Sentence examples for town of importance from inspiring English sources

The only other town of importance is Praia da Vitória, with a breakwater-protected bay, which handles supplies for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATOO) air base at Lajes on the northeast coast of the island.

Other towns of importance include Cedros and Feteira.

Towns of importance include the manufacturing centres of Vergara, Eibar, and Tolosa; the nation's chief customs town, Irún; and Puerto de Pasajes, a busy port.

The closest town of some importance is Epinal, 21 miles to the southeast.

It is the county town (seat) of Shropshire, and its strategic position near the border between England and Wales has made it a town of great importance.

Barrow pushed an explorer named Gordon Laing to beat the French to Timbuctoo; Laing made it, but found a mud town of no importance whatsoever.

An episcopal town of some importance in the Middle Ages, its castle became a royal hunting and fishing base after the Reformation.

After the Roman occupation, when it was a town of considerable importance, Tarbes was seized for a time by the Arabs.

His birthplace, Aosta, was a town of strategic importance in Roman imperial and in medieval times, because it stood at the juncture of the Great and Little St. Bernard routes.

In the middle of the Qing dynasty, Wafangdian was a small town of crucial importance for its geographical position on the travelling and trade routes.

Obock and Tadjoura are the only other towns of any importance along the gulf, neither of which is a major port.