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Historical cities- Europe

Historically important cities throughout Europe, including battles and war sites
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1) Belgian town where Napoleon met
his final defeat
Waterloo
2) The birthplace of modern democracy
Athens
3) This powerful city-state defeated the above in
the Peloponnesian War
Sparta
4) Capital of the vast empire lasting until its
fall in 476 AD
Rome
5) One of the largest shipbuilding ports, including
the construction of the Titanic
Belfast
6) Bulgarian city home to the Roman amphitheater
of Philippopolis
Plovdiv
7) Was called Smyrna during the Greek reign
Izmir
8) This North African city defeated Rome in the
Punic Wars
Carthage
9) This town was the birthplace of William Shakespeare
Stratford
10) City where Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in
1914
Sarajevo
11) Former Soviet capital, also called Leningrad
St Petersburg
12) This Crimean city held the Allied conference of 1945
after WW2
Yalta
13) The "Diet" of this German city was held to prove
Martin Luther as a heretic of the state
Worms
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City
14) Widely considered the birthplace of the European
Renaissance
Florence
15) This Croatian coastal city built stone walls during the
Middle Ages to protect from sea invasions
Dubrovnik
16) Norwegian coastal city captured by the Nazis during
the campaign of April-June of 1940
Narvik
17) Walled city in England on the River Ouse built
by the Romans
York
18) Eastern capital of the Roman empire,
once called Constantinople
Istanbul
19) Mozart was born in this Austrian city in 1756
Salzburg
20) Nikola Tesla was born in this rural Croatian town
in 1856, though he was Serbian
Smiljan
21) William of Normandy defeated King Harold of England
in this town in 1066
Hastings
22) A German invasion of this Russian city, then known as
Stalingrad, occurred from July 1942-Feb 1943
Volgograd
23) This German city was the site of this Napoleonic battle
in 1813
Leipzig
24) Beethoven was born in 1770 in this German town
Bonn
25) Christopher Columbus hailed from this Italian port city
Genoa
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