Curiosities about your city

My city was once a french colony and later became the capital of Portugal.

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french slaughter best day of my life

The first recorded settlement of my city was by the Romans.

What is the name of your city?

Britain tried to take over Buenos Aires and failed. Twice.

there is a old railway connecting 2 civil war era communist strongholds going through this small town and it has plenty of old trenches and stuff in the forest,i found a mosin bolt there once when i was a kid

Pons Aelius in Roman times then in 1080 they built a new castle around the old Roman fort and creatively called it "Newcastle"

The treaty that began Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was signed in my city.

A pity they failed.

My city was created by the Romans, expanded by the Arabs and perfected by the Spaniards.

Great post

My city is the oldest capital in the americas (that remains capital)
Capital of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire, the spanish Viceroyalty, 2 different Mexican empires and now another republic

My city is a (grand strategy) meme city.

Its name means "theft" in english.

My city was bombed by Germans way harder than Warsaw during WWII. Only about 2% of the original buildings remain.

Nice, I didn't know about it. I was going to guess Londinium.

My city has me

It used to be god tier, now it's the worst city in North America

Ulm?

Nice.
I knew about this. They did take it at least once but were expelled after.
I knew this
Detroit

Francis Drake stayed in my city
I think Darwin did too

It's a bingo!

Why, yes. It's a shithole.

my city was the birthplace and heart of the industrial revolution that changed the world forever but is now a paki shithole that the rest of the country hates

In the 19th century my city was relevant. It was important for shipping, ship trade from around the world.

My city was a fishing village with like 10 people a century ago

Once, my city's roads was good.

Birmingham?

My city was the capital of a French prefecture during the later stages of the Napoleonic wars. It is the only capital in Europe besides Paris to have a monument to Napoleon.

It was completely surrounded with barbed wire by Italian occupation forces during WWII, technically making it a concentration camp.

In historical times, it was variously a group of stilt-houses and a Roman colony destroyed by Attila the Hun.

One of its main concert venues used to be a monastery-fortress of the Teutonic Order.

It was once besieged by a Turkish army so large that two separate neighbourhoods kilometers apart are still named 'the Bey's castle' and 'Turkish kitchen' today, after that army's disposition during the siege. The Turks ultimately failed to capture the city.

Bratislava?

my city is the whitest city in argentina with a demographic percentage of: 99,5% amerindians, they are closely followed by other cities in the interior of the country with 99,6% amerindians and 99,7 and 99,8% amerindian.

The rest are all 100% amerindian.

One of the best cities to live and filled with military/defense industry.

>a WWII Italian occupation force
>in Slovakia

>Having a chill international thread
>And insecure argie JUST HAS TO sperg out his Sup Forums bs

Pottery

In my city it's legal to drive a tank

My city was the capital of central america.
It became the capital because the first one(Antigua) got rekt by an earthquake.

My city has a country in it

Correct

Its legal to drive a tank anywhere in the UK, as long as the paperwork and such is in order

Roma ! supaeasy

Raided and set on fire by Ottoman Turks. 15 minutes from it there is mark where Ottoman empire ended. There is still crescent in nearby town on one church

Ljubljana?

Tell me the name pls :D
I couldn't pinpoint a single city even tho I know how important Norway was for maritime trade worldwide.

Be glad you didn't end up like Haiti

Arendal

My town was the first town in France to elect a mayor in 1789.

my city name literally translated to english is 'new jokes'

Looks great
It was a different kind of colony. We would probably be like the US ethically speaking, even tho I'm a Brazilian-Portuguese I'm much dislike how this country was run during colonial times.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Antarctique
Great

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Btw, do you sail? Sometimes I like to imagine how it must be the life of Norwegian sailor.
youtube.com/watch?v=bjjhCEiSDSk

You know Nukeduck?

Fuck off

My family didn't have a sailboat, just a regular boat with motor and no sail but we've spent some time at sea, just by the coast, not far out.

In school they took us on an old wood sail boat though and we saw how stuff worked, we sailed on it. It was neat. It was pretty old too.

No

My city used to be a 2000 year old Roman fortress that was meant to guard a river crossing at the border of the Roman empire. The area where I live used to be the barracks.

In the ground sometimes Roman ships are found.

>tfw there's nothing interesting to say about my city

The head or start of a lot of religious movements and establishments in North America. The site of the founding of the Methodist Episcopal church, the senior Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church here, the first Unitarian church in North America, the first Roman Catholic Cathedral in the US.

...delet

My city has a name in Arabic, which is odd since spen has nothing to do with moors

my capital was created by the Moors :D

Literally nothing of importance happened in my town. It was founded and named after the short lived federalist party in the 1790s that's about as interesting as it gets

Very interesting.
Names pls

A team of British scientists observed an eclipse in my city that helped prove Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

City was colonized by the french, dutch and then taken by portugal.

Has the best location for a launch site to space, but lol it's abandoned.

São José dos campos?
>tfw ita

My city is one of only 2 cities in the world to have their city hall on a river island, the other being Paris.

The Brits got btfo by some Maoris about 5 minutes down the road from where I live.

That's about it really.

My city is one of oldest in the country (founded in 1580), and was created just because it was an easy start route, for Portuguese who went to the jungle, to find slaves, gold and native bunda.

This is the flag of Los Angeles.

well, this city was the first new world settlement in the pacific ocean, spen launched south america conquest from here

its always been a transit city of notable importance but it has no relevance on the global scene

Te recomiendo este podcast, muy interesante:
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My city is the oldest in Western Europe