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Vatican City (/ ˈvætɪkənˈsɪti / ⓘ), officially the Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano; [f] Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), [g][h] is a landlocked sovereign country, [16][17] city-state, microstate, and enclave surrounded by, and historically a part of, Rome, Italy. [18][19] It became independent from Italy ...
The ancient city of Tyre is located along the coast of Phoenicia in modern Lebanon. The site has been occupied since the Bronze Age. [17] The city became a prominent Phoenician city-state between the 9th and 6th centuries BCE, settling prestigious colonies around the Mediterranean Sea, such as Carthage and Leptis Magna. [18] It went under Persian rule in 572 BCE, before being conquered by ...
Greenfield is a fictional city created in the sandbox video game Minecraft. As of May 2022, the city is one-fourth complete and has a size of 20 million blocks. [2] The city was started by Minecraft user THEJESTR in August 2011. [3][4] As of April 2022, there are approximately 1.3 million downloads of the city map. [5] According to Planet Minecraft statistics, Greenfield is the third-most ...
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia. Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity ...
Antioch on the Orontes (/ ˈænti.ɒk /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized:Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) [ note 1 ] was a Hellenistic Greek city [ 1 ][ 2 ] founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. [ 3 ] One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, [ 2 ...
New York, often called New York City[b]or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York Stateon one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. New York is a global centerof finance[11]and commerce, culture, technology,[12 ...
Pompeii[ a ] was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Aroer (Hebrew: עֲרוֹעֵר, עֲרֹעֵר) is the name of two biblical cities in the Transjordan, [1] in what is today the Kingdom of Jordan. One is Areor on the Arnon, which is located on the north bank of the River Arnon to the east of the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan. The town was an ancient Moabite settlement, and is mentioned in the Bible. [2] Aroer is identified with the modern ...