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| During the High Middle Ages, this city was most likely the biggest in the world, serving as an intellectual and commercial hub of the Islamic world | |
| This city has been perhaps the leading symbol of American industrial prosperity and decline, and also remains one of the most racially segregated cities in the US | |
| The white-marble Azadi Tower greets visitors to this city of 8 m., built on the site of the old Zoroastrian city Rey, which was later destroyed by Mongols | |
| This Breton city on the river Loire may be best known for a 1598 edict promoting religious tolerance | |
| Expelled in 1965 from Malaysia after a series of race riots, this city has risen to become a prominent entrepôt and financial hub | |
| This Thuringian city's university once educated Martin Luther and hosts the Max Weber Center, named for the influential sociologist who hailed from the city | |
| Sandwiched between the desert and the sea, this old Phoenician city underwent an urban transformation in the pre-WWII Italian era | |
| This Tyrolean city near the Brenner mountain pass has twice hosted the Winter Olympics | |
| This city is wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains in a narrow river valley, and has been near the centre of two major wars in the last several decades | |
| This city's international airport fields regular flights to Johannesburg, Nairobi, and Lusaka, and domestic service to Blantyre | |
| When combined with its larger neighbour Juárez, this city has the largest bilingual, binational workforce in the Western hemisphere | |
| In 1955, this midwestern city overtook Chicago as America's largest livestock market and meatpacking centre | |
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| From its founding by Alexander the Great, this city was a centre of Hellenistic civilization and was known for its lighthouse and Necropolis | |
| The name of this city translates as 'capital' and is derived from the Persian '-stan,' meaning 'land' | |
| This city was a hotbed of political dissent from the time of Bolívar through the 1950s populist presidency of Manuel Odría | |
| This city, spread over many shores of a coastal lagoon, is the 2nd or 3rd largest French-speaking city in the world | |
| Named capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1815, this city endured economic collapse and massive emigration after the kingdom's defeat by Garibaldi's nationalists | |
| This city's transformation into a leading commercial and technology hub has been termed 'The Miracle on the Han River' | |
| This Merseyside city became in 1830 a terminus of the world's first signalled railway (and the first to rely exclusively on steam power) | |
| In Rudyard Kipling's 'Kim,' the protagonist is sent from the streets of Lahore to a top English school in this city | |
| This Silesian city, then known as Breslau, was over 90% German until after World War II, when the city was almost completely resettled through forced migrations | |
| This Yangtze River city is the transportation hub of central China and that region's most populous city | |
| This city's train station is one of the largest in the world by floor area and is on the Tokaido Shinkansen line, the world's most heavily travelled high-speed rail route | |
| Before steamships and the construction of the Suez Canal reduced its importance as a trade hub, this city was for centuries the third largest in the Ottoman Empire | |
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