After Akhenaten's death, the designated capital returned to Thebes and Memphis.
Chosen as a capital at the behest of Adenauer, Germany's first democratic chancellor, it was, as one early reviewer of this novel observed, "the most arbitrarily designated capital city in Europe".
In 2007, when C. Vivian Stringer agreed to a new deal with Rutgers, the contract noted that she could upgrade the women's basketball locker room and offices of her assistants with capital improvements funds in which she "played a substantial role in the identification and solicitation of the donor and where the donor has designated capital improvements for the women's basketball program".
A third variation involved two or more large villages, each with various satellite settlements; in such systems, a designated "capital" village would be the residence of the principal chief as well as the setting for major rituals and political and economic negotiations.
Following its incorporation into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, Nablus was designated capital of the Jabal Nablus ("Mount Nablus") district.
At the same time it gained prestige as it was designated capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru and site of a Real Audiencia in 1543.
The site has been politically important since the early 18th century, when King Andriamasinavalona (1675 1710) divided the Kingdom of Imerina into four quadrants and assigned his son Andriantsimitoviaminiandriana to govern the northeastern quadrant, Avaradrano, from its newly designated capital at Ambohimanga.
Outside the Oklahoma City limits, Corean stared through the window at the designated capitals of a series of Indian nations — capitals that, from her vantage, looked suspiciously like gas stations selling off-brand beer.
A recent survey by the law firm Dorsey & Whitney, a Silicon Valley law firm with a designated venture capital practice, asked 336 entrepreneurs to name the top venture capital firms.
His big idea is to designate the capital the Greater London National Park City.
