Sentence examples for formerly capital from inspiring English sources

The chief town and port is Angra do Heroísmo, which was formerly capital of the Azores.

Cahors, town, capital of Lot département, Midi-Pyrénées région, formerly capital of Quercy province, southern France.

Lisieux, town, formerly capital of the district known as the Pays d'Auge, Calvados département, Normandy région, northwestern France.

The largest crafts town is Patzcuaro, formerly capital of the Tarascan kingdom and colonial-era capital of the province of Michoacan.

By stipulation of the unification agreement, Sanaa, formerly the capital of North Yemen, functions as the political capital of the country, while Aden, formerly the capital of South Yemen, functions as the economic centre.

Formerly the capital of the dukes of Prussia and later the capital of East Prussia, the city was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Potsdam agreement.

Mandla was formerly the capital of the Garh-Mandla Gond kingdom.

But Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), capital of West Bengal, has certain advantages.

Balangir was formerly the capital of the princely state of Patna.

It was formerly the capital of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (1929 91) and of independent Kazakhstan (1991 97).

Formerly the capital of the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties, it is located near the present-day city of Xi'an.