Curated category
Historic Jewish communities
- RecifeIn 1537, a royal charter established the settlement that would become Recife. This document created Olinda to the north and designated its port where the…
- FrankfurtFrankfurt am Main was first mentioned in a document in 794, when Charlemagne presided over an imperial assembly and church synod and the name Franconofurd…
- WuppertalThe year 1929 marked the birth of Wuppertal through a merger of five distinct industrial cities. Elberfeld, Barmen, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg and Vohwinkel joined…
- VeniceVenice sits on 126 islands in a shallow lagoon wedged between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers in northeastern Italy.
- KrakówThe name Kraków derives from a legendary ruler named Krakus, who supposedly built the city above a cave inhabited by a dragon called Smok Wawelski.
- MannheimMannheim sits at the exact point where the Neckar River meets the Rhine, and the city's streets don't have names. Instead, every block in central Mannheim…
- Iberian PeninsulaThe Iberian Peninsula covers roughly 583,254 square kilometers, and it holds about 53 million people. That makes it the second-largest peninsula in Europe…
- VilniusVilnius carries a name that comes from a river: the Vilnia, a small tributary meaning "ripple," which flows into the Neris at the heart of the old city.
- SanaaSanaa sits at an elevation of 2300 metres, making it the seventh highest capital city in the world. To the west rises Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, Yemen's tallest…
- UlmThe Danube River flows past the eastern edge of Ulm, meeting two smaller waterways at a single point. The Blau Stream arrives from the west, emerging from…