The modern-day city was founded as a trading post by the Portuguese in the 16th century.

The population of Nicoya was a political, religious and economic center, located a short distance from the modern-day city of this name.

But the modern-day city provides few signs of Jewish life.

He praises the lack of backgrounds as they give the stories a "universal feeling" and allows them to be set in any modern-day city.

Its site is covered by the modern-day city of Bakersfield.

The modern-day city was born in the next few decades, when Baroque buildings were built to replace the destroyed medieval ones.

His palace eventually became the core of the modern-day city of Split.

Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day city of Mosul, Iraq.

The modern-day city of Fallujah stands in its place.

Its location is near the modern-day city of Asseb, in Eritrea.