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Sunday, 31 May 2026
20 facts about Stuttgart
20 facts about Stuttgart
A German city with the highest standard of wealth
Stuttgart is one of the largest agglomerations in Germany, the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a city with a rich wine tradition, the ...

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Saint Petersburg
Maria Szymanowska, a Polish composer, spent the last moments of her life in St. Petersburg.
Maria Szymanowska was a pianist and composer, one of the first female pianists in the history of Eur ...
Saint Petersburg
The city's population was growing steadily.
At the beginning of the 19th century, about 300.000 people lived in St. Petersburg, in 1853 - about ...
Vienna
On 9th August 1918, the flight over Vienna took place - a propaganda action by Italian pilots who, during World War I, dropped propaganda leaflets in the districts of Vienna, calling on the Austrians to end the war.
This flight had no military significance, only propaganda, both in Italy and abroad. In addition to ...
Epheseus
In the years 540-480 BC, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (the period in ancient philosophy before Socrates) lived in Ephesus - Heraclitus.
The most famous element of the philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus is the concept of change as the c ...
Chicago
During World War I, Chicago was inhabited by 351.600 Poles.
Olomouc
Olomouc currently has at least 25 fountains.
Olomouc’s fountains are located at various points in the Old Town. Some of them stand out because of ...
Kaliningrad
Originally, in the place of present-day Kaliningrad, there was a Prussian settlement, which until the 13th century was called Twangeste ("Oak Forest").
In 1231, the Teutonic Order began the conquest of these lands and in 1255 Twangeste was destroyed an ...
Bremen
As part of her farewell to the Chancellor's office, in November 2021, Angela Merkel visited the Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven.
Part of the Museum is the Emigration Museum, dedicated to the fate of 7 million Europeans, including ...
Bratislava
Bratislava (Prešburg) became the capital of Hungary in 1541.
For 300 years, the Gothic St. Martin's Cathedral hosted the coronations of Hungarian kings of the Habsburg dynasty and convened assemblies there. The Hungarian parliament was housed there until 1848.
Stuttgart
Stuttgart has a population of approximately 635.000 inhabitants, which makes it the sixth largest city in Germany in terms of population.
2.8 million people live in the city's administrative district and 5.3 million in its metropolitan ar ...