His early poems and some of his prose prolusions speak of wanderings in the city and the neighboring country that may be extended to Cambridge and its surrounding countryside.

Extraordinary precautions were taken so that no stranger be allowed in the city and no citizen within the enclosure surrounding the scaffold.

* 1979 – Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.

* 2005 – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities.

The Akkadian Empire was an empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in Mesopotamia.

The larger scheme of Canberra's layout is based on the three peaks surrounding the city, Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Red Hill.

He gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed, to protest against the Vietnam War ( The Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck, American Mathematical Monthly, vol.

They will encamp surrounding the " holy ones " and the " beloved city " ( this refers to Jerusalem ).

Temperatures can be higher in the city than in the surrounding areas.

The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

Basel has an extensive public transportation network serving the city and connecting to surrounding suburbs, including a large tram network.

The Basel Regional S-Bahn, the commuter rail network connecting to suburbs surrounding the city, is jointly operated by SBB, SNCF and DB.

This upgrade involved two main projects: the 1, 484-kilometer line linking Bogotá to the Caribbean Coast and the 499-kilometer Pacific coastal network that links the industrial city of Cali and the surrounding coffee-growing region to the port of Buenaventura.

Along with the larger tasks of exploration, warfare and diplomacy, the player has to make decisions about where to build new cities, which improvements or units to build in each city, which advances in knowledge should be sought ( and at what rate ), and how to transform the land surrounding the cities for maximum benefit.

The latest Ordnance Survey Ireland " Discovery Series " ( Third Edition 2005 ) 1: 50, 000 map of the Dublin Region, Sheet 50, shows the boundaries of the city and three surrounding counties of the region.

Nearly 19, 000 workers commute into the city from the surrounding townships and villages.

On June 4, 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a lakefront park, surrounding three of the city's main museums, each of which is of national importance: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium.

In 1969, the county was abolished and Carson City and a few small surrounding settlements within the former county were merged into a newly formed independent city called Carson City Consolidated Municipality.

These games, though, were different from the games at Olympia in that they were not of such vast importance to the city of Delphi as the games at Olympia were to the area surrounding Olympia.

Though Dar es Salaam lost its official status as capital city to Dodoma in 1974 ( a move which was not complete until 1996 ), it remains the centre of the permanent central government bureaucracy and continues to serve as the capital for the surrounding Dar es Salaam Region.

St Stephen's Green is adjacent to one of Dublin's main shopping streets, Grafton Street, and to a shopping centre named for it, while on its surrounding streets are the offices of a number of public bodies and the city terminus of one of Dublin's Luas tram lines.

The city of Rome itself and the surrounding Suburbicarian diocese ( where Roman senators held the bulk of their landed property ), however, remained exempt.

During his presidency, an earthquake near Ambato severely damaged the city and surrounding areas and killed approximately 8, 000 people.

In 1664, the city and surrounding area were brought under the dominion of the Electorate of Mainz.

As Snake pilots the glider into the city, there are three screens on his control panel displaying wireframe animations of the landing target on the World Trade Center and surrounding buildings.

Amphipolis (: Amphípolis ) was an ancient Greek city in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day region of Central Macedonia.

The city states of this region later formed a confederation known as the Achaean League which was influential during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.

Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.

It is the capital and largest city of the region of Corsica and the prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud.

The city is located in rich farm country, which produces corn, soybeans, and tomatoes ; and is in the Indiana natural gas region, to which fact it owed its growth as a manufacturing center.

Quinte is also a region comprising several communities situated along the Bay of Quinte, including Belleville which is the largest city in the Quinte Region, and represents a midpoint between Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto.

Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war.

When the Assyrians attacked Judah in 701 they did so via the Philistine coast and the Shephelah, the border region which included Micah's village of Moresheth, as well as Lachish, Judah's second largest city.

Baku (, ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region.

Within this region, Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö are growing into a combined metropolitan area.

* Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government

Once a city expands far enough to reach another city, this region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis.

This Croatia included a part of Bosnia ( region ), most of Herzegovina and the city of Dubrovnik and the surroundings.

# Geographic communities: range from the local neighbourhood, suburb, village, town or city, region, nation or even the planet as a whole.

The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.

The small size of nearby communities make the city a major commercial and industrial hub of the region.

Corinth is the second largest city in the region of the Peloponnese.

It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.