Cities

Islam is the dominant religion.

Ghent is an important seaport.

After the end of World War I, Vienna became the capital of the Austrian Republic.

Saint Paul had to escape from Ephesus.

There are many churches in the city.

It took 120 years to build St. Peter's Basilica.

In 1892, the first suspended railway in the USA was built in the city.

In the 7th century BC, the city was destroyed by the Kimmerians - a nomadic Indo-European people most likely coming from the vicinity of Crimea and the parts of today's Ukraine adjacent to Crimea.

One night in 356 BC, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus was burned down by a madman named Herostratus, who wanted to gain fame in this way.

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.