* 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.

These and most other cities and large towns are now connected with asphalt-paved roads, while smaller towns are often connected by dirt roads, which may require a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

The size of the burhs ranged from tiny outposts such as Pilton to large fortifications in established towns, the largest at Winchester.

Dozens of large cities and hundreds of towns reflect pronounced urban character of the Arab world ; in most of the countries about 70 percent of people are urban dwellers.

In 1969, the independent towns of Bad Godesberg and Beuel as well as several villages were incorporated into Bonn, resulting in a city more than twice as large as before.

Bodmin is one of the oldest towns in Cornwall, and the only large Cornish settlement recorded in the Domesday Book of the late 11th century.

The first true towns are sometimes considered to be large settlements where the inhabitants were no longer simply farmers of the surrounding area, but began to take on specialized occupations, and where trade, food storage and power was centralized.

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city center, and the middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km ( 10 miles ) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters — people who travel on a daily basis.

They described large trucks passing through towns at night carrying very long canvas-covered cylindrical objects that could not make turns through towns without backing up and maneuvering.

It is notable that high-resolution satellite photos on the Internet show large cities such as Bukavu, Butembo and Kikwit virtually devoid of traffic, compared to similar photos of towns in neighbouring countries.

Most industry of this sort is located around the working-class perimeter of Santo Domingo and other large towns.

In Mecklenburg and Pomerania / Pomorze in ( Germany ) and ( Poland ), Drenthe ( Netherlands ), large numbers of these graves were disturbed when harbours, towns, and cities were built.

The Swedish part, however, goes through most of Sweden except the extreme north, and it is commonly considered the highway backbone of Sweden, since it passes in the immediate vicinity of all the major cities and large towns except four ( these being Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås and Örebro ), but including Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden.

Because Finland was a country with relatively small towns with a small workforce, and many industrial centers were small " islands " surrounded by large rural areas, there was social integrity between the urban and rural workers.

The largest Irish communities are located predominantly in the cities and towns across Britain: in London, in particular Kilburn ( which has one of the largest Irish-born communities outside Ireland ) out to the west and north west of the city, in the large port cities such as Liverpool ( which elected the first Irish Nationalist Members of Parliament ), Glasgow, Bristol and Portsmouth.

In the arid areas of Iraq to the west and south, cities and large towns are almost invariably situated on watercourses, usually on the major rivers or their larger tributaries.

Attacks on remote Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) barracks continued throughout 1919 and 1920, forcing the police to consolidate defensively in the larger towns, effectively placing large areas of the countryside in the hands of the Republicans.

All of the Island's towns are at threat from rising sea levels while the Northern Plain, a large, flat and low-lying plain composed of soft marine sediments and glacial material, which makes up about a quarter of the Island's landmass, is in danger of being lost to the sea over the next two centuries.

Nevertheless, industrialisation remained quite traditional in the sense that it did not lead to the growth of modern and large urban centres, but to a conurbation of industrial villages and towns developed around a coal-mine or a factory.

These areas were separate from the county corporates that existed in some of the larger towns and cities although linked to the county at large for other purposes.

He then headed south to Shiraz, a large, flourishing city spared the destruction wrought by Mongol invaders on many more northerly towns.

The situation was unstable: the Maronites lived in the large towns, but these were often surrounded by Druze villages living as perioikoi.

The town is not very large but the streets are broader than the French towns and clean ands the houses are good .... got the cheapest of hot baths here at the principal house I ever had in my life: one franc.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

His hand was large and square and heavily tanned.

in reading, on platforms, even in the large auditorium of the Y.M.H.A., Poetry Center nights, his voice was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy.

Waddell, the newspaperman, was a fellow in his middle forties, with a graying crewcut, heavy-framed glasses, and a large jaw padded with fat.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

Over the door was a board with large, inept lettering: home sweet home.

Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.

Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.

The large jar was brushed with Creek-Turn green toner and sponged off.

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

The diameter of this bronchial artery was much too large for it to be a mere vasa vasorum ( figs. 16, 23, 24 ).

The intimal surface of the aorta was covered with confluent, yellow-brown, hard, friable plaques along its entire course, and there was a marked narrowing of the orifices of the large major visceral arteries.

The parenchyma was slightly hyperemic in the apex of the left lung, and there were several firm, gray, fibrocalcific nodules measuring as large as 3 mm..

The small and large intestines were filled with gas, and the jejunum was dilated to about 2 times its normal circumference.