* Altenberg, a district in the city of Bern

On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

The upper gate tower stands beside the southern gate in the city wall, along the road to Lucerne and Bern.

By 1353, the three original cantons had been joined by the cantons of Glarus and Zug and the city states of Lucerne, Zürich, and Bern, forming the " Old Federation " of eight states that persisted during much of the 15th century.

* Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor Gabriel Johnston moves to the province's largest and most prosperous city of New Bern.

* The town of Biel / Bienne, Switzerland finalizes its alliance with the city of Bern.

* Duke Berthold V of Zähringen founds the city of Bern ( present-day Switzerland ).

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

It has long been considered likely that the city was named after the Italian city of Verona, which at the time was known as Bern in Middle High German.

As a result of the find of the Bern zinc tablet in the 1980, it is now more common to assume that the city was named after a pre-existing toponym of Celtic origin, possibly * berna " cleft ".

In the Early Middle Ages, there was a settlement in Bümpliz, now a city district of Bern, some from the medieval city.

In 1218, after Berthold died without an heir, Bern was made a free imperial city by the Goldene Handfeste of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.

This latter duke was the founder of the city of Bern, and when he died in February 1218 the main line of the Zähringen family became extinct.

Bern achieved the status of a free Imperial city.

Bern is a city in Nemaha County, Kansas, United States.

New Bern is a city in Craven County, North Carolina with a population of 29, 524 as of the 2010 census.

New Bern is the county seat of Craven County and the principal city of the New Bern Micropolitan Statistical Area.

During the 19th-century Federal period, New Bern was the largest city in North Carolina.

Berne is a city in Monroe and Wabash townships, Adams County, Indiana, United States, south of Fort Wayne.

The city of Berne provides water from its own wells, and also has its own water treatment facilities.

The Berne Public Library, which opened its doors in 1935 and is currently located in the former city auditorium, serves the city of Berne.

The forces of Zürich had remained behind defending their own city, while those of Berne had not heeded the confederate call for assistance.

It is south of the city of Langenthal ( center of the Oberaargau with 14, 400 inhabitants ) and from Basel, Berne and Lucerne, in the country of Switzerland.

The Battle of New Bern ( also known as the Battle of New Berne ) was fought on 14 March 1862, near the city of New Bern, North Carolina, as part of the Burnside Expedition of the American Civil War.

The three founding cantons of the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft, as the confederacy was called, were joined in the early 14th century by the city states of Lucerne, Zürich, and Berne, and they managed to defeat Habsburg armies on several occasions.

In the west, the Vier Waldstätten had already formed an alliance with the city of Berne in 1323, and even sent a detachment to help the Bernese forces in their territorial expansion against the dukes of Savoy and the Habsburgs in the Battle of Laupen in 1339.

# 20px Berne, city canton, since 1353 ; associate since 1323

The municipality Ganderkesee bordered to the east by the city of Delmenhorst, in the north of the communities Lemwerder and Berne in the district Wesermarsch and to the municipality Hude, to the west of the town Hatten and on the south by the municipalities Dötlingen and Harpstedt.

In 1460, he moved to Berne for a post as a scribe to the city council.

First page of an official copy of Valerius Anshelm's Berner Chronik, written by his son Peter Paul Anshelm for the city council of Berne. Image source:, courtesy of the Burgerbibliothek Bern.

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Ahuizotl (, ) ( meaning roughly " water dog ") was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Hueyi Tlatoani of the city of Tenochtitlan, son of princess Atotoztli II.

Barcelona (,, ) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1, 621, 537 within its administrative limits on a land area of.

Baku (, ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region.

It does not appear that St. Paul had visited this city when he wrote his Epistle to the Colossians (, ), since he tells Philemon of his hope to visit it upon being freed from prison ( see Philemon 1: 22 ).

Gdynia (, ) is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.

Popular reviews of the Book of Joshua's sharp contrasts and internal conflicts arise from " an appreciable difference between defeating a king in battle, and gaining possession of his capital city " ( vs.,,, ); and because " the land was now within the grasp of the Israelites they did not avail themselves fully of that dominion which was within their reach " (,, vs., ).

Kabul ( Kābul ) (, ;, ;, ), also spelled Cabool, Caubul, Kabol, or Cabul, mostly in historical contexts, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

Karachi (, ; ) is the largest city, main seaport and financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh.

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck (, Low German ) is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany.

This agreement gave Lithuanians control of the city of Vilnius (, ), the old Lithuanian capital, but a city with a majority Polish population.

Larissa (, ) is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit.

Munich (; (,, Bavarian: Minga ) is the capital and the largest city of the German state of Bavaria.

Nag Hammadi (, ), is a city in Upper Egypt.

Nuoro (, ) is a city and comune ( municipality ) in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy, situated on the slopes of the Monte Ortobene.

In the Talmud, a central post-exilic religious text of Judaism, Samaritan claim of ancestral origin was disputed, and in those texts they are called Cutheans (, Kuthim ), referring to the ancient city of Cuthah ( Kutha ), geographically located in what is today Iraq.

Sidon or Saïda (, ; Phoenician: < span dir =" rtl "> צדן </ span >, Ṣydwn ; ; ;, Ṣīḏōn, ) is the third-largest city in Lebanon.

Skopje (, ) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population.

Troy (, Ilion, or, Ilios ; and, Troia ; Latin: Trōia and Īlium ; Hittite: Wilusa or Truwisa ; Turkish: Truva ) was a city, both factual and legendary, in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, south of the southwest end of the Dardanelles / Hellespont and northwest of Mount Ida.

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