Meanings of opulent city in English

The stately and opulent city had long been in a most abject condition.

Tyre was a strong and opulent city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria.

Segestica alone, an important and opulent city, he reduced by works and engines.

Here, said I, once flourished an opulent city; here was the seat of a powerful empire.

Under the June sunshine the opulent city of Bruges hummed with activity like the great human hive it was.

After the fall of this opulent city, the provincials and Barbarians implored on all sides the mercy of the conqueror.

Marco Polo describes Kincsay as the most opulent city of the world, but it was in no position to stand a siege.

During the reign of Constantine, it was an opulent city, forming one of the great emporia for the commerce of the East.

Upon the opposite shore, connected by a fine bridge three quarters of a mile in width, was the beautiful and opulent city of Buda.

It was once considered one of the most opulent cities on earth.

Lord of so many opulent cities and fruitful provinces, he felt himself equal to the kings of Europe.

In great and opulent cities, where men vie with each other in equipage, dress, and the reputation of fortune?

Intelligence, he said, was already received, that the Germans had passed the Rhine, and occupied some of the strongest and most opulent cities of Gaul.

While these decayed towns and "rotten boroughs" continued to enjoy representation, populous and opulent cities like Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield were ignored.