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Alcobaça () is a city in Alcobaça Municipality in Oeste Subregion, formerly included in the Estremadura Province.
Other medium sized family companies specialized in textiles ( for instance those located in the city of Covilhã and the northwest ), ceramics, porcelain, glass and crystal ( like those of Alcobaça, Caldas da Raínha and Marinha Grande ), engineered wood ( like SONAE near Porto ), canned fish ( like those of Algarve and the northwest ), fishing, food and beverages ( alcoholic beverages, from liqueurs like Licor Beirão and Ginjinha, to beer like Sagres, were produced across the entire country, but Port Wine was one of its most reputed and exported alcoholic beverages ), tourism ( well established in Estoril / Cascais / Sintra and growing as an international attraction in the Algarve since the 1960s ) and in agriculture ( like the ones scattered around the Alentejo-known as the breadbasket of Portugal ) completed the panorama of the national economy by the early 1970s.
As the main city in this community, the area of influence of Leiria spreads over the cities of Marinha Grande, Ourém, Alcobaça, Fátima, Pombal as well the municipalities / town seats of Batalha, Porto de Mós and Nazaré located nearby.

city and became
In 1453 when the last vestige of ancient Roman power fell to the Turks, the city officially shifted religions -- although the Patriarch, or Pope, of the Orthodox Church continued to live there, and still does -- and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.
* 70 – Jewish revolts against the Romans caused the Roman General Titus, later who became Caesar, to besiege the city.
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.
In 1372, Aachen became the first coin-minting city in the world to regularly place an Anno Domini date on a general circulation coin, a groschen.
During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca ( the Battle of Alcoraz, 1096 ), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.
At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city ’ s Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean.
Celebrating the anniversary of the city became part of imperial propaganda.
At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.
In 1818 the British forced the Marathas to cede the city for 50, 000 rupees whereupon it became part of the province of Ajmer-Merwara, which consisted of the districts of Ajmer and Merwara and were physically separated by the territory of the Rajputana Agency.
The area thrived during the Ottoman Empire, as the centre of opium production and Afyon became a wealthy city with the typical Ottoman urban mixture of Turks, Armenians and Greeks.
Jerome states that Apollos was so dissatisfied with the division at Corinth, that he retired to Crete with Zenas, a doctor of the law ; and that the schism having been healed by Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Apollos returned to the city, and became its bishop.
From the fort, the Bonnburg, as well as from a new medieval settlement to the South centred around what later became the minster, grew the medieval city of Bonn.
After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).
In 1451 Berlin became the royal residence of the Brandenburg electors, and Berlin had to give up its status as a free Hanseatic city.
In 1539, the electors and the city officially became Lutheran.
With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.
In 1815 the city became part of the new Province of Brandenburg.
On 1 April 1881 it became a city district separate from Brandenburg.
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.
Bursa became the first major capital city of the early Ottoman Empire following its capture from the Byzantines in 1326.
The economic development of the city was followed by population growth and Bursa became the 4th most populous city in Turkey.
The city was later renamed Nova Roma by Constantine the Great, but popularly called Constantinople and briefly became the imperial residence of the classical Roman Empire.

city and notable
Remembered as a notable administrator, Afonso III founded several towns, granted the title of city to many others and reorganized public administration.
Jyväskylä would become a notable city for his architecture, with more buildings designed by him than in any other city.
Much notable Chicago fiction focuses on the city itself, with social criticism keeping exultation in check.
The city center retains a large number of monumental buildings, whereas in many streets there are canals of which the borders are connected by typical bridges, altogether making this city a notable tourist destination.
Two of the most notable Mediterranean civilizations in classical antiquity were the Greek city states and the Phoenicians.
One notable business in the city is the Cadbury chocolate factory which manufactures most of the Cadbury's chocolate for the Southern Hemisphere.
Instead, he had to content himself with subduing the fortresses that still held out against him, and the only other notable event of 216 BC was the defection of certain Italian territories, including Capua, the second largest city of Italy, which Hannibal made his new base.
The city's skyline is what one might envision for a major Midwest city, with some notable exceptions.
It became the most important city around the Øresund, with the German Hanseatic League frequenting it as a marketplace, notable for its flourishing herring fishing.
Other notable shopping centers in the city include Galeria Malta, one of the largest in Central Europe, and the shops at the Hotel Bazar, a historical hotel and commercial center in the Old Town.
The city is notable for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture, and as the birthplace of the preeminent mathematician and engineer Archimedes.
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Many, if not most, of the students, and more than 90 % of the faculty members were of German heritage, and numerous statues of notable scientists with German names can still be found in the city today.
The most notable non-Lithuanian names for the city include:,,,, Вильнюс,,.
Many notable churches and Baroque mansions were built in the city during this period by the architects, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Galeazzo Alessi and Ricchino himself.
Art Nouveau, also known as Liberty in Italy, started to develop in the city during the years before the Great War ; alongside other major Italian cities, most notably Palermo and Turin, this particular style became highly popular, producing several notable buildings in the city, developing its own, individual style known as " Liberty Milanese " ( Milanese Art Nouveau ), which, in many aspects, shares many traits with Vienna Secession.
From 540 to 600, Ravenna's bishops embarked upon a notable building program of churches in Ravenna and in and around the port city of Classe.
The city is most notable for containing the traditional burial site of the biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs and is therefore considered the second-holiest city in Judaism after Jerusalem.
A few officials notable for their good conduct were spared ; and the city of Messina still held for Charles.
By the 1950s, scores of notable Manhattan buildings were lost to redevelopment around the city, and the mission of MAS broadened to include historical preservation.

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