Tolyatti, often spelt Togliatti, is a Russian city located in the Samara Oblast. The largest Russian city that isn’t the administrative hub of a federal subject is named after Italian…
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…
Lot of interior designers in Athens have been working but few have some exceptional work. The Cave of Schist, dated between the eleventh and the seventh millennia BC, is Athens’s…
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.…
Łódź was once a small settlement that first appeared in 14th-century records. It was granted town rights in 1423 by Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło, and it remained a private…
Saratov in Russia had developed into an important Volga shipping port by the 1800s. In 1870, the Ryazan-Ural Railroad arrived in Saratov. The line continued to move east after crossing…
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…
The Ryazan prince Yaropolk escaped “to Voronezh” after losing the fight and was moving “from town to town” there in 1177, which is the year when the word “Voronezh” first…
Architecture in Essen in Germany describes the architectural styles from across the city’s more than 1000-year history. The women’s monastery in Essen, established in 845 on Burgplatz, has a long…
The history of Stockholm’s architecture begins in the 13th century and perhaps much earlier. There may have been a basic defensive construction on the northeastern portion of the island Stadsholmen,…
Croatia’s capital and largest city is Zagreb. It is situated on the hillsides of Medvednica Hill (Zagrebačka Gora) to the north and the floodplain of the Sava River to the…
German crusaders established Riga in Latvia in 1201 as a harbour. It was successively ruled by the German, Polish, Swedish, and Russian empires for the ensuing 700 years. The town…