During the Byzantine civil wars Ivan Alexander regained Recovering control Control over several towns in Thrace and the Rhodopes but his frequent interference in the internal affairs of Byzantium hampered Hindering any closer relations between the two counties despite the peace established Building in 1332 .

Roads , churches , schools and other towns were built Building throughout California .

The main towns were quickly overrun and the island was declared Expressing_publicly under the control Control of the invading forces the same day .

Besides Sofia , several towns in western Bulgaria suffered Bodily_harm from the storm Catastrophe .

Severe property damage Damaging occurred Process_start in numerous coastal areas , such as Mississippi beachfront towns where boats and casino barges rammed Damaging buildings , pushing Self_motion cars and houses inland ; water reached Arriving from the beach .

Swedish and Russian invaders Attack completely destroyed Destroying 188 cities and towns , 81 castles , and 136 churches in Poland .

Small towns , ranches , and isolated communities in Nuevo León have long been treasured Preserving by drug traffickers Committing_crime .

Beginning in December , French troops began Process_start successive seizures Control of Ottoman territory , including the towns of Antakya , Mersin , Tarsus , Ceyhan , Adana , Osmaniye and Islahiye .

Greek troops moved Motion from Smyrna outwards to towns on the Karaburun peninsula , to Selçuk , situated Placing a hundred kilometers south of Smyrna at a key location that commands Control the fertile Küçük Menderes River valley , and to Menemen towards the north .

The 11 missiles launched Motion killed Killing six Americans and a number of German citizens in nearby towns , but none landed closer than some from the bridge .

On 12 July 2006 , Hezbollah fighters fired Use_firearm rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack Use_firearm on two armored Humvees patrolling Patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence .

The Soviets initially planned Arranging to secure Getting towns and roads , stabilize the government under new leader Karmal , and withdraw Removing within six months or a year .

Allied armies had also reached Arriving the pre-war German territorial borders and now occupied Control some German towns and cities .

Many parking lots in Laughlin were flooded Motion ; two small towns in Clark County were also isolated .

These fires Attack burned Bodily_harm roughly 114,000 hectares ( 281,700 acres ) and destroyed Destroying two towns .

through treaties Sign_agreement with foreign nations and native tribes , political compromise Communication , military Military_operation conquest Conquering , establishment Creating of law and order , the building Building of farms , ranches , and towns , the marking of trails and digging Emptying of mines , and the pulling in of great migrations of foreigners , the united states expanded Expansion from coast to coast , fulfilling Achieve the dreams of manifest destiny .

Spread Dispersal across 29 states and 7 union territories , the census Scrutiny covered Filling 640 districts , 5,924 sub-districts , 7,935 towns and more than 600,000 villages .

A total of 2.7 million officials visited Traveling households in 7,935 towns and 600,000 villages , classifying Hold the population according to gender , religion , education and occupation .

The Houla massacre Killing ( ) was an attack Attack that took place Process_start on May 25 , 2012 , in the midst of the Syrian Civil War Hostile_encounter , in the town of Taldou , in the Houla Region of Syria , a string of towns northwest of Homs .

Its objective was to create Creating a security buffer between Croatia and positions held Hold by the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) and to put Placing the largest Bosnian Serb-held city , Banja Luka , in jeopardy by capturing Arrest the towns of Jajce , Šipovo and Drvar .

The war Hostile_encounter also saw the effective use Using of artillery by the Christians to rapidly conquer Conquering towns that would otherwise have required long sieges Besieging .

By the second day , unrest had spread Dispersal to 12 other towns and cities .

The Byzantines under Basil II , a successful general and experienced soldier , slowly got Getting the upper hand and from 1001 started Process_start to seize Conquering a number of important areas and towns .

Ahead of the storm Catastrophe , about 225,000 families evacuated Emptying , although many towns lacked proper storm Catastrophe shelters .

Queensland sweltered Body_movement through a heatwave Catastrophe , with record October temperatures being set Placing in many towns through the state .

They pushed Motion back the colonial frontier in Massachusetts Bay , Plymouth , and Rhode Island colonies , burning Bodily_harm towns as they went Motion , including Providence in March 1676 .

In the space of little more than a year , 12 of the region 's towns were destroyed Destroying and many more were damaged Damaging , the economy of Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies was all but ruined Destroying and their population was decimated Destroying , losing Earnings_and_losses one-tenth of all men available for military service .

More than half of New England 's towns were attacked Attack by Indians .

News of the killings Killing sparked Causation terror among Palestinians , encouraging Influence them to flee Escaping from their towns and villages in the face of Jewish troop advances and it strengthened Cause_change_of_strength the resolve of Arab governments to intervene , which they did five weeks later .

The 2011 England riots Violence , more widely known as the London Riots were a series of riots between 6 and 11 August 2011 , when thousands of people rioted Violence in cities and towns across England , saw looting Robbery , arson Violence , and mass deployment Arranging of police , and resulted in the deaths Death of five people .

From 8 to 10 August , other towns and cities in England ( including Birmingham , Leeds , Coventry , Leicester , Derby , Wolverhampton , Northampton , Nottingham , West Bromwich , Bristol , Liverpool , Manchester , Salford and York ) saw what was described by the media as `` copycat violence Violence '' .

The clashes were not confined to the towns , and , according to Swietochowswki , citing Adducing Armenian sources 128 Armenian and 158 Azerbaijani villages were destroyed Destroying or pillaged Robbery , while the overall estimates of lives lost Earnings_and_losses vary widely , ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 , with Azerbaijanis suffering Confronting_problem higher losses , which stemmed Preventing_or_letting from Azeri mobs being organized Arranging poorly and Dashnaks on the Armenian side being more effective .

Qasim and other local leaders rallied their kinsmen and revolted Change_of_leadership against the authorities in May 1834 , taking control of several towns .

After its second landfall Self_motion , additional floods occurred Presence in several towns , and in Sinaloa over 100,000 people were rendered Causation homeless and four people died Death .

The towns of Bristol and Warren , Rhode Island were significantly damaged Damaging , and Freetown , Massachusetts ( present-day Fall River ) was also attacked Attack , although its militia resisted Defending British attacks more successfully .

The Imperial army had deployed Arranging its advance Cause_to_make_progress guard Patrolling between the towns of Lustenau and Höchst , south of the lake town of Hard .

The town was looted Robbery by the Bulgarians who continued Hold their victorious march Conquering through eastern Thrace and captured Conquering many more towns and fortresses .

Damage Damaging in Honduras was heaviest on the offshore Bay Islands , and the hurricane Catastrophe damaged Damaging or destroyed Destroying the majority of two towns there .

In El Salvador , flooding Motion isolated Having_or_lacking_access towns for several days and caused Causation crop damage Damaging .

As the Left gradually co-ordinated its activities , holding demonstrations in the towns , attacking the government and conducting propaganda efforts in the countryside , the predominantly right-winged government upped Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale its military Military_operation and economic regulations .

Throughout 1581 , this force traversed Motion_directional the territory known as Yugra and subdued Conquering Vogul and Ostyak towns .

The tactical goal of these incursions was to draw Connect United States military forces away from cities and towns .

The Russian armies Hostile_encounter retreated Escaping continuously , dispersing Dispersal the cattle and hiding Hiding_objects the grain in the peasant towns they passed Motion_directional , burning Bodily_harm unharvested crops , and leaving Causation no resources for the Swedish army to stave off the Russian winter .

As their army fell Motion_directional back , the Russians employed Employment scorched-earth tactics , destroying Destroying villages , towns and crops and forcing Request the invaders to rely on a supply system that was incapable of feeding Supply their large army in the field .

The 1948 Palestinian exodus Departing from Lydda and Ramle , also known as the Lydda Death March , was the expulsion Escaping of 50,000–70,000 Palestinian Arabs when Israeli troops captured Conquering the towns in July that year .

The two Arab towns , lying outside the area designated Choosing for a Jewish state in the UN Partition Plan of 1947 , and inside the area set aside for an Arab state in Palestine , subsequently were transformed Change into predominantly Jewish areas in the new State of Israel , known as Lod and Ramla .

From the Israeli perspective , the conquest of the towns , designed , according to Benny Morris , 'to induce civilian panic and flight , ' averted Preventing_or_letting an Arab threat to Tel Aviv , thwarted an Arab Legion advance by clogging the roads with refugees , forcing Causation the Arab Legion to assume a logistical burden that would undermine its military capacities , and helped Assistance demoralize Influence nearby Arab cities .

once the israelis were in control of the towns , an expulsion Escaping order signed by yitzhak rabin was issued Expressing_publicly to the israel defense Defending forces ( idf ) stating , `` 1 .

During the operation , Hamas , the al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ) further intensified Cause_change_of_strength their rocket attacks Attack on Israeli cities and towns , in an operation code named Operation Stones of Baked Clay ( , `` ḥijārat sijīl '' ) by the al-Qassam Brigades , firing Use_firearm over 1,456 rockets into Israel , and an additional 142 which fell Motion_directional inside Gaza itself .

In Guatemala , the storm flooded Motion 10 towns , and caused Causation one fatality .