During Soviet times the provincial town was transformed into an industrial center of the republic.

Ruzayevka is the second biggest industrial center of the republic after Saransk.

It is located in the center of the republic.

The term Iraq is widely used in the medieval Arabic sources for the area in the centre and south of the modern republic as a geographic rather than a political term, implying no precise boundaries.

The city of Boston has always been one of the major intellectual centers of the American republic.

One of the largest railway junctions of Russia - Kanash - is in the center of the republic.

It also serves as an industrial center of the republic (non-ferrous metallurgy, light industry, construction materials manufacturing, machine building).

It also calls for the movement of Russian troops away from the rebel strongholds in the southern mountains and toward more neutral territory in the center of the republic.

The Vardar river, which flows through the centre of the Macedonian republic, reaches the Aegean Sea near Salonika.

It is a large industrial and cultural center of the republic.