And who knows," said the doctor, "that this country may not, one day, become the centre of civilization?

I suggest we move towards a centre of civilization.

In that geography, Europe was the centre of civilization.

That's a mighty embarrassing hat, you know, in a centre of civilization like this.

She believes her island life, without traffic or roads, will more than compensate for living away from the centre of civilisation.

It has been many centuries since the Mediterranean Sea was the centre of civilisation.

And it is happening in the centre of civilisation, not in some distant tropical land.

Osh is the oldest town in Central Asia and was a very early centre of civilisation.

The goal was to establish the province as a centre of civilisation for free immigrants, promising civil liberties and religious tolerance.

She included everyone in their little centre of civilization and then she added Augusta and her husband to her prayer.

The city, traditional centre of civilization, is here seen as its enemy: partly because too cosmopolitan, partly because too industrialized.

They helped to make the 7th and 8th Centuries a time when Jarrow was the largest centre of civilisation west of Rome.

"These discoveries reflect the importance of the site as a centre of civilisation," he told BBC News.

Kenny's Bookshop, near Buttermilk Lane, seemed to be the centre of civilization in Galway.

For centuries, Europe has been the main centre of civilisation on this planet and has definitely regarded itself as such, even if it was wrong to do so.

It marks the transition of the centre of civilisation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

If ancient monuments showed that this was a rich land, a centre of civilisations, why could it not be a rich land again under Britain's guiding hand?

The name "zhōngguó" first appeared in the Classic of History as the name for "the centre of civilization" or "Tianxia", depending on the interpretation.

The shift in the world’s centre of gravity from the Atlantic to the Pacific was never going to be easy for a continent long at the centre of civilisation.

A centre of civilization for the Urhobo people, Effurun is the headquarters of the Uvwie local government of Delta state, Nigeria.

Thousands of years ago--in fact I do not know how many--there existed somewhere in Peru an ancient city that was the centre of civilization for this region.

China, in short, is well on the way to erasing the memories of colonial subjugation that have haunted a nation once accustomed to thinking of itself as the centre of civilisation.

In the Americas, the Sacred City of Caral-Supe in Peru was added as the oldest centre of civilization in the Americas.

They were not religious works only, but histories and historical novels that excited his interest in this ancient centre of civilization which for three thousand years had been a crossroads and a battleground.

The little town above the harbor, with its outlying farms on the green and fertile hills around, seemed like the very centre of civilization to people who had been so long out of the world.

At any rate, soon he would see the center of civilization.

It was near a center of civilization, and he could have been drinking.

And who knows," said the doctor, "that this country may not, one day, become the centre of civilization?

What if the Mediterranean basin is no longer the center of civilization?

And then a smooth voice-over reminds you that the city is "the center of civilization."

I suggest we move towards a centre of civilization.

In that geography, Europe was the centre of civilization.

That's a mighty embarrassing hat, you know, in a centre of civilization like this.

She believes her island life, without traffic or roads, will more than compensate for living away from the centre of civilisation.

To serve the god of the dark wood as he has not been served ever and here in the very center of civilization.

Deliverance will not come from the rushing, noisy centres of civilization.

But now he gazed upon the capital and center of civilization with a certain morbid affection.

It has been many centuries since the Mediterranean Sea was the centre of civilisation.

And it is happening in the centre of civilisation, not in some distant tropical land.

The man seemed to have created for himself a small center of civilization among a mass of barbarians.

Archaeology has shown that this area was one of the first centres of civilisation.

The great cathedrals and churches are therefore only copies from those in the main centres of civilisation.

For many generations, corn has been the sacred center of civilization in Mexico, the place where the grain was first cultivated some 5,000 years ago.

Nothing else would be worth exploiting by a minerals outfit, at such a distance from the centers of civilization.

And so on until the center of civilization had moved deeper into the galaxy and Earth became less than a legend.

The farther from the center of civilization a given planet is, the further regressed it is.

The opportunity is presented to us of setting up centres of civilization which the whole Jewish people can regard as its work.

Egypt and Iran have been competing centres of civilization and military power from ancient times.

Osh is the oldest town in Central Asia and was a very early centre of civilisation.