Statistics for Selected Former and Historic Capitals of Europe

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Country	Territory	Period	Population	Answer	% Correct
Albania		13th - 14th, 20th	110,000	Durres	79%
Italy	Republic of Genoa	11th - late 18th	575,000	Genoa	79%
Italy	Kingdom of Sicily	12th - 19th	1,300,000	Palermo	79%
Italy	Duchy of Parma	mid 17th - early 19th	200,000	Parma	79%
Czechia	Moravia	mid 17th - 20th	700,000	Brno	75%
Italy		mid - late 19th (briefly)	365,000	Florence	75%
Poland		11th - 16th	1,725,000	Krakow	75%
Croatia		ancient, WWII (provisional)	350,000	Split	75%
Spain	Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba	beginning early 8th	325,000	Cordoba	71%
Romania	Transylvania	late 18th - mid 19th	400,000	Cluj / Kolosvar / Klausenburg	67%
Germany	Germania Inferior	1st - 4th	3,500,000	Cologne	67%
Italy	Duchy of Ferrara	15th - 16th	130,000	Ferrara	67%
Lithuania		20th (interwar)	400,000	Kaunas	67%
Italy	Kingdom of Sardinia	early 14th - early 19th	150,000	Cagliari	63%
Greece	Greece / Macedonia / Various	2nd BC - 19th AD	1,100,000	Thessaloniki	63%
Poland	Duchy of Silesia (Lower)	early 12th - 14th	1,250,000	Wroclaw	63%
Hungary		mid 19th (briefly)	325,000	Debrecen	58%
Austria	Tyrol	mid 19th - early 20th	225,000	Innsbruck	58%
Russia	Prussia	early 17th - early 19th, early 19th (briefly)	475,000	Konigsberg / Kaliningrad	58%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Herzegovina	unofficial - past and present	115,000	Mostar	58%
France	Visigoth, Languedoc	5th - 6th, 13th - 18th	1,500,000	Toulouse	58%
Finland		early 19th	330,000	Turku	58%
Romania	Serbian Vojvodina	mid 19th	470,000	Timisoara	54%
Spain	Aragon	12th - 18th	675,000	Zaragoza	54%
Portugal	Gallaecia, Suebi	3rd - 12th	200,000	Braga	50%
Romania	Moldavia	mid 16th - mid 19th, 20th (briefly)	500,000	Iasi	50%
Germany	Electorate of Cologne, West Germany	late 16th - late 18th, mid/late 20th, respectively	330,000	Bonn	46%
Spain	Visigoths	6th - 8th	85,000	Toledo	46%
Germany	Germania Superior, Rhenish Hesse	early 1st millennium CE, 19th respectively	220,000	Mainz	42%
Czechia	Moravia	ca 1000 - mid 17th	375,000	Olomouc	38%
Kosovo		(historical)	175,000	Prizren	33%
Montenegro		15th - 20th	15,000	Cetinje	29%
France		late 17th - late 18th	85,000	Versailles	29%
Slovakia	Soviet Slovak Republic	early 20th (briefly)	110,000	Presov	21%
Romania	Moldavia	late 14th - mid 16th	175,000	Suceava	21%
Romania	Wallachia	early 15th - mid 17th	80,000	Targoviste	21%
Romania	Transylvania	late 16th - late 17th	65,000	Alba Iulia	17%
Poland	Silesia (Upper)	late 12th - Renaissance	125,000	Opole	17%
Romania	Transylvania	early 17th - early 19th	275,000	Sibiu / Hermannstadt / Nagyszeben	17%
Italy	Ostrogoths, Lombards	mid 6th - early 14th	75,000	Pavia	13%
Croatia		mid-late 18th	50,000	Varazdin	13%
Bulgaria		late 12th - late 14th, late 19th (briefly)	70,000	Veliko Tarnovo	13%
Romania	Wallachia (NOTE: answer has multiple words!)	until early 15th	25,000	Curtea de Arges	8%
Italy	Tyrol	early 15th - mid 19th	40,000	Merano	8%
Hungary		10th - 13th	30,000	Esztergom	4%
Poland		10th - early 11th	65,000	Gniezno	0%
Albania		late 12th - 15th	60,000	Kruje	0%
Belgium	Civitas Tungrorum	early 1st millennium CE - ?	30,000	Tongren	0%
Belgium	Frankish Kingdom	5th - early 6th	70,000	Tournai	0%
Bulgaria		late 9th - late 10th	10,000	Velike Preslav	0%