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100 Biggest Cities of Europe in 1850 with a Map
With the help of a map, can you name the 100 most populous cities in Europe in 1850?
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Population figures from this dataset by Dr. E. Buringh.
Both historical and modern-day names accepted.
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Last updated: November 3, 2022
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| First submitted | January 26, 2022 |
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The city was reduced from ~55,000 to under 15,000 during the Napoleonic wars in the beginning of the 19th century, so there is some plausibility in its omission, but I was able to find a census which shows a population of 63,399 in 1857 and of 67,428 in 1860. While it's hard to determine exactly what stage of recovery the city was in in 1854, I think it's probably safe to say that it was more populous than Cadiz or Cartagena by that year, and not, as your list claims, 40,000.
(sauce: https://www.ine.es/intercensal/?L=1 )
It was of course commonplace for different languages to call cities by different names, but sometimes we're using the "English" name and sometimes the German one (presumably German was considered worse than French but better than the Slavic languages?)
Then, of course, there's something like Leghorn, which has fallen out of favor, but is still technically the English name for that city. Anyway, blah blah blah, I'm just curious really, these things always intrigue me. (& I like Pesth; it gives a much better idea of how to actually pronounce the name)
E.g. the 1901 census gives an estimate of only 30,458 for Stoke.