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town and Londiani
The church has the biggest church in the district in the town ( Immanuel AGC ) and heart centers at Cheptenye, Chepkutung, Keongo, Kipkelion, Londiani, Kabianga and Kaptebeswet.

town and Rift
Limuru is a town located on the eastern edge of the Great Rift Valley about 30 miles North-West from Nairobi the capital city of Kenya.
The town is situated about 150 km ( a two hour drive ) north of Kenya's capital Nairobi, in the country's densely populated and fertile Central Highlands, lying between the eastern base of the Aberdare ( Nyandarua ) Range, which forms part of the eastern end of the Great Rift Valley, and the western slopes of Mount Kenya.
Around 1943, Maathai's family relocated to a white-owned farm in the Rift Valley, near the town of Nakuru, where her father had found work.
J. M. Kariuki was born in Kabati-ini town in Rift Valley province.
The Rift Valley Sports Club lies in the centre of the town.
The town hosts an annual rugby festival dubbed " The Great Rift 10-a-side " which features teams from across the East Africa region.
The town lies in the western branch of the Albertine Rift between Lakes Edward and Kivu.
Marsabit is a town in northern Kenya, located 170 km east of the center of the East African Rift at 37 ° 58 ' E, 2 ° 19 ' N ( 37. 97 ° E, 2. 32 N ).
Naivasha is a market town in Rift Valley Province, Kenya, lying north west of Nairobi.

town and Valley
There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.
Aberdare () is an industrial town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare ( Dâr ) and Cynon.
The Offa's Dyke Path is close by and the Marches Way, the Beacons Way and Usk Valley Walk all pass through the town.
It is located in the southern French Alps, at the crossroads between Provence, Piedmont and the Dauphiné, and is the largest town in the Ubaye Valley.
Barcelonnette is situated in the wide and fertile Ubaye Valley, of which it is the largest town.
The majority of the population of the town lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada.
Dartmouth College is situated in the rural town of Hanover, New Hampshire, located in the Upper Valley along the Connecticut River in New England.
The birthplace of FDR at SpringwoodRoosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York.
* Dholavira is another ancient town belonging to Indus Valley Civilisation, established in India.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.
Rose oil | Rose-picking in the Rose Valley, Bulgaria | Rose Valley near the town of Kazanlak, 1870s, engraving by Felix Philipp Kanitz | F. Kanitz
With the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the fort was renamed James Fort, the town Jamestown and the valley James Valley, all in honour of the Duke of York, later James II of England.
The town is partly within 3 parliamentary constituencies Meon Valley constituency, East Hampshire, and Havant whose respective MPs, George Hollingbery, Damian Hinds, and David Willetts are all in the Conservative Party.
* June 14 – American Civil War – Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
His first wife Fannie N. Smith was from Malden, West Virginia, the same Kanawha River Valley town where Washington had lived from age nine to sixteen.
* November 1: two Israeli soldiers killed in a shooting incident near Bethlehem, and another one while guarding a town in Jordan Valley.
The Chiricahua range extended to the east as far as the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico and to the west as far as the San Pedro River Valley in Arizona, north of Magdalena just below present day Hwy I-40 corridor in New Mexico and with the town Ciudad Madera ( 276 km northwest of the state capital, Chihuahua, and 536 km southwest of Ciudad Juárez ( formerly known as Paso del Norte ) on the Mexico – United States border ), as their southernmost range.
Slate-producing regions in Europe include Wales ( see slate industry in Wales ), Cornwall ( famously the village of Delabole ), Cumbria ( see Burlington Slate Quarries, Honister Slate Mine and Skiddaw Slate ) in the United Kingdom ; parts of France ( Anjou, Loire Valley, Ardennes, Brittany, Savoie ); Belgium ( Ardennes ); Liguria in northern Italy, especially between the town of Lavagna ( which means chalkboard in Italian ) and Fontanabuona valley ; Portugal especially around Valongo in the north of the country ; Spain see Slate Industry in Spain ; Germany's ( Moselle River-region, Hunsrück, Eifel, Westerwald, Thuringia and north Bavaria ); Alta, Norway ( actually schist not a true slate ) and Galicia.
The bridge was destroyed, but the fortified camp, which at the time was the most forward Roman military outpost in the Po Valley, somehow survived the long Second Punic War, and gradually evolved into a garrison town.
In December 2009, two key components of the project were signed: the Homes and Communities Agency ( HCA ) signed its agreement to provide £ 11m of funding for infrastructure, and Thames Valley University ( TVU ) courses which are due to remain in the town have found a new home at The Centre in Farnham Road, Slough.
The Laggan district ( not to be confused with the more famous Lagan Valley in the south of County Antrim ) is centred on the town of Raphoe.

town and traders
It is known that Morse did associate with a group of itinerant horse traders who made their headquarters at Westport, a town not far from Fall River.
Bremen was a major trading town, and ships, traders and missionaries went from there to many different locations.
It was initially colonized by Dutch traders at Zwaanendael, located near the present town of Lewes, in 1631.
In 1873, however, the completion of the Üsküb — Selanik ( now Skopje — Thessaloniki ) railway brought many more travelers and traders to the town, so that by the turn of the century Üsküb had regained its former numbers of around 30, 000.
* March 25 – Enron energy traders allegedly route 2, 900 megawatts of electricity destined for California to the town of Silver Peak, Nevada, population 200.
The traders from Rhodes gave their names to the ancient town of Rhodanousia ( now Trinquetaille, across the Rhone river from Arles ), and to the main river of Provence, the Rhodanos, today known as the Rhone.
It was gathered from the whole of Scotland: knights and nobles, freemen and tenants, town dwellers and traders: men who could afford the arms and armour required.
It has also divided opinion in the town, between those who hoped it would help to revitalise the town, and others who feared that local traders would be unable to compete, leading to a further decline of Shepton Mallet's high street.
The Lewes Chamber of Commerce represents the traders and businesses of the town.
The town of Genoa was originally settled in 1851 by Mormon traders selling goods to settlers on their way to California.
The town became an important center for trade and its weekly Thursday market drew traders from neighboring regions.
" The act begins: Whereas the town of Newbury is very large, and the inhabitants of that part of it who dwell by the water-side there, as it is commonly called, are mostly merchants, traders and artificers, and the inhabitants of the other parts of the town are chiefly husbandmen ; by means whereof many difficulties and disputes have arisen in managing their public affairs-Be it enacted ... That that part of the said town of Newbury ... be and hereby are constituted and made a separate and distinct town ....
The town was formed by European-American settlers in 1829, when westbound settlers and traders decided they liked the area.
Founded on March 12, 1861, the town holds a history of traders traveling along the " Indian Trail ," which ran from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Waxhaw Indians, and gold mining.
Isaac Thomas ( 1735 ?- 1818 ), the most notable of these early traders, was well respected by the Cherokee, and may have lived at the Overhill town of Chota at one time.
The railway through the town is the location of St. Louis, Brownsville, and Mexico Railway, and has served as a trade center for local farmers and traders.
For one weekend each year, French market traders sell their produce in the town, with Chorley's merchants returning the favour in France.
The idea behind it was an outgrowth of the guild system, as guilds were monopolistic enterprises: they regulated trade within towns by controlling the creation of goods, regulated themselves through their system of apprenticeship, kept outside traders from selling goods in the town, and forced outsiders to pay tolls and other types of payments for the privilege of doing business in that town.
Annual horse fairs would bring many other traders to the town, and the weekly market would be the occasion for more local trade.

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