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Coquitlam (/ k oʊ ˈ k w ɪ t l ə m / ⓘ koh-KWIT-ləm) [7] is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.Mainly suburban, Coquitlam is the sixth-largest city in the province, with a population of 148,625 in 2021, [4] and one of the 21 municipalities comprising Metro Vancouver.
According to Iravatham Mahadevan, a 2nd-century BCE Tamil-Brahmi inscription refers to the city as matiray, an Old Tamil word meaning a "walled city". [20]Madurai is one of the many temple towns known as Kadambavanam for its historic temples in India which is named after the groves, clusters or forests dominated by a particular variety of a tree or shrub and the same variety of tree or shrub ...
The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991.