For some reason, none of them were impressed with the territorial capital.

As predicted, Carson City was selected as the territorial capital, besting Virginia City and American Flat.

Iqaluit (, / iqɑluit /) is the territorial capital and the largest community of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Between the time of Augustus and Claudius, the province was divided into three conventus iuridicus, territorial units presided by capital cities with a court of justice and joint roman / indigenous people assemblies ( conventus ), that counseled the Governor:

It is part of Silesia, and the territorial successor of the former German Upper Silesia, which had the same city — then Oppeln — as its capital.

Residents disliked him so much they burned him in effigy and pelted him with vegetables upon his entry into the territorial capital.

Everywhere else the power of life and death, originally reserved to the Emperor alone, had been usurped by the territorial nobles ; only in Westphalia, called “ the Red Earth ” because here the imperial Blutbann was still valid, were capital sentences passed and executed by the Fehmic courts in the Emperor's name alone.

A resolution, to have the capital moved from Lewiston to Boise, was passed by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on December 7, 1864, six weeks before the territorial legislature's session legally began, and after litigation, on a split decision decided by one vote on the territorial supreme court on geographic lines.

So, the territorial governor, Caleb Lyon and the territorial secretary, secretly took the territorial seal, archives and treasury and fled from Lewiston, their territorial capital.

Mbanza was the name given to a territorial unit administered and ruled by a Mani ; Mbanza Congo, the capital, had a population of over fifty thousand in the sixteenth century.

Whatì is located by Lac La Martre, about northwest of the territorial capital of Yellowknife.

In 1851, Salem became the territorial capital after it was moved from Oregon City.

Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital in 1858, and the name was subsequently abbreviated to Salt Lake City.

In 1805, prior to the establishment of the county, the territorial government established a post road from its capital ( Vincennes, Indiana ) to St. Louis, Missouri, passing through the county.

By the time Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, Oklahoma City had surpassed Guthrie, the territorial capital, as the population center and commercial hub of the new state.

Although the city existed only on paper, the territorial legislature voted on November 28 in favor of Madison as its capital, largely because of its location halfway between the new and growing cities around Milwaukee in the east and the long established strategic post of Prairie du Chien in the west, and between the highly populated lead mining regions in the southwest and Wisconsin's oldest city, Green Bay in the northeast.

Under the British, it encompassed the current territorial limits excluding the princely state of Khairpur with the capital at Karachi.

This is a common strategy between smaller publishers in different territorial markets where the company that first buys the intellectual property rights then sells a package to other publishers and gains an immediate return on capital invested.

This territorial dispersion had a negative effect on its economic growth ; while the town of Madrid received economic resources from the entire country as the capital, the surrounding territories — in hands of noblemen or the clergy — became impoverished.

With the establishing of the contemporary Spanish state administrative organization, Palma became the capital of the new province of Balearic Islands in the 1833 territorial division of Spain.

The county was practically at the center of the Bleeding Kansas years as leaders in Lecompton, the territorial capital, wanted Kansas to be a slave state and leaders in Lawrence wanted Kansas to be a free state.

It was originally called " Bald Eagle ", but then later changed to Lecompton in honor of Samuel Lecompte, the chief justice of the territorial supreme court.

The Lecompton Constitution failed, in part, because the antislavery party won control of the territorial legislature in the election of 1857.

The bill did not provide for the submission of the constitution to popular vote, and the silence on this point of the territorial law under which the Lecompton Constitution of Kansas was framed in 1857 was the crux of the Lecompton struggle.

Geary arrived at Fort Leavenworth on September 9 and went to the territorial capital at Lecompton the following day, becoming the youngest territorial governor of Kansas.

In 1856, the official territorial capital was moved to Lecompton, a town only from Lawrence.

The territorial legislature, consisting mostly of slave-owners, met at the designated capital of Lecompton in September 1857 to produce a rival document.

On the day that Denver assumed the territorial governorship, citizens in the territory voted on the Lecompton Constitution, which opened the territory to slavery.

* Lecompton, Kansas Territory, disputed territorial capital 1856-1861

Benton, intending to challenge Atchison in 1854, began to agitate for territorial organization of the area west of Missouri ( now the states of Kansas and Nebraska ) so it could be opened to settlement.

Their influence in territorial elections was often bolstered by resident Missourians who crossed into Kansas solely for the purpose of voting in such ballots.

* July 2 – The Kansas territorial legislature convenes in Pawnee and begins passing proslavery laws.

Still was a physician and surgeon, Kansas state and territorial legislator, a free state leader, and one of the founders of Baker University, who lived near Baldwin City, Kansas at the time of the American Civil War.

They set up the territorial government for Kansas and Nebraska.

In 1855, Shawnee became one of the first counties established by the Kansas territorial legislature with a population of 250.

Many residents of the mining region felt disconnected from the remote territorial governments of Kansas and Nebraska, so they voted to form their own Territory of Jefferson on October 24, 1859.

Many residents of the mining region felt disconnected from the remote territorial governments of Kansas and Nebraska, so they voted to form their own Territory of Jefferson on October 24, 1859.

Many residents of the mining region felt disconnected from the remote territorial governments of Kansas and Nebraska, so they voted to form their own Territory of Jefferson on 1859-10-24.

Many residents of the mining region felt disconnected from the remote territorial governments of Kansas and Nebraska, so they voted to form their own Territory of Jefferson on October 24, 1859.

Federal troops were not used to decide a political question, but they were used by successive territorial governors to pacify the territory so that the political question of slavery in Kansas could finally be decided by peaceful, legal, and political means.

With all these reinforcements in hand Kearny assumed command, appointed his own territorial military governor and ordered Frémont to resign as and accompany him back to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

* Thomas Johnson ( Kansas politician ) ( 1802 – 1865 ), American Methodist missionary in Kansas territorial legislature ; namesake of Johnson County

Rumors spread through the South that 30, 000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed pro-slavery men known as " Border Ruffians ," mostly from Missouri, poured over the line in an attempt to steal the election to Congress of a single territorial delegate.

The proslavery territorial legislature convened in Pawnee on July 2, 1855, but after one week it adjourned to the Shawnee Mission on the Missouri border, where it began passing laws to institutionalize slavery in Kansas Territory.

" The hostilities raged for another two months until Brown departed the Kansas Territory, and a new territorial governor, John W. Geary, took office and managed to prevail upon both sides for peace.