Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

Major parts in the spread ( and thus more durable growth ) of the population were played by monastical ' pioneering ' ( especially by the Benedictine and Commercial orders ) and some feudal lords ' recruiting farmers to settle ( and become tax payers ) by offering relatively good legal and fiscal conditions.

Major religious groups in the Republic of the Marshall Islands include the United Church of Christ ( formerly Congregational ), with 51. 5 percent of the population ; the Assemblies of God, 24. 2 percent ; and the Roman Catholic Church, 8. 4 percent.

Major reasons for population decline include habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and poaching.

Major population centres include Norwich, Peterborough, Ipswich and Cambridge.

Besides recessive genes there are also other reasons why inbreeding may be harmful such as a narrow range of certain immune systems genes in a population increasing vulnerability to infectious diseases ( see Major histocompatibility complex and sexual selection ).

* Major Cajun / Zydeco festivals are held annually in Rhode Island, which does not have a sizable Cajun population but is home to many Franco-Americans of Québécois and Acadian descent.

* The Roman general, Tiberius Gracchus Major, subdues Sardinia, enslaving some of the population.

Khánh also had Major Nhung, the bodyguard of Minh, shot, causing riots among parts of the population who feared that Khánh would wind back the clock to the Diệm era.

Major urban centers in 2006 were Novosibirsk ( with a population of 1, 379, 000 ), Berdsk ( 91, 900 ), Iskitim ( 63, 800 ), Kuybyshev ( 48, 500 ).

Major population centres in Kirkkonummi include the municipal centre, Masala, Veikkola, Kantvik and the Upinniemi naval garrison area.

On his return to Norfolk Island, King found the population of nearly one thousand torn apart by discontent after the strict regime of Major Robert Ross.

Major population centers included Safed, Tiberias, Beisan and Nazareth.

Major Totonac centers were Papantla, with an estimated population of 60, 000 in 1519, Xalapa ( around 120, 000 ), and Cempoala ( around 80, 000 ).

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Major centers include the Cayman Islands, Dublin, Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda.

Major universities include Cairo University ( 100, 000 students ), Alexandria University, and the 1, 000-year-old Al-Azhar University, one of the world's major centers of Islamic learning.

Major urban centers were at Dholavira, Kalibangan, Harappa, Lothal, Mohenjo-daro, and Rakhigarhi, as well as an offshoot called the Kulli culture ( 2500 – 2000 BCE ) in southern Balochistan, which had similar settlements, pottery and other artifacts.

Major shopping centers include Congressional Plaza, Mid-Pike Plaza, Montrose Crossing, Federal Plaza, White Flint Mall, and Wintergreen Plaza.

Major commercial and residential development has taken place since 2000, resulting in Gainesville boasting six large shopping centers.

Major production centers around Attica, Boeotia and Euboea.

Major Bentsen's unit also flew against communications centers, aircraft factories and industrial targets in Germany, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Major NDSU research extension centers are located near Carrington, Casselton, Dickinson, Fargo, Hettinger, Langdon, Minot, Streeter, and Williston.

Major population centers are Brawley, Calexico and El Centro which is the county seat.

Major centers are in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus and the Baltic.

The plot centers around an investigation into wrongdoings in Fort Baxter by Major Thorn, an old rival of Bilko's, who will stop at nothing to best Bilko.

Major railroad centers are Vassar, Bad Axe and Port Huron.

Major shopping centers include Woodbridge Center, Menlo Park Mall, Bridgewater Commons, Monmouth Mall, Brunswick Square Mall, Quaker Bridge Mall, Princeton Market Fair and Freehold Raceway Mall.

Major centers for planetary science research include the Lunar and Planetary Institute, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Planetary Science Institute, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, and Johnson Space Center.

Major malls and open-air centers in the area include:

Major shopping centers along Cottman Avenue include, the Cottman-Bustleton Center, and the Roosevelt Mall which opened in 1964 at Cottman Avenue and the Roosevelt Boulevard.

Major religious centers in Karukutty include

Major urban centers include Regina which is 92 miles to the north and Moose Jaw, 89 miles to the northwest.

Major city centers were the hardest hit.

Major centers are Kumbani, Ambalam, Moolethundi, Charala, Vilakummaruth, Palli, Kochukottaram and Pachathode.

Batou is the central character of Innocence, which centers around his reaction to the disappearance of Major Motoko Kusanagi at the end of the first film.