During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca ( the Battle of Alcoraz, 1096 ), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.

God speaks to Amos, a farmer and herder, and tells him to go to Samaria, the capital of the Northern kingdom.

Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D ' mt was established in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia.

Munro-Hay cites the Muslim historian Abu Ja ' far al-Khwarazmi / Kharazmi ( who wrote before 833 ) as stating that the capital of " the kingdom of Habash " was Jarma.

Statue of El Cid in Burgos, the capital of Sancho II's kingdom, and where El Cid served in his early years.

The country's second capital city was superseded by Rome six years later, after the withdrawal of the French troops made its addition to the kingdom possible.

For some time, Bhatinda remained the capital of the kingdom of Bhatti Rajputs of the Pal clan, who ruled North India before the Muslims occupied the country.

The kingdom also had three capital cities: Tripoli, Benghazi and Bayda.

Gandhara is the name of an ancient Hindu kingdom from the Vedic period and its capital city located between the Hindukush and Sulaiman Mountains ( mountains of Solomon ), although Kandahar in modern times and the ancient Gandhara are not geographically identical.

Clovis made Paris his capital and established the Merovingian Dynasty but his kingdom would not survive his death in 511.

In the central highlands this resulted in unification in a kingdom with the city of Samaria as its capital, possibly by the second half of the 10th century BCE when an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I, the biblical Shishak, records a series of campaigns directed at the area.

Jerusalem, while probably not totally abandoned, was much smaller than previously, and the town of Mizpah in Benjamin in the relatively unscathed northern section of the kingdom became the capital of the new Babylonian province of Yehud Medinata.

Now master of Jezreel, Jehu wrote to the chief men in the capital Samaria, and commanded them to count the heads of all the royal princes of the kingdom.

He rebuilt and fortified Shechem as the capital of his kingdom.

Pavia fell after a siege of three years, in 572, becoming the first capital city of the new Lombard kingdom of Italy.

At the death of King Haripert I in 661, the kingdom was split between his children Perctarit, who set his capital in Milan, and Godepert, who reigned from Pavia.

The civil war lasted ten years and was ended only by a peace treaty imposed by the Emperor Louis II, the only Frankish king to exercise actual sovereignty over the Lombard states, in 849, which divided the kingdom into two states: the Principality of Benevento and the Principality of Salerno, with its capital at Salerno on the Tyrrhenian.

Bracara Augusta, the modern city of Braga in Portugal, previously the capital of Roman Gallaecia, now became the capital of the Suebic kingdom.

Sharif Hussein declared a new state, the Kingdom of Hejaz, and declared Mecca as the capital of the new kingdom.

For the first six years of his reign Omri's capital was in Tirzah, after which he built a new capital of the kingdom in Samaria, on a hill he bought from Shemer.

It is sometimes claimed to be the first capital of the kingdom of Poland.

However, the addition of territory paradoxically reduced Piedmont's importance to the kingdom, and the capital was moved to Florence, and then to Rome.

According to oral traditions it was established in around 1400 when King Lukena Lua Nimi conquered the kingdom of Kabunga and established Mbanza Kongo as its capital.

Her revolt, during which she captured the capital Mbanza Kongo, was short lived.

Mbanza was the name given to a territorial unit administered and ruled by a Mani ; Mbanza Congo, the capital, had a population of over fifty thousand in the sixteenth century.

Although the Angolan city of São Salvador ( renamed Mbanza Congo ) was the capital of their ancient kingdom, most of the Bakongo were situated in Zaire.

The primary focus of attention was to occupy the capital city, Sao Salvador ( today's Mbanza Kongo ) and claim the kingship.

Mbanza Congo was the capital of the Kingdom of Kongo with a population of 30, 000 plus.

The Jagas, however, did create a major problem for Álvaro, who had to abandon the capital of Mbanza Kongo, and flee to an island in the Congo River.

The capital was Mbanza Ngoyo.

These wars had started shortly after the death of António I and had resulted in the abandonment of the ancient capital of São Salvador ( present day Mbanza Kongo ) in 1678 and the division of the country by rival pretenders to the throne.

M ' Banza Kongo, formerly São Salvador, is the capital of the province.

* Mbanza-Kongo capital of the Kongo Empire

The capital of the Kingdom of Kongo

Beatriz went to live among colonists sent out by King Pedro IV, one of several rival rulers of Kongo, to reoccupy the ancient and now abandoned capital of São Salvador.

Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital ; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen greeted him as a hero.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

Two years later, in 1120, he defeated a Muslim army intent on reconquering his new capital at the Battle of Cutanda.

Reinvesting his returns in such inside investments in railroad-related industries: ( iron, bridges, and rails ), Carnegie slowly accumulated capital, the basis for his later success.

The children devised plots about the inhabitants of Angria and its capital city, " Glass Town ", later called Verreopolis or Verdopolis.

Dmitri's grandfather Ivan had been a prominent lawyer in Tsarist Russia who had displayed respect for social awareness and humanitarian principles ( including advocating the abolition of capital punishment ) that would later influence his grandson.

Leuven fell on 25 May 1706 ; three days later, the Allies entered Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands.

The growth of the population of ancient civilizations, the formation of ancient empires concentrating political power, and the growth in commerce and manufacturing led to ever greater capital cities and centres of commerce and industry, with Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra ( now Patna ) in India, Chang ' an ( now Xi ' an ) in China, Carthage, ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople ( later Istanbul ).

In 960, the Song Dynasty gained power over most of China and established its capital in Kaifeng ( later known as Bianjing ), starting a period of economic prosperity, while the Khitan Liao Dynasty ruled over Manchuria, present-day Mongolia, and parts of Northern China.

Cundinamarca convened a " Congress of the United Provinces ," which first met in Bogotá, but later moved to Tunja and Leyva to maintain independence from the capital city.

By December, the capital city of Nanjing had fallen to the Japanese, and Chiang moved the government inland, first to Wuhan and later to Chongqing.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

This proved valuable human capital for the 24, 000 alumni who later served in the military and the 40, 000 who left the reservations for war jobs in the cities.

Moussa Ahmed Idriss and the ODU later challenged the results based on election " irregularities " and the assertion that " foreigners " had voted in various districts of the capital ; however, international and locally based observers considered the election to be generally fair, and cited only minor technical difficulties.

Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State and later the Republic of Ireland.

The other 50 % were with the emperor ( s ) in his or their Comitatus, with the praetorian prefects, with the grain supply officials in the capital ( later, the capitals, Rome and Constantinople ), Alexandria, and Carthage and officials from the central offices located in the provinces.

It must also be able to compare the desired trade-off between present consumption and delayed consumption ( for greater returns later on ), via investment in capital goods.

All future Supermarionation ventures were funded by ITC, who later acquired the share capital in the company in 1962.

Jaragua was the largest caique on the island and ruled by Bohechío and his sister Anacaona, who ruled from its capital Yaguana near present day Leogane, and later came into conflict with the Spanish.

In 1749 the city of Port-au-Prince was established on the West coast, which in 1770 took over as the capital of the colony from Cap-Français, however that same year the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city killing 200 people immediately, and 30, 000 later from famine and disease brought on by the natural disaster.

A century later it came into increasing conflict with the expanding neo-Assyrian empire, which first split its territory into several smaller units and then destroyed its capital, Samaria ( 722 ).

He then invaded the Glomacze lands on the middle Elbe river, conquered Gana ( Jahna ), the capital after a siege, and had a fortress ( the later Albrechtsburg ) built at Meissen.

(, ), on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony ( Niedersachsen ), Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( later described as the Elector of Hanover ).

The stele was later plundered by the Elamites and removed to their capital, Susa ; it was rediscovered there in 1901 and is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.