The ancient city of Troy was located near the western entrance of the strait and the strait's Asiatic shore was the focus of the Trojan War.

Bartholdi was in any event busy with other possible projects ; in the late 1860s, he approached Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, with a plan to build a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said.

In ancient times some believed that placing a coin in the mouth of the deceased would help pay the toll for the ferry to help cross the Styx river which would lead one to the entrance of the underworld.

By his naming the blade " Sting " we see Bilbo's acceptance of the kinds of cultural and linguistic practices found in Beowulf, signifying his entrance into the ancient world in which he found himself.

File: Puquios aqueduct Nazca Peru. JPG | An entrance to the ancient Puquios, near Nazca

A new site was found for this monument in order that the ancient and beautiful entrance might be preserved.

At the entrance to the north in the center, between the streets Via Aliprandi and Via Zanzi, a fork of the river artificially created for defensive purposes in the early decades of the 14th century gives rise to Lambretto, which is joined to the main course Lambro at its exit to the south from the ancient circle of medieval walls ( Monza ) ( now completely demolished ).

The well-preserved city walls provide an entrance to the site through the Hellenistic main gate ( Megale Pyle ) of the ancient city, although this gate from the 2nd century BC is badly damaged.

The ancient status of that military road is recorded on a Roman stone now placed by the entrance of Clapham Library in the Old Town, which was discovered during building operations at Clapham Common South Side in 1912.

The city lost even its ancient and original name that was forgotten, named Porto Leone by the Venetians in 1317, meaning ' Lion's Port ' from the Piraeus Lion standing at the harbour's entrance, and Porto Draco by the Franks.

Obelisks were prominent in the architecture of the ancient Egyptians, who placed them in pairs at the entrance of temples.

Antiquities include Breckness House, erected in 1633 by George Graham, bishop of Orkney at the west entrance of Hoy Sound ; and an ancient cemetery, with ruined church, and remains of a monastery, between Breckness House and Stromness town.

The site consisted of ancient, emerged coral reef covered by a thin layer of soil, with the Pearl Harbor entrance channel and naval reservation marking its western and northern boundaries, John Rodgers Airport ( HIA today ) to the east, and Fort Kamehameha on the south.

In ancient times, Ponter's Ball Dyke would have guarded the only entrance to the island.

* Longhouse — an ancient form of cattle building, with the same entrance for people as well

Longhouses are an ancient building where people and animals used the same entrance.

George R. Stewart theorized, in his book Names on the Globe, that Hellespont originally meant something like " narrow Pontus " or " entrance to Pontus ," " Pontus " being an ancient name for the region around the Black Sea, and by extension, for the sea itself.

Once a part of the ancient battlefield of Dagorlad, the Dead Marshes lie north-west of the Morannon, the principal entrance to Mordor.

The ancient town of Milos was nearer to the entrance of the harbour than Adamas, and occupied the slope between the village of Trypiti and the landing-place at Klima.

and he himself was buried there-and indeed the locals will show visitors the site of the ancient town of Plakotos at the northernmost end of the island, where the rocky entrance to a tomb may be seen.

Since ancient times, converts to the Church who were coming from certain heretical groups were not required to be baptized, even though the normal path of entrance to the Church was through baptism.

It commands a strategic position at the crossroads of the ancient Southern Silk Route and the main road leading from India via Lhasa to Mongolia and Southern Siberia, as well as controlling the entrance to the narrow Hexi Corridor which led straight to the heart of the north Chinese plains and the ancient capitals of Chang ' an ( today known as Xi ' an ) and Luoyang.

It possibly connects the entrance of the large ancient building complex to the city acropolis.

At the end of the mines, the hunters find an entrance to the ruins of an ancient, living spaceship.

Lounging in the Tepidarium, the central hall joining the baths of ancient cities, a curvaceous beauty takes her rest.

In Judaism, the ancient Hebrew texts refer not to temples, the word having not existed yet, but to a " sanctuary ", " palace " or " hall ".

* The ancient town hall, known as the Broletto

The hall is the oldest surviving college building, but apart from the door with its magnificent medieval ironwork almost no trace of the ancient structure has survived the successive reconstruction efforts, first by James Wyatt in the 1790s and then again by Gilbert Scott in 1874.

* Prytaneion: The ancient equivalent of a town hall, it is where Cleon obtains free meals ( lines 281, 535, 766 ) and where Agoracritus is destined to obtain free sex ( 167 ).

" Lycées " being organically linked to the University of France and its Faculties since their Napoleonic institution ( the " baccalauréat " was awarded by juries made of university professors ) Cousin was " crowned " in the ancient hall of the Sorbonne for a Latin oration he wrote which owned him a first prize at the " concours général ", a competition between the best pupils at " lycées " ( established under the Ancien Régime and reinstated under the First Empire, and still extant ).

The floor of the hall is adorned with a 19th-century imitation of an ancient Roman mosaic.

An apse lined with mosaics and open to the air still preserves the memory of one of the most famous halls of the ancient palace, the " Triclinium " of Pope Leo III, which was the state banqueting hall.

It possesses several ancient churches, of which one is said to date from 1206, and a town hall built in 1559.

The palace, called Per-Hay or " House of Rejoicing " in ancient times, comprised a temple of Amun and a festival hall built especially for this occasion.

Thus, the " Arab plan ", with court and hypostyle prayer hall, truly became a functional type with the construction of the Umayyad Mosque, or the Great Mosque of Damascus ( completed in 715 by caliph Al-Walid I ) on top of the ancient temple of Jupiter and in place of the basilica of St. John the Baptist, the most sacred site in the city.

The plans were designed by Theophil Hansen in the Neoclassical style of an ancient Greek temple, including a concert hall as well as a smaller chamber music hall.

Djuma Mosque, for instance, was established in the 10th century and rebuilt in 1788-89, although its celebrated hypostyle hall still retains 112 columns taken from ancient structures.

On the hilltop there was also an ancient meeting hall ( the ' Moot Hall ') until 1914, and several inns became established over the centuries, some of which survive today.

On April 17, 1894, central part of Nowy Sącz burned in a fire, together with a town hall and ancient town records.

The ' Green ' part of the name refers to a large and ancient Green, probably dating from the 13th century that used to exist here but was reduced to a mere 4 acres ( 16, 000 m² ) in size in 1854. View across The Common at Holmer Green showing village hall and church

The school was eventually moved to Menai Bridge and only the ancient hall of the original school building now remains.

The ancient jewelled ivory Horn of Leys residing in the great hall above the fireplace, was gifted to the Burnetts by the king along with the castle grounds in 1323

The temple to the national key cultural relics protection units in Guan Yu Temple hall as the main body, including 4melting of ancient and modern architectural style as one of the font type courtyard house.

Inside the building, an 18 metre stretch of preserved road is on permanent display in a specially designed hall with humidifiers to prevent the ancient wood from cracking in the heat.

" This hall explores some examples from various cultures in the western world including northern Iraq, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and the recent discovery of the Iceman, a Copper Age mummy found in an Italian glacier.

Important attractions are the Karlsburg Castle in the centre, erected in 1565 and later used as barracks, now with some museums an ancient town hall, a church with an excellent organ, and in the market-place a statue of the margrave Charles II.

It was one of the most famous halls of the ancient palace and was the state banqueting hall.

The northern side of the square is occupied by the ancient town hall, the Torre dei Lamberti, the Casa dei Giudici (" Judges Hall ") and the Mazzanti Houses.