In 1623 during the Thirty Years ' War Munich became electoral residence when Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria was invested with the electoral dignity but in 1632 the city was occupied by Gustav II Adolph of Sweden.

This would be the first construction effort of a besieging army, built soon after a fortress or city had been invested.

He invested in business firms in Houston ; in 1895 he was listed in the city directories as " Capitalist.

The Governor General of Novorossiya, Platon Zubov ( one of Catherine's favorites ) supported this proposal, and in 1794 Catherine approved the founding of the new port-city and invested the first money in constructing the city.

In 2010, the city hall of São Paulo invested R $ 1 million in the parade.

In June the well-fortified city of Minerve was invested.

The city invested $ 82 million of public funding in the project.

Palmer named the city for the Connecticut-based capitalist William H. Imlay, who had invested heavily in the region after moving there in 1828.

Recently, the city has invested much time and money into creating attractions and accommodations for tourists visiting during the Lewis and Clark bicentennial years.

On the strength of the railroad's potential value to the city, local residents had invested heavily in housing, building large homes between 1854 and 1856.

The city has invested over $ 14, 000, 000 into the city infrastructure between 2003 and present date.

They invested the city, and forced it to surrender.

On 1 June 1453, just three days after the fall of the city, the new Patriarch's procession passed through the streets where Mehmed received Gennadius graciously and himself invested him with the signs of his office – the crosier ( dikanikion ) and mantle.

* Macau: Veolia invested in a joint venture with RATP Asia and created Reolian Public Transport Co .. Services began August 1st, 2011 and is operating two of five groupings of routes, also to be the more important arterial routes of the city.

The Spartans then quickly invested the city, and employed several innovative, yet unsuccessful tactics to bypass the Plataean defenses.

During the 1990s, a partnership between the city, the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce, and Wesleyan University invested heavily in Middletown's Main Street.

By 2 November, Anne de Montmorency had crossed the Ticino River and invested the city from the south, completing its encirclement.

Over £ 25 million is currently being invested in education initiatives in Blackburn with Darwen, including new schools, city learning centres and children's centres.

Among these were that $ 10 million would be invested in improvements to the port and that as much would be spent inside the city on public works as was collected in taxes.

With the conquest and establishment of the puppet state Manchukuo, massive funds and efforts were invested into the master plan of the capital city of Hsinking.

In 994, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III invested the bishop of Ceneda with the title and prerogatives of count and authority as temporal lord of the city.

The city of Osaka is invested in the park, but the theme park was originally managed by a private company which went bankrupt in 2004, and has since been managed by the municipal government of Osaka.

One of Dunstan's pet projects, a plan to build a new city at Monarto to alleviate urban pressures in Adelaide, were abandoned when economic and population growth stalled, with much money and planning already invested.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

The trends have been in evidence for many years -- population shifts to the Southwest and Far West, and from city to suburbs.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

Davis commenced his remarks by an allusion to the general feeling of opposition which the meeting had encountered from many of the citizens and all the newspapers of the city.

But they deny the values of the city -- the crowded, competitive, tolerant city, the `` melting pot '' which gave off so many of the most admirable American qualities.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action: `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by mutual inspections and what is called public sentiment.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

aspects of the project, fined the owners for many infractions of building codes, ordered the demolition of aspects exceeding the height standard for the city.

While in the city, there are many buses and taxi services one can take to get from place to place, but most of the locals choose to walk to their destinations.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

Remembered as a notable administrator, Afonso III founded several towns, granted the title of city to many others and reorganized public administration.

In the east and west extremes of the city the two acropoleis are situated, where a number of tombs have been found, many of which are intact.

After the capture of the city in June, 1098, and the subsequent siege led by Kerbogha, Adhemar organized a procession through the streets, and had the gates locked so that the Crusaders, many of whom had begun to panic, would be unable to desert the city.

During the ensuing 15 years, many countercultural and New Left enterprises sprang up and developed large constituencies within the city.

Nuremberg was then an important and prosperous city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades.

The construction boom has raised many environmental concerns and both the local autonomous government and city council are under scrutiny by the European Union.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

Although Atlanta ’ s lack of bike lanes may deter many residents from cycling, the city ’ s transportation plan calls for the construction of 226 miles of bike lanes by 2020, with the BeltLine helping to achieve this goal.

It is unclear how the symbol of a particular goddess ( one of many ) would have been transferred to the city itself.

One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.