Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.

Anavarza ) was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova ( or classical Aleian plain ) about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River ( or classical Pyramus river ) and near its tributary the Sempas Su.

Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (), was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.

The following year, 478 BC, the Allies sent a force to capture the city of Byzantion ( modern day Istanbul ).

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.

Alexandria Troas (" Alexandria of the Troad ", modern ) is an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos ( modern Bozcaada ).

For the Ottoman and modern city ( after 1453 ), see Istanbul.

The name of the city was officially changed to Istanbul in 1930 following the establishment of modern Turkey.

* Istanbul details the history of the city from 1453 on, and describes the modern city.

Later on, they attacked the city of Noreia ( in modern Austria ) shortly before a group of Boii ( 32, 000 according to Julius Caesar-the number is probably an exaggeration ) joined the Helvetii in their attempt to settle in western Gaul.

This city, modern el-Meshed, located only several miles from Nazareth in what would have been known as Israel in the post-exilic period ( as distinct from the southern kingdom, known as Judah ) and Galilee around the time of Christ.

This was challenged legally on the basis that no prior team relocations ( in the modern era ) left a city without a team.

In the event, due to the urgently needed reinforcements in the Thracian front, Bulgarian Headquarters was soon forced to remove its troops from the city ( while the Greeks agreed by mutual treaty to remove their units based in Serres ) and transport them to Dedeağaç ( modern Alexandroupolis ), but still it left behind a battalion that started fortifying its positions.

This city had different specialized districts, much as is seen in modern city planning today.

The immense influence on the identity of Cambodia to come was wrought by the Khmer Kingdom of Bhavapura, in the modern day Cambodian city of Kompong Thom.

* Preah Ko Style ( 877-886 AD ): Hariharalaya was the first capital city of the Khmer empire located in the area of Angkor ; its ruins are in the area now called Roluos some fifteen kilometers southeast of the modern city of Siem Reap.

Chang ' an ( modern Xi ' an ), the national capital, was the largest city in the world of its time.

The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic.

One of Claudius's investigators discovered that many old Roman citizens based in the modern city of Trento were not in fact citizens.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

Ortega's hope that modern psychology might yet bring forth a last flowering of the novel has only been partially fulfilled.

most modern adapters totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only one contribution of their own: stage technique.

Critically invisible, modern revolt, like X-rays and radioactivity, is perceived only by its effects at more materialistic social levels, where it is called delinquency.

Time and again in counseling and teaching, one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious.

They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.

And this is only natural -- witness the haste with which modern man gobbles the latest `` wonder drug ''.

Over time, amphibians shrank in size and decreased in diversity, leaving only the modern subclass Lissamphibia.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.

He was born as the only child of Titus Aurelius Fulvus, consul in 89 whose family came from Nemausus ( modern Nîmes ).

One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".

From a modern perspective these figures may seem small, but in the world of Greek city-states Athens was huge: most of the thousand or so Greek cities could only muster 1000 – 1500 adult male citizens and Corinth, a major power, had at most 15, 000 but in some very seldom cases more.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

It is from this period that the later Syria Vs Assyria naming controversy arises, the Seleucids applied the name not only to Assyria itself, but also to the lands to the west ( Aram modern Syria ) which had been part of the Assyrian empire.

Astrology's modern representation in western popular media is usually reduced to sun sign astrology, which considers only the zodiac sign of the Sun at an individual's date of birth, and represents only 1 / 12 of the total chart.

Alan Cameron states: " It is only in modern times that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously ; no one did so in antiquity ".

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

... was also a great and profound chess thinker second only to Steinitz, and his works – Die Blockade, My System and Chess Praxis – established his reputation as one of the father figures of modern chess.

Also, modern semi-automatic pistols take only a few seconds to reload.

Their labels look much more modern and stylized, with only a minimal picture on each.

* Vasconic substratum hypothesis: This proposal, by the German linguist Theo Vennemann, claims that there is enough toponymical evidence to conclude that Basque is the only survivor of a larger family that once extended throughout most of Europe, and has also left its mark in modern Indo-European languages spoken in Europe.