Greek cities and villages are a sea and an ocean away from Latin America.
His conquest of all the other cities and villages meant little without Jerusalem.
The vote for town councillors in Spain's 8, 000 cities and villages, and for officials in 13 regional governments, is widely seen as the first test at the ballot box on whether Spaniards support or rebuke Aznar's conservative Popular Party for his support of the war.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- With the Iraqi regime crumbling in major cities and small villages, international aid agencies urgently pleaded Wednesday for access and security amid a critical medical and humanitarian situation.
All of this was then multiplied in effect, by the economic and social changes that altered the established pattern of community life in cities, towns and villages throughout Britain and throughout the developed world.
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While refugees in camps may dominate the news, the majority of Syrian refugees actually live in cities, towns and villages.
The truth is, when most women report sexual harassment in India's cities, towns and villages, they are typically met with a shrug.
It will travel through 1, 019 cities, towns and villages, on foot or in convoy, and drop in at UK landmarks like the Giant's Causeway and Stonehenge.
When the Olympic flame is ignited at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, it will have traveled through over 1, 000 cities, towns and villages in the United Kingdom.
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International Jazz Day will educate the minds, uplift the spirits, and enhance the creativity of young people in our small villages and bustling cities.
There are thought to be between 5, 000 and 6, 000 memorials in villages, towns and cities across the country.
The terminal displays around 7, 000 works from craftsmen, cities, villages, collectors and museums across India, as well as 100 commissioned contemporary works, some by Indian artists as renowned as Mithu Sen, Riyas Khomu and Nek Chand.
"It's our duty to provide India with an infrastructure that connects our villages and cities and the rest of the world, " he said and talked about a public-private partnership as being critical to the country's growth.
Damage from the tsunami and nuclear accident prompted many to leave towns and villages for big cities, sapping energy out of communities.
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One challenge for a large IT project is that the county has 20 cities, six towns, and nine villages, each with its own government.
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Even worse, only 330, 000 people, including 5, 000 women, are competing for about 200, 000 municipal seats in Iran's 720 towns and cities plus its thousands of villages.
The tsunami that wrecked northern Japanese fishing villages and small cities also travelled across the Pacific and hit the Hawaiian islands, causing tens of millions of dollars worth of damage to boats, docks, beach homes and led to the closing of the famous Kona Village Resort, a picturesque minimalist string of high-end bungalows on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
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These very low energy bills are not fantasy - they're being achieved in more than 1, 000 villages, towns and cities across Europe right now.
The presence of a Catholic church on the main square in most villages, towns and cities in the region testifies to its influence over civil society.
The plans should see mobile broadband rolled out to at least 98% of people in villages, towns and cities across the UK. This will be achieved through 4G, the fourth generation of mobile technology, which will deliver much faster mobile data speeds to phones and other wireless devices than presently possible.
And Afghanistan is a country not of very powerful cities but of thousands of isolated villages cut off in severe winters, allowing guerrillas and insurgents to melt away and return.
Millions more have left the cities where they migrated to work and have returned to their villages, though these will be hard put to support them.
It was a somewhat rectangular loop that took us through deserts, mountains, forests, adobe villages, big cities, college towns, and nowhere truck stop areas where every bordering rusted RV seemed a home base for would-be Walters and Jesses cooking up their next batch of Blue Sky.
You have sunny beaches, temperate mountain villages, college towns where there are plenty of cultural offerings, and historic colonial cities.
Living in cities certainly encouraged waterborne diseases like typhoid and cholera that had rarely been a problem in even the poorest villages.
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The sandbox elements take place largely in villages (smaller and less safe, but also lower cost of living) towns, and cities.
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In the countryside, whole villages are disappearing at this moment as the elderly die off and the young head to the cities.
Villages and rural communities lack economies of scale and are incapable of delivering the same network effects as cities.
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"We're aware of villages in Norfolk in England that are doing Earth Hour and we're aware of the big cities like Chicago and Sydney that are doing it, " he told the BBC.
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