Statistics for Important Cities in European History

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Description	City	% Correct
Capital of a powerful republic that became an empire after Julius Caesar	Rome	98%
"The birthplace of democracy". Home to Socrates and Plato.	Athens	97%
Italian city built on a lagoon. It dominated Mediterranean trade in the Middle Ages.	Venice	88%
Capital of the Byzantine empire	Constantinople	85%
Capital of the Habsburg empire. A center of classical music.	Vienna	81%
City that defeated the above in the Peloponnesian War	Sparta	77%
"The birthplace of the Renaissance". At times, it was ruled by the Medicis.	Florence	76%
Former Russian capital on the Neva River	St. Petersburg	74%
Village in Belgium near where Napoleon met his final defeat	Waterloo	69%
Slavic city, site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand	Sarajevo	63%
City that the Nazis failed to capture in 1942–43, marking a turning point in WWII	Stalingrad	62%
City that was defeated by the above in the Punic Wars	Carthage	60%
The world's most industrialized city in the first half of the 1800s	Manchester	57%
Great rival of the above. The birthplace of Christopher Columbus.	Genoa	53%
Once the largest shipbuilding city in the world. Where the Titanic was built.	Belfast	46%
Capital of the last Muslim emirate in Spain. It was "reconquered" in 1492.	Granada	40%
Defenestrations in this city led to the Thirty Years War	Prague	36%
French city where popes and anti-popes resided during the Catholic schism	Avignon	35%
Canal city in Flanders - one of the chief commercial centers in Northern Europe from around 1150–1500	Bruges	33%
City where English archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered by Henry II	Canterbury	33%

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