In the early eighteenth century this fantastic city, then the size of London, started to decline.

The Romans add that about the time Romulus started to build the city, an eclipse of the Sun was observed by Antimachus, the Teian poet, on the 30th day of the lunar month.

( Originally, a team was supposed to be started in Buffalo, but league ownership at the last minute removed that city from their plans in favor of the expansion Boston franchise.

Now an exhibition space, it was started by the newly-arrived French in 1460 to control the city.

In the event, due to the urgently needed reinforcements in the Thracian front, Bulgarian Headquarters was soon forced to remove its troops from the city ( while the Greeks agreed by mutual treaty to remove their units based in Serres ) and transport them to Dedeağaç ( modern Alexandroupolis ), but still it left behind a battalion that started fortifying its positions.

While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

When the Israeli nuclear program started later that decade, a location not far from the city was chosen for the Negev Nuclear Research Center due to its relative isolation in the desert and availability of housing.

The written history of Eindhoven started in 1232, when Duke Hendrik I of Brabant granted city rights to Endehoven, then a small town right on the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams.

He began his travels in Constantinople, taking notes on buildings, markets, customs and culture ; in 1640, he started his first journey outside the city.

In 1983 DIF I started to integrate the territory of the new city of Maracanaú, which, just some years ago, was made again part of the Greater Fortaleza ( the city's Metropolitan area ).

The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe.

The city started to grow significantly after 1928.

In 1806 he started teaching a fighting art in the city of Shuri that he called " Tudi Sakukawa ," which meant " Sakukawa of China Hand.

During the reign of the Kalhora Dynasty, the present city started life as a fishing settlement when a Sindhi Balochi fisher-woman called Mai Kolachi took up residence and started a family.

Note: Work has started in 2006 on a city wide WiFi project called Hotcity.

The city started to expand, and in 1800 had 38, 054 inhabitants.

However, from 1994 and under the leadership of the new mayor Ilmar Reepalu, the city of Malmö started to re-conceptualize itself as a center of culture and knowledge.

French involvement started in 1729 when it built a shipyard in the city of Syriam.

The upper Niger, from the source past the trading city of Timbuktu to the bend in the current river, once emptied into a now-gone lake, while the lower Niger started in hills near that lake and flowed south into the Gulf of Guinea.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

He also started to settle migrant Turcomans and town-dwelling Turks in the strategic city and castle of Gelibolu ( Gallipoli ), which had been devastated by a severe earthquake and was therefore evacuated by its inhabitants.

) have therefore started to refer to an " inner city " and an " outer city " to solve this problem.

Above, in the tiled prosceniums of the alcoves, boys sing the ghazals of Hafiz and Saadi, while at the very bottom, in the vaults, the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

AZ play their home games at the AFAS Stadion, located in the southern part of the city of Alkmaar.

Harvard University had always been important in the city ( both as a landowner and as an institution ), but it began to play a more dominant role in the city's life and culture.

The two clubs play six games against each other every season, featuring a three game series in each city.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

Geneva is the home of the Genève-Servette HC, who play in the Swiss National League A, and is the main sport team of the city.

They are the only team in the " big four " sports leagues to play in the city of Jacksonville.

Its aim is to play a leading part in the development of the city and the wider region.

Litigation began between New York City and the Jets over the issue, and in the lawsuit's settlement, the city agreed to allow the Jets to play two September home games a season at Shea beginning in 1978 for the remaining six years in the Jets ' lease.

Often the geography of the stage and more importantly the play matched the geography of the city so that the audience would be well oriented to the locale of the play.

For instance, William Shatner, who was touring in a play at the time, would record his lines in whatever city he happened to be in and have the tapes shipped to the studio.

In addition, the intentional word play regarding the city of Babel, and the noise of the people's " babbling ," is found in the Hebrew words as easily as in English, and is considered typical of the " Yahwist source.

A Chess congress is a chess tournament, in one city, where a large number of contestants gather to play competitive chess over a limited period of time ; typically one day to one week.

While many neighbourhood discos play manele, an Oriental-and Roma-influenced genre of music that is particularly popular in Bucharest's working class districts, the city has a rich jazz and blues scene, and, to an even larger extent, house music / trance and heavy metal / punk scenes.

Sometimes, each play was performed on a decorated cart called a pageant that moved about the city to allow different crowds to watch each play.

Around 1000 Gilles dance throughout the city from morning until past dusk, whilst traditional carnival songs play.

Music and flamboyant costumes play a central role, from the Queen elections to the Grand Parade, which winds it ways down city avenues to the delight of thousands of spectators.

Ibsen's play Rosmersholm is inspired by the life at Moldegård, and The Lady from the Sea is also set in the city of Molde, although never being mentioned by name.

Urban beaches attempt to mimic natural beaches with fountains that imitate surf and mask city noises, and in some cases can be used as a play park.

However, these three teams play the majority of their games in the city stadium, Estadio Hernando Siles.

The Omaha Lancers, a United States Hockey League team that played at Aksarben until 2004, moved to neighboring city of Council Bluffs at the Mid-America Center, and moved back to Omaha in 2009 to play at the Civic Auditorium The University of Nebraska at Omaha Mavericks, is an NCAA Division I team that plays at the CenturyLink Center.