Cities With Shared Name Origins

These city names are cognates of each other, descending from some common root (not just having a common meaning). See if you can name them.

All cities have at least 50,000 inhabitants.

I'm deliberately not transliterating the names because they spoil too much. Some of these names will be quite hard.

Populations from citypopulation.de except for when not available (marked with a *).

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Etymology		Country	Initial(s)	Population	Answer
Ancient Greek	Νεάπολις ("New city")	Italy	N	913,462	Naples
		Palestine	N	156,906	Nablus
		Tunisia	N	80,600	Nabeul
Ancient Greek	Ἀλεξάνδρεια ("Of the man who repels")	Afghanistan	K	523,300	Kandahar
		Egypt	A	5,263,542	Alexandria
		Iraq	I	100,600*	Iskandariya
		Italy	A	91,059	Alessandria
		Turkey	İ	186,706	İskenderun
Proto-Slavic	Bělъgordъ ("White city")	Russia	B	339,978	Belgorod
Proto-Slavic	Bělъgordъ ("White city")	Serbia	B	1,197,714	Belgrade
Latin	Valentia ("Competence" or "Power")	France	V	132,301	Valence
Latin	Valentia ("Competence" or "Power")	Spain	V	762,580	Valencia
Sanskrit	जयपुर ("Victory city")	India	J	3,046,163	Jaipur
Sanskrit	जयपुर ("Victory city")	Indonesia	J	233,859	Jayapura
Chinese	太原 ("Large plain")	China	T	4,303,673	Taiyuan
Chinese	太原 ("Large plain")	Vietnam	T N	249,004	Thái Nguyên
Proto-Indo-European	*ǵénw-eh₂ ("Bend")	Italy	G	564,981	Genoa
Proto-Indo-European	*ǵénw-eh₂ ("Bend")	Switzerland	G	616,344	Geneva
Latin	Cōnstāns ("Constant")	Algeria	C	448,028	Constantine
		Germany	K	84,736	Konstanz
		Romania	C	263,688	Constanța

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