as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

The town became a refuge for the Arab, Christian, and Jewish colonies of that region.

In Raleigh, Jacob Johnson became town constable, married and started a family.

Each of the larger burhs became the centre of a territorial district of considerable size, carved out of the neighbouring countryside in order to support the town.

The charter known as " Alphonsine ," granted to the town of Riom, became the code of public law for Auvergne.

The forks of the Kalamazoo River provided power for mills, and Albion quickly became a mill town as well as an agricultural market.

It became the chief town of the Hirpini after Beneventum had become a Roman colony.

The former princely state became part of the new Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh, and most of the territory of the former state, including the town of Ajaigarh, became part of Panna District, with a smaller portion going to Chhatarpur District.

During the latter half of the 19th century, considerable public improvements were made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring collieries, a pleasant place to live.

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

A myth explaining this servitude states that a bear had formed the habit of regularly visiting the town of Brauron, and the people there fed it, so that, over time, the bear became tame.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.

The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.

Administered within the Prussian Rhine Province, the town became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany.

" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.

With Hampton out of town and Neagle injured much of the year, Jennings became the centerpiece of the Rockies ' pitching staff in 2003.

In the early 15th century, the town became an independent state once again, and emerged as a safe harbour for pirates and privateers, leading to it being targeted by the Portuguese, who destroyed the town in 1468.

Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.

The town, devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt but lost its status as the regional center to the nearby Koszalin.

Lower court systems exist at the regional, district, and town levels.

A major tourist attraction is the medieval town of Gruyères with its castle, containing a regional museum and an arts museum.

This results in various ' regional ' Indonesian dialects, the very types that a foreigner is most likely to hear upon arriving in any Indonesian city or town.

Each town operates its own elementary schools, with a regional middle school and high school accepting the students of all four towns.

On June 5, 2007, the regional subsidiary of national broadcaster DR reported that a hill, Kobanke, situated in the southeast near the town Rønnede in Faxe municipality, with a natural point of terrain at 122. 9 m ( 403. 21 feet ), was the highest natural point on Zealand.

Balaclava ( not officially have the status of a separate town, in fact, acts as a regional center )

Çeşme, Turkey a coastal Turkish town with houses in regional style and an Ottoman Castle.

The town has a number of cultural institutions including the Regional Museum of Anthropology, a geological museum, a regional library and a university.

The adoption of the factory system, which developed into the Industrial Revolution, enabled the transformation of Bacup from a small rural village into a mill town, populated by an influx of families attracted by Bacup's cotton mills, civic amenities and regional railway network.

This regional revolt was shortly after suppressed by the Cordovan emir Hisham I and order re-establihsed, but failed to retain grip on the town, since the Pamplonese returned to Frankish suzerainty in 806.

More recently, the town has received regional notice as the site of a large annual Halloween street party, with an attendance regularly exceeding 70, 000.

In 2007, Forbes magazine described the media attention and population multiplication of Thurles town ahead of one of the game's annual provincial hurling finals as being " the rough equivalent of 30 million Americans watching a regional lacrosse game ".

In Canada, a municipality is a city, town, township, county, or regional municipality which has been incorporated by statute by the legislatures of the provinces and territories.

In order to address issues concerning more than one town, several regional agencies that help coordinate the towns for infrastructure, land use, and economic development concerns have been established.

In order to address issues concerning more than one town, several regional agencies that help coordinate the towns for infrastructure, land use, and economic development concerns have been established.

The regional councils ' authority is much more limited compared with a county government — the regional councils have no taxing authority or authority to issue permits ; the aforementioned powers are delegated to the town governments.

With traditional core competences in civil engineering, environment, transport, town and regional planning, mechanics, industrial management and logistics, École des Ponts ParisTech offers high-level programmes in an extensive range of fields, from applied mathematics to economics and management.

The town hosts the regional finals of the Rose of Tralee ( festival ) in June and the Halloween Howls Comedy Festival on the October bank holiday weekend.

Harrow town centre is located to the southeast of Hatch End and is a regional centre for higher order goods, with two shopping malls and a 9-screen cinema, along with numerous restaurants, places of entertainment and bookshops.

The town was subsequently expanded into a powerful regional centre.

Although the common perception of Martinez is that of a refinery town, given the view from Highway 680 across the Shell refinery from the Martinez-Benicia Bridge, the city is in fact largely surrounded by water and regional open space preserves.