Statistics for Cities by Founding Story

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Date	Story	City	% Correct
753 BC	After killing his brother Remus, Romulus founds a city on the Palatine Hill	Rome	99%
?	Poseidon and Athena vie to become the patron god of a new city. Athena wins by giving the city an olive tree.	Athens	98%
c. 600 BC	Greek colonists found a city on the Italian peninsula, calling it Neápolis, or "new city"	Naples	90%
1626	Dutch settlers purchase an island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods (about $900 today)	New York City	86%
331 BC	Passing through Egypt, a Greek conqueror founds one of many cities that bear his name	Alexandria	83%
1873	Formed by the merger of Pest, Buda, and Óbuda	Budapest	81%
1703	Peter the Great founds a new capital on the Baltic Sea	Saint Petersburg	80%
1652	Dutch spice traders establish a way-station on the southern tip of Africa	Cape Town	78%
1521	Hernán Cortés founds a new city atop the existing city of Tenochtitlan	Mexico City	77%
667 BC	Fulfilling a prophecy of the oracle at Delphi, Byzas founds a Greek colony on the Golden Horn	Istanbul	71%
762	Al-Mansur founds a capital city for the Abbasid Caliphate on the Tigris River	Baghdad	68%
1886	Named in honor of a British sea captain after the site was chosen as the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway	Vancouver	65%
1847	Arriving near a lake, Brigham Young says "this is the right place"	Salt Lake City	63%
421	Refugees from nearby cities such as Padua and Treviso flee barbarian invasions, finding safety in a lagoon	Venice	57%
c. 60 AD	Roman settlers build a spa complex which they name "Aquae Sulis" in honor of a local goddess	Bath	56%
1847	Built on the site of a railroad crossing connecting Savannah and Chattanooga	Atlanta	46%
?	Sailing through the Pillars of Hercules, Ulysses founds this city on the Western edge of the known world	Lisbon	42%
1819	Stamford Raffles establishes a British trading post after reaching an agreement with the Sultan of Johor	Singapore	39%
814 BC	Queen Dido asks Berbers for refuge. They grant her as much land as can be encircled by an oxhide cut into strips.	Carthage	36%
1122 BC	Founded by the legendary god-king Dangun	Pyongyang	13%