The modern history of Abensberg, which is often incorrectly compared with that of the 3rd century Roman castra ( military outpost ) of Abusina, begins with Gebhard, who was the first to mention Abensberg as a town, in the middle of the 12th century.

The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.

Aeclanum ( also spelled Aeculanum ) was an ancient town of Samnium, southern Italy, c. 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia ( near the modern Mirabella Eclano ).

Augustus dismantled their native capital Bibracte on Mont Beuvray, and substituted a new town with a half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum ( modern Autun ).

Aegospotami is located on the Dardanelles, northeast of the modern Turkish town of Sütlüce, Dardanelles ( the ancient Greek Galata, Thrace, modern Turkish: tr: Sütlüce, Gelibolu ).

His name means " comforter ," and he was from the town of Alqosh, ( Nahum 1: 1 ) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern ` Alqush of Assyria and Capharnaum of northern Galilee.

Manduessedum ( Mancetter ), near the modern town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, has also been suggested, as has ' The Rampart ' near Messing in Essex, according to legend.

The site, located near the modern town of Honaz in Turkey, has never been excavated.

The set was updated in 1989 with the construction of a new factory, two shop units and three modern town houses on the south side of the street.

He was born c. 376, in the small town of Theodosios, Egypt, near modern day El-Mahalla El-Kubra.

is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis.

, meaning " town of the hurdled ford ", is the common name for the city in modern Irish.

Ephrem was born around the year 306 in the city of Nisibis ( the modern Turkish town of Nusaybin, on the border with Syria, which had come into Roman hands only in 298 ).

Christopher Columbus established a small settlement called La Navidad, near the modern town of Cap Haitien, built from the timbers of his wrecked ship Santa María, during his first voyage in December 1492.

Hadrian's forefathers came from Hadria, modern Atri, an ancient town of Picenum in Italy, but the family had settled in Italica in Hispania Baetica soon after its founding by Scipio Africanus.

It has set out to become " a modern European town " and seeks to attract commercial business in the many industrial sites round the borough.

St Albans is Hertfordshire's oldest town, a modern city shaped by over 2000 years of continuous human occupation.

The name of the district and its main town is derived from that of the chief river of the region, the Hari River ( Old Iranian Harayu, " Golden Water "), which traverses the district and passes some south of modern Herāt.

* Haddeby is the modern German spelling for the administrative district around the site of the original town.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.

There are two international airports in Jamaica with modern terminals, long runways, and the navigational equipment required to accommodate the large jet aircraft used in modern air travel: Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston and Sangster International Airport in the resort town of Montego Bay.

Shortly thereafter the built-up area of the town was abandoned and a Byzantine Jericho, Ericha, was built a mile ( 1. 61km ) to the east, around which the modern town is centred.

Diplomatic is another area for which the dawn of the twentieth century marks the beginning of modern standards of scholarship.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

A modern cotton gin plant costs in the neighborhood of $250,000, and it's a safe assumption that a large percentage of new gins in the U.S. and foreign countries contain machinery made in this area.

In October 1844, Hasan Ali Shah left Sind for Bombay, passing through Cutch ( modern day Kutch ) and Kathiawar where he spent some time visiting the communities of his followers in the area.

There, a small peninsular area is still called " Angeln " today and is formed as a triangle drawn roughly from modern Flensburg on the Flensburger Fjord to the City of Schleswig and then to Maasholm, on the Schlei inlet.

This area is the traditional homeland of the Tlingit people, and home of a historic settling of Haida as well as a modern settlement of Tsimshian.

Most of these Victorian terraces still exist and, along with more modern social housing, characterise the area today.

In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere.

The modern astronomical sense of " area of the celestial sphere around a specific asterism " dates to the mid 16th century.

* Preah Ko Style ( 877-886 AD ): Hariharalaya was the first capital city of the Khmer empire located in the area of Angkor ; its ruins are in the area now called Roluos some fifteen kilometers southeast of the modern city of Siem Reap.

Other temples in this style are Banteay Samre and Thommanon in the area of Angkor, and Phimai in modern Thailand.

The Zhou initially moved their capital west to an area near modern Xi ' an, on the Wei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, but they would preside over a series of expansions into the Yangtze River valley.

Among the official changes to the organization during the modern area include the ordination of black men to the priesthood in 1978, reversing a policy originally instituted by Brigham Young.

First modern census in the area of today's Slovakia was taken in 1869.

Former administrative buildings and modern hotels populate the area.

The settlements of La Yaguana, and Bayaja, on the west and north coasts respectively of modern day Haiti were burned, as were the settlements of Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata on the north coast and San Juan de la Maguana in the south western area of the modern day Dominican Republic.

The original area covered by the lava flows is estimated to have been as large as 1. 5 million km², approximately half the size of modern India.

The region was first referred to as Ma ' ikele Bahr (" between the seas / rivers ," i. e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river ), renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, called Midri Bahri ( Tigrinya: " Sea land ," though it included some areas like Shire on the other side of the Mereb, today in Ethiopia ) until the modern day, when its name was changed to Mereb Mellash ( beyond the river Mereb ) under the rule of Yohannes IV, the locals referred to this area as Midri Bahri.

In modern terminology, the area of a plane figure is proportional to the square of any of its linear dimensions,, and the volume of a solid to the cube,.

Although the XM-291 does not immediately mean that ETC technology is viable at this current point in time it does offer an example that it is possible and that continued research in the area is worth the advantages reaped if such a system was to be successfully implemented on a modern tank.

The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people ( formerly known as the Lapps ).

It originated as a Phoenician colony in Africa, near modern Tunis, and gradually became the center of a civilization whose hegemony reached along the North African coast and deep in its hinterland, and also included the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Corsica, a limited area in southern Spain, and the western half of Sicily.