The town was often afflicted by malaria, and suffered severely from famine in 1868-1869 and 1896-1897.

During this period, the town suffered an earthquake as well as the destruction of the Muslim quarter in 1834 by Egyptian troops, apparently as a reprisal for the murder of a favored loyalist of Ibrahim Pasha.

With the departure of the Romans the town suffered setbacks.

In the 13th century the town suffered much from the ravages of the Albigensian war and from the Inquisition, but by 1317 it had recovered sufficiently to be chosen by John XXII as the head of a diocese of which the basilica of St Théodard became the cathedral.

The town suffered severely during the German Peasants ' War and also during the Thirty Years ' War.

From the 1960s, Rockville's town center, formerly one of the area's commercial centers, suffered from a period of decline.

However, as a border town, its prosperity suffered after nearby areas, including Usk and Grosmont, were devastated through attacks by supporters of Owain Glyndŵr around 1405, though Monmouth itself did not come under attack.

The town centre itself is sited on a low-lying spur between the floodplains of the Wye and Monnow, and has frequently suffered from severe flooding.

" Anne suffered another miscarriage in April 1688, and left London to recuperate in the spa town of Bath.

The town also suffered during the Thirty Years War.

The town suffered during the 17th century Polish-Swedish wars

The city was burnt, we are told, with the exception of the temples of Vulcan and Juno — the massive Etruscan terrace-walls, naturally, can hardly have suffered at all — and the town, with the territory for a mile round, was allowed to be occupied by whoever chose.

The town and surrounding area suffered badly from floods in 1651, 1879, and 1907, though the construction of a levee helped to stave off the repeated floods from the Segura.

In October 2000 the town suffered major flooding during an intense period of severe weather throughout the United Kingdom.

Over the last two centuries the town suffered from many destructive floods, including notable floods in 1832, 1873, 1907, 1937, 1949, 1964 and 1968.

The town suffered heavily during the Jewish rising of AD 116 – 117.

Because he suffered from numerous sinus problems in the cold and damp weather, his father packed up the family and moved to the better climate of Tucson, Arizona, which Borman considers his home town.

The town was occupied by the Germans during World War I and World War II and on both occasions suffered heavy damage.

When it was the old capital of the Angoumois in the Ancien Régime, Angoulême was a fortified town which was highly coveted due to its position at the center of many roads important to communication, and therefore suffered many sieges.

On February 27, 1945 Calais suffered a last bombing raid – this time by British bombers who mistook the town for Dunkerque, which was at that time still occupied by German forces.

During the French Wars of Religion ( 1562 – 1598 ) the town of Montreuil-Bellay was ransacked and burned but the sturdy fortress suffered little damage.

The town and surrounding areas suffered bombing by the Luftwaffe.

The town suffered no enemy damage during the war and the industries of the town prospered.

But during the Troubles, Cookstown suffered from several bomb and other attacks, robbing the town centre of most of its Victorian buildings including the sandstone façade of the Hibernian Bank as well as the Adair's former Italianate residence at Glenavon ( which had been converted to a hotel ).

The siltation of the river delta forced the town further away from water ; In the 14th century, however, Ibn Battutah described Abadan just as a small port in a flat salty plain.

Antonio began his musical studies in his native town of Legnago ; he was first taught at home by his older brother Francesco Salieri ( a former student of the violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini ), and he received further lessons from the organist of the Legnago Cathedral, Giuseppe Simoni, a pupil of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini.

Chapter 28 of the 1535 Act of Henry VIII, which provided that Monmouth, as county town, should return one burgess to Parliament, further stated that other ancient Monmouthshire boroughs were to contribute towards the payment of the member.

There are a further three primary ( or elementary ) schools within Bodmin ; Berrycoombe School in the north west corner of the town, St. Mary's Catholic Primary School and Robartes Primary Junior School, both situated west of the town centre.

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.

The town grew further in the 17th century when the Dutch economy as a whole entered its age of prosperity, and several canals were built connecting it indirectly to Amsterdam.

Once that move away from the old town had begun, it led to the further expansion along the coast, eventually linking up with the new St Leonards.

The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.

The beginning of Polish parish in modern times is connected to him In XIX century Polish population of the town consisted among others of Polish soldiers in Prussian service stationed in the city, salt refining specialists from Ciechocinek, political prisoners in local Prussian and permanent Polish inhabitants In the second half of XIX century the Polish community further increased with arrival of Polish workers During the period 1875-1914 an active Polish community grew and through its funds a Catholic school and the Church of Saint Marcin where masses in Polish were held ( initially throughout the season, after about 1890 all the year ), were established.

During the nineteenth century the town of Beirut became the most important port of the region, supplanting Acre further to the south.

Now an inconvenient stepchild, the girl was sold or given to Maya slave-traders from Xicalango, an important commercial town further south and east along and hard the coast.

E6 goes further north along the west coast and through Norway to the Norwegian town Kirkenes at Barents Sea.

South of Namur, further upstream, the river can only carry more modest vessels, although a barge as long as 100 m. can still reach the French border town of Givet.

Under Ottoman rule, the town expanded further towards the confluence point of the Serava and Vardar rivers.

The 22 urban units are further classified as city councils ( Dar es Salaam and Mwanza ), municipal councils ( Arusha, Dodoma, Iringa, Kilimanjaro, Mbeya, Morogoro, Shinyanga, Tabora, and Tanga ) or town councils ( the remaining eleven communities ).

The mission of Santa Rosa de Arima was established in 1789 when Amerindians from the former encomiendas of Tacarigua and Arauca ( Arouca ) were relocated further east ( They settled in Santa Rosa close to the town of Arima ).

This led to a significant decline of ethnic Germans, whose number within the town decreased from 30, 509 in 1910 to 2, 255 in 1926 and further to 2, 057 in 1934.

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.

At Ft. Garland, Colorado south of the Great Sand Dunes on U. S. Highway 160 the Fort Garland Museum is recommended and further south on Colorado State Highway 159 at San Luis, Colorado, the oldest town in Colorado, the bronze sculptures by Huberto Maestas, depicting the Stations of the Cross.

Frederick II of Hohenstaufen further fortified the town and created here a personal hunting park.

In climatic terms, the town is located between those areas around the Severn estuary which show a maritime influence, and the cooler and drier conditions of the Midlands of England further inland.

The town was first represented in Parliament in 1536, when it was allocated one seat and the shire two further seats.

The town is further intersected by numerous small canals with tree-bordered quays.

Growth of the town was further encouraged by the patronage of the Prince Regent ( later King George IV ) after his first visit in 1783.