As the historic processes of modernization gradually gain momentum, their cohesion will be threatened by divisive forces, the gaps between rulers and subjects, town and country, will widen ; ;

From that time the town grew quickly with rich commuters from Amsterdam moving in, building themselves large villas in the wooded surroundings, and gradually starting to live in Hilversum permanently.

Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but important state of great strategic value to France, Germany and the Netherlands.

The Bend subsequently developed a service-based economy to support the shipyard and gradually began to acquire all the amenities of a growing town.

Originally a group of teenage friends attending Sunnydale High in a town built on top of a Hellmouth, the group gradually expanded, eventually merging with the Watchers ' Council to become a global organization dealing with demonic threats worldwide and training thousands of Slayers.

The town has gradually extended up the river valley, encompassing several villages in doing so.

The bridge was destroyed, but the fortified camp, which at the time was the most forward Roman military outpost in the Po Valley, somehow survived the long Second Punic War, and gradually evolved into a garrison town.

In 1857, the Rennes train station was built, which gradually led to the southward sprawl of the town.

Toulon harbour became a shelter for trading ships, and the name of the town gradually changed from Telo to Tholon, Tolon, and Toulon.

Many settled in the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where they gradually became known as the Stockbridge Indians.

The inhabitants were freed from the feudal lord's abuses and with the royal privileges, the town gradually became established first as a Confraria ( 1182 ), then Consolat ( municipal organ ) ( 1202 ), and from 1267 up to the present, as a Paeria.

The island derived its name from Mount Royal ( French Mont Royal, then pronounced ), and gradually spread its name to the town, which had originally been called Ville-Marie.

China discovers that John is gradually losing control of the town to local crime boss Edwin Sommers ( Steven Kerby ), who controls corrupt deputy Marty Lickner ( Patrick Adamson ) and corrupt local judge Harry Godar ( Will Hazlett ).

Unlike the later imperial fora in Rome — which were self-consciously modeled on the ancient Greek plateia ( πλατεῖα ) public plaza or town square — the Roman Forum developed gradually, organically and piecemeal over many centuries.

The liquid gradually seeps out of the tomb, but it is unclear whether it originates from the body within the tomb, or from the marble itself ; since the town of Bari is a harbor, and the tomb is below sea level, there are several natural explanations for the manna fluid, including the transfer of seawater to the tomb by capillary action.

Marshland beside the island was drained and a town gradually grew up near the abbey.

However, Steinburg remained the name of the region, and its new centre became Glückstadt before gradually moving to the town of Itzehoe.

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.

In 1896, the village of L ' Anse burned to the ground, but gradually rebuilt itself into a lumber town with the arrival of Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company in the early 1900s.

The town gradually declined after it was by-passed by railroads.

Following the Napoleonic occupation, there was a period during which the town gradually turned its back on the sea.

Although nearby Madisonville, a settlement established along the stagecoach route on the Natchez Trace, had a race track, two banks, a wagon factory and at least one hotel, its residents gradually moved to the new town.

The boom proclivities of the town subsided and its population gradually diminished until now it has something like 300 people within its corporate limits.

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.

One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, since 1974, the town has formed part of the larger Borough of Hyndburn including the former Urban Districts of Oswaldtwistle, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood and Rishton.

Al-Qawawsa Quarter was formed by Arab Christian emigrants from the nearby town of Tuqu ' in the 18th century.

By 1781 three more societies had been established in Birmingham, with a fourth in the nearby town of Dudley ; and 19 more formed in Birmingham between 1782 and 1795.

In smaller boroughs, a town council was formed for the area of the abolished borough, while charter trustees were formed in other former boroughs.

The 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, often hailed as the first armed anti-fascist resistance unit in occupied Europe, was formed in Croatia, in the Brezovica forest near the town of Sisak.

The eastern boundary of Concord ( with the town of Pembroke ) is formed by the Soucook River, a tributary of the Merrimack.

The made-up embankment which today extends the whole length of the town's riverbank is the result of 19th century land reclamation, started in earnest when the town played host to a large number of prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars which formed a captive workforce.

There, a new settlement was formed, being granted a council two years later ( 1706 ), with the name of San Roque, and being considered by the Spanish Crown as the heir to the lost town of Gibraltar ( historical objects and records predating 1704 were subsequently taken to San Roque where they remain to this day.

On September 26, 1808, a Central Junta was formed in the town of Aranjuez to coordinate the nationwide struggle against the French.

The river of the town formed an important part of the pitch.

In 1978, the Asian Amateur Kabaddi Federation was formed at a conference of delegates from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan in the Indian town of Villai.

The cantonment formed the basis of the ' white ' town, where the native population had restricted access.

* In the United States, " municipality " is usually understood as a city, town, village or other local government unit, formed by municipal charter from the state as a municipal corporation.

When the southern provinces of the newly formed kingdom seceded in 1830 ( Belgian Revolution ), the Dutch garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king, William I of the Netherlands, even when most of the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area sided with the Belgian revolutionaries.

Panamanians Mariano Arosemena, Manuel María Ayala, and Juan José Calvo, as well as Colombian Juan José Argote, formed the writing team of the new newspaper, whose stories would circulate throughout every town in the isthmus.

Millions of migrating springbok formed herds hundreds of kilometers long that could take several days to pass a town.

He motivated the clerics from Wil to Rorschach to discard their loyalty to the Abbey and spoke against the Abbey at the town meeting at Waldkirch, where the popular league was formed.

The town formed around the old A3 London to Portsmouth road.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

This countship, the extent of which seems to have been practically identical with that of the ecclesiastical diocese of Angers, occupied the greater part of what is now the départment of Maine-et-Loire, further embracing, to the north, Craon, Candé, Bazouges ( Château-Gontier ), Le Lude, and to the east, Château-la-Vallière and Bourgueil, while to the south, on the other hand, it included neither the present town of Montreuil-Bellay, nor Vihiers, Cholet, Beaupréau, nor the whole district lying to the west of the Ironne and Thouet, on the left bank of the Loire, which formed the territory of the Mauges.