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5 unusual facts about Capital City


Capital City

Capital City Distribution, a company that distributed comic books from 1980 to 1996.

Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state regarded as enjoying primary status; although there are exceptions, a capital is almost always a city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government and is usually fixed by law or by the constitution.

Neemuch

Neemuch is known as India's Eye donation capital as it accounts for the highest per capita eye donation rate in the country.

Ng Mui

She was traveling when her parents were killed in the Manchu capture of the Ming capital.

The Gods Return

Following the events of The Mirror of Worlds Garric, Sharina, Cashel and Ilna have been reunited on Pandah, the new capital of the continent.


Akwa Ibom Airport

Akwa Ibom Airport is an airport in Oron serving Uyo, the capital city of the Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria and other neighbouring towns in the state, including Eket, Ikot Ekpene and Oron.

Antony Root

In 1984 he was recruited by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television, as its Development Executive where his credits included Capital City, Bellman and True and the miniseries The Fear, which he also co-produced.

Attambelos VII of Characene

In 114 or 115 the Emperor Trajan took the Parthian capital city of Ctesiphon and then moved with a fleet of 50 ships to the Characene state on the Persian Gulf.

Bank of South Sudan

The bank maintains its headquarters in the city of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, with branches in the towns of Wau, and Yei and Malakal.

Charles E. Smith Center

The Charles E. Smith Center is a 5,000-seat multipurpose arena in the United States' capital, Washington, D.C. It is home to the George Washington University Colonials men's and women's basketball teams, as well as the university's swimming, water polo, gymnastics, and volleyball teams.

Embassy of the United States, Tirana

The Embassy of the United States in Tirana is the embassy of the United States in Albania, in the capital city of Tirana.

FSO Syrena

A Siren is a mermaid who, according to the legend, protects the river Wisła and the Polish capital city, Warsaw.

Llanquihue, Chile

The National Congress approved the bill, which in its first article states: Commune Llanquihue Puerto Varas, Llanquihue Province, the capital is the town of Llanquihue.

Luque

Luque is the fourth-most populated city of Paraguay, after the capital city, Ciudad del Este and San Lorenzo.

Mariposa, Satipo Province

The town of Mariposa is the capital of the Pampa Hermosa District in Satipo Province, Peru.

Marmato, Caldas

On 1 September 2011, the local parish priest, the Reverend José Reynal-Restrepo was returning on his motorbike from a trip to Bogotá, the nation's capital, to clarify the company's claims that the local Archbishop had agreed to the sale of the Church's property in the town.

Martin de Goiti

The Spanish colonization paved the way for the establishment of Manila as a permanent settlement and capital city of the Spanish East Indies.

Mayor of Antananarivo

The Mayor of Antananarivo is the Mayor of the capital and largest city in Madagascar, Antananarivo.

Pyinmana

The administrative capital of Myanmar was officially moved to a militarized greenfield site (which the leader, Than Shwe, dubbed Naypyidaw, or Royal City) two miles (3.2 km) west of Pyinmana on November 6, 2005.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Q.E.H.) is located in Barbados' capital city Bridgetown, which is located in the parish of Saint Michael.

Radyvyliv

It is the administrative center of the Radyvyliv Raion (district), and is located south-west of the oblast capital, Rivne, near European route E40.

Ranchi district

Ranchi city, the capital of Jharkhand state is the district headquarters.

Yorke Bay

It is located one-half mile north of Port Stanley Airport, four miles to the northeast of the capital city of Stanley, on a peninsula connected to the mainland by the Boxer Bridge and a narrow isthmus known as "The Neck".


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103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

They then marched northward, passing through the former Confederate capital city of Richmond and arriving at Washington City around May 20, 1865.

117th Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 117th Fighter Aviation Regiment remained at Pula in 1948, but that same year it moved to Cerklje, where it was to remain until 1949 when it was moved to Zemun, with the new task of defending the capital city Belgrade.

1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck

The 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster in Hobart, the capital city of Australia's island state of Tasmania, when a bridge was hit by a 7,000 ton bulk carrier, causing a 400 foot section of roadway to fall 120 feet into the river below.

Architecture of Australia

Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect who played a key role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city.

Bahía Blanca Partido

The provincial subdivision holds a population of 284,776 inhabitants in an area of 2,300 km² (888 sq mi), and its capital city is Bahía Blanca, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

Beyliks of Canik

In the following table the names usually refer to the founder of the beylik, (where the suffix "...oğulları" means "sons of") with the exception of Bafra which is the name of the capital city of the beylik.

Bucharest Alexeni Airport

Alexeni Airport was a project for a new low-cost airport for Bucharest, located in the Alexeni town, in Ialomiţa County, at 60 km north-east of the capital city of Romania.

Bytown Boys Supporters Club

This resulted in players, coaches, and the team itself offering praise to the supporters club, with team members such as Clint Irwin, Sullivan Silva, Kenny Caceros, Julian Edwards, Joel Bagby, and Shaun Harris commenting on the importance of the group in contributing to the home field advantage which saw Capital City play through an impressive inaugural season, culminating in an appearance at the final of the 2011 CSL season.

Capital City Airport

Capital Region International Airport, formerly Capital City Airport, in Lansing, Michigan, United States (FAA: LAN)

Capital City F.C.

Head coach Shaun Anthony Harris led Capital City into 2011-12 season as head coach and technical director.

Charles Quansah

While in custody, Quansah was subsequently charged with the murder of another woman, Akua Serwaa who was found strangled near Kumasi Sports Stadium, in Kumasi on January 19, 1996 and subsequently confessed to the strangulation deaths of eight women in the capital city of Accra.

Confluencia Department

In the department there are important museums located in the capital city, Neuquén, and an important paleontologic museum located in Villa el Chocón managed by Ruben Carolini, who discovered one of the most important pieces in exhibition at the museum, the Giganotosaurus carolinii in 1995.

Dania Virgen García

She is a native Cuban, having been born in the capital city, Havana.

Daniella Tobar

In January, 2000, she attracted media headlines in Chile and worldwide after undertaking an art project whereby she took up residence in a transparent glass house placed in the centre of Chile's capital city, Santiago.

Dor Daim

Over time more and more Kabbalistic practices became popular among the Yemenite Jews to the point that the Baladi community became localized as a significant population only around the area of Yemen's capital city, Sana'a.

Eleftherios Foulidis

In his own capital city of Kozani and county he painted over 30 churches and, also, the Historical - Folklore and Natural History Museum of Kozani.

Fiat Tagliero Building

The Fiat Tagliero Building in Asmara, capital city of Eritrea, is a Futurist Style service station completed in 1938 and designed by the Italian architect Giuseppe Pettazzi.

Fisher River Cree Nation

Fisher River (Ochekwi-Sipi) is a Cree First Nations reserve located approximately 193 km north of Manitoba's capital city, Winnipeg.

Garoe

Garoowe, capital city of the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia

Grant's Headquarters at City Point Museum

The successful capture of Petersburg and its network of railroads was the key to the fall of the Confederate capital city of Richmond, ending the war less than a week later.

Howden, Tasmania

Nestled between the majorly-developing township of Kingston and the smaller Margate, it verges on bushland but is only a half-hour drive away from Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania.

Hwata dynasty

Hwata Shayachimwe established his capital at Barapata Hill on the modern Mufakose suburb in Salisbury now called Harare, capital city of Zimbabwe.

Ice palace

Saparmurat Niyazov, the recently deceased president of Turkmenistan, ordered the construction of a huge ice palace near the capital city of Aşgabat in April 2004.

KCCA

Kampala Capital City Authority, the legal administrative entity responsible for running the day-to-day affairs of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda in East Africa

Ketena Hulet Mulu Wongel church

Ketena Hulet Mulu Wongel church is an Evangelical and Pentecostal Ethiopian church located in the country's capital city of Addis Ababa.

La Cruz del Viajero

La Cruz del Viajero (The Cross of the Traveller) is a monument placed by Franciscan monks in 1672 in the small town of Magdalena Vieja (now Pueblo Libre), just outside Lima, the capital city of Peru, and the old centre of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

La Voz Dominicana

The station was a radio broadcast only called La Voz del Yuna (1943) in Bonao until Jose Arismendy Trujillo Molina (Petan), brother of President Trujillo, acquired the station and moved it the capital city.

Lansing Sailing Club

Founded in 1963, the Lansing Sailing Club is located on Lake Lansing in Haslett, Michigan near the capital city of Lansing.

Leonardo Polo

When the Republican government urged civilian to leave the capital city of Spain, Polo's family moved to Albacete, where he spent his first two years of secondary education.

Library Association of Bangladesh

In 1954, then the East Pakistan Central Public Library was established in Dhaka, the capital city.

Maraguda

With the rise of the illustrious and mighty Nala rulers in the 3rd century A.D. Maraguda valley emerged as the classic capital city of Kosal and thrived for centuries with prosperity.

In the light of the reference of the Chinese pilgrim, Maraguda valley has been identified as the capital city of Kosal country.

Maychew

It is located at 665 km north of Addis Ababa along the Asphalt road that runs to Mekelle (the capital city of Tigray region) with an altitude of 2479 m.

Nelson's Pillar

When Dublin Corporation voted in favour of removing the Pillar in 1931 it declared it a shame that the English hero, and adulterer, held pride of place in the capital city while there was still no statue to Tone, or Brian Boru or Patrick Sarsfield.

Nenad Marković

On 29 January 2009, he was named vice-mayor of Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital, city of Sarajevo, working under mayor Alija Behmen.

Ngarigo people

The Wiradjuri considered the Ngarigo and Walgalu as one people using the name Guramal which has the basic meaning of 'gurai or 'hostile people.' Canberra, the capital city of the federal capital territory is very close to the boundary line between this and the Ngunawal tribe.

Palace Cinemas

In Slovakia Palace Cinemas operates multiplex cinemas in the capital city Bratislava in Aupark Shopping Center (12 screens), Polus City Center (8 screens) and Eurovea Galleria (9 screens).

Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

It is 130 kilometres from the capital city, St. John's, and is within easy distance of the scenic Cape Shore (including the Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve), the Irish Loop and St. Mary's Bay, Conception Bay, and the inner reaches of Placentia Bay.

Political economy

The world's first professorship in political economy was established in 1754 at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (then capital city of the Kingdom of Naples); the Neapolitan philosopher Antonio Genovesi was the first tenured professor; in 1763, Joseph von Sonnenfels was appointed a Political Economy chair at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Poloka

The village is located 120 km north of the capital city Gaborone and 80 km south-east of Mahalapye.

Povarskaya Street

When Peter I established his new capital city in Saint Petersburg, this court sloboda depopulated, and the street was re-settled by nobles again, housing families including Gagarin, Golitsyn, Suvorov and the court of Peter's sister, princess Natalya Alexeevna (1673–1716).

Pyry Kärkkäinen

In November 2008, Kärkkäinen signed a two-year contract with the capital city club HJK.

Raymond Huo

They were in their early thirties when they volunteered to move from the Capital City to Qianshan to help the local population fight Schistosoma, a parasitic disease.

Roberto Díaz Herrera

Born seventh of nine siblings in Santiago, the capital city of the Panamanian province of Veraguas, Roberto Díaz was raised by his parents Anastacio Díaz Jiménez, who was a teacher, and his beloved mother Gregoria Herrera, who worked as a housewife and sold bread and desserts at a local store.

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is a private research university located near Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, in the close vicinity of the capital city of Moscow, Russia.

Summer Archbishop's Palace

Bratislava (at that time Pozsony / Pressburg) became the capital city of Hungary.

The I Live Here Projects

In 2005, Mia Kirshner and J.B. MacKinnon traveled to the Kachere juvenile prison located in Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi.

University of Botswana

The university has four campuses: two in the capital city Gaborone, one in Francistown, and another in Maun.

Uriah Forrest

He also served as mayor of the Town of George, now Georgetown, in 1791 when George Washington met with local landowners at his home to negotiate purchase of the land needed to build the new capital city.

Western Xia tombs

The Western Xia capital city and the burial complex eluded early 20th century explorers of Central Asia, including Nikolay Kozlov, Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin.