The port of Alicante has been reinventing itself since the industrial decline the city suffered in the 1980s ( with most mercantile traffic lost to Valencia's harbour ).

After siding with Pescennius Niger against the victorious Septimius Severus, the city was besieged by Roman forces and suffered extensive damage in 196 AD.

The future governor Quintus Petillius Cerialis, then commanding the Legio IX Hispana, attempted to relieve the city, but suffered an overwhelming defeat.

In Emesa he was apparently still alive and in good health: he issued the only extant rescript in his name there, but after he left the city, his staff, including the prefect Aper, reported that he suffered from an inflammation of the eyes.

Haiti's economy suffered a severe setback in January 2010 when a 7. 0 magnitude earthquake destroyed much of its capital city, Port-au-Prince, and neighboring areas.

The city of Lublin suffered most frequently – among others, it was burnt by the Rusyns in 1244, the Lithuanians 1255, the Prussians in 1266, and the Yotvingians in 1282.

Within months of the marriage Mary was pregnant ; however, on a visit to her husband at the fortified city of Breda, she suffered a miscarriage, which may have permanently impaired her ability to have children.

The city, previously under threat from the French, was no longer in danger as Charles VIII had suffered defeats.

The early city ( and subsequent buildings ) were constructed on a fault line and, consequently, suffered damage from a number of earthquakes.

While under following Swedish occupation Osnabrücks's Catholics were not expelled, but the city severely suffered from Swedish war contributions.

The three most destructive raids ( out of 363 that the city suffered ), occurred on 23 November 1943, and 3 February and 26 February 1945.

General Zeng Guofan Early during the Taiping Rebellion, Qing forces suffered a series of disastrous defeats culminating in the loss of the regional capital city of Nanjing in 1853.

Stanley suffered an injury that made him want to spend more time away from the city, and Benedict was not happy when the couple moved to Bedford Hills far away from the city.

Continuing to be prone to natural disasters the city was flooded by the Vardar River in 1962 and then suffered considerable damage from a major earthquake measuring 6. 1 on the Richter scale, which killed over 1, 000 people and made another 120, 000 homeless.

In 1940, the city suffered massive destruction and for four years it was a city of military camps and fortifications.

The battle began on August 23, 1942, and on the same day, the city suffered heavy aerial bombardment that reduced most of it to rubble.

One of the first " sister city " projects was that established between Stalingrad and England's Coventry during World War II ( as both suffered extensive devastation from aerial bombardment ).

As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for Axis troops en route to the Eastern Front, Bucharest suffered heavy damage during World War II due to Allied bombings, and, on 23 August 1944, was the site of the royal coup which brought Romania into the Allied camp, suffering a short period of Luftwaffe bombings as well as a failed attempt by German troops to take the city by force.

While marching to reclaim the city in 1002, however, Otto III suffered a sudden fever and died in a castle near Civita Castellana at the age of 21.

The city, which suffered from fires caused by the Pecheneg siege, surrendered upon seeing the main Polish force on 14 August.

Southeast Asia suffered a drought which dried up an important river which ran through the capital city of the Kingdom of Ayodhya, forcing the King to move the capital to a new location on the Lop Buri River.

* 2005 – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities.

Northern and extreme eastern parts of Cairo, which include satellite towns, are among the most recent additions to the city, as they developed in the late-20th and early-21st centuries to accommodate the city's rapid growth.

The city can experience extreme winter cold waves and summer heat waves that may last for several consecutive days.

The Swedish part, however, goes through most of Sweden except the extreme north, and it is commonly considered the highway backbone of Sweden, since it passes in the immediate vicinity of all the major cities and large towns except four ( these being Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås and Örebro ), but including Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden.

In 2008, extreme waves and high tides caused widespread flooding in the capital city of Majuro and other urban centres, located at above sea level.

Poznań's largest lake is Jezioro Kierskie ( Kiekrz Lake ) in the extreme north-west of the city ( within the city boundaries since 1987 ).

Further variations are to be found within the regions identified below ; for example, towns located less than from the city of Manchester such as Bolton, Oldham and Salford, each have distinct accents, all of which form the Lancashire accent, yet in extreme cases are different enough to be noticed even by a non-local listener.

Kerki, one extreme inland city located on the banks of the Amu Darya River, recorded 51. 7C in July 1983.

Near Mahabaleshwar, at the extreme point of Wai Tulka in the city of Satara in Maharashra

At one extreme, the heroes of E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros grieve for the end of the war and that they have no more foes equal to those they defeated ; in answer to their prayers, the gods restore the enemy city so that they can fight the same war over again.

Special reservoirs upstream help to maintain a constant level for the river through the city, but during periods of extreme runoff significant increases in river level may occur.

At the extreme east of the city and bay is the island of Inhaca. The total area covered by the municipality of Maputo is 346 km² and borders the city of Matola northeast and east, the districts of Marracuene to the north ; Boane in the east and Matutuíne at the south all of which are part of Maputo Province.

With an extreme subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfd ), Yakutsk has the coldest winter temperatures for any city, though not for any inhabited place, on Earth.

However, due to the heavy public threats of violence made by extreme right organisations, Ministry of Internal Affairs in the morning of September 19 moved the location of the march from the city centre to a space near the Palace of Serbia therefore effectively banning the original 2009 Belgrade Pride.

In February 1945 the city recorded a maximum snow cover of, but the extreme low of was recorded 14 years earlier.

Murmansk (; ; ; ) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland.

Wilkes-Barre was spared from any major flooding by the levees built on the river banks of the city, however nearby boroughs that were unprotected by levees such as West Pittston, Plymouth and parts of Plains Township were affected by extreme flooding and the subsequent water damage.

Eventually, the Danites abandoned their initial inheritance in the Aijalon area and moved to the extreme northern part of Israel, settling in the city of Laish, which they renamed Dan ().

Today, this is causing extreme frustration to the inhabitants of the metropolitan which is the largest and most crowded city of the nation.

Revolutionary committees took over the purged city governments, but they had no idea of how to govern and soon came into conflict with even more extreme youths.

The extreme length of the city was little less than a mile, and the whole intramural area is still thickly strewn with architectural remains.