Ruins of the centre of the city: the forum in the foreground, the market and the basilica in the background.

The rectangular grid of its historical centre preserves the Roman street plan, and the Piazza San Michele occupies the site of the ancient forum.

Already by the end of the 3rd century Zadar had its own bishop and founding of the Zadar Christian community took place ; a new religious centre was built north of the forum together with a basilica and a baptistery, as well as other ecclesiastical buildings.

The Nazi literature of the period leaves little doubt that this new forum was regarded as a sacred cult centre, which was even referred to as " Acropolis Germainiae ".

Reggio became a judicial administration centre, with a forum called at first Regium Lepidi, then simply Regium, whence the city's current name.

Yet even today, with much major new development, the centre of the old Roman and medieval town on the opposite ( left ) bank of the Tarn remains poorly excavated, and the newly renovated Maison du Peuple, almost on the site of the old Roman forum, saw no archaeology before major mechanical excavation for recent new very deep foundations.

Frecheville also houses the parish church, library, a fishing pond and a community centre provided for the neighbourhood by the builder which still has an active forum and has run the Frecheville carnival every year between 1937 and 2006 with the exception of during the war years.

The RCS ’ s London home, the Commonwealth Club, acts as a centre for the exchange of ideas and, through the Society ’ s broad-ranging public affairs programme, offers a forum for the debate, research and development of Commonwealth thinking on key international issues.

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The resulting firestorm destroyed fifteen square miles ( 39 square kilometres ) of the city centre and caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties.

The Prussian second lieutenant, Gerhard Andreas von Garrelts, later gave an eye-witness account of the agonies of the Belgian civilian population, caught unexpectedly in the centre of battle:

Sports facilities in Colchester include the sports centre, Colchester Leisure World, Colchester Garrison Athletics Stadium ( a co-operative facility used by both the army and civilian population ), and a skatepark.

Manduessedum developed into a civilian settlement and was the centre of a pottery making industry.

On civilian airplanes the FE is positioned so that he can monitor the forward instruments, pilot selections and adjust the thrust levers located on the centre pedestal ; the FE's chair can travel forward and aft and it can swivel laterally 90 degrees, which enables him to face forward and set the engine power, then move aft and rotate sideways to monitor and set the systems panel.

In Stockport, six miles south of Manchester, four sets of underground air raid shelter tunnels for civilian use were dug into the red sandstone on which the town centre stands.

The city centre evolved from the civilian vicus of the Roman fort of Mamucium, on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell.

Its opening was reported in newspapers throughout the United States ; it was the subject of numerous engineering publications ; and visitors included the commander of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, commander of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia In its heyday about 700 Canadian and American military and civilian personnel worked in the centre, in day jobs and shift work.

There is also approximately 200 officers and civilian instructors who supervise all activities at the summer training centre.

The Atomic Energy Research Establishment ( AERE or the Harwell Laboratory ) near Harwell, Oxfordshire was established by John Cockcroft in 1946 as the main centre for military and civilian atomic energy research and development in Britain.

Since 1946 the airport has carried civilian traffic and has been ' temporarily ' the primary one for Aarhus, despite being nearly from the city centre and relatively inaccessible until recent road construction, such as the Djursland motorway.

The blast destroyed the recreational centre, levelled the three story accommodation building next to it and caused extensive damage to the rest of the base and nearby civilian homes.

With that, EADS, ( the European Aeronautical Defence and Space Company ), has pledged 100 million Euros to set up a comprehensive helicopter centre in Subang for an aeronautical academy, training, simulation and a maintenance, repair and overhaul facility for the EC725 Cougar military version and the EC225 civilian model.

Špilberk entered public consciousness as a centre of tribulation and oppression on two more occasions ; firstly, during the First World War when, together with military prisoners, civilian objectors to the Austro-Hungarian regime were imprisoned here, and secondly in the first year of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

The heavy damage that Vileyka suffered during the war, made it unsuitable to perform the role of the administrative centre, thus the Maladzyechna, which was located only 20 kilometres away from Vileyka, became the new administrative centre when the civilian control was restored in the BSSR on 20 September 1944.

Eamonn McCann wrote that " the Derry Provos, under Martin McGuinness, had managed to bomb the city centre until it looked as if it had been hit from the air without causing any civilian casualties.

One of those civilian members appointed to the new Cabinet was Paul Baudouin, a known opponent of France's declaration of war against Germany, as Under-Secretary of State to the Prime Minister Soon, this young technocrat, attentive to the rising generation, would be the centre of a Catholic / Action Francaise cohort set on re-educating French young people, inspired by a host of new programms of Pétain's later Cabinet and entourage, drawing upon his Catholic scout or Revue des jeunes contacts.

Today, the island has a small civilian population as well as a small wharf and community centre.

The following day, on 14 August 1940, RAF Andover was attacked again, about 15 high explosive bombs being dropped which destroyed a transmitting set in the centre of a group of radio masts, and killing a civilian radio operator.

During the later 1980s and 1990s RNTE Shotley was used as a residential centre for civilian police officers to complete their basic training.

Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the cultural boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street and in various districts of the metropolitan area.

* Adelaide city centre

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

Aachen is connected to the Autobahn A4 ( West-East ), A44 ( North-South ) and A544 ( a smaller motorway from the A4 to the Europaplatz near the city centre ).

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

Nuremberg was then an important and prosperous city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades.

Ajmer () is the 5th largest city in Rajasthan and is the centre of the eponymous Ajmer District.

It is a pilgrimage centre for the shrine of the Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti and is also the base for visiting Pushkar ( 11 km ), an ancient Hindu pilgrimage city, famous for the temple of Brahma.

The area thrived during the Ottoman Empire, as the centre of opium production and Afyon became a wealthy city with the typical Ottoman urban mixture of Turks, Armenians and Greeks.

Afyon is the centre of an agricultural area and the city has a country town feel to it.

The centre of this cult was in uten-ha / Sa-ka / Cynopolis, a place whose Greek name simply means " city of dogs ".

It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, north of Manchester city centre and is situated on the mostly culverted River Hyndburn.

The Sterntor ( star gate ) in the town centre is a reconstruction using the last remnants of the medieval city wall.

* Kottenforst, a large area of protected woods on the hills west of the city centre

Prince George is the largest city in the northern part of the province, while a village northwest of it, Vanderhoof, is near the geographic centre of the province.

The city started to play a regional role as a major urban centre on the fringes of the newly founded Frankish Duchy of Vasconia.

The city is mainly a tourist and resort centre, serving many ski lodges.

Some important Roman ruins are exposed under the Plaça del Rei, its entrance located by the city museum ( Museu d ' Història de la Ciutat ); the typically Roman grid plan is still visible today in the layout of the historical centre, the Barri Gòtic (" Gothic Quarter ").

Its proximity to the University of Birmingham, the city centre and the ‘ trendy ’ area of Moseley were all contributing factors.

Finally, the Black and Tans sacked Cork city, on the night of 11 December 1920, destroying a large portion of the city centre.

Its strategic location and excellent infrastructure, with the largest airport in Scandinavia, Kastrup, located 14 minutes by train from the city centre, have made it a regional hub and a popular location for regional headquarters and conventions.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).