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.

Ancus Marcius incorporated the Janiculum into the city, fortifying it with a wall and connecting it with the city by a wooden bridge across the Tiber, the Pons Sublicius.

Albion incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1885.

The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.

In 1969, the independent towns of Bad Godesberg and Beuel as well as several villages were incorporated into Bonn, resulting in a city more than twice as large as before.

In 1920, the Greater Berlin Act incorporated dozens of suburban cities, villages, and estates around Berlin into an expanded city.

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.

Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

Only in 1929 the-meanwhile former-immunity district was incorporated into the city itself.

Cambridge was incorporated as a city in 1846.

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

Cadillac was incorporated as a city in 1877.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed.

The city was incorporated in 1805 and was named after Jonathan Dayton, who owned the land.

They city was incorporated on January 25, 1839.

The city was incorporated as a result of a resolution by Iowa Representative Jonathan W. Parker by special charter in the Iowa Territory on January 25, 1839.

Eureka was incorporated as a fourth-class city on April 7, 1954.

In reality, Mount Isa is the second largest city in Australia ; there are several cities around the world with larger incorporated areas.

The continental custom of guilds of merchants arrived after the Norman Conquest, with incorporated societies of merchants in each town or city holding exclusive rights of doing business there.

* 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.

The city of La Cañada Flintridge, California was incorporated in 1976, well after JPL attained international recognition with a Pasadena address.

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

On 1 April 1937 parts of the Landkreis Liegnitz communities of Alt Beckern, Groß Beckern, Hummel, Liegnitzer Vorwerke, Pfaffendorf und Prinkendorf were incorporated into the city of Liegnitz.

However, massive new constructions have by now covered large areas beyond these traditional limit, and a number of previously independent nuclei-like Viana-were incorporated into the city.

In 1881, the city, along with the rest of Thessaly, was incorporated into the Kingdom of Greece.