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Cities built on a grid

  • MannheimOn the 17th of March 1606, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine laid the foundations of a fortress that would become Mannheim.
  • GlasgowIn the year 540, a man named Kentigern arrived in a region known as Strathclyde. He received permission from King Rhydderch Hael to establish a church near a…
  • JohannesburgIn June 1884, Jan Gerritse Bantjes discovered the main Witwatersrand gold reef on the farm Vogelstruisfontein. This find triggered a massive migration of…