Located about 26 kilometres south of Vienna, frequently the name is given as Baden bei Wien ( Baden near Vienna ); this name, however, is not official, but can be used to distinguish it from other cities of the same name such as Baden-Baden or Baden, Switzerland.

The cemetery for German Jews who died at Camp Gurs is maintained by the town of Freiburg and other cities of Baden.

The Prussian government began offering military assistance to other states in suppressing the revolts in their territories and cities, i. e. Dresden, the Palatinate, Baden, Wűrttemberg, Franconia, etc.

All the ecclesiastical estates were secularized, and most of the smaller secular states, and almost all of the free cities, were mediatized, leaving only Württemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern as sovereign states.

Other bigger cities: IV B Baden ( Heidelberg, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Lake Constance ), II N Cities of Nuremberg and Fürth.

It is bordered by Baden to the east and Perth County to the west, and is within easy driving distance of the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Stratford.

The kingdoms of Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, the states of Baden and Hesse, and the free cities of Hamburg and Bremen were unified with the North German Confederation to create the German Empire.

This empire was a federal monarchy ; the emperor was head of state and president of the federated monarchs ( the kings of Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, the grand dukes of Baden, Mecklenburg, Hesse, as well as other principalities, duchies and of the free cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen ).

Apollo became extremely important to the Greek world as an oracular deity in the archaic period, and the frequency of theophoric names such as Apollodorus or Apollonios and cities named Apollonia testify to his popularity.

After the end of the Greek-Persian wars the cities on the coasts became part of the Delian League, which was, however, later dissolved.

In many parts of the world, acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Rome, which in more recent times grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.

After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, Barcelona became one of the most important cities of the Crown of Aragon.

North of that line cities grew up slowly, and Chilean lands eventually became an important source of food for the Viceroyalty of Peru.

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.

Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada ; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.

Manufacturing and retail sectors became dominant among Midwestern cities, influencing the American economy, particularly in meatpacking, with the advent of the refrigerated rail car and the regional centrality of the city's Union Stock Yards.

These in turn became templates for public health reform in many other cities and states.

The building activity reached to such an extent that some cities actually became city temples.

Shortly after the depletion of the gas in 1900 the automobile industry set up factories in the nearby large cities, and Fairmount became a bedroom community, restoring some of its lost prosperity.

The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe.

In 1941, however, the German invasion of the Soviet Union failed, and after the United States entered the war, Britain became the base for massive Anglo-American bombings of German cities.

Several cities such as Cologne became Imperial Free Cities, which did not depend on princes or bishops, but were immediately subject to the Emperor.

The result was that the large landowners obtained larger estates, and many peasant became landless tenants, or moved to the cities or to America.

At this time, many local dukes saw it as a chance to oppose the hegemony of Emperor Charles V. The empire then became fatally divided along religious lines, with the north, the east, and many of the major cities — Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Nuremberg — becoming Protestant while the southern and western regions largely remained Catholic.

Coastal cities such as La Ceiba, Tela, and Trujillo and towns further inland such as El Progreso and La Lima became virtual company towns.

Glasgow became one of the largest cities in the world, and known as " the Second City of the Empire " after London.

People became urbanized and lived in city-states, including Jericho ; those were some of the world's earliest known cities.

These years saw rapid growth in Malaysian cities, particularly Kuala Lumpur, which became a magnet for immigration both from rural Malaya and from poorer neighbours such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines.

Urban poverty became a problem for the first time, with shanty towns growing up around the cities.

All the major cities and towns became part of the massive Mongol Empire,

From the 1950s onwards London became home to a large number of immigrants, largely from Commonwealth countries such as Jamaica, India, Bangladesh Pakistan, which dramatically changed the face of London, turning it into one of the most diverse cities in Europe.

During the Middle Ages Herāt became one of the important cities of Khorasan, as it was known as the pearl of Khorasan.

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

The administrative cities remained economically only of regional importance.

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.

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.