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This period of wonderful development of Ephesus ended during the so-called Ephesus Vespers - the massacre of the Romans and Italic peoples in Asia Minor, which took place around 88 BC.

In the 15th century, Florence was one of the largest cities in Europe.

In the second half of the 18th century, the area around the city was entirely inhabited by Indians, mainly from the Illinois tribe.

One of the Medici was Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.

On the section of the Elbe between Hamburg and the North Sea, in the town of Wedel, lies the Willkomm-Höft, the welcome point for ships arriving or leaving the port of Hamburg.

The history of the waltz, also known as the “Viennese” waltz, is also connected with Vienna.

As recently as the 1960s, Dubai was a small town in the desert, where cars shared narrow roads with donkeys and camels.

In the 15th century, an important figure for Florence was Girolamo Savonarola - a Dominican, religious and political reformer, who was considered a heretic and schismatic by the Catholic Church.

In 1990, the historic center of San Gimignano was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In 1465, King Matthias Corvinus, a comprehensively educated man, inspired by the ideas of the Renaissance and in contact with the first Italian scholars, founded a university in Bratislava (then Pozsony) - Universitas Istropolitana.