Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

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.

This land is in various stages of development in several locations throughout the town.

This southernmost town of Mesopotamia proper ( Jazira ) must have shared the chequered history of that land.

Development in Canberra has been closely regulated by government, both through the town planning process, but also through the use of crown lease terms that have tightly limited the use of parcels of land.

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.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 1. 79 %) is water.

According to the 2010 census, the town has a total area of, all land.

Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.

These areas are built on much flatter land than the town.

In the town, the Marine brigade, still under the command of the British admiral Sir John Leake, and the governor, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt ( who had commanded the land forces in August ), and reinforced shortly before by a further 400 Royal Marines, held the fortress against repeated attacks.

Violence occurred at a small town called Patzicia, where about one thousand Indians rose in spontaneous outbursts: “ in honor of our General Ponce ,” and “ we want land .” More than twenty ladinos were killed during this demonstration.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and is water, comprising 2. 52 % of the town.

The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 36. 53 %) is water.

In this document, Society members agreed to hold all property in a common fund, including working capital of $ 23, 000 to purchase land, livestock, tools, and other goods needed to establish their town.

Here they built the town of Harmony, a small community that had, in 1805, nearly 50 log houses, a large barn, a gristmill, and more than 150 acres of cleared land to grow crops.

The American Bridge Company had already acquired other parts of the Society's land in 1902 to build the town of Ambridge.

In 1824, they decided it was time to leave Indiana, sold their land and town in Indiana, and moved to their final settlement in Western Pennsylvania.

From Worsley to the rapidly-growing town of Manchester its construction cost £ 168, 000 (£ as of ), but its advantages over land and river transport meant that within a year of its opening in 1761, the price of coal in Manchester fell by about half.

Locals refer to Chios town as " Chora " (" Χώρα " literally means land or country, but usually refers to the capital or a settlement at the highest point of a Greek island ).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and is water, comprising 0. 43 % of the town.

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.

Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

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.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

* Altenberg is also a lost town and archaeological site in the Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

Since the administrative reforms in Bavaria in the 1970s, the town also encompasses the following Ortsteile:

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

Aachen (, also known as Bad Aachen ) is a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

There was on the promontory a small town, or rather village, also called Actium.

* Arene, Elis, an ancient town in Elis, Greece, also known as Makistos, Samia or Samiko

The town also produces Abadeh rugs.

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

Aeclanum ( also spelled Aeculanum ) was an ancient town of Samnium, southern Italy, c. 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia ( near the modern Mirabella Eclano ).

* The town is also home to Ajaccio Cathedral.

Various markets are held in the Market Hall, for example: Tuesdays – retail market, which also stretches into the town hall car park and temporarily the Cattle Market, while Brewery Yard car park is regenerated ; Wednesday – flea market ; 4th Thursday of the month a farmers ' market ; Friday – retail market ; Saturday – retail market ( also in the town hall car park ); 3rd Sunday of the month – antique fair ; 2nd Saturday – craft fair.

* Matthew Jay, the late singer-songwriter, also spent much of his life in the town.

The town centre is a principal engine of economic revival not only for all communities across the Borough, but also for Pennine Lancashire.

It is also reputed to be the only UK town with a railway station and a pub in the middle of a roundabout.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.

He is also remembered with a large statue in the market town of Ormskirk where he graces the centre of famous student town.