The Mamluk Empire of Egypt finally destroyed the city in 1374.

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.

Direct assaults through the heavily defended city finally forced the German garrison to surrender on 21 October 1944.

The conquest of the city of Marrakech by the Almohads in 1147 marked the fall of the dynasty, though fragments of the Almoravids ( the Banu Ghaniya ), continued to struggle in the Balearic Islands, and finally in Tunisia.

Founded in 437 BC, the city was finally abandoned in the 8th century AD.

The long-debated location of Abritus was finally established ( 1 km east of the city of Razgrad ) after the excavations published by T. Ivanov in 1969 and 1971.

When Caliph al-Mu ' izz li Din Allah finally arrived from the old Fatimid capital of Mahdia in Tunisia in 973, he gave the city its present name, al-Qahira (" The Victorious ").

During the Dutch Revolt, Eindhoven changed hands between the Dutch and the Spanish several times during which it was burned down by renegade Spanish soldiers, until finally in 1583 it was captured once more by Spanish troops and its city walls were demolished.

After driving throughout the city, Miki finally hears the song that the Cosmos are using to call Mothra.

Gallienus returned in 263 or 265 and, as even Historia Augusta admits, was entirely successful, finally besieging Postumus in an unnamed Gallic city ; however, during the siege, he was severely wounded by an arrow and had to leave the field.

Russian forces under General Bennigsen finally freed the city in 1814.

Of the icon painting tradition that developed in Byzantium, with Constantinople as the chief city, we have only a few icons from the 11th century and none preceding them, in part because of the Iconoclastic reforms during which many were destroyed, and also because of plundering by Venetians in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, and finally the taking of the city by the Islamic Turks in 1453.

In 1669 the city of Heraklion, on Crete, which at one time boasted at least 120 painters, finally fell to the Turks, and from that time Greek icon painting went into a decline, with a revival attempted in the 20th century by art reformers such as Photios Kontoglou, who emphasized a return to earlier styles.

Born in the western Afghan city of Herat, he rose to become a powerful rebel commander during in the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and then a key member of the Northern Alliance until finally becoming the Governor of Herat Province.

The crusaders finally managed to starve out the city and captured it in November.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

He was held for twelve months in different concentration camps suffering severe torture: first at the Tacna Regiment, then at the Military Academy ; later he was sent for eight months to a political prison on Dawson Island and from there he was transferred to the basement of the Air Force War Academy, and finally to the concentration camp of Ritoque, until international diplomatic pressure, especially from Diego Arria, then Governor of the city of Caracas in Venezuela, resulted in the sudden release of Letelier on the condition that he immediately leave Chile.

When the rebellious helots were finally forced to surrender and permitted to evacuate the country, the Athenians settled them at the strategic city of Naupactus on the Corinthian Gulf.

In 149 BC, in an attempt to draw Carthage into open conflict, Rome made a series of escalating demands, one being the surrender of three hundred children of the nobility as hostages, and finally ending with the near-impossible demand that the city be demolished and rebuilt away from the coast, deeper into Africa.

The city was finally fully integrated into the kingdom under Philip V.

An army of the emir managed to recapture it in 799 but Louis, at the head of an army, crossed the Pyrenees and besieged the city for two years until the city finally capitulated on December 28, 801.

When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned.

Following German reunification in 1990, the city regained its status as the capital of Germany, hosting 147 foreign embassies.

Emperor Frederick II regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he himself was under a ban of excommunication, leading to the curious result of the holiest church in Christianity being laid under interdict.

" The storm mostly destroyed the city ( which has never regained its former glory ) and set back development in the region.

During July 1793 and while he was in Paris as a delegate of the young Mainz Republic, Prussian and Austrian coalition forces regained control of the city and Forster was declared an outlaw.

Some years later Asti was conquered by the Spanish, although Savoy regained the city in 1643.

The Universiti Brunei Darussalam, established on 28 October 1985, only a year after the sultanate regained full independence, is located from the city center.

The city was pillaged by the Goths in 258, and, although it was afterwards re-built, Trebizond did not recover until the trade route regained importance in the 8th to 10th centuries ; 10th century Muslim authors note that Trebizond was frequented by Muslim merchants, as the main source transshipping Byzantine silks into eastern Muslim countries.

In this period the city returned to take on great importance and regained its independence from Milan, a city very hostile to the emperor.

The regained pride gave back to the city the consciousness of being capable of looking to the future without forgetting its past.

Shortly after the failure of the coup and subsequent dissolution of the USSR, the city regained its historical name ( Yekaterinburg ).

In 1959 Frombork regained its city rights.

Failure to do so leads to the loss of city status as happened at Rochester in 1998 ( see above ), and also previously in St David's and Armagh, although both of these latter have regained city status since losing it.

After this debacle Charles stayed outside Paris at the Abbey of St Denis and left the city to its fate while the revolution burned itself out, Etienne Marcel was killed, and the Dauphin regained control of Paris.

Though it was restored nearby its original site after the Battle of Marathon, the city never regained its former eminence.

After six months of siege, the forces of Henry IV regained control of the city and put an end to its autonomous rule.

He told Otto, in the presence of the pope, that Prester John, a Nestorian Christian who served in the dual position of priest and king, had regained the city of Ecbatana from the brother monarchs of Medes and Persia, the Samiardi, in a great battle " not many years ago ".

Spain regained control of Franche-Comté and the city lost its status as a free city.

By the end of the year, the tide changed dramatically and Perseus had regained most of his losses, including the important religious city of Dion.

While Toledo has remained the industrial hub of Lincoln County, the city has never regained the position it once had.

In 334 BC the city regained its freedom through Alexander the Great who, according to Pliny ( HN 5. 116 ) and Pausanias ( 2. 1. 5 ), planned to cut a canal through the peninsula of Erythrae to connect Teos bay with the gulf of Smyrna.

The armies of Darius III eventually regained control of the city.

The city never regained its stature, remaining a city of 40, 000 with only its antebellum / early-Victorian “ Mansion-Row ” buildings to remind itself of its boom period.