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Tuesday, 21 April 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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Epheseus
After the fire, the temple was rebuilt by famous architects: Skoptas and Proksiles, and the figures were decorated.
The figure of the Goddess was decorated with gold and shiny marbles that shimmered and glowed in the light. Today, all that remains of this majestic and colossal monument is a large ditch.
Olomouc
Olomouc’s Upper Square is also home to the Gothic Town Hall, a historic building that was the former seat of the city government.
It was built in the 14th century and expanded in the 15th century. The most valuable interior monume ...
Florence
The Florentine (Tuscan) dialect forms the basis of standard Italian.
It was chosen as the language that began the process of the linguistic unification of Italy. This ha ...
Philadelphia
Before the arrival of Europeans to the American continent in the 17th century, the area of today's Philadelphia was inhabited by indigenous people - Lenape Indians, also called Delaware Indians.
They formed the small village of Shackamaxon. Most of the Delaware Indians were pushed from their la ...
Epheseus
Ephesus was originally an ancient Greek city.
It was probably founded as an Ionian city in the 9th century BC (some believe that in the 11th-14th ...
Kaliningrad
There are 21 cities and 3 urban-type settlements in the oblast.
The largest of them is Kaliningrad, whose historical name is Königsberg.
Ghent
Ghent's area is 156.2 square kilometers.
As of 2014, it had a population of more than 251.000 or 1607 people/km2.
Chicago
Chicago is located on Lake Michigan, the third largest lake in the five Great Lakes of North America.
Tallinn
The first traces of settlement that archaeologists found in Tallinn are about 5000 years old.
These were fragments of pottery from around 3000 BC, and pottery from the single grave culture around 2500 BC.Around 1050, the first fortress was built on Toompea Hill in today's Tallinn.
Copenhagen
Hans Christian Andersen rests in the Assistens Kirkegård cemetery in Copenhagen.