The city of Ajaccio is one commune, but it contains six cantons, Cantons 1 – 6, and a fraction of Canton 7.

In the 1999 census, there were 215, 363 inhabitants in the city ( commune ) of Bordeaux.

Bayonne (; Gascon and ) is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

The sub-zones are ( clockwise from the north ): the Colli Fiorentini which is located south of the city of Florence ; Chianti Rufina in the northeastern part of the zone located around the commune of Rufina ; Classico in the centre of Chianti, across the provinces of Florence and Siena ; Colli Aretini in the Arezzo province to the east ; Colli Senesi south of Chianti Classico in the Siena hills, which is the largest of the sub-zones and includes the Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano areas ; Colline Pisane, the westernmost sub-zone in the province of Pisa ; Montespertoli located within the Colli Fiorentini around the commune of Montespertoli ; Montalbano in the north-west part of the zone which includes the Carmignano DOCG.

Florence originated as a Roman city, and later, after a period as a flourishing trading and banking medieval commune, it was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance ( or the " Florentine Renaissance ").

At the 1999 French census, there were 293, 159 inhabitants in the metropolitan area ( aire urbaine ) of Le Mans, with 146, 105 of these living in the city proper ( commune ).

During the late Middle Ages it was an independent commune with considerable importance owing to its location on the old Via Francigena, the main road between France and Rome, but increasingly Montalcino came under the sway of the larger and more aggressive city of Siena.

In Medieval Northern Italy, a number of city states had commune or signoria based governments.

* First mention of the consuls of Bologna indicating that the city of has become an independent commune.

* First mention of the consuls of Siena indicating that the city has become an independent commune.

* First mention of the consuls in Brescia, indicating that the city has become an independent commune.

* The commune of Milan conquers the neighboring city of Como.

Paris, the country ’ s capital city, is a commune as well as a department.

Perpignan (, ) is a city, a commune and the capital of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

There, Pope Adrian IV was struggling with the forces of the republican city commune led by Arnold of Brescia, a student of Abelard.

* First mention of the consuls of Florence, indicating that the city has become an independent and self-govern commune.

* First mention of the consuls of Pavia indicating that the city has become an independent commune.

Soon after Jagiello accession to the Polish throne, Jagiello granted Vilnius a city charter like that of Kraków, modeled on the Magdeburg Law ; and Vytautas issued a privilege to a Jewish commune of Trakai on almost the same terms as privileges issued to the Jews of Poland in the reigns of Boleslaus the Pious and Casimir the Great.

The city of Dakar is a commune, ( also sometimes known as commune de ville ), one of the 67 communes of Senegal.

The commune d ' arrondissement of Dakar-Plateau ( 34, 626 inhabitants ), in the arrondissement of Plateau / Gorée, is the historical heart of the city, and most ministries and public administrations are located there.

This pronounced landscape caused the city to develop mostly on a coastal band about 1. 5 km wide, which is a very limited part of the 19. 38 km² that the commune has.

While previously held elsewhere within or near the capital city, since 1918 it has been held on the Champs-Élysées, with the evident agreement of the Allies as represented in the Versailles Peace Conference, and with the exception of the period of German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

Getting unsatisfactory responses from city officials, as many as 7, 000 women joined the march to Versailles, bringing with them cannons and a variety of smaller weapons.

The port city of Memel ( now Klaipėda ) and the surrounding area, with a predominantly German population, was under provisional Allied control according to Article 99 of the Treaty of Versailles.

Versailles () is a city in the Yvelines département in Île-de-France region, word-widely renowned for its château, the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

During the Revolution of 1789, city officials had proposed to the Convention to rename Versailles Berceau-de-la-Liberté (" Cradle of Liberty "), but they had to retract their proposal when confronted with the objections of the majority of the population.

By the standards of the 18th century, Versailles was a very modern European city.

At the death of the Sun King in 1715, the village of Versailles had turned into a city of approximately 30, 000 inhabitants.

When the court of King Louis XV returned to Versailles in 1722, the city had 24, 000 inhabitants.

By 1789, the population had reached 60, 000 inhabitants, and Versailles was now the seventh or eighth-largest city of France, and one of the largest cities of Europe.

The National Constituent Assembly followed the king to Paris soon afterwards, and Versailles lost its role of capital city.

After 1919, as the suburbs of Paris were ever expanding, Versailles was absorbed by the urban area of Paris and the city experienced a strong demographic and economic growth, turning it into a large suburban city of the metropolitan area of Paris.

Versailles was never an industrial city, even though there are a few chemical and food processing plants.

The palace complex with gardens, pavillons, sculptures, outbuildings and other structures and the city with churches, city hall and monastery, all built almost at the same time according to French models was the reason why the city was known in the eighteenth century as Versailles of Podlaskie ().

The airport is located four miles ( six km ) west of the city center, at the intersection of US 60 ( Versailles Road ) and Man o ' War Boulevard.

The city returned to France under the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

In February 1920, the Treaty of Versailles awarded the city and the surrounding region to the Second Polish Republic ( the administrative region of Pomeranian Voivodeship ).

Versailles is a city in Woodford County, Kentucky, United States and is located near Lexington.

Versailles is a city in Morgan County, Missouri, United States.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

The inference has been too widely accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades across Berlin the free world must acquiesce in dismemberment of that living city.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

The city has a stake in stimulating growth and purchasing power throughout outstate Missouri and Southern Illinois.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

When a city has arranged things like this you cannot easily change them.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures.

Land within commuting distance of a growing city is usually high in price, higher if it has subdivision possibilities.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

In the city, he said, the waiting list for those who want to join the union is so long that unless a boy has an inside track he can't get in.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

Mr. Hawksley, the state's general treasurer, has been a part-time CD director in the city for the last nine years.

These contend there is a serious question as to whether Mr. Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file in the city.

The city has sued for the full amount of the $172,400 performance bond covering the contract.

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

Mrs. Mary Self, who knows more than any other person about the 5,000 city employes for whom she has kept personnel records over the years, has closed her desk and retired.

A startlingly high percentage do not exceed $500 annually, which includes the librarian's salary, and not even the New York Public has enough money to meet its needs -- this in the world's richest city.

Practically everybody in Berlin has relatives and friends that live in the opposite part of the city.

As soon as the fox has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination campaign in the city.

In describing the initial Allied occupation of a middle-sized German city, the picture has color, pictorial pull and genuinely moving moments.