In the 17th century the city decayed due to revolts, plagues and famines ; however in the following century it grew from 16, 000 to 30, 000 inhabitants ; commerce remained of local importance, while its military position in the Kingdom of Naples remained notable.

The same year, John ordered the strengthening of the Golden Gate in Constantinople, utilizing marble from the decayed churches in and around the city.

While much of the area contained old and decayed buildings, the old mansions along Basin Street, some of the finest structures in the city, were also leveled.

As one city increased in population and extent, so the other almost as rapidly decayed.

Due to an economical crisis in the 1930s and World War II, the city decayed.

Then, over time, the structure fell into a state of disrepair ; city inspectors began to note cracked girders, decayed supports and unsafe floors.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the city decayed, the only respected authority being represented by the Christian bishop.

After the war, the city turned in time increasingly on the right of the political spectrum, as its bigger industries in the Sixties and Seventies decayed, to be replaced by many familiar small enterprises and a new service-based economy.

His work at statecraft included the following: the slow pacification of party strife, nonetheless with republican opposition latent and episodically expressed ; his assumption of the title Imperator ( refusing the crown, yet continuing since 49 as dictator ), with reversion of the Senate to an advisory council, and the popular comitia as a compliant legislature, although law might be made by his edicts alone ; his assumption of authority over tax and treasury, over provincial governors, and over the capital ; supreme jurisdiction ( trial and appellate ) over the continuing republican legal system, with the judex being selected among senators or equites, yet criminal courts remained corrupted by factional infighting ; supreme command over the decayed Roman army, which was reorganized and which remained under civilian control ; reform of government finance, of budgeting re income and expense, and of corn distribution ; cultivation of civil peace in Rome by control of criminal " clubs ", by new city police, and by public building projects.

In the Late Antiquity the city decayed, and in the Middle Ages it followed the history of the local lordships.

The Etruscan city was inhabited until the 5th century BC, when, for undisclosed reasons, it decayed ; control of the area was later shifted to the Romans, who had their Via Cassia pass from here, but did not build any settlement.

Gibson admitted that " Newark may be the most decayed and financially crippled city in the nation.

From the following century, however, the importance of the city decayed.

The city in fact maintained notable privileges under the subsequent Hohenstaufen and Angevine dominations, but subsequently decayed after the feudalization in 1417.

The course ran from the South side of the city, north along the lakefront to Evanston, Illinois, and back again.

It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist's World's Most Liveable Cities index in 2010 and being ranked the most liveable city in Australia by the Property Council of Australia in 2011 and again in 2012.

His prudence and heroism preserved an un-walled Sparta against the revolts and conspiracies of helots, perioeci and even Spartans, and against her enemies, four different armies led by Epaminondas, that penetrated Laconia that same year, and again in 362 BC when they all but succeeded in seizing the city by a rapid and unexpected march.

A year later, in 886, Alfred reoccupied the city of London and set out to make it habitable again.

The city of Ashur again flourished, and appears to have gained a great deal of autonomy during this period.

Schliemann got to work again at Hissarlik in 1878, and greatly increased our knowledge of the lower strata, but did not recognize the Aegean remains in his " Lydian " city of the sixth stratum.

A valuable prize, the city was repeatedly sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, Philip II of Macedon in 350 BC ; later by Lysimachos of Thrace, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians.

By 1902, however, due to the Governor of ` Akka being supportive of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, the situation was greatly eased ; while pilgrims were able to once again visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, he was confined to the city.

Within two years, the Sikhs rebelled again and rebuilt their holy city of Amritsar.

The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

On May 29, 1453, the city fell to the Ottoman Turks, and again became the capital of a powerful state, the Ottoman Empire.

Local businesses again wanted relief, historians sought a reuniting of the waterfront with the city, and nearby residents desired removal of the matte green-painted elevated road, which mayor Thomas Menino called Boston's " other Green Monster ".

The French, however, realised Bayonne's strategic site near the Spanish border and in 1578 dug a canal to again redirect the river through the city.

However, many people escaped again from the city, and there were several outbreaks of plague, so that in 1459 Mehmet allowed the deported Greeks to come back to the city.

Once again, we see the imagery of the marriage: " I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Having been almost entirely rebuilt twice, once due to Japanese air raids during World War II, and again after being devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974, the city is one of Australia's most modern capitals.

However, the city prospered again soon after as a result of the wool and linen trade with England, reaching a population of over 50, 000 in 1700.

The charter was amended again in 1851 to expand the city area, provide greater detail of the duties of the mayor, city council, and other officials.

By the end of October, Allen was again off New York, where the British, having secured the city, moved the prisoners on-shore, and, as he was considered an officer, gave Allen limited parole.

Erastus, mentioned in, also lived in Corinth being the city's commissioner for public works and city treasurer at various times, again indicating that the letter was written in Corinth.

Valencia was captured by Masdali on May 5, 1102 and it did not become a Christian city again for over 125 years.

In 1983 DIF I started to integrate the territory of the new city of Maracanaú, which, just some years ago, was made again part of the Greater Fortaleza ( the city's Metropolitan area ).

Passing first through Comayagua and then through narrow passes south of the city, the depression widens again as it runs along the border of El Salvador into the Gulf of Fonseca.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

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.

Just after sunset is a good time to record the city lights in color since you get a `` fill-in '' light from the sky.

No matter if your children are at the movies, in school, visiting their grandmother, or on a field trip in some distant city, they will be upon you magically within seconds after you pick up the phone.

It never registered with them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

One character, Raymond Rambert, devises a plan to escape the city to join his lover in Paris after city officials refuse his request to leave.

* 1898 – Spanish – American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.

Two days after Theodosius arrived in Constantinople, 24 November 380, he expelled the Homoiousian bishop, Demophilus of Constantinople, and surrendered the churches of that city to Gregory Nazianzus, the leader of the rather small Nicene community there, an act which provoked rioting.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture states that the statuary was indeed Mary the mother of Jesus, also noting Gaudi's devoutness, and notes that the owner decided not to include it after Semana Trágica, an outbreak of anticlericalism in the city.

Ambracia was captured and plundered by M. Fulvius Nobilior in 189 BC, after which it was declared by Rome a " free city ", and gradually fell into insignificance.

* 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.

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.

Aeneas founded the city of Lavinium, named after his wife.

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

About 385-380 BC the philhellene Evagoras of Salamis was similarly opposed by Amathus, in conjunction with Citium and Soli ; and even after Alexander the city resisted annexation, and was bound over to give hostages to Seleucus.

* Amastris, who was believed to be the eponym of the city previously known as Kromna, although the city was also thought to have been named after the historical Amastris

* Ephesos, a Lydian Amazon, after whom the city of Ephesus was thought to have been named ; she was also said to have been the first to honor Artemis and to have surnamed the goddess Ephesia.

The present village Amfipoli (), named after the ancient city, occupies the site.

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

Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor.

In 1965, after a stadium ( Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium ), was built, the city of Atlanta felt the time was right to start pursuing professional football.