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Wednesday, 13 May 2026
37 facts about Saint Petersburg
37 facts about Saint Petersburg
A city of many names
It was a dream and a matter of prestige for the Romanov dynasty to gain access to the Baltic Sea and build a metropolis to testify to Russia's emergin ...

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Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
It is located in the north of the country, on the shore of Tallinn Bay.The Tallinn Bay is a bay of t ...
Bremen
It is the eleventh largest city in Germany and the second largest city in northern Germany, after Hamburg.
Together with Bremerhaven and Oldenburg, it belongs to one of the eleven metropolitan regions in Germany - the northwestern metropolitan region.
Shanghai
The city of Shanghai participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The first engagement of the Second Sino-Japanese War took place in 1937 and is called the Battle of ...
Hamburg
Hamburg is located at the confluence of the Elbe and Alster.
It was by them in the 4th century BC the first inhabitants settled and established a permanent resid ...
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is inhabited by people from over 140 countries who speak 224 languages of the world.
The majority are white people (49.8%), followed by African Americans (9.6%), people of Indian origin ...
Florence
At the beginning of the 19th century (1801-1807), Florence was the capital of the Napoleonic kingdom of Etruria.
It covered a large part of modern Tuscany and took its name from the Roman name of the Etruscan land.
Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad is an important commercial and military seaport.
The port is located on the Vistula Lagoon on the Pregolya River and has been open to international s ...
Copenhagen
In 1711, the plague swept through Copenhagen and killed 20.000 of the city's inhabitants.
Potsdam
After the Nazis took power in Germany, on March 21, 1933, a meeting known as "Potsdam Day" took place in Potsdam.
A Reichstag meeting was held in the garrison church, during which President Paul von Hindenburg entr ...
Shanghai
Shanghai is famous for Art Deco architecture.
Art Deco, a style of architecture, visual arts, and product design, originated in the 1910s in Franc ...