Cities

Florence officially became a monarchy in 1531, when Emperor Charles and Pope Clement appointed Alessandro de Medici as prince of the Florentine Republic.

During the anti-presidential riots of 2011, there was a series of break-ins into the Egyptian Museum.

It is the sixth-largest city in the Czech Republic, in terms of population.

The city is located near the Apennines, in a basin formed by the surrounding clay hills.

During World War II, Florence was occupied by the Germans for a year (1943-1944) and was part of the Italian Social Republic.

Bremen is the fourth largest city in the Low German dialect region after Hamburg, Dortmund and Essen.

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

There are 20 arrondissements in Paris arranged in a spiral, that extends from the city center.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Spring of Nations in 1848, when citizens took to the streets of Vienna demanding the introduction of reforms in the country, Franz Joseph I took power, leading to the creation of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867.

St. Petersburg was the center of the revolutionary initiative in Russia. In 1825, the anti-Tsarist Dekabrists uprising broke out there.