After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bloody attack during Sukkot ( October 9, 1968 ), in which a grenade was thrown, apparently by a Hebron boy, onto the mosque stairs wounding 47 Israeli and foreign visitors, the government agreed to legitimize Levinger's wildcat settlement by establishing a town on the outskirts of the city in an abandoned military base, which was named Kiryat Arba ,' as if ,' Gershom Gorenberg writes, ' to make the place instantly ancient .'.

Katsav joined the Likud Party, and at the age of 24 was elected the mayor of Kiryat Mal ' akhi, the small town in which he was raised.

The town greatly expanded in later years, developed an industrial and hi-tech area with companies such as IAI and Mercury Interactive and attracted thousands of academics and professionals in new, highly-invested neighborhoods such as Givat Avia and Kiryat HaSavyonim.

The town of Kiryat Bialik was established in July 1934 by a group of German Jewish immigrants who received a plot of land from the Jewish National Fund.

Kiryat Gat was established in 1955 as a development town by 18 families from Morocco.

Kiryat Gat is situated between two major highways, Highway 40 to the west of the town and Highway 6.

The town of Kiryat Shmona was established in May 1949 on the site of the former Bedouin village Al-Khalisa, whose inhabitants were expelled from the village after Safed was gained by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba (" Town of Arba ") means either the town ( kirya ) of Arba, the giant who had three sons, or the town of the four giants: Anak ( the son of Arba ) and his three sons-Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi-who are described as being the sons of a " giant " in: " On the way through the Negev, they ( Joshua and Caleb ) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant ( ha-anak )..." Some say that Anak (" Giant ", see Anak ) is a proper name ( Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint ), and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron, previously known as " Kiryat Arba.

The modern town of Kiryat Yearim is named after this town and is situated in its presumed location.

However, this place is situated south of Hebron, so the Israeli Governmental names commitee refused to call the town Kiryat Sefer as was proposed initially, prefering the name Modi ' in Illit.

Kiryat Tiv ' on (, also Qiryat Tiv ' on ) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel, in the hills between the Zvulun and Jezreel valleys.

The Kiryat Shmona massacre was an attack by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command on civilians in the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on 11 April 1974 which resulted in 18 deaths.

In addition to intaking and enrolling students from Rehovot, De Shalit High School also absorbs students from the nearby town of Kiryat Ekron.

The original name intended for the town was Kiryat Moshe (" Town of Moses " in Hebrew ) honoring Baron Maurice Moshe Hirsch, but the land agent who registered the settlement translated it to the French-like Moïsesville which was later hispanized to the current Moisés Ville.

Located about southeast of the town of Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.

Kiryat Mattersdorf was founded in 1959 by the Mattersdorfer Rav, Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld, whose ancestors had served as Rav of the Austrian town of Mattersdorf for centuries, starting with his great-great-grandfather, the Chasam Sofer, in 1798.

Fahima grew up in a single parent family of Moroccan Jewish descent in Kiryat Gat, a development town in the south of Israel.

Margaliot (; ) is a moshav in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, located along the border with Lebanon, near the town of Kiryat Shmona.

Brightness ) is a moshav in southern Israel near the town of Kiryat Gat.

Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vírgenes (" The Virgins ' Corner "), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood.

The name of the town was then changed to Anbar (" granaries ").

The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.

The next morning, Boaz discusses the issue with the other male relative, Ploni Almoni (" so-and-so ") before the town elders.

The so-called Cimbrian bull (" Cimbrertyren "), a sculpture by Anders Bundgaard, was erected 14 April 1937 on a central town square in Aalborg, the capital of the region of North Jutland.

The carriage was redirected to " Yo seí in " palace (" Yang tchhing yuan ") at " Ni zio ", a town situated a short distance to the south-west of Miyako.

Battuta continued by ship south to the Swahili Coast, a region then known in Arabic as the Bilad al-Zanj (" Land of the Zanj "), with an overnight stop at the island town of Mombasa.

The Bani Utbah established the town and port of Guraine and called it Kuwait (" little fort ," from kut, " fort ").

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 ).

Services are sometimes scheduled from the " Highway stations " (" Gares routières ") found in every town, but are more frequently ad hoc: vehicles ply the trade between towns, picking up at stations or anywhere along the route, and departing only when full.

The Nieuwe Waterweg (" New Waterway ") is a ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur ( a branch of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta ) west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland: the Maasmond, where the Nieuwe Waterweg connects to the Maasgeul.

Muñoz Marín and his followers, among which were included Felisa Rincon de Gautier and Ernesto Ramos Antonini, held an assembly in the town of Arecibo founded the Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo (" Clear, Authentic and Complete Liberal Party "), claiming to be the true Liberal Party.

Ben claims the land, and prospectors start flocking to the brand new town of Rumson (" I'm On My Way ").

Prospector Jake Whippany is waiting to save enough money to send for Cherry and her Fandango girls (" Rumson "), while Jennifer senses the tension building in town (" What's Going On Here ?").

Reichskanzlei Berchtesgaden (" Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden "), another nickname of the regime ( named after the eponymous town located in the vicinity of Hitler's mountain residence where he spent much of his time in office ) was also banned at the same time, despite the fact that a sub-section of the Chancellery was in fact installed there to serve Hitler's needs.

However, it could also have come from " tali-linna " (" winter-castle / town "), or " talu-linna " (" house / farmstead-castle / town ").

Although traditions vary from town to town, some common characteristics of Dutch Carnival include a parade, a " prince " plus cortège (" Council of 11 "), a farmer's wedding ( boerenbruiloft ), and eating herring ( haring happen ) on Ash Wednesday.

The Zwinger covers an area on the northwestern edge of the Innere Altstadt (" inner old town ") that is part of the historic heart of Dresden.

It passes through Gostivar, Skopje and into Veles, crosses the Greek border near Gevgelija, Polykastro and Axioupoli (" town on the Axiós "), before emptying into the Aegean Sea in Central Macedonia west of Thessaloniki in northern Greece.

The East Greenwich Free Library receives financial support from the town of East Greenwich and the City of Warwick to supplement its endowment.

He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

Curry had decided for himself that Carson City would someday serve as the capital city and left a plot open in the center of town for a future capitol building.

With this consolidation, Carson City absorbed former town sites such as Empire City, which had grown up in the 1860s as a milling center along the Carson River and current US 50.

Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.

'" Morris's second documentary would be about the town and bear its name, although it makes no mention of Vernon as " Nub City ", but instead explores other idiosyncrasies of the town's residents.

In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town.

The town received the title of " Most Loyal City " ( Tenth Siege of Gibraltar ). The Duke died in 1507.

* Gulf City, Florida, a new town site in Hillsborough, United States

The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).

In 2005, Coleman moved from Los Angeles to Santaquin, a small town south of Salt Lake City, Utah, where he lived for the remainder of his life.

Lineker began his career at his home town club Leicester City after leaving school.

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After two years as a high-school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania and one teaching elementary school in the small town of Charlotte Vermont, Dewey decided that he was unsuited for employment in primary or secondary education.

In 1226 Emperor Frederick II elevated the town to the status of an Imperial Free City, by which it became the Free City of Lübeck.

Following the fall of Tenochtitlán in late 1521 and the birth of her son Don Martín Cortés in 1522, Marina stayed in a house Cortés built for her in the town of Coyoacán, 8 miles south of Tenochtitlán, while it was being rebuilt as Mexico City.

* Photo City Sagamihara, awards for photography given annually by the Japanese town of Sagamihara

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* City of San Marino ( Città di San Marino ), capital town