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The name of this city comes from the Turkish saray ovası, meaning the field around saray. | |
The name of this Asian city is believed to come from a Phoenician word meaning 'fountain.' | |
This city's name comes from the old Slavic for 'ford.' | |
This city is named for the British Home Secretary Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. | |
This city's name comes from the nearby Moskva River, with the city's name meaning 'the city by the Moskva River.' | |
This Middle Eastern city comes from an Arabic word, meaning 'the sticky tree.' | |
Originally named Edo, meaning estuary, this major city's name was changed to a word meaning 'eastern capital' when it became the imperial capital in 1868. | |
This Oceanic capital takes its name from the more noted name of Arthur Wellesley, most famous for his defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. | |
This city's name means 'muddy confluence' in Malay | |
This African city's name comes from the word Nkran meaning 'ants' in Akan, a reference to many anthills that could be seen in the surrounding countryside | |
The name is thought to derive from a Kyrgyz word for a churn used to make kumis, the Kyrgyz national drink. | |
The Latinized name of this North African city comes from the Portuguese for 'white house.' | |
This South American city means 'river of January' in Portugese. | |
From the Chinese for 'northern Taiwan.' | |
The name of this major Asian city comes from the Old Javanese word for 'victorious deed' or 'complete victory.' | |
This city was named after a local Taino chief named Habaguanex. | |
The name of this city is believed to come from the Tagalog phrase for 'there is nila(a flowering mangrove plant.)' | |
This Asian's capital name is believed to come from the French pronunciation of its local name, Viang-Chiang, meaning 'City of Sandalwood.' | |
This city's name is dervied from the Arabic word al-Jazā’ir which translates to 'The Islands' A reference to four islands that laid off the city's coasts. | |
This African city comes from a Greek word meaning 'the three cities' | |