Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Royal Hill of Ambohimanga' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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| The hill and its royal fortified city were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2001 and represent Madagascar's only cultural site following the destruction by fire in 1995 of its historic sister city, the Rova of Antananarivo, shortly before the latter's intended inscription to the list. | WIKI |
| "Ambohimanga is the source of all goodnessAntananarivo, the vessel that stores itAmbohimanga gave birth to our kingsAntananarivo, the city that united their peopleAmbohimanga has love in abundanceAntananarivo, the pleasures of the world" xe2x80x94 Traditional folk song[17] | WIKI |
| The city nonetheless retains its symbolic significance in Imerina to this day. | WIKI |
| [19] The terraced rice paddies that cover the hillsides to the north and south of the royal city were created in the 17th and 18th centuries to provide a staple food source to the inhabitants of the hill and its surrounding villages. | WIKI |
| The UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing the hill and the royal city at its peak extends over a surface area of 59 hectares, with a buffer zone of 425 hectares. | WIKI |
| [24] These competing cosmological systems are also reflected in the placement of the city's main gates at cardinal points, as well as the northeastern gates reserved for use by the sovereign and dedicated to their role in sacred rituals. | WIKI |
| The orientation and placement of many structures within Ambohimanga were copied from Ambohimanga's older twin city, the rova at Antananarivo, which likewise embodies both traditional notions of space. | WIKI |
| Between these two systems, that of the political order predominates in the layout of Ambohimanga, and the sacredness of the city was historically more explicitly associated with its role as a political rather than an astrological center. | WIKI |
| The site of each new compound within the royal city was selected less for its cardinal direction than for the extent to which it was located on higher ground than the compound that predated it. | WIKI |
| This latter entrance was most likely used to access the space even before the formal establishment of a royal city there, and is therefore considered by archaeologists to be the oldest gateway at the site. | WIKI |
| [12] Andrianampoinimerina expanded the trenches around the city using fanampoana labor. | WIKI |
| During his reign, a trench was dug that entirely encircles the hill, and a series of trenches was dug alongside existing ones to further protect the city against enemies. | WIKI |
| [2] Until French colonization in 1897 and at least as early as the reign of Radama I, foreigners and non-residents were not allowed to enter the royal city without authorization from the sovereign. | WIKI |
| Two sanctified, stone-covered springs nearby feed a stream that is believed to hold powers of purification and flows through the buffer zone surrounding the royal city. | WIKI |
| The villages surrounding the royal city date back to at least the 16th century, when the valleys around Ambohimanga hill were first transformed into rice paddies. | WIKI |
| [11] Following the establishment of a royal city on the hilltop, successive rulers put in place regulations to govern the development of these villages and manage the subjects inhabiting them. | WIKI |
| [31] The court was Christianized by Ranavalona II in 1869,[32] and a small chapel was built outside the city's eastern gate,[33] but a permanent church at Ambohimanga was not built until 1883. | WIKI |
| The predominant architectural features and layout of the royal city follow the traditional model of rova construction that predominated in the Highlands from the 15th century. | WIKI |
| Among the buildings extant at the royal city during the time of King Andrianampoinimerina (1787xe2x80x931810), only the original Mahandrihono palace remains intact. | WIKI |
| [47] A French garrison was housed within the royal city and military buildings were erected on top of the stone tomb foundations. | WIKI |
| [47] In the popular view, the link between Ambohimanga and the ancestors (Andrianampoinimerina in particular) rendered the royal city an even more potent symbol and source of legitimate power than the capital of Antananarivo, which was seen as having become a locus of corrupt politics and deviance from ancestral tradition. | WIKI |
| The king's children slept on the upper floor during visits to the royal city, while the ground floor housed such royal property as palanquins and storage chests. | WIKI |
| [10] The commune of Ambohimanga Rova is a small but thriving rural village that lives on agriculture and services provided to tourists and pilgrims who visit the royal city. | WIKI |
| Many of the sacred trees shading the royal city were uprooted, including sacred fig trees around the Fidasiana courtyard and inside the zebu pen. | WIKI |
| These include banning pigs at the site, as well as the consumption of pork, tobacco, alcohol and cannabis on the grounds of the royal city. | WIKI |
| The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga comprises a system of fortifications with a series of ditches and fourteen fortified stone gateways, a royal city consisting of a coherent suite of buildings divided by a royal enclosure and associating a public place (the Fidasiana), royal trees, a seat of justice and other natural or built places of cult, an ensemble of sacred places as well as agricultural lands. | UNESCO |
| The royal city comprises two palaces and a small pavilion, an xe2x80x9cox pitxe2x80x9d, two sacred basins and four royal tombs. | UNESCO |
| The recognizable traditional Malagasy and European style of architecture of the royal city bears witness to the diverse political phases in the history of Madagascar. | UNESCO |