The city has established transportation infrastructure including air, sea, river, ( to Porto Novo ) and land routes that facilitate trade with its neighbors Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Togo.

Porto-Novo was once a tributary of the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo and there continues to be a sizable Yoruba community in Porto Novo today.

Porto Novo had an estimated population of 234, 168 in 2005.

* The Porto Novo Museum of Ethnography contains a large collection of Yoruba masks, as well as items on the history of the city and of Benin.

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Hyder himself organised the Siege of Arcot, while detaching his son Karim Khan Sahib to take Porto Novo.

Coote marched to face him, and won a decisive victory in the Battle of Porto Novo on 1 July 1781 ; Coote estimated that Hyder lost 10, 000 men in the battle.

Hyder consequently sent forces west to deal with these matters, and was preparing to follow himself when word arrived on 10 March that a French force had landed at Porto Novo.

* Benin: capital Porto Novo, seat of government Cotonou.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

The Emperor planned to have Felix and Liberius rule jointly, but when Liberius returned Felix was forced to retire to Porto, near Rome, where, after making an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself again in Rome, he died on 22 November 365.

Ferries also leave regularly from Quai L ' Herminier on the west side of the gulf for Porto Torres, Marseille, Toulon and Nice.

There are smaller harbors, essentially single jetties at Tarrafal on São Nicolau, Sal Rei on Boa Vista, Vila do Maio ( Porto Inglês ) on Maio, São Filipe on Fogo and Furna on Brava.

A year later, at the age of 38, he died under mysterious circumstances in Porto Ercole, reportedly from a fever while on his way to Rome to receive a pardon.

The game was played on 18 May 2011, when Portuguese club Porto beat fellow Portuguese side Braga 1-0.

In July 2007, plans have been approved by the Brazilian Government to construct two hydroelectric dams on the Madeira River, the Santo Antonio Dam near Porto Velho and the Jirau Dam about 100km downstream.

A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Porto Belo ( Beautiful Port ) which he named.

He was re-elected for a further 2. 5 years at the PES Congress in Porto on 8 December 2006 and for another 2. 5 years at the Prague Congress in 2009.

With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff, who was condemned for performing the functions of a bishop when he had been deposed and for receiving the pontificate while he was the bishop of Porto, among other revived charges that had been leveled against Formosus in the strife during the pontificate of John VIII.

Punta Sardegna is a panoramic site on the coast of northern Sardinia, near Porto Rafael, Palau.

He was probably a Roman soldier martyred for the Christian faith during the persecution of Diocletian in 304 in the city of Porto Torres (), according to the legend on the orders of the governor ( preside ) of Sardinia and Corsica, a certain Barbarus.

Today, Venice's economy is mainly based on tourism, shipbuilding ( mainly done in the neighbouring cities of Mestre and Porto Marghera ), services, trade and industrial exports.

But on March 15, 1147 Afonso stormed the fortress of Santarém, and about the same time a band of crusaders on their way to Palestine landed at Porto in 16 June 1147, and volunteered for the impending siege of Lisbon.

The existing port at Porto Torres, which is almost wholly artificial, is based in great part on Roman foundations ; and there exist also the remains of a temple ( which, as we learn from an inscription, was dedicated to Fortune, and restored in the reign of Philip ), of thermae, of a basilica and an aqueduct, as well as a bridge over the adjoining small river, still called the Fiume Turritano.

One of the first actions was the British capture, on 22 November 1739, of Porto Bello, a silver-exporting town on the coast of Panama in an attempt to damage Spain's finances and weaken its naval capabilities.

After Paolo's death Dec 2, 1962, the widowed Queen Italia Murru retired to Porto San Paolo on Sardinia, wintering at Capo Testa, until her death in 2003 at age 95.