A few Germanic tribes held on in swampy regions near the eastern banks of the Rhine as the Roman Empire consolidated its control over all of Europe. There were a…
The historical center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius Old Town, was created in the fifth and sixth centuries at the meeting point of the Vilnia and Neris rivers. In the…
Irkutsk was formed in 1661 when Russian military Cossack warriors built a fortification on the Angara River’s right bank. It served as Siberia’s political, economic, and cultural hub beginning in…
According to historical documents, a city was established on the spot in the seventh century. The area around the city is home to the Tungusic peoples. When it was a…
In the past, there was a location called Budorigum at or close to the location of Wroclaw. It was already depicted on Claudius Ptolemy’s map from AD 142-147. During the…
The discovery of a collection of Mesolithic-era cave drawings at the neighbouring Addaura site provides evidence of human habitation in the region now known as Palermo as far back as…
One of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world, the city’s region has been inhabited since the fifth or fourth millennium BC. The earliest settlement, or oppidum, was probably…
One of Spain’s oldest cities, Valencia, was established during the Roman era, roughly 138 BC, under the name “Valentia Edetanorum.” A few centuries later, the Catholic Church took control of…
Therma and 26 other nearby villages were the locations where King Cassander of Macedon constructed the city sometime around 315 BC. He gave it the name Thessalonike in honour of…
Around 600 BC, Greek colonists from Phocaea (modern-day Foça, Turkey) settled in Marseille, then Massalia. In the Hellenized territory of southern Gaul, it rose to become the foremost Greek polis.…
As a Russian border fort, the city was established on August 19, 1628, when a group of Yeniseysk service class residents led by Andrey Dubenskiy arrived at the confluence of…
In the area of Chelyabinsk, archaeologists have found the remains of the ancient settlement of Arkaim. Ruins and artefacts found at Arkaim and other local sites point to a proto-Indo-Iranian…