It was divided into seven rural bailiwicks and four administrative cities, Aarau, Zofingen, Lenzburg and Brugg.

The cities of Baden, Bremgarten and Mellingen became the administrative centers and held the high courts.

Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.

So, Bogotá became one of the principal administrative centers of the Spanish possessions in the New World, along with Lima and Mexico City, though it remained somewhat backward compared to those two cities in several economic and logistical ways.

During the last two decades, Italy underwent a devolution process, that eventually led to the creation of administrative metropolitan areas, in order to give major cities and their metropolitan areas a provincial status ( somehow similar to PRC's direct-controlled municipality ).

These towns and cities had the status of a County corporate, many granted by Royal Charter, which had all the judicial, administrative and revenue raising powers of the regular counties.

Areas of the cities of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Derry and Waterford were carved from their surrounding counties to become county boroughs in their own right and given powers equivalent to those of administrative counties.

If the cities were treated as relatively autonomous local administrative areas, it would simplify the problems of imperial administration, which as far as Julian was concerned, should be focused on the administration of the law and defense of the empire's vast frontiers.

By 1963 telephone wire had been laid from Beijing to the capitals of all provinces, autonomous regions, and large cities, while in turn, provincial capitals and autonomous regions were connected to the administrative seats of the counties, smaller municipalities and larger market towns.

It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive ( administrative ) and de facto national capital ; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.

Some of Alaska's boroughs have merged geographical boundaries and administrative functions with their principal ( and sometimes only ) cities ; these are known as unified city-boroughs and result in some of Alaska's cities ranking among the geographically largest " cities " in the world.

The following administrative districts and independent cities are part of the Palatinate:

The creation of an intermediate territorial administrative level between the central government and the cities should probably be attributed to Philip II: this reform corresponded with the need to adapt the kingdom's institutions to the great expansion of Macedon under his rule.

Within some provinces, there are some cities that are directly under provinces, bypassing an administrative level ( prefectures and prefecture-level cities ).

Under the administrative division system of the Republic of China, some cities are directly administered by the Executive Yuan, some are administered by provinces ( the province of Taiwan is nominal ), and some are subordinate to counties.

One interesting relic of the newer independent cities is that, in some cases, the government administrative buildings ( docheong ) of the provinces they were once a part of are still located within city boundaries, meaning that these provinces have capitals that are not within their borders.

In the progress of the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the main cities and administrative centers fell in the hands of Muslim troops.

The most important administrative layer of local government in Finland are the 336 municipalities, which may also call themselves towns or cities.

The distinction between a town and a city similarly depends on the approach adopted: a city may strictly be an administrative entity which has been granted that designation by law, but in informal usage, the term is also used to denote an urban locality of a particular size or importance: whereas a medieval city may have possessed as few as 10, 000 inhabitants, today some consider an urban place of fewer than 100, 000 as a town, even though there are many officially designated cities that are very, very much smaller than that.

Despite these recent administrative changes, there is no indication that the Alxa, Hinggan, and Xilingol Leagues will convert to prefecture-level cities in the near future.

Cairo was intended as a royal enclosure for the Fatimid caliph and his army, though the actual administrative and economic capital of Egypt was in cities such as Fustat until 1169.

After conquering Edirne ( Adrianople ) in 1365 the Ottomans turned it into a joint capital city for governing their European realms, but Bursa remained the most important Anatolian administrative and commercial center even after it lost its status as the sole Ottoman capital.

Bursa remained to be the most important administrative and commercial center in the empire until Mehmed II conquered Istanbul in 1453.

For nearly 200 years after Cairo was established, the administrative centre of Egypt remained in Fustat.

The American military left Iqaluit in 1963, as intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBM ) diminished the strategic value of the DEW line and Arctic airbases, but Frobisher Bay remained the government's administrative and logistical centre for much of the eastern Arctic.

The region remained a part of the Roman Empire until 429 AD as the Vandals overran the area and Roman administrative presence came to an end.

Although the office held no real administrative significance — the full-time prefect remained in office during the festival — it remained a prestigious office for young aristocrats and members of the imperial family.

When South Africa became a republic in 1961, Pretoria remained its administrative capital.

Cultural and delegated administrative centre of the Gallura sub-region, Tempio has an ancient history and is the centre of one of the two main areas that remained safe from Phoenician colonisation.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the city remained a part of the now independent Ukraine, for which it currently serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast, and is designated as its own raion ( district ) within that oblast.

The earlier effort to mobilize peasants and deliver services disappeared as the local party and cooperative withered, but administrative controls over the peasants remained intact.

Before his death in 1924, Lenin, while describing Trotsky as " distinguished not only by his exceptional abilities – personally he is, to be sure, the most able man in the present Central Committee ", and also maintaining that " his non-Bolshevik past should not be held against him ", criticized him for " showing excessive preoccupation with the purely administrative side of the work ", and also requested that Stalin be removed from his position of General Secretary, but his notes remained suppressed until 1956.

Constantius remained in Britannia for a few months, replaced most of Allectus ’ officers, and the British provinces were probably at this time subdivided along the lines of Diocletian ’ s other administrative reforms of the Empire.

Radom remained an administrative center of this part of Poland.

Overall, Vietnam remained very efficiently and stably governed except in times of war and dynastic breakdown, and its administrative system was probably far more advanced than that of any other Southeast Asian state.

The parish remained the local administrative unit until the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch in 1899.

Mecosta County was set off on April 1, 1840, but remained attached for administrative purposes to Kent County until 1857, when it was attached to Newaygo County.

Emmet County remained attached to Mackinac County for administrative purposes until county government was organized in 1853.

The People's Daily and CCTV-1's 7 pm national news each had Jiang-related events as the front-page or top stories, a fact that remained until Hu Jintao's media administrative changes in 2006.

He felt that the policy of reservations for the backward sections in education and the public sector had remained unfulfilled due to administrative distortions and narrow interpretations, and needed to be implemented with renewed vigour and sincerity ; apprehensive of what he described as a counter-revolution among some privileged sections seeking to reverse progressive policies, he reminded the nation that these benefits were not charity, but had been provided by way of human rights and social justice to sections constituting a large portion of the population and contributing to the economy as landless agricultural labourers and industrial workers.

It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841.

In 1674 – 75 the area became part of East Jersey, and the province was divided into four administrative districts, Hoboken becoming part of Bergen County, where it remained until the creation of Hudson County on February 22, 1840.

After the peace he was employed in an administrative post in Armenia, where he remained until 1882.