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.

`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.

* 70 – Jewish revolts against the Romans caused the Roman General Titus, later who became Caesar, to besiege the city.

In 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, the Kingdom of Prussia took over and the city became one of its most socially and politically backward centres until the end of the 19th century.

In 1372, Aachen became the first coin-minting city in the world to regularly place an Anno Domini date on a general circulation coin, a groschen.

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.

At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city ’ s Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean.

Celebrating the anniversary of the city became part of imperial propaganda.

At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.

In 1818 the British forced the Marathas to cede the city for 50, 000 rupees whereupon it became part of the province of Ajmer-Merwara, which consisted of the districts of Ajmer and Merwara and were physically separated by the territory of the Rajputana Agency.

The area thrived during the Ottoman Empire, as the centre of opium production and Afyon became a wealthy city with the typical Ottoman urban mixture of Turks, Armenians and Greeks.

Jerome states that Apollos was so dissatisfied with the division at Corinth, that he retired to Crete with Zenas, a doctor of the law ; and that the schism having been healed by Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Apollos returned to the city, and became its bishop.

The city of Alcobaça became notable after the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, decided to build there a church to celebrate the Conquest of Santarém, to the Moors, in 1147.

From the fort, the Bonnburg, as well as from a new medieval settlement to the South centred around what later became the minster, grew the medieval city of Bonn.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

In 1451 Berlin became the royal residence of the Brandenburg electors, and Berlin had to give up its status as a free Hanseatic city.

In 1539, the electors and the city officially became Lutheran.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.

In 1815 the city became part of the new Province of Brandenburg.

On 1 April 1881 it became a city district separate from Brandenburg.

Each borough contains a number of localities ( Ortsteile ), which often have historic roots in older municipalities that predate the formation of Greater Berlin on 1 October 1920 and became urbanized and incorporated into the city.

Bursa became the first major capital city of the early Ottoman Empire following its capture from the Byzantines in 1326.

The economic development of the city was followed by population growth and Bursa became the 4th most populous city in Turkey.

The city was later renamed Nova Roma by Constantine the Great, but popularly called Constantinople and briefly became the imperial residence of the classical Roman Empire.

The church's headquarters is located in Unity Village, a self-contained, incorporated municipality lying east of the city near Lee's Summit.

In 1844, after a controversy stemming from the Nauvoo city council's suppression of a Nauvoo newspaper critical of Smith and his church's policies, Smith mobilized the Legion and declared martial law.

As a native of New York City, Hales is often the church's point man on dealing with issues in the city.

The Second Battle of Independence was a minor engagement of the American Civil War October 21 – 22, 1864 centered in Independence, Missouri, with some of the fiercest fighting taking place at the present-day United Nations Peace Plaza ; the " Harry Truman " Railroad Depot ; George Caleb Bingham's residence in the city, the Community of Christ church's Temple, Auditorium and " Stone Church "; and the headquarters of the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ).

The church's original name is due to the area formerly being called Stewarton, then a village south of Ottawa city limits, on land owned by the family of former Ottawa mayor McLeod Stewart.

Later in the 20th century, the church's downtown location presented a challenge to St. Andrew's, the area had become largely industrial and later one of the poorest in the city.

Some time in 1642, a Hessian troop entered the city murdering bestially the local preacher and destroying the church's accommodation.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

The new robot city will feature research and development centers for manufacturers and part suppliers, as well as exhibition halls and a stadium for robot competitions.

A new gas pipeline to Iran has been completed, and a road to Iran through the southern city of Meghri allows trade with that country.

Finally, Antoninus created a new alimenta ( see Grain supply to the city of Rome ).

On 31 December 1809, a decree of King Maximilian of Bavaria granted the city a new coat of arms, as a recognition of their ( mainly humanitarian and logistic ) services in the Battle of Abensberg the same year.

The city suffered extreme overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions up to 1875 when the medieval fortifications were finally abandoned as a limit to building operations and new, less miserable quarters were built in the eastern part of the city, where drainage of waste liquids was easiest.

Some of the earliest historiographic texts ( ABC 19, 20 ) suggest he rebuilt the city of Babylon ( Bab-ilu ) in its new location near Akkad.

According to some scholars Ali ibn Yusuf was a new generation of leadership that had forgot the desert life for the comforts of the city.

The new settlement took the name of Amphipolis ( literally, " around the city "), a name which is the subject of much debates about lexicography.

An ancient Roman festival, Actia, was named after Actium, in Nicopolis, the new city ( today Preveza, Greece ).

Aelia came from Hadrian's nomen gentile, Aelius, while Capitolina meant that the new city was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, to whom a temple was built on the site of the former Jewish temple, the Temple Mount.

The new city was essentially a colony of Genoa.

After two previous failures, voters in the city passed a ballot measure in 2000 authorizing a bond measure for construction of a new library to replace the city's Carnegie library, damaged during the Loma Prieta earthquake.

The city also received state funds for the new library and opened the doors to the new facility in November 2006.

In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

The city ’ s lush tree canopy, which filters out pollutants and cools sidewalks and buildings, has increasingly been under assault from man and nature due to heavy rains, drought, aged forests, new pests, and urban construction.

In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to take advantage of a new opportunity to make money smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during Prohibition.

It was felt that a new peacefully united Germany should not be governed from a city connected to such overtones of war.

The three highest buildings in the city are the radio mast of WDR in Bonn-Venusberg ( 180 m ), the headquarters of the Deutsche Post called Post Tower ( 162. 5 m ) and the former building for the German members of parliament Langer Eugen ( 114. 7 m ) now the new location of the UN-Campus.