Vienna

Vienna is Austria's primate city; with a population of about 1.6 million (2.2 million within the metro area), Vienna is by far the largest city in Austria as well as its cultural, economic and political centre. Vienna is situated on both sides of the River Danube, and only 60 kilometers off Austria's Eastern border, it lies on the South East corner of Central Europe and in close reach to the C ...

Date added: 26 April '06

Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod colloquially shortened as Nizhny and also transliterated into English as Nizhniy Novgorod or Nizhni Novgorod, is the fourth largest city of Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novosibirsk. Nizhny Novgorod is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and also the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal Dist ...

Date added: 26 April '06

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bulgaria, with a population of 1,376,742 (15 February 2006 calculations). It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of the country. The history of Sofia dates back to the 7th century BC, when Thracians established a settlement there. It has had ...

Date added: 26 April '06

Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is the major industrial, scientific, and cultural center of the southern Ural. The city is located on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains along the banks of the Miass River (the inflow of Iseti) and has geographical coordinates: 61°08'-61°17' east longitude, 55°03'-55°19' north latitude, bordered by pine forest to the west and to the north. Chelyabinsk's relief is slightly hill ...

Date added: 27 April '06

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine, the capital city of the Lviv Oblast (province) and one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. Lviv is the biggest city in Western Ukraine and it was founded as a fort in the mid-13th century (first mentioned as a city in a medieval chronicle in 1256) by Prince Danylo Halitski of Galicia, one of the most powerful princes in east-central Europe and a former pr ...

Date added: 03 May '06