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  • megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire ... The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list ...
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  • ) is a large seaport city on the northern coast of Colombia. Founded ... slave market. It saw expansive development in the eighteenth century as the ...
    27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
  • [[Image:Louvre at night centered.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Louvre ... later made public. There are different types of museums all over the world ...
    27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
  • Kaziranga National Park, a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon ... Kaziranga hosts a vast expanse of tall elephant grass, marshland and ...
    31 KB (4,349 words) - 22:14, 15 September 2023
  • Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important ...
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  • ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost ... Over the course of its existence, Lisbon has both flourished and suffered ...
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  • The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...
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  • A basilica, in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, is a church building ... building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public ...
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  • , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...
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  • ) is the capital city and the economic and communications hub of Padova ... the poet Dante lived, where Saint Anthony of Padua is buried, and as the ...
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  • The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...
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  • Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... famous dye Tyrian purple. The dye was used in ancient textile trade, and ...
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  • Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...
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  • city, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. human habitation more than 7,000 years ago. In the modern era, Spanish settlement ...
    29 KB (4,178 words) - 07:47, 25 June 2024
  • as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the ... Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535, as ...
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  • is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany ... more than 2000 years. Initially a small city of moneylenders and textile merchants ...
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  • The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island ... Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world ...
    35 KB (5,077 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
  • [[Image:Japanese internment camp in British Columbia.jpg|thumb|250px ... ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...
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  • Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Memphis and its Necropolis ...
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  • ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... Since its establishment in 723 B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital ...
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