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London

London is the capital of the UK, like England, in the southeast which is. Spans the River Thames, where is Port, one of the largest in the country. For two millennia was important settlement. The story reduces its founding by the Romans. Since its foundation London […]

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Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy, capital of the region of Lazio, the homonymous province and one of the most historic cities in Europe. It is the most populated municipality in Italy 2.705.603 residents (2006). The wider metropolitan area has a population of around 3.700.000 residents making it the largest municipality in Italy. At the European level, it is ranked sixth in […]

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Constantinople

Η Κωνσταντινούπολη είναι η μεγαλύτερη πόλη της Τουρκίας, αποτελώντας το οικονομικό, πολιτιστικό και ιστορικό κέντρο της χώρας. Η Κωνσταντινούπολη είναι διηπειρωτική πόλη στην Ευρασία, με το ιστορικό και εμπορικό κέντρο να βρίσκεται στην ευρωπαϊκή πλευρά και περίπου το ένα τρίτο του πληθυσμού να ζει στην ασιατική πλευρά της Ευρασίας. Με πληθυσμό 14,38 εκατομμύρια κατοίκους, η […]

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Cappadocia

Η Καππαδοκία, αρχαία ελληνική λέξη που προέρχεται από το Περσικό: Κατπατούκα που σημαίνει “η χώρα των όμορφων αλόγων”, είναι μία από τις μεγαλύτερες περιοχές της ανατολικής Μικράς Ασίας. Σήμερα το έδαφός της ανήκει σε πέντε τουρκικές επαρχίες: Καισάρειας, Νίγδης, Κιρ-Σεχίρ, Ακσαράι, Νεβσεχίρ. Οι κάτοικοι της Καππαδοκίας λέγονται Καππαδόκες. Μέχρι το 1922 και τη Μικρασιατική Καταστροφή, […]

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Prague

Prague, It is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Built on the River Vltava, in Central Bohemia, he's got 1,2 million people. also called "the golden city" and "mother of cities". From 1992, the historic center of Prague belongs to the list of UNESCO World Heritage.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and largest municipality in population of Holland. Founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village on the river Amstel, they named. Today is the economic and cultural center of the country. The municipality has an area 219,33 km² and a population 805.166 residents (August […]

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Paris

Paris is known as the City of Light since the main avenues were supplied by the gas lamps 1828, It is the capital of France and the region Ile-de-France (Ile-de-France) and one of the most historic cities in Europe. Paris includes the city of Paris and its surroundings and is […]

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Sicily

Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the entire Mediterranean, by area 25.708 sq.. The capital is Palermo.

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Ghent

Gent (Dutch: Gent, French: Thinking) It is one of the oldest cities of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the Province of East Flanders. The city was built as a settlement at the confluence of the rivers Scheldt and Lys on the 7th century and ended the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities in northern Europe. Today […]

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary and county seat of Pest. has about 1,7 million people. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the Danube River, by merging the 17 November 1873 of Buda (Buddha), Buda (Óbuda, old Buddha) and Pest (Pest). It is the seventh largest city […]

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Porto

Porto (referenced and Oporto) It is the second largest city in Portugal, after the capital Lisbon. Located along the Douro river estuary (Douro), in the north, It is one of the oldest European centers and has joined the list of UNESCO World Heritage Monuments in 1996. The wine Viña do Porto (Wine […]

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Lisbon

The Lisbon, Oldest Olissipona, It is the capital and largest city of Portugal. Lisbon has a population 545.245 inhabitants while the metropolitan (overall) area of ​​Lisbon with its suburbs has almost 3.000.000 residents (2005). It has been characterized “City of Ulysses”, also “City of great navigators – explorers”, even “Ocean Princess”.

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Borovets

located 1350 m above sea level on the northern slopes of Rila in a majestic pine forest. Borovets is located at the foot of the highest peak in the Balkan Moussala (2925 m). Easily accessible from all over the country and only 73 km from Sofia and 126 km from Plovdiv. Borovets […]

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Ljubljana

H Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and is situated in the central part of the country, with coordinates 46.03 ° N, 14.30° E and altitude 278 measures. It has an area 275 square kilometers 352.070 residents (assessment 2014). The city was formerly known by its German name Laibach (Laibach), which caused disputes particularly during the second’ World War, when the […]

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Zurich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and capital of the canton of Zurich. The population of the metropolitan area reaches 1,68 millions. The city is the economic and cultural center of Switzerland (the capital of Switzerland and seat of government is Bern). According to surveys 2006 and 2007 offers the best […]

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Geneva

Geneva is a city in Switzerland and capital of the canton. It is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich). The city lies on the western shores of Lake Geneva. In the city established numerous international organizations, including the European headquarters of the United Nations (UNO). The economy of Geneva is oriented towards […]

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with urban population 1.230.728 residents and population metropolitan area 1.967.727 residents (October 1 2013). Located on the east side of the island Zealand, 42 kilometers north of Malmö and Sweden 164 kilometers northeast of Odense. The city also extends to parts of the island of Amager […]

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Denmark

H Denmark is a country located in Scandinavia, Northern Europe. Land borders only with Germany, while sea adjacent to Sweden, North Sea and Baltic. Stretches on the peninsula of Jutland and on hundreds of islands, like other big Zealand (7.031 sq.) and other small and uninhabited. […]

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Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik is a city 43.770 residents in Dalmatia, Croatia. For centuries Venice was then the most important port of the Venetians on the Adriatic today a popular tourist center. The city has its own airport. The old town of Dubrovnik has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979.

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Belgrade

Belgrade (Serbian: White City, which means White City), It is the capital and largest city of Serbia. Located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. The main city has a population 1,23 millions, while over 1,65 million people live within the limits diokitika. One of the […]

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Serbia

Serbia is a country of central Balkans. Its capital is Belgrade (population 1.756.534), while other large cities are Novi Sad (380.507), Nis (305.518), in Kragujevac (210.105) and Subotica (145.067). It borders with Hungary, west Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro, south to Macedonia, southwest with Albania […]

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Ireland

Ireland is the name of the state covering roughly 5/6 the island, Ireland, the NW coast of Europe. The official name of the state is Ireland and use all international organizations and Irish citizens when they refer to their country. He is a member of the European Union, has a developed economy and […]

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of Ireland and the largest city on the island. Located approximately in the middle of the east coast, at the mouth of the river Lifef. Originally founded as a center for the slave trade of the Vikings and is the main town in Ireland since the Middle Ages. The population of the metropolitan area is […]

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Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city of Norway's capital, Oslo. Located on the southwest coast of the country, near Highland De syv fjell (“The Seven Mountains”). The city is the center of the oil industry in Norway, while the port serves commercial vessels, yacht, cruise ships and fishing boats of the population there.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany, Czech, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Russia (namely the Kaliningrad province, which belongs to Russia). It has an area 312.679 sq.km.. and population 38.485.779 residents, based on data for March 2014. […]

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Slovenia

Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia is a country in the Balkans at the crossroads of key European cultural and trade routes. It borders with Austria to the north, Italy to the west, Hungary to the northeast, and Croatia to the south and southeast. In the west has a small coastline in the Adriatic Sea. It has a total area 20.273 sq.km.. […]

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, It is a small and densely populated island nation comprising an archipelago of seven islands in the Mediterranean means. Malta is located just south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya. The country's official languages ​​are Maltese and English. Roman Catholicism is the most […]

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus is an independent island nation in the eastern Mediterranean. maritime borders, under the exclusive economic zone, to Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. The north side is occupied by Turkey since 1974. The 1983, in violation of the charter of […]

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Croatian

Croatia whose official name is the Republic of Croatia, It is a democratic country in south-eastern Europe, and bordered to the north with Hungary and Slovenia, in the east with Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, while on the south edge of Montenegro. In its western part it is washed by the Adriatic sea which […]

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Italy

Italy or, officially, Italy, It is a unitary parliamentary republic in Southern Europe. It consists of a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. Northern borders with Switzerland and Austria, west France and east with Slovenia, while it is a slave of Italy […]

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