Cities

The first inhabitants of Shanghai settled in the western part of the city 6,000 years ago.

There are over 450 gardens and parks in Paris.

Construction of the new fortress of Sankt-Piter-Burch (later called St. Petersburg) began after Russia won the battles of the Northern War against the Swedes and gained access to the Baltic Sea.

The Kaliningrad Oblast includes the historical lands of Sambia, Lower Prussia, and Lithuania Minor, also known as Little Lithuania or Prussian Lithuania.

In the area of today's Bratislava, the first settlers appeared already in the Stone Age, but it was not until the Celts in the 2nd century BC they founded a town on the Danube.

Nowadays, Glastonbury is a religious center associated not only with Christianity but also with pagan practices.

Palermo is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the metropolis of Palermo.

In 334 BC Ephesus was captured by the Macedonians.

In 1943, Ike Sewell invented and created the world's first Chicago-style pizza.

During the Persian rule, the painter Parrasios was also born and lived in Ephesus, next to Heraclitus.