The city suffered extreme overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions up to 1875 when the medieval fortifications were finally abandoned as a limit to building operations and new, less miserable quarters were built in the eastern part of the city, where drainage of waste liquids was easiest.

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.

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

Grigorss overcomes the suitor in battle, delivers the city from its oppressors and marries Sibylla who had fallen in love with the beautiful knight the moment she saw him.

That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

Of course, this isn't taking into consideration the population of Nevada and New York city, but it's the way things look from here at this point.

It is visible throughout the city, and men from Madison Ave. would jump at the chance.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Wilson came by train from Birmingham and looked the city over ; ;

After looking about a bit, Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom, across the river and far removed from the white city, a considerable tract of land, and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot.

Just after sunset is a good time to record the city lights in color since you get a `` fill-in '' light from the sky.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

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

Equal proportions of children in each city were drawn from upper-lower and lower-middle class neighborhoods.

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.

it removes forever from the tax rolls property which should be taxed to pay for the city services.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

Another girl from a relatively large midwestern city described herself as `` the only Orthodox girl in town ''.

Yet a crowd came out to see some fresh kids from the city try to match the boys from the neighboring farms ; ;

In some cities games were broadcast throughout the week and then on weekends the announcer was silenced, and fans must needs drive to the city from all the broadcast area to discover how their heroes were faring.

Central city areas have become progressively poorer locales for the major denominations since the exodus of middle-class people from most central cities.

In these terms, the `` economic withdrawal '' of the Negroes of Nashville, Tennessee, from trading in the center city, for example, was clearly justified, since these distinctions do not require that only people subjectively guilty be singled out.

Samuel D. Goodis, representing the Philadelphia Hotel Association, objected on Tuesday to a proposed boost by the city in licensing fees, saying that occupancy rates in major hotels here ranged from 48 to 74 percent last year.

A gray fox with a patch on one eye -- confidence man, city slicker, lebensraum specialist -- tries to take over Catfish Bend in this third relaxed allegory from Mr. Burman's refreshing Louisiana animal community.

Sloan created such works for newspaper supplements before syndication threw him out of a job and sent him to roam the streets of New York, thereby building for America an incomparable city survey from paintings of McSorley's Saloon to breezy clotheslines on city roofs.