Curated category
Subnational enclaves and exclaves
- SANAAThe first known text mentioning Sanaa dates back to the 5th century BCE, written in the Musnad script. Ancient inscriptions refer to the settlement as San'a…
- AlmatyOn the 4th of February 1854, Russian engineers began constructing a wooden palisade called Fort Zailiyskoe between the Bolshaya and Malenkaya Almatinka…
- ViennaIn the 1st century, Roman soldiers established a military camp called Vindobona on the site of today's Vienna city centre.
- BucharestThe name Bucharest first appeared in a 1459 document issued by Vlad the Impaler, though its true origin remains unverified.
- BrusselsSaint Vindicianus, the Bishop of Cambrai, made the first recorded reference to the place in 695 when it was still a hamlet.
- PragueThe name Prague emerges from the Czech word pražiti, meaning to roast or burn. A 19th-century mathematician named Bernard Bolzano counted over 500 spires in…
- KyivThe name Kyiv comes from a legendary figure named Kyi, one of four brothers who supposedly founded the city. The Primary Chronicle tells this story…