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.

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

Following a 1956 vote the city of East Ann Arbor merged with Ann Arbor to encompass the eastern sections of the city.

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

But when he came upon the Bosporus he understood: on the opposite eastern shore was a Greek city, Chalcedon, whose founders were said to have overlooked the superior location only away.

Holly's body was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery in the eastern part of the city.

The university occupies 205 acres at the eastern city limit of Greenville.

They attacked and finding no opposition, managed to recover eastern Thrace with its fortified city of Adrianople, regaining an area in Europe which was only slightly larger than the present-day European territory of the Republic of Turkey.

The city provided a defence for the eastern provinces of the old Roman Empire against the barbarian invasions of the 5th century.

Claudius was concerned with the spread of eastern mysteries within the city and searched for more Roman replacements.

Over the years, the Nile gradually shifted westward, providing the site between the eastern edge of the river and the Mokattam highlands on which the city now stands.

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 commercial center of the city is located on the eastern edge of Lake Cadillac.

As the site of the Chicago Portage, the city emerged as an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States.

The first phase of a proposed eastern bypass for the city is the Dublin Port Tunnel, which officially opened in 2006 to mainly cater for heavy vehicles.

Today the eastern side of Davenport still contains many of the higher class houses in the city.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

The Sardica paschal table confirms these complaints, for it indicates that the Jews of some eastern Mediterranean city ( possibly Antioch ) fixed Nisan 14 on 11 March ( Julian ) in AD 328, on 5 March in AD 334, on 2 March in AD 337, and on 10 March in AD 339, all well before the spring equinox.

Helsingør (; often known in English-speaking countries by Shakespeare's spelling Elsinore ) is a city and the municipal seat of Helsingør Municipality on the northeast coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark.

It had been a pagan city since Pompey had given control of the city to the gentiles during his command of the eastern provinces in the 60s BC.

The island is located east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ; its western coast also forming the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait.

The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic Ocean ; its eastern coast also forming the western limits of the Cabot Strait.

Disagreement about the limits of his authority was one of the causes of the Great Schism, conventionally dated to the year 1054, which split the church into the Catholic Church in the West, headed by the Bishop of Rome, and the Orthodox Church, led by the four eastern patriarchs.

With the division of Berlin's city government and administration in September 1948 the Neues Stadthaus was in the Communist Ostsektor ( eastern sector ) and became off limits to West Berlin.

Among them, City Creek, Emigration, Millcreek, and Parley's border the eastern city limits.

Due to the ' eastern ' and ' western ' mass limits in Australia, two different categories of registration were enacted.

If a vehicle had a ' V ' as the second letter, its mass limits were in line with the eastern states mass limits, which were:

Sydney is served by Highway 125 which connects to Highway 105 and encircles the former city limits to its eastern terminus.

The limits of this region are nowhere exactly defined, but it seems to have included the eastern slopes of Anti-Lebanon range, and to have extended south and southeast of Damascus as far as the borders of Galilaea, Batanaea, and Trachonitis.

It seems that Madrid's geographic limits turn out to be those of nature: on the western side the " Sistema Central " ( the Guadarrama mountain range ), the south represents the desire to include ( the Royal Site of ) Aranjuez, and finally the eastern edge of the triangle comes from the rupture of the fluvial river basins.

After a few years Danube campaign against Sarmatians and Goths he receive a command of the legions on the eastern Imperial limits.

On weekends, the raucous restaurant-and-bar scene along Third Avenue, beyond the traditional eastern limits of Murray Hill, particularly reflects this change.

The term Highland also refers to a geographical area of the city of San Bernardino ( generally north of Highland Avenue and east of Del Rosa Avenue to the eastern city limits ), and parts of unincorporated San Bernardino County.

The name is also applied to a neighborhood within the city limits of El Cajon in the eastern part of that city.

As a result, there are no apartments, condominiums or townhouses in the city limits ; however, it is not unusual for the homes along the eastern edge of Hillsborough to face condominiums in neighboring Burlingame, sharing the ZIP code 94010.

* Harmony High School ( HHS ) ( Although not within the City Limits, children within the eastern part of city limits attend this school )

Silver Creek, the town's namesake and a tributary of the West Nishnabotna River, parallels the eastern city limits.

About 3 miles beyond the town's limits, anyone making the climb to the top of the magnificent outcropping known as Dan's Rock is rewarded with an incomparable view of the eastern end of the county and nearby West Virginia.

Route 130's southern terminus lies just outside the town limits in Santuit, a village in Barnstable, and Route 151's eastern terminus is within the town, both ending at Route 28, two and a half miles apart.

The Cape Fear River and Brunswick River Marshes along Navassa's eastern limits are an extensive 330 acres of tidal marshes upstream of saltwater influence.

The main commercial district is centered on the Canal Street strip that runs from the eastern to western corporation limits.

The western edges of the city limits are served by the Wynford Local School District located just west of the city, and the far eastern portion of the city is in the Colonel Crawford Local School District, headquartered in nearby North Robinson.