Sentence examples for ancestral capital from inspiring English sources

The painting's title is the name of the ancestral capital of northern Spain's Basque region, which was bombed that same year.

The painting's title is the name of the ancestral capital of northern Spain's Basque region, which was bombed that same year by aircraft from fascist Italy and Nazi Germany – allies of Spain's future dictator, General Francisco Franco.

Seniors often choose to visit ancestral countries, art capitals like Florence or Paris, or places they have read about.

Her father, Badri Nath, like the Singh brothers' father, had left his remote ancestral village for the capital in search of a better life.

A district court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Tushar Nath Bhatacharjee, a resident of Australia, who accused the senior law official of illegally taking possession of his ancestral land in the capital, Shillong.

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The provisional government that took power in Kyrgyzstan last week has drawn up plans to detain the country's ousted president, a leader once close to the United States who fled a bloody riot in the capital to his ancestral homeland in the south of the country.

At the time of Kaloyan's death, Strez was in the capital Tarnovo, perhaps seeking to capitalize on his ancestral rights to the Bulgarian crown.

He spent his entire business career in Manhattan, first in advertising at firms such as Geer DuBois, BBDO and Wells Rich Green, then in tax management and investment banking at Blandfield Securities Inc. and Selma Capital Inc., names borrowed from ancestral homes in Virginia.

The capital had shrines containing the ancestral plaques, but the town had no such shrines.

In later life, he considered himself to belong to the capital city of Chang'an, ancestral hometown of the Du family.

And when Dhaka became the capital of East Pakistan, my father's ancestral home vanished too.