Curated category
City-states
- DominicaDominica is the only eastern Caribbean island that still has a population of pre-Columbian native Kalinago, the people who once called the island Wai'tu…
- HamburgHamburg has more bridges than London, Amsterdam, and Venice put together. Around 2,500 of them cross the city's rivers and canals, more than any other city…
- West BerlinThe Potsdam Agreement of 1945 established a four-power occupation zone for Germany, dividing the capital city of Berlin into sectors controlled by the United…
- Ancient CarthageAncient Carthage was once the richest city in the western Mediterranean, a Phoenician-descended power that controlled the coasts of North Africa, Iberia, and…
- City-stateA city-state is an independent sovereign city that serves as the primary hub of political, economic, and cultural life within its surrounding territory.
- Vatican CityVatican City sits on a marshy patch of ground that the ancient Romans considered cursed. Long before popes built their palaces here, the area was known as…
- ViennaVienna sits at the edge of two worlds. To the west rise the Vienna Woods, the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps. To the east, the land flattens into the…
- SingaporeSingapore sits about one degree of latitude north of the equator, roughly 137 kilometres of sea between it and the line that divides the globe.
- AthensPindar called it iostephanoi Athanai, the city of the violet crown. Athenians once pinned golden cicadas in their hair, calling themselves cicada-wearers, a…
- Free City of DanzigOn the 15th of November 1920, the Free City of Danzig officially came into existence under the protection of the League of Nations.