The city is located roughly in the centre of the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula’s Meseta Central, at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers 15 km before…
Since at least 5500 BC, the area surrounding what is now Granada has been inhabited. Archaeological artefacts discovered in the city show that the area around the present-day Gran Va…
Lentia was the name given to the city by the Romans when it was founded. Linz has first attested in the year 799 AD. It was a Holy Roman Empire…
Santo Domingo is the expansive capital of the Dominican Republic, which encompasses a considerable part of the Caribbean Islands. The Dominican Republic, founded by Columbus’s brother Bartholomew Columbus, is considered…
Cork is an old city founded by the Vikings and flourished via marine trade with Northern Europe and Britain in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The river’s link…
Cluj-Napoca, or simply Cluj, is the fourth-most populous city in Romania. It is the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant…
The land occupied by Bauru was historically a disputed territory between two Indigenous groups: the Kaingang and the Guaran. Ethnic Brazilian pioneers sought to establish in the Sao Paulo region…
Humans have inhabited the area of Tirana since prehistoric times, with the earliest recognized reference found at the Cave of Pëllumbas belonging to the Palaeolithic period. Illyrians were the first…
The land on which the city and municipality of Santa Cruz de Tenerife now stands has been occupied by humans from the time of the Guanches, some 2000 years ago,…
Minsk is Belarus’s capital and largest city, situated on the Svislach and Niamiha rivers, which are now subterranean. Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus as the capital, and…
Portuguese immigrants in the mid-eighteenth century first settled the city’s region, but it wouldn’t become a hamlet until 1824 when the first German immigrants arrived. Novo Hamburgo was part of…
The San Dieguito Complex, located in the El Pinacate Zone, contains evidence that the area has been occupied for roughly 3,000 years. Agriculture has been documented for over 2,500 years.…
