Cities

In 1512, the Medici regained control of Florence.

As a result of the division of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, Bratislava became the capital of independent Slovakia.

This period of wonderful development of Ephesus ended during the so-called Ephesus Vespers - the massacre of the Romans and Italic peoples in Asia Minor, which took place around 88 BC.

Along with French, the official language of the Flemish Region is the Belgian variety of standardized Dutch.

Hitchhiking in Dubai and the rest of the Emirates is illegal.

According to a 19th-century Russian proverb, St. Petersburg was the brain of Russia, Moscow, its heart, and Nizhny Novgorod, the wallet.

In 1715, the Naval Academy was opened in St. Petersburg, followed ten years later by the Academy of Sciences.

Ghent's area is 156.2 square kilometers.

Los Angeles has the most museums per capita of any city in the world.

The most famous festival in northern Germany - Hamburg Dom - takes place in the city three times a year.