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City Name | Country | Submitted by (use @macro) | Reason for suggestion (history, scenic beauty, culture, whatever.) No more than one or two sentences. |
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Izmir | Turkey | Kenny Paul | Izmir is a city on Turkey’s Aegean coast. Known as Smyrna in antiquity, it was founded by the Greeks, taken over by the Romans and rebuilt by Alexander the Great before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century. |
Indy / Indianapolis | USS | Tony Hansen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis |
Indore | India | Swaminathan Seetharaman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indore Gained prominence in the 17th century during the reign of the Holkars. |
Istanbul | Turkey | Lingli Deng | Situated on a peninsula at the entrance to the Black Sea, Turkey's largest city lies on either side of the Bosporus and thus is located in both Europe and Asia. Byzantium was founded as a Greek colony in the 8th century BC. Passing to the Persian Achaemenian dynasty in 512 BC and then to Alexander the Great, it became a free city under the Romans in the 1st century AD. The emperor Constantine I made the city the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire in 330, later naming it Constantinople. It remained the capital of the subsequent Byzantine Empire after the fall of Rome in the late 5th century. |
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Jerusalem | Israel | ||
Jaipur | India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaipur | |
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Namur | Belgium | Namur is the capital city of the Wallonia region of Belgium. Namur has been an important trading settlement since Celtic times, straddling east-west and north-south trade routes across the Ardennes, and the Romans established a permanent presence under direction of Julius Caesar. The settlement flourished during the Middle Ages, when the Merovingians built a castle on the rocky spur overlooking the town at the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse - The Citadel. https://www.namurtourisme.be/en/ | |
New Delhi | India | New Delhi is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of the Government of India. It has rich cultural heritage and is one of the main spot of India's international tourists. The city hosts many eye catching monuments like Rashtrapati Bhawan, India Gate, Red Fort, Qutub Minar, Jama Masjid, Lotus Temple, Akshardham and many more. There are numerous cafes, party places & almost all international food joints. | |
Niagara Falls | USA | Tony Hansen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls,_New_York |