But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

In 1453 when the last vestige of ancient Roman power fell to the Turks, the city officially shifted religions -- although the Patriarch, or Pope, of the Orthodox Church continued to live there, and still does -- and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital ; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen greeted him as a hero.

Amsterdam (; ) is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands.

With the hope of capturing Caesarea Mazaca, the capital of Cappadocia, he placed himself at the head of the Turkish cavalry, crossed the Euphrates and entered and invaded the city.

The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne.

The capital and largest city is Yerevan.

Adelaide () is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

Athens (;, Athína ; ; Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai ; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai ) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

In Norse religion, Asgard ( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning " Enclosure of the Æsir ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is the country or capital city of the Norse Gods surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning.

Allies within the capital opened the gates for him on August 24, and for three days his troops sacked the city.

After bribing the Western troops who had guarded the city, Isaac and Alexios Komnenos entered the capital victoriously on April 1, 1081.

As chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense, Johnson continued his relentless opposition to spending, especially when the capital city was the beneficiary ; he argued it was egregious to expect citizens in other states to fund the infrastructure of another locality, regardless of the fact it was the seat of government.

Their capital was Marrakesh, a city which they founded in 1062.

Alfonso also moved the capital from Pravia, where Silo had located it, to Oviedo, the city of his father's founding and his birth.

Statue of Alfonso, dressed as a battler, in the Parque Grande José Antonio Labordeta in Zaragoza, the city he recovered from the Muslims and made his capital.

During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca ( the Battle of Alcoraz, 1096 ), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.

Promptly, the city was made Alfonso's capital.

* 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.

Abadan (, Arabic: عبادان, also Romanized as Ābādān ) is a city in and the capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

The children devised plots about the inhabitants of Angria and its capital city, " Glass Town ", later called Verreopolis or Verdopolis.

It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian: ; Aramaic: ; Hebrew: ; Arabic: ).

Alicante () or Alacant () is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí, in the south of the Valencian Community.

Terrassa (, ) is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, Spain, in the comarca of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the co-capital along with Sabadell, the historic capital.

Mataró () is the capital and largest city of the comarca of the Maresme, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia Autonomous Community, Spain.

Its status as seat of a comarca and judicial district make it a service-industry city, in administrative, commercial, and leisure fields.

Dénia (, ) is a city in the province of Alicante, Spain, on the Costa Blanca halfway between Alicante and Valencia, the judicial seat of the comarca of Marina Alta.

It was based around the capital city of Vic ( Vicus ) and the corresponding diocese, whose territory was roughly the current comarca of Osona.

The most famous is made in the comarca ( county ) of Osona and is also known as Vic fuet ( fuet de Vic, after the city of Vic, capital of Osona ).

Sabadell () is the second largest city in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, Spain.

It is the historic and administrative capital of the comarca of Marina Baixa and is located 32 km from the city of Alicante, in the coastal area known as Costa Blanca ( White Coast ).

Extending north from the valley of the Fluvià, is Alta Garrotxa ( Upper Garrotxa ), while the southern part is sometimes called the comarca of Olot, after the capital city.

, over two thirds of its population live in the capital city of Lleida, which is also Catalonia's largest municipality, and remains the most populated comarca in the Lleida province.

It is the capital and most densely populated city of the comarca of Vallès Oriental.

Like Chavantes, Canitar belongs to the comarca of Ourinhos, its neighboring city and seat of the comarca to the West.

Chavantes is a city in the southwestern part of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, that borders the city of Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo to the north ; Timburi and Ribeirao Claro in the state of Paraná to the south, which is separated from São Paulo state by the Paranapanema River ; Ipaussu to the east: and Canitar, which previously belonged to its municipality ; and Ourinhos the seat of its comarca or county to the west.

It lies to the north of Granollers, the largest city in the comarca.

It is the most important city in the comarca.

In the region most travel is done on foot or horseback as there is only one year round access road leading into the comarca ( a mine access road that runs up to Hato Chamí and continues to Escopeta, the location of the Cerro Colorado mine ) from San Felix, a city connected to the interamericana highway via Las Cruces.

The city is near the geographic centre of the province of Jaén, and it is the administrative seat of the surrounding Loma de Úbeda comarca.

Callosa d ' en Sarrià (, ) is a Valencian town and municipality located in the comarca of Marina Baixa, in the province of Alicante, Spain, lying in the valley of the river Guadalest, 50 km from the city of Alicante.

Sant Adrià de Besòs () is a city and a municipality within the comarca of Barcelonès in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain.

Public transportation network is mainly composed of several urban and interurban bus routes that provide a good internal connection within the municipality as well as the connection of the city to other neaby cities within the comarca.

It is located some 18 – 20 km northwest of the city of Madrid itself, on the A-6 highway to La Coruña near the fork road M-505 to El Escorial, which marks the southern boundary of this ´ comarca ' or rural district ( although it is no longer rural ).