A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.

Using an extensive network of cities and settlements in the province of Mawarannahr ( a name given the region after the Arab conquest ) in Uzbekistan and farther east in what is today China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Soghdian intermediaries became the wealthiest of these Iranian merchants.

Vicenza is the third-largest Italian industrial centre as measured by the value of its exports, and is one of the country's wealthiest cities.

Bloomfield Hills consistently ranks as one of the top five wealthiest cities in the United States with population between 2, 500 to 9, 999 — it currently is listed at the number four position and in 1990 it was ranked number two, and has the highest income of any city outside of California, Florida or Virginia.

Södermanland is the wealthiest county in Sweden at the moment due to wealthy cities such as Trosa, which holds the position of 4th wealthiest community in Sweden, within its borders.

The United States Census Bureau declared Plano the wealthiest city of 2008 by comparing the median household income for all U. S. cities whose populations were greater than 250, 000.

It is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States and is notable for having a large number of Northern and Central European immigrants.

In the sixteenth century, it was described by foreign traders as one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the East.

Today south Jiangsu remains one of the richest parts of China, and Shanghai, arguably the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan of mainland China cities, is a direct extension of south Jiangsu culture.

Porto Alegre is also one of the wealthiest cities in Latin America, and one of the most diverse.

Some of the territories gained after the war were likewise devastated: in Pomerania, only one third of the population survived, and Magdeburg, once among the wealthiest cities of the empire, was burned down with most of the population slain.

Trade and agriculture flourished under Mamluk rule, and Cairo, their capital, became one of the wealthiest cities in the Near East and the center of artistic and intellectual activity.

Early in the 16th century Brescia was one of the wealthiest cities of Lombardy, but it never recovered from its sack by the French in 1512.

In particular, Florence became one of the wealthiest of the cities of Northern Italy, due mainly to its woolen textile production, developed under the supervision of its dominant trade guild, the Arte della Lana.

Venice, one of the wealthiest cities due to its control of the Adriatic Sea, also became a centre for Renaissance culture, especially architecture.

Like other communes of the Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine or Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of the wealthiest cities in France, ranked 2nd out of the 36500 in average household income.

Southern Illinois, the earliest settled and once the wealthiest part of Illinois, is known for its rich history and the abundance of antebellum architecture remaining in its small towns and cities.

Nizhnevartovsk is the center of the West Siberian oil-producing region and one of the wealthiest cities in the country.

Archeologists say Tolosa was one of the most important cities in Gaul, and certainly it was famed in pre-Roman times for being the wealthiest one.

Historically it is one of the wealthiest of China's cities, known at various periods for its great merchant families, poets, painters, and scholars.

Initially, the Comstock Lode was a boon for the Virginia City area, as the city grew to over 20, 000 persons, and was among the largest and wealthiest cities in the West.

From 975 to 1075, Fustat was a major production centre for Islamic art and ceramics, and one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

During the Muzaffarid rule, Ahmedabad grew to become one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world, and the sultans were patrons of a distinctive architecture that blended Islamic elements with Gujarat's indigenous Hindu and Jain architectural traditions.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

These were the wealthiest and most integrated Jewish communities in Europe.

The first and wealthiest common class was armed in the fashion of the hoplite with spear, sword, helmet, breast plate and round shield ( called clipeus in Latin, similar to the Greek aspis, also called hoplon ); there were 82 centuries of these of which two were trumpeters.

Cell phones of the early 1990s and earlier were very large, lacked extra features, and were used by only a few percent of the population of even the wealthiest nations.

There are some estimates that the Medici family were the wealthiest family in Europe for a period of time.

As a group, they were the wealthiest, most active, and most physically fit generation to that time, and amongst the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time.

New and heavy taxes were levied against the bulk of the population, with additional fees and confiscations targeted at the wealthiest families.

The Bagginses of Bag End were one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most respectable hobbit families in Hobbiton until the year 2941 ( SR 1341 ), when Bilbo inexplicably disappeared on his adventure and was thought dead.

The extra deputies were to be elected by the wealthiest quarter of the population in each département.

By the turn of the 20th century, many of the nation's wealthiest families were summering in Newport, including the Vanderbilts, Astors and Widener family who constructed the largest " cottages ", such as The Breakers ( 1895 ) and Miramar.

The wealthiest citizens were, in order from the highest real and property values, Gaius Whitfield, Goodman G. Griffin, Nathan B. Whitfield, Augustus Foscue, Francis S. Lyon, Gottlieb Breitling, George F. Glover, Simeon Wheeler, Daniel F. Prout, George G. Lyon, Henry W. Reese, Benjamin N. Glover, Cecile Fournier Poole, Evelina H. Henley, David Compton, Jr., Alexander M. McDowell, Augustus Zaiser, Alexander Fournier, Timothy G. Cornish, and Luther G. Houston.

In conclusion, if the data were gathered from the 32 actual home owners and did not include the disproportionately high percentage of year-round live-in low-wage help, then Indian Creek Village's average income would be significantly higher and the village would easily be the wealthiest incorporated municipality in the United States, in terms of per capita income.

The area's sugar cane planters were among the South's wealthiest agriculturists.

Originally part of Bangor, Maine, it became a separate town in 1853 because Gen. Veazie, its wealthiest citizen, thought Bangor's property taxes were too high.

Some were poor artisans and ex-slaves, while others were some of the wealthiest inhabitants of the city.

By the Hellenistic Period, some of the wealthiest Spartans were women.

The 16 July 1992 Tarata Bombing, in which several car bombs exploded in Lima's wealthiest district, killed over 40 people ; the bombings were characterized by one commentator as an " offensive to challenge President Alberto Fujimori.

Special sets of duelling pistols were crafted for the wealthiest of noblemen for this purpose.

As leader of the nation's wealthiest and best-known university, Eliot was necessarily a celebrated figure whose opinions were sought on a wide variety of matters, from tax policy ( he offered the first coherent rationale for the charitable tax exemption ) to the intellectual welfare of the general public.

When Buñuel was just four and a half months old, the family moved to Zaragoza, where they were one of the wealthiest families in town.