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City History

Given the description of the city, guess the city based on the description as you keep going down in the alphabet. Also, each city will take up that country, meaning no other cities would appear in that country when you go further down the list. Good luck!
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Last updated: April 4, 2023
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This city in Egypt was named after a great Macedonian Conquerer.
Alexandria
It is the capital of the region of Catalonia, and was capital of Spain from 1937-1939.
Barcelona
Símon Bolivar was born here in 1783, in this modern-day capital city.
Caracas
This city was the same one in which JFK was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Dallas
___ Castle was built on an extinct volcano. This country is also famous for its music culture and bagpipes.
Edinburgh
Originally founded in 59 BC as a Roman army camp, it later became the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
Florence
This city in Mexico has around 5 million people, and also has 5 A's in its name.
Guadalajara
This city was originally named Saigon, but was renamed after the fall of South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City
The Bosphorus seperates this famous city.
Istanbul
This city was destroyed by the Romans under the rule of Hadrian in the year 70 CE.
Jerusalem
The capital of the Kievan Rus through 879-1240 CE.
Kyiv
This slavic-capital has a river called the Ljubljanica, or "The River of Seven Names".
Ljubljana
During this country's history, this city was the capital from the 12th century to 18th century, and then again from 20th century to today.
Moscow
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Was originally named Níkaia when founded, now it is owned by France.
Nice
This east asian city has the nickname Tenka no Daldokoro, which means the nation's kitchen which refers back to the Edo Period, as it served the country's rice-trade hub.
Osaka
This city was the capital of two ancient east asian kingdoms, and is a currently a capital in one of today's countries.
Pyongyang
This city has the highest constitutional capital the world.
Quito
This city in the southern hemisphere means "January River", but in reality it should've meant "January Bay".
Rio de Janeiro
The original city site was named Nueva Isabela, and was settled in 1496.
Santo Domingo
This capital in population is the 2nd largest in metropolitan area in the middle east, just behind Cairo.
Tehran
The original Roman name for this city was Trajectum ad Rhenum meaning (Ford on the Rhine), and the Union of ___ was signed by 7 provinces here in this city in 1579.
Utrecht
This European capital city invented the snow globe in 1900.
Vienna
A major uprising started here on August 1st, 1944 in Europe.
Warsaw
This capital of China in the Shaanxi province is called ___, and the city is pronounced shee-ahn.
Xi'an
This nations largest city is home to the Shwedagon Pagoda, and the population is majoritively Buddhist.
Yangon
This city/town lies on the Zambezi river in the north-western province of Kabompo, Zambia.
Zambezi
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