Cities

The Basilica of St. John and the Cave of the Seven Sleepers comes from the Christian period of Ephesus.

The city’s name derives from the Old High German word bridge.

There was a large Jewish community in Olomouc.

Ephesus was originally an ancient Greek city.

In the 15th century, King Sigismund of Luxembourg recognized Bratislava as a free city.

When the Habsburg dynasty took over the reign of Vienna in 1276, it became the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, the seat of the bishopric, and a scientific and cultural center.

As an important trading port between Russia and Scandinavia, Tallinn became a target for expansion by the Teutonic Order and Denmark.

Stuttgart is home to six Fraunhofer universities (the Fraunhofer Society is a German research organization with 75 institutes spread throughout Germany) - this is the second-largest number of research institutions in Germany after Dresden.

It houses one of the largest museums in the world—Prado.

An international conference of representatives from sixteen European countries, which lasted from September 1814 to June 1815, called the Congress of Vienna, was held in Vienna.