Its historic city center is a listed UNESCO world heritage site.

Its historic ties, its long military presence as well as its economic influence have also given it a political influence.

Its beginnings lie far back in historic tribal warfare customs, when groups of armed men called impis battled.

Its historic centre is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Its current home is the historic Valentine Theatre Downtown.

Its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States.

Its importance as a historic monument was recognised from the 19th century, and various restoration programmes have been carried out since.

Its purpose is unknown but one historic account claims that it marked the spot where Joseph was buried ( see Joseph's tomb ), the area having been excavated by a Muslim caliph, under the influence of a local tradition regarding Joseph's tomb.

Its county government was abolished in 1999, though it continues to exist as a historic geographic area.

" Its core is the Main Street Historic District, which was listed in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1972, one of the first registered historic districts in New Jersey.

Its well known features include the historic rows ( narrow streets ) and the main tourist sector on the seafront.

Its historic register contains such names as Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain.

Its historic center is now in the City of Altamonte Springs.

Elkridge has historic churches, including Melville Church on Furnace Ave. Its original building was the first Methodist church built ( 1772 ) and was visited on the circuit rides of Francis Asbury.

Its early role with carding machines, and the role that Pliny Earle played with the first water powered mill at Pawtucket, complete the case for inclusion on Leicester in this Federal NPS historic designation.

" Its historic and secluded downtown area, with streets lined by live oak trees, is home to several art galleries and shops.

Its Small Town Main Street committee is working on an integrated approach to developing and marketing the historic center of town.

Its historic landmarks include the Edgewood Borough Building where the police and fire service are also housed ; the First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood ; the Edgewood Community House which is home to both CC Mellor Memorial Library and the Edgewood Club ; Memorial Park ; Koenig Community Field and Field House ; Edgewood Primary School ( which was originally a K-12 in Edgewood's own district but was incorporated into the Woodland Hills School District merger in 1982, and most recently serves as a K-6 school building ); and an historic train station.

Its construction as a modern expressway would have caused the destruction of the King of Prussia Inn ; however, historic preservationists managed to prevail upon the state of Pennsylvania to avoid this important structure by building north and southbound lanes on either side of it.

Its historic sites include:

Its main campus is a historic district and features some of the earliest examples of collegiate gothic architecture in North America.

Its stock of Regency and Classical Revival buildings, considered the best in the country from the post-war of 1812 period, led the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to recommend that the town's historic district be designated a National Historic Site of Canada, a designation which was approved in 2003.

Its religious communities include ( to name only a few ), Afrikaans-speaking congregations of the Dutch Reformed Church, Rastafarian communities, people who engage only in traditional Xhosa practices, syncretic Xhosa Christian churches, evangelical Christian churches, and southern Africa's largest Muslim community ( drawing its oldest roots from the historic Cape Muslim community, which dates back to the 17th century ).

Its political importance now ended, but its temple of Adonis and Aphrodite Amathusia remained famous in Roman times.

Its early history reveals that the maritime importance of the island dates back to pre-Dorian times.

Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.

Its importance has been consolidated by successful large-scale forward genetic screens ( commonly referred to as the Tübingen / Boston screens ).

Its importance was instead conveyed by the height of the tower ( prasat ) rising above it, by its location at the centre of the temple, and by the greater decoration on its walls.

Its supposed fundamental importance to life can be seen in words such as aspire, inspire, perspire and spirit, all derived from the Latin spirare.

Its central importance to many biochemical pathways suggests that it was one of the earliest established components of cellular metabolism and may have originated abiogenically.

Its importance in physics is the result of its being the solution to the differential equation describing forced resonance.

Its importance in the economy of salvation is discussed periodically in the Philokalia where as direct, personal knowledge of God ( noesis ; see also Noema ) it is distinguished from ordinary epistemological knowledge ( speculative philosophy ).

Its importance was such that it also gave its name to one of the six Rapes or administrative districts of Sussex.

Its strategic importance between China on one side and the Middle East and Europe on the other, temporarily gave all of Eurasia incredible riches.

Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil.

Its importance to the fiscal well-being of the central government also denied it economic liberalizations begun in 1978.

Its importance as Brazil's national music transcends region, however ; samba schools, samba musicians and carnival organizations centered around the performance of samba exist in every region of the country and, while regional musics prevail in other regions ( for instance, in Southern Brazil, Center-West Brazil, and all of the Brazilian countryside, Sertanejo, or Brazilian country music, is the most popular style ).

Its importance in today's society rests on its ability to be mass produced using a highly automated process ( semiconductor device fabrication ) that achieves astonishingly low per-transistor costs.

Its importance and continuity in his thinking, Wrathall states, shows that he did not have a ' turn '.

Its basic subject matter and setting — love at the Heian court — are those of the romance, and its cultural assumptions are those of the mid-Heian period, but Murasaki Shikibu's unique genius has made the work for many a powerful statement of human relationships, the impossibility of permanent happiness in love ... and the vital importance, in a world of sorrows, of sensitivity to the feelings of others.

Its importance grew with the extension of the Via Aemilia from Ariminum ( Rimini ) to the Po River ( 187 BC ), which it crossed at Placentia ( Piacenza ) and there forked, one branch going to Mediolanum ( Milan ) and the other to Ticinum, and thence to Laumellum where it divided once more, one branch going to Vercellae-and thence to Eporedia and Augusta Praetoria-and the other to Valentia-and thence to Augusta Taurinorum ( Turin ) or to Pollentia.

Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded by Statius:

Its strategical importance lay in the position at the approach to the Rhine from southeast.

Its use as a fortress and then a quarry demonstrates how little spiritual importance was attached to it, at a time when sites associated with martyrs were highly venerated.

Its harbour was of considerable importance in imperial times, as the nearest to Dalmatia, and was enlarged by Trajan, who constructed the north quay with his Syrian architect Apollodorus of Damascus.

R. G. Conzen remarked of Ludlow " Its composite medieval town plan and a history of eight and a half centuries with several periods of considerable importance have endowed its Old Town with an historically well-stratified and richly textured landscape.

Its importance was partially in that a mechanical model of the universe, correctly named a planetarium, gained the name Orrery,