But there have also been separate battles over turf between the city's Baloch community - the original inhabitants of the city - and the MQM.
Milan is a wealthy and worldly city where appearances count for much, and the exquisitely dressed inhabitants have raised the Italian preoccupation with la bella figura being impeccably dressed and groomed to a high art.
Today, modern metropolitan Cairo is home to nearly 20 million inhabitants, and the largest city in the Arab world is undergoing political and economic turmoil after the 2011 uprising.
In collaboration with the City of Toulouse and the Council of Toulouse Residents, the International Week of Peoples for the inhabitants of the City of Toulouse was organised from 2 to 6 November 2010.
Spread across nearly two square kilometers in the heart of Mumbai, India's economic capital, Dharavi is home to between 500, 000 and 1 million of the city's poorest inhabitants.
Mr Maliki had become exasperated by the dominance of Basra's militias, who had chased the British army out of the city and imposed a reign of repression over the hapless inhabitants in the previous two years.
The city now has no ethnic majority although the Latinos are fast approaching the 50% mark and more than a quarter of the city's inhabitants were born abroad.
There is a swimming pool, a small outdoor zoo, several cafes and hotels, and the island is a favourite sunbathing place for the city inhabitants.
For centuries, the ceremony has played an important role in expressing the identity of Bruges s inhabitants and in facilitating encounters with people from outside the city.
Glasgow is poor: unemployment is 8.9%, well above the Scottish average of 5.9%, and 23.1% of the city's working-age inhabitants receive welfare benefits, nearly double the British average.
"Hope City will provide work for 50, 000 people and will host 25, 000 inhabitants, " it adds.
Gaza City is the strip's biggest population centre and has about 400, 000 inhabitants.
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Nearly six million inhabitants have an Italian background, making it the largest ethnic group in the city, and more than half a million are Japanese.
But what finally changed Mr Obama's mind is no mystery: it was the imminent fall of Benghazi, the biggest city still in rebel hands, and the prospect of a calamity befalling its 700, 000 or so inhabitants.
Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films, but if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.
Unlike many parts of the city, these few streets are not congested, and their architecture is a reminder of the area's former Portuguese inhabitants.
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