A half-dozen other stations in the New York area also bid for attention of the city's Negro population, up about 50 per cent in the past decade.

Previous to the war, the city's civilian population was about 300, 000, but before it was over, most of the populace had sought refuge elsewhere in Iran.

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century ; the city's economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main rail hub and economic center of Germany.

The great plague of 1650 – 1654 halved the city's population.

During Justinian I's reign, the city's population reached about 500, 000 people.

According to the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 105, 162.

After the 1950s, the city's population began to decline slowly, as families tended to be replaced by single people and young couples.

Still, when Napoleon arrived in Cairo in 1798, the city's population was less than 300, 000, forty percent lower than it was at the height of Mamluk — and Cairene — influence in the mid-14th century.

Seeking to accommodate the increasing population, President Gamal Abdel Nasser redeveloped Midan Tahrir and the Nile Corniche, and improved the city's network of bridges and highways.

Germans, Irish, Poles, Swedes and Czechs made up nearly two-thirds of the foreign-born population ( by 1900, whites were 98. 1 % of the city's population ).

As a Polonia center, due to the city's having a very large Polish population, Chicago celebrates every Labor Day weekend at the Taste of Polonia Festival in the Jefferson Park area.

Christianity is predominant among the city's population.

As the city's population — and public college enrollment — grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs.

The city had a population of 21, 000 in 1640 before a plague in 1649 – 51 wiped out almost half of the city's inhabitants.

The city's population is expanding rapidly, and it is estimated by the CSO that it will reach 2. 1 million by 2020.

In spite of a gradual decrease during the 1980s, the city's population began to grow once again with the beginning of the Russian immigration in the 1990s.

About a third of the city's population works in industrial workplaces ( chemical plants near the Dead Sea like the Dead Sea Works, high-tech companies and textile shops ), and another third in the area of services.

The city's first population boom came in 1872, with the establishment of an agricultural colony.

Of a population estimated at 94, 000 before the Black Death of 1348, about 25, 000 are said to have been supported by the city's wool industry: in 1345 Florence was the scene of an attempted strike by wool combers ( ciompi ), who in 1378 rose up in a brief revolt against oligarchic rule in the Revolt of the Ciompi.

The city was hurt further, in 1348, by the Black Death, which killed some three-quarters of the city's population, later represented in the Decameron.

She was a top horsewoman and one of the city's most gracious hostesses.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

She was not alone for there were three other such children in the big city's special nursery.

Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas ; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis ; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

At the time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.

Grain was cleaned, and rations of grain and oil were distributed in standardized vessels made by the city's potters.

The site was abandoned soon after the city's massive walls were constructed, its temple rebuilt and its grain production reorganised.

The city's legendary founder was Cinyras, linked with the birth of Adonis, who called the city after his mother Amathous.

Ann Arbor was founded in 1824, with one theory stating that it is named after the spouses of the city's founders and for the stands of trees in the area.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

Every passage to the city was guarded by gates and towers, and a wall surrounded each of the city's rings.

Claudius was the first to hold magnificent celebrations in honour of the city's anniversary, in 48 AD, 800 years after the founding of the city.

As was standard for new Roman cities, Hadrian placed the city's main Forum at the junction of the main cardo and decumanus, now the location for the ( smaller ) Muristan.

Magazine, the city's Museum, was once the residence of Prince Salīm, the son of the Emperor Akbar, and presently houses a collection of Mughal and Rajput armour and sculpture.

All the city's fortifications were destroyed, aside from the citadel, which was left as residence of the governor and a garrison for the emiral troops.

* Finkel, Caroline, Osman's Dream, ( Basic Books, 2005 ), 57 ; " Istanbul was only adopted as the city's official name in 1930 ..".

He was betrayed by Hitler Youth and was hung from the portal of the City Hall by the city's Military Commander Oberst Meyer.

The city was sacked by the Samaritans in 529, but rebuilt by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. Bethlehem was conquered by the Arab Caliphate of ' Umar ibn al-Khattāb in 637, who guaranteed safety for the city's religious shrines.