Circumcision was forbidden, Iudaea province was renamed Syria Palaestina and Jews ( formally all circumcised men, Arabs too ) were banned from entering the city on pain of death.

After the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish government began to formally object to the use of Constantinople in other languages and ask that others use the more common name for the city.

In 1961, Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the bill that formally created the City University of New York to integrate these institutions, and a new graduate school, together into a coordinate system of higher education for the city, and by 1979, the Board of Higher Education had become the Board of Trustees of the CUNY.

It is formally known as, in Fujiidera city near Osaka.

* 1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

It was a busy political and commercial port city throughout the medieval period and into the Edo period ( 1603 – 1867 ) when it formally became the capital of the Shimazu's fief, the Satsuma Domain.

* March 18 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia at the ancient city of Axum.

After being placed on the list of endangered World Heritage Sites in 2006, the city had its status as world heritage site formally removed in June 2009, for the wilful breach of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, due to the construction of a highway bridge across the valley within 2 km of the historic centre.

formed from the existing schools of the city, and was formally constituted in 1303, by Boniface VIII in a Papal Bull.

Their construction was prompted when the Mayor and Corporation of London first banned plays in 1572 as a measure against the plague, and then formally expelled all players from the city in 1575.

Finally, the city of Corneto, formally belonging to the Papal States, was restored to the papacy during Lucius ’ pontificate by a formal deed on 20 November 1144.

The restoration work was paid for by the city of Haarlem, since all Catholic religious art was confiscated after the satisfactie van Haarlem was reversed in 1578, but the entire collection of paintings was not formally possessed by the city council until 1625, after the city fathers had decided which paintings were suitable for the city hall.

Leptis Magna remained as such until the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius, when the city and the surrounding area were formally incorporated into the empire as part of the province of Africa.

Zane's Trace, as it has become known, was completed by 1797, and as Zane's sons began to carve the square-mile tract astride the Hocking into saleable plots, the city of Lancaster formally came into being in 1800.

The old city of Porvoo was formally disestablished and the new city of Porvoo founded in 1997 when the city of Porvoo and the Rural municipality of Porvoo were consolidated.

So K ' empala formally became ' Kampala ' with repeated usage, and when the British colonial rulers needed a name for the city they adopted this reference.

There are twenty towns in England and Wales that were recognised as cities by " ancient prescriptive right "; none of these communities had been formally declared a city, but they had all used the title since " time immemorial ", that is, prior to 3 September 1189.

In informal usage, city can be used for large towns or conurbations that are not formally cities.

The city was formally incorporated in 1991.

It wasn't until February 18, 1854, the same day that the city of Swainsboro was formally incorporated, that the county was allowed to build a replacement.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

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.

The mayor put the city under the municipal equivalent of martial law and declared a curfew.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

Following Mac Murrough ’ s death, Strongbow declared himself King of Leinster after gaining control of the city.

In the edict, preserved in an inscription from the city of Aphrodisias in Caria ( near Geyre, Turkey ), it was declared that all debts contracted before 1 September 301 must be repaid at the old standards, while all debts contracted after that date would be repaid at the new standards.

Prior to the start of the Civil War, Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood declared Davenport to be Iowa's first military headquarters and five camps were set up in the city to aid the Union.

The culmination of Islamic dominance in the region occurred in 1557 when an Ottoman invasion during the time of Suleiman I and under Özdemir Pasha ( who had declared the province of Habesh in 1555 ) took the port city of Massawa and the adjacent city of Arqiqo, even taking Debarwa, then capital of the local ruler Bahr negus Yeshaq ( ruler of Midri Bahri ).

Following the tragedy of the horrific sacking of the city, the conquerors declared a new " Empire of Romania ," known to historians as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, installing Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, as Emperor.

* 2001 – Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative city, is declared a Federal Territory.

Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, by vote of the city council, declared May 12, 1962 as " Frank Capra Day.

During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation ( 1943 – 1944 ) and was declared an open city.

Godzilla is later sighted at Tokyo Bay, forcing mass evacuations out of the city and a state of emergency is declared.

On 27 September 2009, the day before planned demonstrations in the capital city Conakry, the government declared demonstrations illegal.

* 1920: Gdingen ( now named Gdynia ), along with other parts of former West Prussia, became a part of the new Republic of Poland ; simultaneously, the city of Danzig and surrounding area was declared a free city and put under the League of Nations, though Poland was given economic liberties and requisitioned for matters of foreign representation.

Poznań was declared a stronghold city ( Festung ) in the closing stages of the war, being taken by the Red Army in the Battle of Poznań, which ended on 22 February 1945.

Schliemann later claimed that at the age of 8, he had declared he would one day excavate the city of Troy.

Galba was declared a public enemy and his legion was confined in the city of Clunia.

In 1966, Jakarta was declared a " special capital city district " ( daerah khusus ibukota ), thus gaining a status approximately equivalent to that of a state or province.

Adenauer was imprisoned for two days after the Night of the Long Knives on the 30th June 1934, but already on the 10th of August 1934, maneuvering for his pension, he wrote a 10-page letter to Hermann Göring ( the Prussian interior minister ) stating among other things that as a mayor he had even violated Prussian laws in order to allow NSDAP events in public buildings and Nazi flags to be flown from city flagpoles, and added that in 1932 he had declared publicly that the Nazis should join the Reich government in a leading role.

On June 14, 1940, the day Paris was declared an open city by the French and occupied by German troops, Riefenstahl wrote to Hitler in a telegram, “ With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris.

The city was granted a charter in 1274 by Rudolf I of Habsburg, King of Germany, who declared the city an Imperial Free City in 1291 ; nevertheless the bishop of Speyer, a major landowner in the district, seized the city in 1324.