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Example sentences for: centuries

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The Moors chose Córdoba as their seat of government, and from the 8th to the very early 11th centuries, it ranked as one of the great cities of the world.
It has, over the centuries, changed in name from Ferenc to József, to Erzsébet, to Teréz, and ﬁnally to Szent István; yet its character remains consistent — big and bustling.
The second most charming and lively of the coast’s resorts, Amalfi was once a powerful rival to the maritime republics of Pisa and Genoa, with trading posts in the 10th and 11th centuries in Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus, Byzantium, and Tunis.
In the courtyard is a huge iron cauldron that was used for distributing rice gruel to the poor during famines in the 17th and 19th centuries.
Further evidence is that the many Turkish loanwords, in use for centuries and with no obvious preponderance of one gender, are, with very few exceptions, fully inflected, as are Italian musical and nautical terms, likewise of long standing.