Europe

Gaziantep, also known as Antep for short, is a city in southeastern Anatolia and the capital of the province of the same name. With about 2.1 million inhabitants, it is the sixth largest city in Turkey. In addition to Turks and Kurds, Arabs also live in Gaziantep.

Where is Sparta located today? Few sights in the Peloponnese are more imposing than the huge mass of the Taygetos Mountain, towering over Sparta on the western horizon. To the east, the Parnon Mountains border the Spartan plain. The ancient Spartans boasted that they did not need fortifications, because the …

What part of London is Crawley in? The city of Crawley belongs to the nation of England, to the county of West Sussex and to the district of Crawley. The town of Crawley covers an area of 44.96 km2 and has a population of 101,300 for a density of 2,253.11 …

Which part of England is Swindon? Swindon with its more than 180,000 inhabitants is located in the county of Wiltshire in the southwest of England, about 120 kilometers west of London. At the gates of the city, to the northwest, are the Cotswold Hills, where the Thames originates.

Shortly before the beginning of the 2nd World War, the landowner Edith Pretty commissioned the English archaeologist Basil Brown to dig on her property. The historically interested lady suspected more than stones and earth among the mounds located there. She should be right. Brown found a unique Anglo-Saxon boat grave …

Newcastle is located on the banks of the River Tyne and arose from the construction of a bridge, which the Romans called Pons Aelius. The Normans recognized the strategic importance of the complex and built a wooden fortress on the same site in 1080: “new castle”, which in German, it …

Portsmouth on the south coast of Hampshire is the only large city in the UK that was built on an island. Portsea Island is connected to the mainland by road bridges, a railway bridge and pedestrian bridges. Portsmouth is well known for its maritime heritage and its historic shipyard. From …

The municipality of Fuenlabrada is the third most populous municipality in the Community of Madrid. It is located 22 km southeast of the capital, in the industrial belt that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century and is fully integrated into the metropolitan area of the city of …

Where in Spain is Pamplona? It occupies a central place on the map of Navarre. It is bordered to the north by Berrioplano, Berriozar and Ansoain, to the east by Villava, Burlada, Egüés valley and Aranguren, to the south by the cendea de Galar, the cendea de Cizur and Zizur …

Taranto Municipality of Puglia (249.8 km2 with 191,050 ab. in 2020), provincial capital. The city is located in the innermost part of the gulf of the same name and has its original nucleus in the false island that, in a central position, separates the Small Sea, at N, from the …