And of course religious life continues to center in the more famous mosques, and commercial life -- very much a social institution -- in the bazaar.

Furthermore, it has a commercial center that produces footwear, foodstuffs, and metal products.

After conquering Edirne ( Adrianople ) in 1365 the Ottomans turned it into a joint capital city for governing their European realms, but Bursa remained the most important Anatolian administrative and commercial center even after it lost its status as the sole Ottoman capital.

Bursa remained to be the most important administrative and commercial center in the empire until Mehmed II conquered Istanbul in 1453.

As part of Aquitaine, it was ruled by England between 1151 to 1452 and was a key commercial center at the southern end of the English kingdom.

Because of its history as the nation's commercial center, New York common law has a depth and predictability not ( yet ) available in any other jurisdiction.

The city's commercial center began to shift from Harvard Square to Central Square, which became the downtown of the city around this time.

The Courthouse Hill Historic District, established in April 2005, lies adjacent to the city's commercial center.

Downtown is the center of Chicago's financial, cultural, and commercial institutions and home to Grant Park and many of the city's skyscrapers.

In Hollywood movie Transformers when the Defense Purpose electronic communication fails ( mainly due to interference of the villain entities ) an officer tries to place a call back home through commercial network, but fails to get through the typical Indian call center, mainly due to the over-zealous salesmanship of the Indian operator who is more interested in advertising their new package than putting the call through.

Carson City's development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center.

Kyoto's character was defined by the Imperial Court, the court nobles, its Buddhist temples and its history ; Osaka was the country's commercial center, dominated by the chōnin ( merchant class ).

The Edo Bridge ( 江戸橋, Edo-bashi ) marked the center of the city's commercial center, an area also known as Kuramae ( 蔵前, " in front of the storehouses ").

The slave trade declined in the 19th century, and Bissau, originally founded as a military and slave-trading center in 1765, grew to become the major commercial center.

Portugal lost part of Guinea to French West Africa, including the center of earlier Portuguese commercial interest, the Casamance River region.

Robert Young writes that imperialism operates from the center, it is a state policy, and is developed for ideological as well as financial reasons whereas colonialism is nothing more than development for settlement or commercial intentions.

For centuries under Hanseatic and German influence and then during its inter-war independence, Latvia used its geographic location as an important East-West commercial and trading center.

Recovery in light industry and Riga's emergence as a regional financial and commercial center offset shrinkage of the state-owned industrial sector and agriculture.

It has won an award for the best shopping center in the world in the medium-sized commercial buildings category.

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.

Doha is the capital of the country and the major administrative, commercial, and population center.

Redmond underwent a commercial boom during the 1990s, culminating in 1997 with the opening of Redmond Town Center, a major regional shopping center on the site of a long-defunct golf course.

It can be reached by underground railway ( although the stations are at a distance from the Park and at a much lower level below the hill ), by city buses, or by commercial tourist buses.

The small size of nearby communities make the city a major commercial and industrial hub of the region.

The city is also served by Delta Air Lines at Columbia Regional Airport, the only commercial airport in mid-Missouri.

The city has two commercial radio stations: Forth One, a station aimed at young listeners with a mainstream chart music output, and Forth 2 on medium wave which plays classic hits.

As a provincial capital, its economy is inextricably tied to the fortunes of the public sector ; however, the city also contains a growing IT and commercial sector.

However, the concept pre-dates the naming of these establishments, as evidence suggests commercial food preparation may have existed during the age of the city of Pompeii, and urban sales of prepared foods may have existed in China during the Song Dynasty.

The city grew from several nuclei, the abbeys and a commercial centre.

A centralized administration for each city, though not the whole civilization, has been inferred from the revealed cultural uniformity ; however, it remains uncertain whether authority lay with a commercial oligarchy.

With a population of 522, 686 ( 31 December 2010 ) the city is a major centre of northern Germany, known for hosting annual commercial trade fairs such as the Hanover Fair and the CeBIT.

Watt travelled to London to study instrument-making for a year, then returned to Scotland, settling in the major commercial city of Glasgow intent on setting up his own instrument-making business.

It was a busy political and commercial port city throughout the medieval period and into the Edo period ( 1603 – 1867 ) when it formally became the capital of the Shimazu's fief, the Satsuma Domain.

Luxembourg Airport at Findel, some 6 km to the north of the city, is Luxembourg's only commercial airport.

The city contains many historic buildings and parks, and is also a commercial centre for the western part of Scania.

Due to the fact that it is the capital and the main city in the country, where most of the government and the commercial offices and facilities are established, along with the entertainment centers, and the country's fast growth, vehicle population is increasing rapidly.

During these years the Byzantine Empire was so weak that commercial supremacy in the surrounding seas around it became a bone of contention for the Italian maritime commercial city states.

The need to adjudicate issues involving commercial transactions between traders belonging to different cities led to the development of the theory of statuta, whereby certain city laws would be considered as statuta personalia " following " the person whereby it may act, and other city laws would be considered as statuta realia, resulting in application of the law of the city where, e. g., the res would be located ( cf.

In the early 19th century, commercial hunters began netting and shooting the birds to sell in city markets as food, as live targets for trap shooting and even as agricultural fertilizer.

Attempts to create a market there to draw off some of the frenetic commercial activity in the centre of the city had not been successful.

Decca is not the only large commercial company to impart instruction.

What we are attempting to do is achieve and maintain a balance between medium density and low density residential areas and industrial and commercial development.

This help is offered to applicants who ordinarily would not undertake the exploration under present conditions or circumstances at their sole expense and who are unable to obtain funds from commercial sources on reasonable terms.

It has been estimated that the value of boats in Rhode Island waters is something in excess of fifty million dollars, excluding commercial boats.

The Federal Government is aiding local governments in several places to survey residential, commercial and industrial buildings to determine what fallout protection they would provide, and for how many people.

It is proposed that in 10 years all commercial timberlands, all critical watersheds, and other lands in the National Forest System developed or proposed for intensive use will be given protection from fire adequate to meet the fire situation in the worst years and under serious peak loads.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

The elasticity is a parameter of fluids which is not subject to simple measurement at present, and it is a parameter which is probably varying in an unknown manner with many commercial materials.

and, indeed, there is no more reason to separate the interrelated roles of the active, builder, antiredeposition agent, etc. than there is to assign individual actions to each of the numerous isomers making up a given commercial organic active.

Let us also assume the existence of only one class or type of service, all of which is supplied at the same voltage, phase, etc. to residential, commercial, and industrial customers.

Off-flavor is a less severe problem with the radiopasteurization of meats, but problems of commercial acceptability remain.

On the following pages, each of the major commercial foamed plastics is described in detail, as to properties, applications, and methods of processing.

This test method is intended for determining the dimensional changes of woven or knitted fabrics, made of fibers other than wool, to be expected when the cloth is subjected to laundering procedures commonly used in the commercial laundry and the home.

The person using these tests must determine which combination of procedures is practical for any specific item in order to evaluate the dimensional changes of textile fabrics or garments after laundering procedures commonly used in the home or commercial laundry.

Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.

It is widely used in commercial ionization chamber smoke detectors, as well as in neutron sources and industrial gauges.

The second longest-lived isotope of astatine, astatine-211, is the only one currently having any commercial application, being employed in medicine to diagnose and treat some diseases via its emission of alpha particles ( helium-4 nuclei ).

* 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight ( Varney is the root company of United Airlines ).

As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions.