At its centre is the Île de la Cité, which is the seat of religious and temporal authority (the word cité connotes the nucleus of the ancient city).
The Romans were swept away in the turmoil of the 5th-century invasions, but enough of Vindobona remained to serve as the nucleus of the medieval city.
In that year the victorious armies of the Ife, Ijebu, and Oyo kingdoms camped at Ibadan and formed the nucleus of the modern city.
The history of Vadodara falls into a Hindu period (until 1297); a period under the Muslim Delhi sultanate (1297 c. 1401); an independent Gujarat sultanate, during which the nucleus of the present city was built (c. 1401 c. 1573); a Mughal Empire period (c. 1573 1734); and a Maratha period, during which it became the capital of the powerful Gaekwar dynasty (1734 1947).
After the Norman conquest, Sheffield Castle was built to protect the local settlements, and a small town developed that is the nucleus of the modern city.
The nucleus of the old city, an important cultural and commercial centre, used to be a military camp, attested in documents with the name "castrum Clus".
The palace was always the nucleus of this city.
Yes, the entire Danish city, and the nucleus of the Cycle Chic movement, which has swept Europe and is now gracing New York and increasingly more U.S. cities.
The modern city grew up around the nucleus of the old Ottoman caravanserai, which had been built using the stones of a ruined ancient settlement.
This group became the nucleus of the National Women's Division.
