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| [CAPITAL] has featured as an important location in several movies, including the Beatles film Help! and the James Bond films Thunderball, Never Say Never Again, and Casino Royale. | |
| [CAPITAL] is a planned city, and was built mainly in the 1980s. It officially became [COUNTRY]'s capital on 12 December 1991, replacing Lagos. | |
| In February and March 2011, [CAPITAL] witnessed intense anti-government protests and violent government responses resulting in hundreds killed and wounded. | |
| The city of [CAPITAL] was founded by John Clarkson in 1792, as a land for freed African American slaves. | |
| Since the complete division of [CAPITAL] following the Turkish Invasion in 1974, the [CAPITAL] Turkish Municipality has become the de facto local authority of northern [CAPITAL]. | |
| The demography of [CAPITAL] is unusual in that the majority of residents are expatriates, with [COUNTRY] nationals forming a minority. | |
| The [CAPITAL] town plan, like its architecture, was chosen with one single chief consideration: to be a symbol of British power and supremacy. | |
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| The town, located along the Rhine, has about 5,100 inhabitants (as of 2009), most of whom are Roman Catholic. | |
| [COUNTRY] and its capital, are reported to both have among the highest per capita murder rates in the world. Most murders and other violent crimes go unsolved. | |
| [CAPITAL] is at the south-western tip of the North Island on Cook Strait, the passage that separates the North and South Islands. | |
| [CAPITAL] (and sometimes Aiwo) is usually listed as the capital of [COUNTRY] though this is incorrect; the republic does not have cities or an official capital. | |
| According to Forbes 2011, [CAPITAL] has the largest community of billionaires in the world. [CAPITAL] is the northernmost megacity on Earth. | |
| [CAPITAL] was named after the unique temple Kasthamandap. In Sanskrit, Kastha (काष्ठ) means 'wood' and Mandap (मंडप/मण्डप) means 'covered shelter'. | |
| The city was attacked in 1976 by the Polisario Front, as part of the Western Sahara independence movement. | |
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| [CAPITAL]'s urban transport is dependent upon the five 'ring roads' that surround the city, with the Forbidden City area marked as the geographical center for the rings. | |
| By 1942, [CAPITAL] had become a major centre of the Soviet partisan resistance movement in the German-Soviet War. For this role, [CAPITAL] was awarded the title Hero City in 1974. | |
| Before independence, [CAPITAL] was a 'Russified' city, the majority of its population being ethnic Russians. In 2004, Russians made up approximately 20% of the city's population. | |
| Along with Washington, D.C., it is one of two national capitals to be named after a U.S. President. | |
| In contemporary times the city has often faced severe infrastructural damage, most recently due to the American-led foreign occupation in March 2003, and sectarian violence. | |
| It is famous as the location of the greatest works of James Joyce, including Ulysses, which is set in [CAPITAL] and full of topical detail. | |
| The city was founded by Saint Marinus and several Christian refugees in the year 301. From then on the city became a center of Christian refugees who fled from Roman persecution. | |
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