Cities

It was a battle referred to as the “Battle of the Golden Spurs.”

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

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

In 1861, Tuscany became part of the Kingdom of Italy.

Paris has five replicas of the Statue of Liberty.

In 1971, the historic center of the city was declared a Municipal Monument Center.

Rome is home to more than 2,000 fountains.

The coat of arms of the city features a bear leaning against a strawberry tree trunk.

The building where America's Founding Fathers debated and adopted both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution is the historic Independence Hall.

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.