The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

Except for the citadel and churches, Elbing at the time was more of a small village by modern standards.

Wallington was a tiny village thirty-five miles north of London and the cottage had with almost no modern facilities.

In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.

The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River.

Under the guidance of two village priests, Millet acquired a knowledge of Latin and modern authors, before being sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to study with a portrait painter named Paul Dumouchel.

Located near the modern village of Boğazköy in north-central Turkey.

Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab is generally acknowledged to have been born in 1703 into the Arab tribe of Banu Tamim in ' Uyayna, a village in the Najd region of the modern Saudi Arabia.

Confirmation of such accounts can also be seen in modern archaeology of the village of Lepalong, an entire settlement built underground to shelter remmnants of the Kwena people from 1827-36 against the tide of disruption that engulfed the region during Shakan times.

Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth.

The modern village of San Felice Circeo seems to occupy the site of the ancient town, the citadel of which stood on the mountain top ; its medieval walls rest upon ancient walls of Cyclopean work of less careful construction than those of the citadel, and enclose an area that measures 200 meters by 150 meters ( 660 by 490 ft ).

Between the modern urban and traditional rural sectors of the society was a steadily increasing group of Africans who were loosening their ties with the village and starting to participate in the money economy, to settle in suburbs, and to adopt new customs.

The Iga and Kōga clans have come to describe families living in the province of Iga ( modern Mie Prefecture ) and the adjacent region of Kōka ( later written as Kōga ), named after a village in what is now Shiga Prefecture.

The town was for long a mere village, and started its expansion when the Norman Kings of Sicily chose the area as their hunting resort, building here a palace ( probably identifiable with the modern Town Hall ).

In Britain, corner shops in towns and village shops in the countryside served similar purposes and were the precursors to the modern European convenience store ( e. g. SPAR ).

However, once there, they were warned by Alexander I of Macedon that the vale could be bypassed through the pass by the modern village of Sarantaporo, and that the army of Xerxes was overwhelming, the Greeks retreated.

Spanish Taos is probably a borrowing of Taos " village " which was heard as tao to which the plural-s was added although in the modern language Taos is no longer a plural noun.

During Valdemar's reign construction began of a castle in the village of Havn, leading eventually to the foundation of Copenhagen, the modern capital of Denmark.

Kültepe ( Turkish: Ash Hill ) is a modern village near the ancient city of Kaneš or Kanesh ( Hittite: Neša, occasionally Anisa ), located in the Kayseri Province in Turkey.

In 1893, George Cadbury bought of land close to the works and planned, at his own expense, a model village which would ' alleviate the evils of modern more cramped living conditions '.

The new village, the nucleus of modern Haifa, was originally named al-imara al-jadida ( Arabic: " the new construction "), but locals called it Haifa al-Jadida ( Arabic: " New Haifa ") at first, and then simply Haifa.

Urbanisation is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale, whereby predominantly village culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture.

* The city of Tiwanaku is founded as a village near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia ( approximate date ).

Map showing modern and former village

Several bridges of different styles span the river Segura, from the Puente de los Peligros, eighteenth century stone bridge with a Lady chapel on one of its side ; to modern bridges designed by Santiago Calatrava or Javier Manterola ; through others as the Puente Nuevo an iron bridge of the early twentieth century

Travel between Valparaíso and Santiago currently takes about 80 minutes via a modern toll highway.

The Chilean Congress meets in a modern building in the Almendral section of Valparaíso, after relocation from Santiago during the last years of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

A modern and efficient subway ( Merval ) connects Viña del Mar with the cities of Limache and Valparaíso, following the original railroad tracks between Valparaíso and Santiago.

Nowadays, the city of Chillán is connected to Chile's capital Santiago by both a modern highway and a rebuilt railway system that makes the trip in less than five hours.

These two models came into sharp contrast at the award ceremony for the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in which the award went jointly to Camillo Golgi, a reticularist and widely recognized cell biologist, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the champion of the neuron doctrine and the father of modern neuroscience.

The trails connected the regions of the Inca empire from the northern provincial capital in Quito, Ecuador past the modern city of Santiago, Chile in the south.

The first colonies were from the Chahcapoyas culture, but the modern city of Moyobamba was established by Juan Pérez de Guevara on 25 July 1540, who named it Santiago de los Ocho Valles de Moyobamba ( Santiago of the eight Moyobamba Valleys ).

It was not until some of these painters, such as Bigot, Henry Etheridge, or Santiago Paramo settled in the country that Costa Rican artists learned modern techniques for drawing, oil painting, and sculpture.

A relic of the saint preserved in the church linked it the more strongly and in modern times occasioned its listing in 1998 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO among the sites and structures marking the chemins de Compostelle, the pilgrimage routes in France that led like tributaries of a great stream headed towards Santiago in the northwest of Spain.

The modern name of the city derives from the iron reinforcements added to the ancient bridge over the river Sil ( Latin pons for " bridge " and ferrata for " iron "), commissioned by Bishop Osmundo of Astorga to facilitate the crossing of the Sil River to pilgrims in their way to Santiago de Compostela.

Currently Irun features a fair ground provided with modern exhibition and telecommunication facilities just at some 100 metres away from the actual borderline at the Santiago Bridge ( river Bidasoa ).

Like other cities in the interior of the Republic of Panama, Santiago is a city where high buildings, but edifies of great historical value as Juan Demostenes Arosemena Normal School, Santiago Apostol Cathedral, The Museum, as well more modern buildings Although skyscrapers are no longer great works of architecture, as we can mention the Omar Torrijos Herrera stadium with capacity for 7, 000 spectators, the Hotel La Hacienda, HSBC Bank, Global Bank, Public Registry, Shopping Center Galeria, Ta Transport Terminal, Convention Center Coopeve etc.

Santiago Ramon y Cajal is considered one of the founders of modern neuroanatomy.

This suyu encompassed the Bolivian Altiplano and much of the southern Andes, running down into Argentina and as far south as the Maule river near modern Santiago, Chile.

May 17 2008, Cardinal Simonis opened the Trail of St James, connecting Uithuizen to Hasselt, Le Puy en Velay, and Santiago de Compostela, creating a modern, northern branch of the Way of St James.

The Tlaxcaltec colonies in the Chichimeca included settlements in the modern states of San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo León — Nueva Tlaxcala de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Horcasistas, today known as Guadalupe, and Santiago de las Sabinas, today known as Sabinas Hidalgo — and Jalisco ( Villa de Nueva Tlaxcala de Quiahuistlán, today known as Colotlán ).