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Name a Valid Modern Capital (Based On Its History)

For each answer, name a valid capital city based on its history.
Only cities that are currently capitals.
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Last updated: October 1, 2020
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First submittedAugust 22, 2020
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Founded or settled by the Phoenicians
Beirut | Lisbon | Tripoli
Located on the site of a capital of the Mongol Empire
Beijing
Former member of the Hanseatic League
Berlin | Riga | Stockholm | Tallinn
Located within what used to be the Inca Empire
La Paz | Lima | Quito | Santiago | Sucre
Located within territory controlled by Japan before World War II (excluding Tokyo)
Majuro | Ngerulmud | Palikir | Pyongyang | Seoul | Taipei
Located within what used to be the Swedish Empire (excluding Stockholm)
Accra | Helsinki | Riga | Tallinn
Built upon a Maya city
Guatemala City
Located within what used to be the Neo-Assyrian Empire (including vassals)
Amman | Baghdad | Beirut | Cairo | Damascus | Jerusalem | Kuwait City | Nicosia
Visited by Peter the Great during his second trip around Europe
Amsterdam | Copenhagen | Paris
Hometown of a passenger on the Titanic (excluding Europe and North America)
Bangkok | Beirut | Buenos Aires | Cairo | Cape Town | Lima | Montevideo | Tokyo
Controlled by Australia (excluding Canberra)
Port Moresby | Yaren
Visited by Ibn Battuta
Algiers | Baghdad | Beijing | Cairo | Damascus | Jerusalem | Muscat | New Delhi | Sana'a | Tripoli | Tunis
Hosted the Winter Olympic Games
Oslo | Sarajevo
Was once the capital, or is located on the site of the capital, of an empire within the Americas
Mexico City | Port-au-Prince
Located within what used to be the Khmer Empire
Bangkok | Phnom Penh | Vientaine
Founded or settled by German colonists in Africa
Dodoma | Gitega | Kigali | Lomé | Windhoek | Yaoundé
Located within what used to be the Carolingian Empire (including tributary states)
Amsterdam | Andorra la Vella | Berlin | Bern | Bratislava | Brussels | Budapest | Liechtenstein | Ljubljana | Luxembourg | Monaco | Paris | Prague | Rome | San Marino | Vaduz | Vatican City | Vienna | Zagreb
Damaged by an earthquake before 1900, in the Americas
Caracas | Lima | Port-au-Prince | Quito | Santiago
Founded after 1850, in Central Asia
Ashgabat | Dushanbe
Capital of one of the Central Powers of the First World War (excluding Berlin)
Budapest | Sofia | Vienna
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2 Comments
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Level 46
Aug 22, 2020
Shouldn’t the Ottoman empire’s capital be on here?
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Level 80
Aug 22, 2020
I'm assuming you mean for the Central Powers one. The capital of the empire at the time was Constantinople, which is not a capital today so would not be valid.