Important cities in History - 1

The cradle of Italian Risorgimento.

Home of the cartel ruled by Pablo Escobar.

Headquarter of the Nazi Party.

Seat of the peace conference after the end of World War I.

Home of the world's first purpose-built commodity exchange. Capital of world trade in the 16th century

Economic and cultural centre of the Mali Empire.

The capital of the Francoist regime.

The cradle of Christianity. Capital of the Seleucid Empire and later regional capital to both the Roman and Byzantine Empire.

City ruled by Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Normans. Sit of the court of Frederick II.

Near Bangkok. Capital of the Siam kingdom.

Its first name was Nieuw Amsterdam.

Leading force of the unified Greek military during the Greco-Persian Wars.

Former capital of the Chinese Empire. Site of a famous massacre.

Site of a famous defeat of the Umayyad Caliphate against the Franks.

Capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla.

Site of the peace establishing the principle "cuius regio, eius religio" in the HRE.

Breakout of the Cyprus crisis of 1963/64.

Capital of the Sikh Empire

It served as the capital of Elam and the Achaemenid Empire, and remained a strategic centre during the Parthian and Sasanian periods.

Capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th century until the 16th-century Spanish conquest.