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==Cities== [[File:Surb Amenaprkitch.jpeg|right|thumb|The [[Holy Saviour's Church, Gyumri|Holy Saviour's Church]] in [[Gyumri]] after the [[1988 Armenian earthquake]], the strongest earthquake in the [[USSR]] in terms of the number of victims]] [[File:Post-and-Grant-Avenue-Look.jpg|right|thumb|[[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]: Ruins in vicinity of Post and Grant Avenue.]] Ancient cities were often highly militarized and had fortified defensive [[Human settlement|settlement]]s. In times of war, they were the central focus of [[War|armed conflict]] and would be [[looting|sack]]ed and ruined in defeat. [[Delhi]], the capital of [[India]], has been destroyed and ransacked seven to ten times and subsequently rebuilt. Every ruler decided to build the city in their own way either overlapping the ruins or next to the ruins. Ruins of seven cities of Delhi can still be traced in the modern-day city.<ref>[[Max Weber]], ''[[The City (Weber book)|The city]]'', 1958</ref> Although less central to modern conflict, vast areas of 20th-century cities such as [[Warsaw]], [[Dresden]], [[Coventry]], [[Volgograd|Stalingrad]], [[Königsberg]], and [[Berlin]] were left in ruins following [[World War II]], and a number of major cities around the world – such as [[Beirut]], [[Kabul]], [[Sarajevo]], [[Grozny]], and [[Baghdad]] – have been partially or completely ruined in recent years as a result of more localized warfare.<ref>http://urban.cccb.org/urbanLibrary/htmlDbDocs/A036-C.html Stephen Graham, ''Postmortem City: Towards an Urban Geopolitics''</ref> Entire cities have also been ruined, and some occasionally lost completely, to [[Natural disaster|natural disasters]]. The [[Ancient Rome|ancient Roman]] city of [[Pompeii]] in modern-day [[Italy]] was completely destroyed during a [[Types of volcanic eruptions|volcanic eruption]] in the 1st century CE, and its uncovered ruins are now preserved as a [[World Heritage Site]]. The city of [[Lisbon]] in [[Portugal]] was also [[1755 Lisbon earthquake|completely destroyed in 1755]] by a massive [[earthquake]] and [[tsunami]]; and the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] in the [[United States]] had left the city in almost complete ruin.
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