In 1788, New York was declared the first federal capital of the United States.
Declared the European Green Capital in 2010, Stockholm is investing in new construction like the City Line tunnel, which will put commuter rail lines underground and double the number of trains able to move through the city.
Last month, with power supplies cut to six hours a day, kindergartens closing and water supplies disrupted, the provincial capital, Vladivostok, declared a state of emergency.
Argentina has been largely shut out of international capital markets since 2001, when it declared the largest sovereign-debt default ever.
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And British prime minister Gordon Brown, for example, has declared he intends to make London the Islamic finance capital of the world.
As I said it would yesterday, the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has declared that big British banks need to raise more capital as protection against possible future losses.
"We want to institutionalise this literary festival, " declared Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab whose provincial capital is Lahore.
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In Paris, 28 zones were declared traffic free from early morning, affecting about 60km of the capital's streets.
Liberia's government, having declared a state of emergency after rebels attacked a town near the capital, Monrovia, embarked on a big round-up of suspects.
Because capital is usually, and legitimately, a small percentage of assets, capital can easily go to zero and a perfectly sound institution can be declared insolvent and taken over by its insurer or some other government agencies.
Michel Djotodia, the rebel leader who has declared himself president, is sending his Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye to the summit in Chad's capital, N'Djamena.
The reaction was more heated in Mumbai (Bombay) where Bal Thackeray, head of the ruling party, Shiv Sena, declared that he would not allow any Pakistani side to play in what has traditionally been the cricketing capital of India.
To prove its determination to get Saadiyat off the ground, it has declared that companies opening offices there will never pay any tax, can repatriate all their profits and capital, can import labour freely and need not take any local partners.
Michel Djotodia declared on 25 March that he would rule by decree after his Seleka rebel group stormed CAR's capital, Bangui, ending President Bozize's decade-long rule.
After Mr Foss declared himself to be homosexual, he easily won election earlier this year as party boss in Oslo, the capital.
More than half the country has been declared unsafe for aid workers, and insurgents control areas as close as an hour's drive from the capital.
But in the capital, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon -- Aznar's candidate for mayor of Madrid -- declared victory after returns reversed an early lead for the leftist coalition.
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