8 sentences with 'capitals'
Example sentences and phrases with the word capitals and other words derived from it.
• « The main purpose of these administrative capitals was to extract taxes and other wealth from local areas and channel it back to Rome, but they also served as genuine cultural centres. »
• « The bishops of the major cities, usually the imperial capitals of their respective provinces, came to be called archbishops. »
• « The free cities of the German lands and Italy were therefore just as likely to host a printing press as the great capitals such as Paris and Rome. »
• « Simultaneously, there was a large-scale shift from sacred languages to vernaculars (i.e. from Latin to English, Spanish, French, etc.), which in turn helped to initiate the spread of modern state-sponsored vernaculars as languages spoken in regions far from the royal capitals. »
• « The speed of steam train travel brought everything 'closer together', and in doing so began a long, slow process of linking distant regions. People could travel to their kingdom capitals or, later, to their "nations", and the intense localism of the past began to fade. »
• « Since the centres of newspaper production were often in or near the capitals, usually written in the official language of the state, over time more and more people acquired at least a decent working knowledge of those languages. »
• « Beginning in France, but quickly spreading to Prussia, Austria, the smaller German kingdoms and regions such as Italy and Hungary, coalitions rose up and temporarily succeeded in driving their monarchs from their capitals (as in Paris) or forcing their monarchs to agree to streamlined constitutions and legal systems (as in Prussia and Austria). »