Near the end of World War II, the city of about 340, 000 became capital of the Province of Magdeburg.

* Near the end of the An Shi rebellion, Tibetan troops occupy Chang ' an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.

Near the modern city of Veria, Perdiccas I ( or, more likely, his son, Argaeus I ) built his capital, Aigai ( modern Vergina ).

" Near the old capital of Hariharalaya, Yasovarman constructed a new city, called Yasodharapura.

Near the place of the Swedish town Nyen, close to the Neva river's estuary at the Gulf of Finland, the new Russian capital Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703.

Trade and agriculture flourished under Mamluk rule, and Cairo, their capital, became one of the wealthiest cities in the Near East and the center of artistic and intellectual activity.

Near highway N-120 ( Ourense to Vigo ) and the motorway called Autovia das Rias Baixas ( A52 ), it is 25 km from the provincial capital and 80 km from Vigo.

Near and distant relatives of victims can become a racist nation-state ; they can themselves herd other people into concentration camps, push other people around at will, perpetrate genocidal war against them, procure preliminary capital by expropriating them.

Near the end of this century al-Harrani reports that the capital had been moved to Wayula.

Near Geyzing is the ancient town of Yuksom, the ancient capital of Sikkim built in 1642.

Near the Zerhoun range are the ruins of Volubilis Kasar Faraon, or Pharaohs Castle, once the Roman capital, and the first home of Idris I. Volubilis.

Near Lima, Drake captured a Spanish ship laden with 25, 000 pesos of Peruvian gold, amounting in value to 37, 000 ducats of Spanish money ( about £ 7m by modern standards ).

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern or contemporary events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria ( compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia ).

Near the modern Lake Ladoga, land rose faster, and a closed reservoir was formed.

Archaeological evidence suggests that pigs were being managed in the wild in a way similar to the way they are managed by some modern New Guineans from wild boar as early as 13, 000 – 12, 700 BP in the Near East in the Tigris Basin.

Back scabbards were never used in European, Near East, or Indian military cultures, and depictions of such are a modern invention and have enjoyed great popularity in fiction and fantasy, to the point that they are widely believed to be a Medieval invention.

The researchers conclude that their data, taken from the modern Tuscan population, ' support the scenario of a post-Neolithic genetic input from the Near East to the present-day population of Tuscany ’.

Near the eastern shore of the island of Gades / Gadeira ( modern Cádiz, just beyond the strait ) Strabo describes the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, the god with whom Greeks associated the Phoenician and Punic Melqart, by interpretatio graeca.

Sippar ( Sumerian: Zimbir ) was an ancient Near Eastern city on the east bank of the Euphrates river, located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah in Iraq's Babil Governorate, some 60 km north of Babylon and 30 km southeast of Baghdad.

Near the modern courthouse is the preserved log structure known as the " Old Cora Courthouse ", one of the oldest standing wooden courthouses in Texas.

Lachish (; ; ) was an ancient Near East town located at the site of modern Tell ed-Duweir in the Shephelah, a region between Mount Hebron and the maritime plain of Philistia ( Joshua 10: 3, 5 ; 12: 11 ).

Near the village of Taginae ( traditionally located somewhere to the north of modern Gualdo Tadino ), Narses encountered the Ostrogothic army commanded by King Totila, who had been advancing to intercept him.

A number of studies have tried to find out the genetic impact of non-European Muslim populations on the modern Spanish and Portuguese populations, through comparison of genetic markers in Spain and Portugal with North Africa and the Near East.

Near the site of modern Preveza in 290 BC King Pyrrhus of Epirus founded the town of Berenikea or Berenike, named after his mother-in-law Berenice I of Egypt., Today it is believed that Berenikea lies on the hills of the village of Michalitsi village, following the excavations of Sotirios Dakaris in 1965.

Near the end of the 19th century, modern conservatories opened in many cities, and New York became the home of the Metropolitan Opera House in 1882 and Carnegie Hall in 1891, the latter's opening being marked by an appearance by the famed Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Umm el-Marra,, east of modern Aleppo in the Jabbul Plain of northern Syria, was one of the ancient Near East's oldest cities, located on a crossroads of two trade routes northwest of Ebla, in a landscape that was much more fertile than it is today.

Near modern Utica in LaSalle County, Illinois, across from Starved Rock, they met the Kaskaskia at the Grand Village of the Illinois ( now a State Historic Site, also known as the Zimmerman Site ).

In the medieval Near East, Arabic diaries were first being written from before the 10th century, though the medieval diary which most resembles the modern diary was that of Ibn Banna in the 11th century.

The Arameans never had a unified nation ; they were divided into small independent kingdoms across parts of the Near East, particularly in what is now modern Syria.

Shortly after ( before the present ) a group of modern humans migrated out of Africa, spreading first to the Near East, then beyond to Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Near the center of the town the Shooting Range ( Skopeftirion ) was built to house events of the first modern Olympic Games, the 1896 Summer Olympics, and these first modern games took place in three venues: the refurbished ancient stadium of Athens ( Panathinaiko Stadium ) 2 km NE of Kallithea, the Neo Phaliron Velodrome ( currently Karaiskaki Stadium ) 2 km SW of Kallithea, and the Kallithea Shooting Range ( Skopeftirion ).

Near the time when the copyright to the English Revised Version was due to expire ( 1935 ), the Oxford University Press and the Cambridge University Press, who were the current English Revised Version copyright holders, began investigations to determine whether a modern revision of the English Revised Version text was necessary.

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

The IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers the western or lowland bongo, T. eurycerus, to be Lower Risk ( Near Threatened ), and the eastern or mountain bongo, T. e. isaaci, of Kenya to be Critically Endangered.

According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Egypt ( hieroglyphs ), the Near East ( cuneiform )— and the Mediterranean, with the Mycenaean culture ( Linear B )— had viable writing systems.

There are also numerous community and special interest stations, including Dublin City FM ( 103. 2 MHz ), Dublin South FM ( 93. 9 MHz ), Liffey Sound FM ( 96. 4 MHz ), Near FM ( 90. 3 MHz ), Phoenix FM ( 92. 5 MHz ), Raidió na Life ( 106. 4 MHz ) and West Dublin Access Radio ( 96. 0 MHz ).

The association of the serpent with a monstrous opponent overcome by a heroic deity has its roots in the mythology of the Ancient Near East, including Canaanite ( Hebrew, Ugaritic ), Hittite and Mesopotamian.

Near the present-day town of Larino in the Molise ( then called Larinum ), Hannibal had taken up position in a town called Gerione.

The collections are: Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka ( 1831-1832 ) with the stories St John's Eve and A Terrible Vengeance, Arabesques ( 1835 ), with the story The Portrait, and Mirgorod ( 1835 ), with the story Viy.

This Harifian culture may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture and Helwan culture of Egypt ( which lasted from 9000-4500 BC ), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex, which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East.

The language of the Hattusa tablets was eventually deciphered by a Czech linguist, Bedřich Hrozný ( 1879 – 1952 ), who on 24 November 1915 announced his results in a lecture at the Near Eastern Society of Berlin.

Increasingly, the Iron Age in Europe is being seen as a part of the Bronze Age collapse in the ancient Near East, in ancient India ( with the post-Rigvedic Vedic civilization ), ancient Iran, and ancient Greece ( with the Greek Dark Ages ).

Weber juxtaposed such Messianic prophecies ( also called ethical prophecies ), notably from the Near East region to the exemplary prophecies found on the Asiatic mainland, focused more on reaching to the educated elites and enlightening them on the proper ways to live one's life, usually with little emphasis on hard work and the material world.

This includes the ancient and medieval kingdoms and empires of the Middle East and Near East, ancient Iran, ancient Egypt, ancient Nubia, and Anatolia ( Turkey ), Ancient Nok, Carthage, the Greeks and Romans of ancient Europe, medieval Europe, ancient and medieval China, ancient and medieval India, ancient and medieval Japan, amongst others.

* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

It also reflected the difficulties imposed on the Empire by the need to support two separate fronts: one against the Austrians ( see: Ottoman wars in Europe ), and the other against a rival Islamic state, the Safavids of Persia ( see: Ottoman wars in Near East ).

The earliest history of pottery production in the Near East can be divided into four periods, namely: the Hassuna period ( 7000-6500 BCE ), the Halaf period ( 6500-5500 BCE ), the Ubaid period ( 5500-4000 BCE ), and the Uruk period ( 4000-3100 BCE ).