The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

Except for the citadel and churches, Elbing at the time was more of a small village by modern standards.

Wallington was a tiny village thirty-five miles north of London and the cottage had with almost no modern facilities.

In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.

The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River.

Under the guidance of two village priests, Millet acquired a knowledge of Latin and modern authors, before being sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to study with a portrait painter named Paul Dumouchel.

Located near the modern village of Boğazköy in north-central Turkey.

Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab is generally acknowledged to have been born in 1703 into the Arab tribe of Banu Tamim in ' Uyayna, a village in the Najd region of the modern Saudi Arabia.

Confirmation of such accounts can also be seen in modern archaeology of the village of Lepalong, an entire settlement built underground to shelter remmnants of the Kwena people from 1827-36 against the tide of disruption that engulfed the region during Shakan times.

Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth.

The modern village of San Felice Circeo seems to occupy the site of the ancient town, the citadel of which stood on the mountain top ; its medieval walls rest upon ancient walls of Cyclopean work of less careful construction than those of the citadel, and enclose an area that measures 200 meters by 150 meters ( 660 by 490 ft ).

Between the modern urban and traditional rural sectors of the society was a steadily increasing group of Africans who were loosening their ties with the village and starting to participate in the money economy, to settle in suburbs, and to adopt new customs.

The Iga and Kōga clans have come to describe families living in the province of Iga ( modern Mie Prefecture ) and the adjacent region of Kōka ( later written as Kōga ), named after a village in what is now Shiga Prefecture.

The town was for long a mere village, and started its expansion when the Norman Kings of Sicily chose the area as their hunting resort, building here a palace ( probably identifiable with the modern Town Hall ).

In Britain, corner shops in towns and village shops in the countryside served similar purposes and were the precursors to the modern European convenience store ( e. g. SPAR ).

However, once there, they were warned by Alexander I of Macedon that the vale could be bypassed through the pass by the modern village of Sarantaporo, and that the army of Xerxes was overwhelming, the Greeks retreated.

Spanish Taos is probably a borrowing of Taos " village " which was heard as tao to which the plural-s was added although in the modern language Taos is no longer a plural noun.

During Valdemar's reign construction began of a castle in the village of Havn, leading eventually to the foundation of Copenhagen, the modern capital of Denmark.

Kültepe ( Turkish: Ash Hill ) is a modern village near the ancient city of Kaneš or Kanesh ( Hittite: Neša, occasionally Anisa ), located in the Kayseri Province in Turkey.

In 1893, George Cadbury bought of land close to the works and planned, at his own expense, a model village which would ' alleviate the evils of modern more cramped living conditions '.

The new village, the nucleus of modern Haifa, was originally named al-imara al-jadida ( Arabic: " the new construction "), but locals called it Haifa al-Jadida ( Arabic: " New Haifa ") at first, and then simply Haifa.

Urbanisation is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale, whereby predominantly village culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture.

* The city of Tiwanaku is founded as a village near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia ( approximate date ).

Map showing modern and former village

For one of his biographers, Hepworth Dixon, Bacon's influence in modern world is so great that every man who rides in a train, sends a telegram, follows a steam plough, sits in an easy chair, crosses the channel or the Atlantic, eats a good dinner, enjoys a beautiful garden, or undergoes a painless surgical operation, owes him something.

It takes its name from the Schlei, an inlet of the Baltic sea at the end of which it sits, and " vik " or " vig " which means bay in the old Viking language and modern Danish language.

At the same meeting, Woodward announced that a reconstruction of the fragments indicated that the skull was in many ways similar to that of a modern human, except for the occiput ( the part of the skull that sits on the spinal column ) and for brain size, which was about two-thirds that of a modern human.

The modern Bethany Presbyterian Church sits on the southeast side of the crossroads.

Geologically, Tuba City sits upon the Glen Canyon Group from the early Jurassic ( about 180-210 Ma ) and on modern superficial Quaternary deposits.

A modern addition to Worcester College, the Canal Building, sits next to the north entrance to the college and, as the name suggests, beside the Oxford Canal.

Around this intersection would be sited important public buildings in much the same way a Central Business District sits at the centre of modern day metropolitan areas.

The original plans for Old Court were too small to comfortably accommodate the larger college community of the second foundation, and so in 1443 Henry began to purchase the land upon which the modern college now sits.

A more modern invention is a mute which sits on the strings between the bridge and tailpiece of the instrument.

Set away from the bustle of modern Winterbourne, St Michael's now sits amidst green fields and attractive cottages with its distinctive spire visible for miles around.

The modern city, formerly Myriophyto, now called Olynthos or Nea Olynthos, sits on a small plateau on the western side of the river Olynthios or Resetenikia ( in ancient times known as Sandanus ), across from the ruins of the ancient city.

The area where the modern town sits was known in Irish as Inbhear an Latharna ( meaning the " river mouth of Latharna ") and in English as Inver Larne or simply Inver.

" Nonetheless the Roman town was located at some point on the oasis upon which the modern city sits.

As of 2010, a modern strip mall sits at the south-west corner bearing that name painted on the side of a vintage western medicine show wagon.

The symbolic " humility " that modern scholars read into Annunciations where the Virgin sits reading upon the floor, perhaps underestimates this familiar mode of seating.

However, the linguistic elements that traditionally defined this area, such as use of doon instead of down and substitution of-ang noise in words that end-ong ( lang instead of long ), are now prevalent only in the more northern parts of the region ; these linguistic features may reflect a more modern interpretation of where the line sits today.

In modern construction, the shōji does not form the exterior surface of the building ; it sits inside a sliding glass door or window.

Along with the locks, the modern city of West Linn sits on a portion of the former town site.

It also sits in the shadow of the modern cathedral which has served as a symbol of the new Ambato.

The modern volcano sits in a volcanically active area, with a caldera from the Pliocene, measuring 20 km by 15 km, lying to the east of Copahue.

Local architect Leslie Larson founded a coalition called the City Conservation League to try to save the main building, which made way for a low modern brick structure that sits there today as Macy's.

Unlike the long title, which precedes the preamble and enacting formula, and thus sits outside the main body of text, the short title for modern legislation is explicitly defined by a specific section, typically at the very end or very beginning of the main text.

The Assembly sits at a special Legislative Assembly building, a modern three storey structure located in the Nam Van area.