in the city of Lens.

Lille was elected European Capital of Culture in 2004, along with the Italian city of Genoa

As Neely ( 2004 ) concludes, there was no effort to engage in " total war " against civilians, as in World War II.

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

The house was opened to the public in 1833, but continued to be occupied by Scott's descendants until 2004.

The last of his direct descendants to inhabit Abbotsford was his great-great-great-granddaughter Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott ( 8 June 1923-5 May 2004 ).

In 2004, Pope John Paul II's efforts to unite Europe were honoured with an ‘ Extraordinary Charlemagne Medal ’, which was awarded for the first time ever.

In Managua, Nicaragua, the Albertus Magnus International Institute, a business and economic development research center, was founded in 2004.

On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

He was forced to resign his managing general partner post in the late summer of 2004.

Though a losing season, this was a 26-game improvement over 2004, and sufficient for second place in a woefully weak NL West, five games behind the San Diego Padres.

The first was 24 February to 12 March 2004.

Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

In 2004, the opera Europa riconosciuta was staged in Milan for the reopening of La Scala in Milan, with soprano Diana Damrau in the title role.

A convertible version of the DB9, the DB9 Volante, was introduced at the 2004 Detroit Auto Show.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

In 2004 it was moved to Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay, in India ), to make it more accessible to the populations of Asia and Africa.

Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).

During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).