Cities

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

The first modern trade unions in Belgium were established in Ghent.

St. John's Basilica was built around 535 by Emperor Justinian, using materials from the temple of Artemis, which had been destroyed not long before.

Originally, in the place of present-day Kaliningrad, there was a Prussian settlement, which until the 13th century was called Twangeste ("Oak Forest").

An international conference of representatives from sixteen European countries, which lasted from September 1814 to June 1815, called the Congress of Vienna, was held in Vienna.

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

In the 7th century, the French monk Amand (Catholic saint, apostle of Flanders) came to Flanders to preach the gospel.

The Signature Room at the 95th restaurant is located on the 95th floor of the skyscraper at 875 N Michigan Ave.

St. Petersburg is the city of White Nights.

In the 17th century, the first meteorological station in the history of the city, and one of the first in the world, was established in Florence - Monastero degli Angeli.