By the end of the 16th century, Bethlehem had become one of the largest villages in the District of Jerusalem, and was subdivided into seven quarters.

The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space ( Room 4, for monumental sculpture ), can display only 4 % of its Egyptian holdings.

It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 24 institutions: 11 senior colleges, seven community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the doctorate-granting Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York School of Law, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.

There are seven important depressions in the Western Desert, and all are considered oases except the largest, Qattara, the water of which is salty.

Karachi especially after the 1970s has emerged as one of the largest Pashtun cities in the world with its Pashtun population estimated to be around five to seven million which is more than Peshawar, Kabul or Kandahar easily.

Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, seven times the size of the United Kingdom, and slightly larger than Alaska

Tureaud, with his four sisters and seven brothers, grew up in a three-room apartment in one of the city's housing projects, the Robert Taylor Homes, in a poorly constructed building, in an area with high levels of environmental pollutants and the largest concentration of poverty in America.

The methods had been developed by the Romans in Spain in 25 AD to exploit large alluvial gold deposits, the largest site being at Las Medulas, where seven long aqueducts were built to tap local rivers and to sluice the deposits.

Namibia's largest trade union federation, the National Union of Namibian Workers ( NUNW ) represents workers organised into seven affiliated trade unions.

* 1948 – Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launched a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign, the largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.

Greater Vancouver has seven suburban municipalities with at least 100, 000 people, with the largest being Surrey and Vancouver's direct neighbors Burnaby and Richmond.

The IFC's share capital amounted to approximately $ 2. 4 billion, of which 51 % is controlled by the seven largest member governments of the OECD.

The seven largest Wall Street firms in the 2000s ( decade ) were Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup Incorporated, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers.

The Gioia Tauro port has seven loading docks with an extension of 4, 646 metres ; it is the largest in Italy and the seventh largest container port in Europe, with a 2007 throughput of s from more than 3, 000 ships.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, the largest healthcare provider in the Mid-South, operates seven hospitals and several rural clinics.

This style was very successful and the VVD won seven seats in the 1998 elections becoming the second largest party in parliament with thirty-eight seats.

The Soviet Union maintained the world's largest airborne force during the Cold War, consisting of seven airborne divisions and a training division.

The Stone of Osgiliath was the largest and most powerful of the seven.

More than one-fifth of the island is protected as Quttinirpaaq National Park ( formerly Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve ), which includes seven fjords and a variety of glaciers, as well as Lake Hazen, North America's largest lake north of the Arctic Circle.

* Leaves: Alternate, seven to nine-lobed, oblong-ovate to oblong, five to ten inches long, four to six inches broad ; seven to eleven lobes tapering gradually from broad bases, acute, and usually repandly dentate and terminating with long bristle-pointed teeth ; the second pair of lobes from apex are largest ; midrib and primary veins conspicuous.

The final, on 6 August, was again held in the pouring rain, but Blankers-Koen completed the inaugural Olympic 200 m for women in 24. 4, seven tenths of a second ahead of runner-up Audrey Williamson — still the largest margin of victory in an Olympic 200 m final.

The Avalanche sent the largest delegation of the NHL to the 1998 Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament in Nagano, Japan: 10 players representing seven countries and coach Marc Crawford for Canada.

In anticipation of the invasion, Harold assembled his troops on the Isle of Wight but, perhaps due to unfavourable winds, the invasion fleet remained in port for almost seven months.

For the first seven months of 2006, the port handled 207, 687 twenty-foot-equivalent units of containers.

Boyoma Falls, formerly known as Stanley Falls, consists of seven cataracts, each no more than 15 ' high, extending over more than along a curve of the Lualaba River between the river port towns of Ubundu and Kisangani / Boyoma in the Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

For centuries Marstal vessels have sailed the seven seas, and even today the town is the home port for a considerable number of coasters.

By the evening of 10 July the seven Allied assault divisions, three British, three American and one Canadian, were well established ashore and the port of Syracuse had been captured.

In addition to its port, Kushiro is serviced by Kushiro Airport with flights from Honshu and by the Super Ōzora limited express train service, which runs seven times per day to the main population centres in the west of Hokkaido.

Strofades IV, which left port unexpectedly without any of the aid after the ship's owners and captain got into an argument with the aid workers, although seven Libyan port officials and ten of the Road to Hope team were on board.

After a two-day autonomous flight, Soyuz TMA-13 successfully docked to the Earth-facing docking port of the Zarya module of the ISS on 14 October at 08: 26 GMT, seven minutes ahead of schedule.

The city lies on and beneath seven hills on the inner part of a wide gulf and a naturally well-protected port ( depth up to ) open to the northwest with two entrances: from the sea and through Fažana channel.

Somewhat hindered by all seven members of the States-General, who tried to micro-manage the campaign as deputies-in-the-field, Maurice was now cornered by Albert near the port of Nieuwpoort and forced to give battle on 2 July 1600.

Merak, the Indonesian port offered by Indonesia after lobbying by the Australian Government, was 12 hours away ; Christmas Island was six or seven hours closer.

In his zeal to share what he ’ d found with his fellows at home, he smuggled seven coffee beans out of the Yemeni port of Mocha, wrapped around his belly.

The game consists of seven levels that take players through various locales: A Swiss Alps-style mountain, a cavern, a mine, a submarine, a haunted ship, a port town, and a castle.

The port currently operates eight passenger terminals, six gantry cranes wharves, seven Ro-Ro ( Roll-on-Roll-off ) docks, four refrigerated yards for containers, break bulk cargo warehouses and nine gantry container handling cranes.

Miami's port as seen from Miami Beach, Florida | Miami Beach in December 2007, with seven cruise ships docked

A crowd of about 1, 000 Jews attempted to break into the Haifa port area, and British troops responded with live fire, killing three and wounding seven.

The subsequent port to Amiga took just seven days thanks to MacLean avoiding operating system calls as much as possible.

Middleton spent seven months doing occupation duty in the Mexican port city of Veracruz, and later was assigned to Douglas, Arizona, where his unit skirmished with some of Pancho Villa's fighters.

The Luftwaffe was considered weak ( the bulk of it was engaged in the Battle of Moscow ), so the Navy retained the heavy cruiser Krasny Kavkaz, light cruiser Krasny Krym and Chervona Ukrania and seven destroyers to protect the port.

The city has an All weather Intermediate Sea port, Bedi Port, just seven kilometers away, through which various merchandise is imported and exported.

On July 5, 2007 a consortium of seven mining companies, including Rio Tinto, announced they are sponsoring environmental impact studies to construct a deep-water port in Bathurst Inlet.