He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.

In the Islamic times, a pseudo-etymology was produced by the historian Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ( d. 892 ) quoting a folk story that the town was presumably founded by one " Abbad bin Hosayn " from the Arabian Tribe of Banu Tamim, who established a garrison there during the governorship of Hajjaj in the Ummayad period.

Bœotus ( accompanied by Arne ) went to southern Thessaly, and founded Boeotia ; but Aeolus went to a group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which received from him the name of the Aeolian Islands ; according to some accounts this Aeolus founded the town of Lipara.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

The present town of Ajaccio was founded in 1492 south of the Christian village by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa, which dispatched Cristoforo of Gandini, an architect, to build it.

The town has one of the two Welsh-medium primary schools in Monmouthshire, Ysgol Gymraeg y Fenni, which was founded in the early 1990s.

The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.

The town of Barcelonnette was founded in 1231 by Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence.

St. Petroc founded a monastery in Bodmin in the sixth century and gave the town its alternative name of Petrockstow.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

In 1636, Harvard College was founded by the colony to train ministers and the new town was chosen for its site by Thomas Dudley.

General Tipton was upset by the name change and decided to leave the newly founded town.

The town grew up around the Benedictine Cluny Abbey, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910.

Ennius was born at Rudiae, an old Italian ( predominantly Oscan ) town historically founded by the Messapians.

In whatever cities they founded the ultimate authority was the commander of the town, who kept office in the citadel, typically used as a prison.

An area was founded in southeast Rome to build a town exclusively for cinema, dubbed the Cinecittà.

Still, in the early 2000s the town founded the pop music festival " Fucking Åmål Festival ".

The town of Guernica was founded by Count Tello on April 28, 1366, at the intersection of the road from Bermeo to Durango with the road from Bilbao to Elantxobe and Lekeitio.

In 1663 Deschamps founded a French settlement Leogane on the western coast of the island on the abandoned site of the former Spanish town of Yaguana.

In 1496 the town of Nueva Isabela was founded.

However, as the place did not prove to be defensible, they settled in the remains of an older town upon a hill not far away and founded a new town, which they named Tábor ( after the traditional name of the mountain on which Jesus was expected to return ; see Mark 13 ); hence they were called Taborites.

Béla Bartók was born in the small Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( since 1920 Sânnicolau Mare, Romania ) on March 25, 1881.

The town was substantially damaged by an earthquake in 1881, and only partially retains its original character.

Ed, Tom, and Robert Stevenson opened a store in 1881 and Lewis laid out a town site that included forty lots and a town square – he hoped that the town would eventually serve as the seat of government for a new county.

In 1881, macadamized roads through the town were completed to connect with the main roads to the coastal towns but no roads were asphalted until after World War I.

In June 1881 he became Tombstone's town marshal ( or police chief ).

Virgil had been appointed Tombstone's town marshal ( i. e., chief of police ) on June 6, 1881, after Ben Sippy abandoned the job.

" William Clanton, Frank and Thomas McLaury, came to their deaths in the town of Tombstone on October 26, 1881, from the effects of pistol and gunshot wounds inflicted by Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp, and one — Holliday, commonly called ' Doc Holliday '.

The town boundaries were enlarged twice ( from the original town walls ), in 1881 and 1934.

The town itself was surveyed in 1870 and by 1881 it was gazetted as a municipality.

On November 1, 1881 the town was officially renamed Denver.

In 1881, the miners met and renamed the town Juneau, after Joe Juneau.

Several additional boundary adjustments took place in the 19th century: the establishment of the town of Marlborough in 1803, the transfer of the town of Lebanon from Windham County in 1824, and the transfer of the town of Voluntown from Windham County in 1881.

The town of Milford was established in 1816 by George Reed, Marysville in 1819 by Samuel Culbertson, Richwood in 1832 by Philip Plumber, Kingsville in 1834, Somerville in 1835, Watkins and Arbelia in 1838, Newton in 1838 by David Paul, York Center in 1841, Frankfort in 1846, Unionville in 1847, Pharisburg in 1847, New California in 1853, Dover in 1854, Union Center in 1863, Broadway in 1865, Pottersburg in 1869, Peoria in 1870, Magnetic Springs in 1879, and Claibourne in 1881.

The elephant, named Lucy, was a tourist attraction built in 1881 to lure potential land buyers to South Atlantic City ( now called Margate ), a small town south of Atlantic City.

Before 1881, mail for Pea Ridge was dropped at Elkhorn Inn and Tavern, a stagecoach stop, and carried to the town by horseback, buggy, or wagon.

In 1881 the Texas and St. Louis Railroad laid out the town of Rector about two miles to the south of an existing settlement named Scatterville, and the population of Scatterville gradually migrated to the new and booming town.

The town was renamed to Winslow on August 3, 1881 in honor of Edward F. Winslow, president of the Frsico.

Founded in 1881, the New Canaan Fire Department is a combination professional / volunteer fire department that operates out of a fire station located near the center of town, with a fire apparatus fleet of engines and other vehicles.

A post office was opened in La Crosse in 1881, and La Crosse was incorporated as a town on 17 December 1897.

Wilson backed the team into the traces, and wished they weren't going to town at all.

sufficiently, at least, to get them back into town.

Twenty thousand world citizens at Stuttgart had signed a petition inviting me to visit their town.

Some few and myself withstand his inhabitation and town privileges, without confession and reformation of his uncivil and inhuman practices at Portsmouth ; ;

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

The chevaux de frise, those sharp stakes and barriers around the fort at the Battery, pointed to a conflict between the town and sea power rolling in glassy swells as the tide came in.

The older men would be there at noon, and maybe rest for a time before they took their guns off to the creek or drove down the road towards town.

When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.

This can usually be found out at the nearest town hall.

The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.

Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town clerk's office and drugstore at the Village.

Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

It is known that Morse did associate with a group of itinerant horse traders who made their headquarters at Westport, a town not far from Fall River.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

The elderly chauffeur, immaculate in a dark uniform, stood stiffly at attention holding open the door of the town car.

He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;

About 70 North Providence taxpayers made appeals to the board of tax assessors for a review of their 1961 tax assessments during the last two days at the town hall in Centredale.

Louis H. Grenier, clerk of the board, said that the appeals will be reviewed in December at the time the board is visiting new construction sites in the town for assessment purposes.

Johnnie was a trucker with a small lumber outfit in a town about twenty miles away, and he was also pretty good at anything in the carpentry line.

I had always resisted the passes made at me by other kids, and many times I had thought about my love for Johnnie who, being thirty, brought a maturity to love that the kids around town could know nothing about.

But he had been busy building a business, being a big man in his own town just as he had been a big man at Hanford, Class of 1935.