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World Cities Flashcards

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Located on island of Luzon
Previous Philippines capital (1949-1976)
Named for early president

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QUEZON CITY

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Capital of the Philippines
Located on island of Luzon

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MANILA

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Ruins
Seat of King Minos’ rule & the Minoan civilization
Located on Crete’s northern coast
Site of a 1700 B.C. earthquake

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KNOSSOS

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Capital & largest city of Crete

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HERAKLION

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Adriatic city, now Italian but previously Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslavian, & independent
One end of Churchill’s “Iron Curtain”
Also called Tergeste

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TRIESTE

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Main city of Israel’s Negev region
Home of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Means “7 wells” or “well of the oath”

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BEERSHEBA

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Sicilian capital & largest city
Also called “Panormus”
Tyrrhenian port
Founded 8th C. by Phoenicians

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PALERMO

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Sicilian city facing mainland across same named strait
Setting of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”
1908 earthquake

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MESSINA

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Greek city on Peloponnese
Capital of Messenia
Birthplace of Yanni & a type of olive

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KALAMATA

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Sicilian town for which a fortified wine is named

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MARSALA

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Southwest German city with the country’s oldest university
In 1907, an early “Homo” specimen was discovered nearby

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HEIDELBERG

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2nd largest city in Yemen
Name shared with a gulf
In 2000, the USS Cole was attacked while docked there

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ADEN

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Yemen port city famed for its coffee
Now a term for coffee with chocolate

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MOCHA/MOKHA

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Briefly Pakistan’s capital
Very close to current capital Islamabad

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RAWALPINDI

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In the Wienerwald (Vienna Woods)
Site of 1889 “incident” in which Austria-Hungary’s crown prince Rudolf died mysteriously

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MAYERLING

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Austria’s 2nd largest city
Birthplace of Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Arnold Schwarzenegger

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GRAZ

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On the Inn river
Winter Olympics site of 1964 & 1976
Austrian city

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INNSBRUCK

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German city on the Elbe
Home of fine china/porcelain along with nearby Meissen
Firebombed by the Americans/British in Feb. 1945
Experienced by American POW Kurt Vonnegut

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DRESDEN

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Japan’s 2nd or 3rd largest city
Canals
Host of 1970 World’s Fair
Located on Honshu

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OSAKA

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Town in western Sicily
Makes a fortified wine named for it

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MARSALA

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West Bengal town in Himalayas
Home of a black tea

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DARJEELING

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Portugal’s 2nd largest city
“Cidade Invicta” (invincible city)
Located on the Douro river estuary

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PORTO

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Austria’s 4th largest city (& a state)
Mozart’s 1756 birthplace
Home to Mirabell Palace & Gardens (used in the filming of “The Sound of Music”)
Name means “salt mountain”

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SALZBURG

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Japanese town
Changed name from KOROMO in 1959 due to local industry

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TOYOTA

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Town of County Meath, Ireland
Home to an Abbey that was home to a famous illuminated manuscript

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KELLS

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Phoenician for “New City”
In modern Tunisia
Founded ~800 BCE under queen Dido

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CARTHAGE

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Fought Rome in Punic Wars
Cato said it “must be destroyed”, which it was in 146 BCE
Taken by Vandals ~500 CE

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CARTHAGE

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Colombian seaport on Caribbean
Inquisition center of Americas
Where Bolivar wrote 1812 manifesto
Named for Phoenician city
Also a Spanish port on Mediterranean

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CARTAGENA (DE INDIAS)

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Japanese city
On Osaka Bay, Honshu
Capital of Hyogo prefecture
Sister of Seattle
1995 earthquake
Famed for its Wagyu beef

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KOBE

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Scottish town
In 1988, a Libyan terrorist blew up Pan Am flight 103 overhead, scattering the town with wreckage

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LOCKERBIE

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Italian city in Tuscany
Near the mouth of the Arno
Historic home to Fibonacci (c. 1170) & Galileo (1564)
Served by Galileo Galilei airport

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PISA

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Italian city in Tuscany
On the Arno
Historic home of Brunelleschi, Dante, da Vinci, the Medici, Michelangelo’s “David”
“Birthplace of the Renaissance”
Setting of “The Decameron” and “A Room With a View”

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FLORENCE
(FIRENZE)

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Italian city where you’ll find the Ponte Vecchio, Palazzo Vecchio (town hall), Brunelleschi’s “Duomo”, Pitti Palace, & the Uffizi

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FLORENCE

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Ruins of a former Egyptian capital south of Cairo
Namesake of a city in Tennessee

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MEMPHIS

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Phoenician city in Lebanon
Biblical home of Hiram & Shakespearean home of “Prince” Pericles
Created a purple dye from Murex snails

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TYRE

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Swiss resort town with alpine skiing
Twice hosted winter Olympics (1928 & 1948)

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ST. MORITZ

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French city on the Rhine
Seat of European Parliament
Located in the region of Alsace

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STRASBOURG

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Ancient trading post in Mali near the Niger River & the Sahara
Includes a mosque funded by Mansa Musa
Fabled & mysterious to Europeans until 1800s when they were allowed to visit
Nowadays used as a metaphor meaning somewhere remote

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TIMBUKTU

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Sacred city in Sri Lanka
Includes a Temple of the Tooth (of Buddha)
Sounds sweet

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KANDY

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City on Honshu
Site of 1998 Winter Olympics, which had owl mascots and the first snowboarding events

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NAGANO

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Afghanistan’s 2nd largest city after Kabul
Founded by Alexander ~330 BCE as “Iskandar”
Previous capital until 1776 when it was moved to Kabul
Capital of the same-named province
Home to Ahmad Shah’s tomb

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KANDAHAR

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German city near Hamburg & Seltzer
“Meadow baths”
Site of American military bases, including one where John McEnroe was born

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WIESBADEN

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Belgian port on the river Scheldt in Flanders
Hub of the international diamond trade
Home to Van Dyck and a museum dedicated to Rubens

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ANTWERP

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Europe’s biggest seaport with a shipping & shipbuilding tradition
Located at the mouth of Meuse, Rhine, & Nieuwe Waterweg (“New Waterway”, opened 1872)
Bombed by Germany in WWII
Home of Erasmus and birthplace of Willem de Kooning
Home to an international film festival represented by a tiger

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ROTTERDAM

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Sicily’s 2nd largest city (after Palermo)
Seaport

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CATANIA

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Japan’s highest mountain
Volcano located on Honshu
Visible in Lake Kawaguchi
Subject of Hokusai’s “36 views”

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MOUNT FUJI

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City in Sinaloa on the Gulf of California
Mexico’s largest Pacific port
Part of the Mexican “Riviera”

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MAZATLAN

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Largest city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua
Named for 1860s president
Previously called “El Paso del Norte”
Across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas

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(CIUDAD) JUAREZ

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Port city
Ecuador’s largest
On the Guayas River
1822 meeting place of San Martin & Bolivar

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GUAYAQUIL

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Germany’s 2nd largest city after Berlin
On the Elbe River
Home of Brahms & Merkel
Site of many early Beatles shows

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HAMBURG

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Dutch city
Namesake of NYC neighbourhood
Tulip city
Home of Frans Hals

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HAARLEM

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