The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

The country's infrastructure is best developed in the principal cities of Nassau and Freeport, where there are relatively good paved roads and international airports.

Shortly after they returned, bringing John Mark with them, they were appointed as missionaries to Asia Minor, and in this capacity visited Cyprus and some of the principal cities of Pamphylia, Pisidia, and Lycaonia ( Acts 13: 14 ).

So, Bogotá became one of the principal administrative centers of the Spanish possessions in the New World, along with Lima and Mexico City, though it remained somewhat backward compared to those two cities in several economic and logistical ways.

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It is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area.

" Jericho is also referred to by him as one of the principal cities of Jund Filastin.

In 1504, the city fell to Babur from the north and made into his headquarters, which became one of the principal cities of his later Mughal Empire.

By late 569 they had conquered all the principal cities north of the Po River except Pavia, which fell in 572.

In the season 1844 – 1845 she was engaged in the Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre ; later, in 1846 – 47, she toured the principal cities of Central Europe, finally reaching London and Paris, where she settled permanently.

By 1952 the principal telecommunications network centered on Beijing, and links to all large cities had finally been established.

But an unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns.

First, it cut off the principal city from communicating with other cities where they might expect aid.

The reports from these cities and the streaming hordes of refugees not only reduced the morale of the inhabitants and garrison of the principal city, it also strained their resources.

The country's other principal cities were Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac, Podgorica, Subotica, Pristina, and Prizren, each with populations of about 100, 000-250, 000 people.

Every game in the main Zelda series has consisted of three principal areas: an overworld in which movement is multidirectional, allowing the player some degree of freedom of action ; areas of interaction with other characters ( merely caves or hidden rooms in the first game, but expanding to entire towns and cities in subsequent games ) in which the player gains special items or advice ; and dungeons, areas of labyrinthine layout, usually underground, comprising a wide range of difficult enemies, bosses, and items.

A highway connecting the principal cities of Herat, Kandahar, Ghazni, and Kabul with links to highways in neighboring Pakistan formed the primary road system.

Some of Alaska's boroughs have merged geographical boundaries and administrative functions with their principal ( and sometimes only ) cities ; these are known as unified city-boroughs and result in some of Alaska's cities ranking among the geographically largest " cities " in the world.

The principal cities of Hesse include Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Offenbach, Hanau, Gießen, Wetzlar, and Limburg in the greater Rhine Main Area, Fulda in the east, and Kassel and Marburg an der Lahn in the north.

The principal cities are the capital Besançon, Belfort, and Montbéliard ( Aire Urbaine Belfort-Montbéliard-Héricourt-Delle ).

Its principal cities are Arras ( Dutch: Atrecht ), Saint-Omer, Lens and Béthune.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

With a population of 110, 438 as of the 2011 according to the United States Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 175, 831 residents.

That the principal exportable product of the Ohio Valley was grain did not help matters, as grain was a high-volume, low-priced commodity, frequently not worth the cost of transporting it to far-away population centers ( this was a factor leading to farmers in the west turning their grains into Whiskey for easier transport and higher sales, and later the Whiskey Rebellion ).

It is the principal city of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Jackson County and has a population of 160, 248.

Ethnic Lao, the principal lowland inhabitants and politically and culturally dominant group, make up the bulk of the Lao Loum and around 60 % of the total population.

The European Union, in the principal statement of its Badinter Committee, follows the Montevideo Convention in its definition of a state: by having a territory, a population, and a political authority.

Agriculture remains Nepal's principal economic activity, employing 80 % of the population and providing 37 % of GDP.

The principal justification for the non-resident vote is that about 450, 000 non-residents constitute the city's day-time population and use most of its services, far outnumbering the City's 9000 residents.

Hungarians ( Székely and other Magyars ; see Hungarians in Romania ), especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureş counties, and the Roma are the principal minorities, with a declining German population ( Banat Swabians in Timiş ; Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Braşov and elsewhere ), and smaller numbers of Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Chinese, Croats, and Banat Bulgarians ( in Banat ), Ukrainians ( especially in Maramureş and Bukovina ), Greeks of Romania ( especially in Brăila and Constanţa ), Turks and Tatars ( mainly in Constanţa ), Armenians, Russians ( Lipovans, Old Believers in Tulcea ), Jews and others.

The Sardinian language is one of the principal elements of Sardinian cultural heritage, and there is activity dedicated to studying the language and acknowledging its importance ; the recognition of the Sardinian language as a prominent element of the cultural identity is diffusely supported by the population.

It is the principal city in the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area which had a population of 651, 429, while the larger Toledo-Fremont Combined Statistical Area had a population of 712, 373.

In the Moroccan-administered territory, fishing and phosphate mining are the principal sources of income for the population.

By the early 1st millennium BC, the population of Epirus consisted of three principal clusters of Greek-speaking tribes: the Chaonians in northwestern Epirus, the Molossians in the centre and the Thesprotians in the south.

On 1 April 2010 it had a population of 291, 890 ( of which 258, 605 had principal residence status ).

Salem is the principal city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan area that covers Marion and Polk counties and had a combined population of 347, 214 at the 2000 census.

With a population now of about 800, 000, Tunis has been the principal city in the region for over eight centuries.

The principal reasons why French settlement didn't grow in a manner similar to that in French North Africa ( which had a population of over 1 million French civilians ) were because French Indochina was seen as a colonie d ' exploitation économique ( economic colony ) rather than a colonie de peuplement ( settlement colony helping Metropolitan France from being overpopulated ), and because Indochina was distant from France itself.

During French colonial rule, the French language was the principal language of education, government, trade, and media and French was widely introduced to the general population.

With a population at the 2010 census of 129, 779 people, New Haven is the principal municipality in the Greater New Haven metropolitan area, which had a total population of 862, 477 in 2010.

The 42nd largest city proper in the United States, with a population of 408, 568, it is the principal, central, and most populous city of the Miami metropolitan area, and the most populous metropolis in the Southeastern United States.

The principal Arabic theater servicing the northern Arab population is the al-Midan Theater.