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City
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Has the world's oldest metro system
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London
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Known for its running of the bulls
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Pamplona
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Was formerly called "Stalingrad"
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Volgograd
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Home to the EU's Court of Justice
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Luxembourg
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Its statue of the Greek sun god Helios is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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Rhodes
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Where the Nobel Peace Prize is annually shared
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Oslo
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Sicilian city which was once the largest Greek colony
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Syracuse
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Where the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum takes place
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Davos
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Where Gavrilo Princip assassinated a famous archduke
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Sarajevo
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Olaf Scholz was its mayor between 2011–2018
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Hamburg
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Most populous coastal city of Romania
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Constanța
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Pagan center of Sweden where human sacrifices were hung from trees
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Uppsala
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Site of Napoleon's greatest victory which led to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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Slavkov u Brna
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Wine capital of the world
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Bordeaux
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Its name is included in Geoffrey Chaucer's most notable work
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Canterbury
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Where the Bavarian Illuminati was created in 1776
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Ingolstadt
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Second most populated city in Belarus
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Gomel
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City on the Adriatic Sea with the namesake of a 2016 James McAvoy movie
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Split
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Its Guggenheim Museum was designed by Frank Gehry
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Bilbao
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The other city with a Guggenheim Museum
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Venice
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"Under the hill" is where you'd find the capital of "Black Mountain"
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Podgorica
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An ISIS terrorist attack on this city's Crocus City Hall left 144 people dead in 2024
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Moscow
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Its Jagiellonian University is the oldest of its kind in Poland
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Krakow
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This port city was responsible for nearly half of the 18th-century French Atlantic slave trade
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Nantes
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The Winter Palace was the residence of its emperors
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Saint Petersburg
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Capital of the Italian region of Apulia
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Bari
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Setting of the movies "Before Sunrise" and "Amadeus"
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Vienna
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It was the most important city in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages
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Utrecht
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The English siege of this city collapsed nine days after the arrival of Joan of Arc in 1429
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Orléans
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Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the firebombing of this German city in "Slaughterhouse-Five" |
Dresden
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"Diamond capital of the world"
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Antwerp
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City on the Don that the Wagner Group took control of for one day in 2023
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Rostov-on-Don
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Major city located on the delta of Douro
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Porto
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This city on the Danube is the only world capital that borders two countries
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Bratislava
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It is known today as the Oil Capital of Norway
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Stavanger
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Andalusian city renowned for its sherry wine and vinegar
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Where Russian air strikes bombed a children's hospital on 9th March 2022
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Mariupol
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Second-largest city in Hungary
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Debrecen
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The New Zealand city of Dunedin was named in honor of this city
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Edinburgh
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The Eastern Bloc's version of NATO was founded in and named after this city
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Warsaw
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Largest Turkish city that is entirely on the country's European part
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Edirne
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This Swiss city on the French and German border in Roger Federer's hometown
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Basel
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Was named after Saint Marinus
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San Marino
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Was, at times, the second largest city in the Byzantine Empire after Constantinople
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Thessaloniki
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At the confluence of the Sava and the Danube
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Belgrade
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Largest city in Iceland outside of the Capital Region
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Akureyri
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The Majdanek concentration camp is located in this city in eastern Poland
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Lublin
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Capital of unoccupied France during the World War II
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Vichy
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Croatian walled city which is a World Heritage site
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Dubrovnik
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The Mayflower started its voyage to the New World here
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Plymouth
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Two members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed and nine others were taken hostage by a Palestinian militant organization during this city's Olympics |
Munich
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Largest city north of the Arctic Circle
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Murmansk
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"Sauna Capital of the World"
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Tampere
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Famous for its paella
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Valencia
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The House of Grimaldi rule this city
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Monaco
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This Bulgarian Coastal city was called "Odessos" in ancient times
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Varna
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Home to the Peaky Blinders
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Birmingham
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This city on the Fyn island was home to Hans Christian Andersen
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Odense
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Was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1755
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Lisbon
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Crimean site of a WWII conference
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Yalta
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The "Old Firm" play football here
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Glasgow
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Mount Vesuvius sits right southeast to this city
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Naples
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Where British troops evacuated France in 1940
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Dunkirk
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Straddles the Bosphorus
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Istanbul
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The treaty that created modern-day EU was signed in this city in 1992
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Maastricht
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Irish city that has the namesake of a type of poem
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Limerick
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First to host the Winter Olympics twice
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St. Moritz
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Second to host the Winter Olympics twice
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Innsbruck
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The architectural style known as Vilnian Baroque is named after this city
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Vilnius
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Main port of Slovenia on the Mediterranean Sea
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Koper
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Greek city that has the namesake of a type of column
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Corinth
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Southernmost capital in Europe
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Valletta
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Largest town in Scotland's Orkney
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Kirkwall
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Houses the International Court of Justice
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The Hague
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A type of "syndrome" was named because of this city's 1973 failed bank robbery
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Stockholm
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Capital of the Isle of Man
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Douglas
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CAC 40 is the name of its stock market index
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Paris
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Where Alexander Lukashenko has his presidential palace
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Minsk
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Was the main port of East Germany
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Rostock
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Hosted the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup
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Berlin
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City on the French Riviera that hosts an international film festival annually
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Cannes
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The Ottoman Turkish rendition of this world capital's name was "Üsküb" and it was adapted in Western languages as "Uskub" |
Skopje
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Where Brendan Gleeson and Colin Firth play as two hitmen in a black comedy
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Bruges
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Visit this city's Uffizi Museum to see the "The Birth of Venus"
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Florence
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Where people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window) in 1419, 1483 and 1618
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Prague
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This city was once a maritime republic and the greatest Italian rival to Venice
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Genoa
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The ancient city of Knossos was built around the outskirts of this city
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Heraklion
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The witch trails of this German city, near the Luxembourgish border, resulted in the executions of 368 people in the late 16th century |
Trier
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Most populous city in northern Sweden
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Umeå
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NATO has its headquarters in this city
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Brussels
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Pan-Am 103 was bombed and disintegrates over this Scottish town
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Lockerbie
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A type of olive is named after this Greek city
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Kalamata
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Ed Sheeran sang a song about a girl from this city in 2017
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Galway
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Home to Europe's aerospace industry
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Toulouse
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Most populous city on the Volga river, formerly known as Gorky
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Nizhny Novgorod
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Village in southeastern corner of Luxembourg where an "agreement" for "open borders" between most European nations was signed and named after in 1985 |
Schengen
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Town in far southwest England overrun by musical pirates
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Penzance
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Is served by International Airport Nënë Tereza
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Tirana
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This Germany city was considered the informal capital of the Hanseatic League
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Lübeck
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Administrative center and largest settlement in Svalbard
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Longyearbyen
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Other than that, good quiz. A nice mix of things the cities are known for in the clues. A bit weird with the scare quotes for the Schengen question, though.