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Venice is also linked to the technological aspects of writing. The city was the location of one of Italy's earliest printing presses called Aldine Press, established by Aldus Manutius in 1494. [171] From this beginning Venice developed as an important typographic centre.
Area codes 415 and 628 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the city of San Francisco and its northern suburbs in Marin County (across the Golden Gate ), and the northeast corner of San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California. Area code 415 was one of the eighty-six original North American area codes ...
Germany is the seventh-largest country in Europe. [ 4] It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and Czechia to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. Germany is also bordered by the North Sea and, at the north-northeast, by the Baltic Sea.
Monaco,[a]officially the Principality of Monaco,[b]is a sovereigncity-stateand microstateon the French Rivieraa few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is a semi-enclavebordered by Franceto the north, east and west.
Zagreb ( / ˈzɑːɡrɛb / ZAH-greb[ 7] Croatian: [zǎːɡreb] ⓘ [ a]) [ 9] is the capital and largest city of Croatia. [ 10] It is in the north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately 158 ...
Madrid. / 40.41694°N 3.70333°W / 40.41694; -3.70333. Madrid ( / məˈdrɪd / ⓘ mə-DRID, Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ⓘ) [ n. 1] is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million [ 8] inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European ...
Berlin [a] is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population. [11] Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants [12] make it the European Union's most populous city, as measured by population within city limits. [13] The city is also one of the states of Germany, and is the third smallest state in the
In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby islands. The two largest peninsulas are Europe itself and Scandinavia to the north, divided from each other by the Baltic Sea. Three smaller peninsulas— Iberia, Italy, and the Balkans —emerge from the southern margin of the mainland.