It is now the butt of jokes.Even more telling is a huge building-site in the city centre, where the former castle of the Prussian kings (damaged in the war, razed by the communists) is being rebuilt to house a cultural forum.
Almost completely razed by air raids in World War II (though some medieval buildings still survive), Wesel was rebuilt along modern lines.
The Sheik Jarrah of my youth is gone; Mandelbaum Gate was razed by Israeli bulldozers right after the Six-Day War in 1967 that united Jerusalem.
The tourist, after his visits to Frederick the Great's elegant retreat Sans Souci and the world-class painterly treasures of the Gemäldegalerie, gets out of the bus and stands on a huge vacant lot, the Schlossplatz, where the vast palace of the Hohenzollerns, having undergone extensive war damage in 1944-1945, was razed by Walter Ulbricht's German Democratic Republic in 1950.
The satellite image recalled scenes from Sudan's long civil war, when southern Sudanese villages were regularly razed by marauding Arab militias from the north.
Kurds, whose villages were gassed and razed by Mr. Hussein, fear the loss of that autonomy in a war that might result in Turkish domination, or their reunification with a new central government in Baghdad.
During the Coffee War (1889 1890), his capital at Tondon was razed by another lord, but retaken the same day.
The moment was meant to revive modern Europe's fading memories not simply of war, but of conflict so enormous that entire cities were razed by aerial bombardment in the rush for conquest or the slide to defeat before peace in 1945.
This church replaced an earlier Methodist chapel constructed in the late 1850s; it was razed by Union troops during the winter months of 1864 1865 near the end of the Civil War.
Cultural afternoon You can't come to Warsaw and escape its brutal Second World War history in which the city rose up as the Red Army neared and was then razed by the Nazis.
