Cities

When the cloth trade ceased to be profitable, the city began to decline and residents revolted.

Eating, drinking, and throwing gum are not allowed on Dubai's trains, and people doing it face fines.

Houses built in the 18th century in Ghent hosted notable figures: King Louis XVIII of France, Tsar Alexander, King William I of the Netherlands, Wellington before he went to Waterloo, and an American delegation with future President John Quincy Adams.

There was a clause in the city charter that prevented the sale or delivery of water from the aqueduct to any area outside the city limits of Los Angeles.

In 1946, Palermo was declared the seat of the Regional Parliament.

The first American to receive the Nobel Prize in science in 1907 was Albert A. Michelson, who worked at the University of Chicago.

Tallinn is divided into eight administrative districts.

Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Near the cathedral is the Bishop’s Palace, built around 1141, which is sometimes erroneously called the Přemyslid Palace.

Ghent received the rights to its own city council around 1100 from the Count of Flanders.