Sentence examples for town occupied from inspiring English sources
The Normans, after pillaging the town, occupied it from 834 to 936.
The town occupied the rocky slopes of Musa Daği, and its natural fortifications and good harbour soon made it the port for the important city of Antioch.
The present paper reports findings from the documentation and analyses of abandoned and modified prototype units in Billiri, the main town occupied by the Tangale community in north east Nigeria.
In the view of the United Nations officials, Kisangani could then be declared the first "neutral" town, occupied by neither the Congolese army nor the Rwandans, Ugandans and the Congolese rebels they support.
Struggling with feelings of guilt about their complicity during the war, they succumb to a life of inertia, apathy and – when they return to Berlin from a small town occupied by the Red Army – drug addiction.
On the outskirts of town a small tent city has been thrown up by the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) and its miserable inhabitants have no idea when, or even if, they are going home.Two weeks ago Gori was a ghost town, occupied by Russian troops.
The town occupies 2.8 square miles on the eastern slope of South Mountain.
In 719 the Saracens captured the town, occupying it until 759.
Located on Kerema Bay, the town occupies hilly savanna land between the deltas of the Vailala and Lakekamu rivers.
Under the glass nave of the Grand Palais, Kabakov plans to lay out an ideal town, occupying its full length.
The largest and oldest part of the town occupies a meander of the Tunca around the ruins of an ancient citadel.
