Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

Kajang as a modern town owes its rise in particular to the coffee estates which were opened up around it in the 1890s.

The architectural character of the town owes much to the fact that it is constructed almost exclusively of the beautiful, but also fragile Tuffeau stone.

The town has Saxon roots, and likely owes its location to the existence of a gap in the North Downs where the River Wey is forded by the Harrow Way.

Erith owes its existence to the Thames and was, until the 1850s, essentially a small riverside port, given prominence by King Henry VIII's decision to open a naval dockyard in the town.

The town of Norfolk owes much to the benefactions, over the course of several generations, of the extended Battell family, which made a large fortune in the early 19th century from cheese, trading and speculation in Western lands.

It owes its name to the Ohio town, which was in the northwestern corner of the " College Township ", the survey township designated by the Ohio General Assembly as the site of the state college that became Miami University.

The town of Aredale owes its conception to cheese.

Chosen as a town site by the St. Paul and Dakota Railroad Company and developed by the Catholic Church, Adrian is one of many Minnesota towns that owes its existence to that peculiar combination of railroads and religion.

The town owes its existence to the construction of the Worthington and Sioux Falls Railway, and the desire of a New York capitalist to establish a land colonization scheme in southwestern Minnesota.

The town of Glen, located nine miles southeast of Corinth, owes its beginning to the Memphis & Charleston Railroad.

The Town of Archie was founded in 1880, being platted in July of that year ; the town owes its existence to the railroad that was being constructed through the middle of Cass County.

The town of Benson, which derives its name from early settler Alfred Monroe (" Mim ") Benson, owes much of its historical development to the railroad line which passed through the present location in town in 1886 on its route between Fayetteville and Contentnea.

McClure owes its origin to the building of the Sunbury-Lewistown railroad, that at one time ran through the center of town.

To a great extent, the town of Thorp owes its existence to the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

They tell Alonzo that they know he owes money to the Russian Mafia and suggest that he leave town.

The modern town of Dundalk largely owes its form to Lord Limerick ( later James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil ) in the 17th century.

The colors of the coat and the flag represent the coat of arms of the family of Don Hernando de Cataño, an Hidalgo to whom the town owes its name.

Sheerness is a commercial port and main town of the Isle of Sheppey and owes much to its origins, as a Royal Naval dockyard town.

Most of the town is built on the western side of the River Bann, and owes much of its prosperity to the river.

The town owes its origin to this effect, since it developed as a centre for the whaling industry.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

I would have liked the town and the busyness of its people but I always followed Lilly into the peace of the silent and unstaring road.

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

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

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

The operations of its other plant in Rochdale and Leesona's former operations in Manchester were transferred to a recently acquired plant in the adjoining town of Heywood.

The 1958 town meeting directed town authorities to seek federal and state funds with which to conduct a preliminary survey of a proposed sewage plant with its attendant facilities.

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

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.

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 ; ;

And I've been told that just about every town, no matter what its size, has its Lucille Warren.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

The town remained until late Byzantine times an important toll and customs station of the Hellespont, its importance thereafter being transferred to the Dardanelles, after the building of the " Old Castles " by Sultan Mehmet II ( c. 1456 ).

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district, and its largest town, as well as the largest town within the Ostwürttemberg region.

This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

You ain't kidding me -- the kid don't know the name of this town ''??

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

The earliest written reference to the town, under the name of Habensperch, came from this time, in around 1138.

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

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

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.

It was granted town status and given its current name in 1931.

Augustus dismantled their native capital Bibracte on Mont Beuvray, and substituted a new town with a half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum ( modern Autun ).

The chief resided at the town of Nowgong, at the foot of the hill-fortress of Ajaigarh, from which the state took its name.

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 town name is a play on Hyannisport, Massachusetts, where a number of the Kennedy clan have lived.

Thus the discovery report by the Berkeley group reads: " It is suggested that element 97 be given the name berkelium ( symbol Bk ) after the city of Berkeley in a manner similar to that used in naming its chemical homologue terbium ( atomic number 65 ) whose name was derived from the town of Ytterby, Sweden, where the rare earth minerals were first found.

The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of " Johnson " ( including a " Howard Johnson ", a " Dr. Samuel Johnson ", a " Van Johnson " and an " Olson N. Johnson ").

Battles are usually named after some feature of the battlefield geography, such as the name of a town, forest or river, commonly prefixed " Battle of ...".

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

The name of the Bavarian town of Passau descends from the Roman Batavis, which was named after the Batavi.

His name means " comforter ," and he was from the town of Alqosh, ( Nahum 1: 1 ) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern ` Alqush of Assyria and Capharnaum of northern Galilee.