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Historic Jewish communities
- RecifeRecife sits where two rivers meet the South Atlantic, a city stitched together by more than fifty bridges connecting a scatter of small islands off 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…
- WuppertalWuppertal sits in a steep river valley in western Germany, and it moves in a way no other city does. Since 1901, a suspended monorail has glided over…
- VeniceVenice sits on 126 islands in a shallow lagoon wedged between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers in northeastern Italy.
- KrakówKraków sits on the Vistula River in southern Poland, and for roughly six centuries it was the royal capital of a kingdom, the seat of an empire, the target…
- 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…
- UlmUlm sits at the precise point where two rivers join the Danube, at 479 metres above sea level, and it has been drawing attention to itself for well over a…