Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches.

Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort.

The original fort site is now adjacent to the present historic " Old Town " portion of the city.

The nearby settlement of Inverlochy was the main settlement in the area before the building of the fort, and was also site of the Battle of Inverlochy.

The Romans built a military camp, which they called Lousanna, at the site of a Celtic settlement, near the lake where currently Vidy and Ouchy are situated ; on the hill above was a fort called ' Lausodunon ' or ' Lousodunon ' ( The ' y ' suffix is common to many place names of Roman origin in the region ( e. g. ) Prilly, Pully, Lutry, etc .).

Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.

Evidence of this comes from a marble slab discovered near Caput Bovis, the site of a Roman fort.

Archaeological evidence, such as a cuneiform inscription, indicates that the Urartian military fortress of Erebuni ( Էրեբունի ) was founded in 782 BC ( 29 years earlier than Rome ) by the orders of King Argishti I at the site of current-day Yerevan, to serve as a fort and citadel guarding against attacks from the north Caucasus.

* A Russian fort is established at the present site of Almaty.

They built a fort on the present site of the city of Wilmington, which they named Fort Christina, after Queen Christina of Sweden.

The city of Sacramento, founded on the original site of Sutter's fort, began to flourish as the center of an agricultural empire that provided food to feed the thousands of miners working in the hills as well as a place of financial exchange of all the gold that was mined.

Little more was done for a long time, although in 1914 a workman found another altar at the site, set up by the civilians living at the fort in honour of the Divine House and Vulcan.

In 1970, the Vindolanda Trust, a registered charity, was founded to administer the site and its museum, and in 1997, the Trust took over the running of the Roman Army Museum at Carvoran, another Hadrian's Wall fort, which it had acquired in 1972.

The site of Avignon was settled very early on ; the rocky outcrop ( le Rocher les Doms ) at the north end of the town, overlooking the Rhône River, may have been the site of a Celtic oppidum or hill fort.

The Dutch claimed to have built a fort on the island in 1631, but no remains have been found and the location of the site is unknown.

The original fort was destroyed following the Battle of Fort Dearborn in 1812, and a new fort was constructed on the same site in 1816.

The site of the fort is now a Chicago Landmark, part of the Michigan – Wacker Historic District.

The town was the site of a small Roman fort, Blestium, and became established after the Normans built a castle here after 1067.

The works on Mount Hope, the heights above the site of Montcalm's victory, were improved to include a star-shaped fort.

The fort was constructed at a site noted as early as the seventeenth century for its strategic advantage in controlling navigation along the river.

Operated as a state museum, it contains artifacts from the site, mannequins representing military units and a detailed model of the fort.

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

A major consideration in the choice of the Warwick site, four miles from Cranston, was the fact that it permits retention of our present trained and highly skilled work force.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.

On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

The Aegean was the site of the original democracies, and its seaways were the means of contact among several diverse civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean.

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.

At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.

The live music from Gambler was only distributed at the performance site in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

The park was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, the idea of Count Eusebi Güell, whom the park was named after.

The site was a rocky hill with little vegetation and few trees, called Muntanya Pelada ( Bare Mountain ).

The intention was to exploit the fresh air ( well away from smoky factories ) and beautiful views from the site, with sixty triangular lots being provided for luxury houses.

Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (), was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.

A site was chosen in Houston, Texas on land donated by Rice University, and Administrator Webb announced the conversion on September 19, 1961.

A quarry on the Lousberg, which was first used in Neolithic times, attests to the long occupation of the site of Aachen.

Aachen was chosen as the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen ( often referred to as Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in English ) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution.

In another study, ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago.