Cities

The first structure that initiated the construction of the city was the Petropavlovsk Fortress.

It is situated on the Havel River, a tributary of the Elbe.

Potsdam is the capital of the German state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan region.

City rights were granted to Bratislava in 1291.

There are eight statues symbolizing the largest cities in France, located in one of the major city squares, called the Place de la Concorde.

Until the early 20th century, there were hundreds of small opera theaters known as magazzeni in Palermo.

The original Roman settlement was built on the Palatine. The settlement is called "Roma quadrata".

English sculptor Katharine Maltwood publicly announced in 1929 that she had discovered enormous figures scattered across the lands of Somerset, north of Glastonbury.

In the early 16th century, when the Zwin Canal, which was the “window to the world,” the source of the city’s power, was silted up, the city began to lose its commercial importance.

At the end of the 19th century, Bremen was incorporated by Prussia into the German Empire (Second Reich).