Etymology. The city's name comes from Syktyv, the Komi name for the Sysola River, plus kar, meaning "city". [citation needed]Geography. Syktyvkar is located on the Sysola River, which is the origin of its former name Ust-Sysolsk. The city is located close to where the Sysola joins the larger Vychegda River, which is itself a branch of the Northern Dvina.

León (Spanish: ; Leonese: Llión) is a city and municipality of Spain, capital of the province of León, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.It has a population of 124,303 (2019), by far the largest municipality in the province. The population of the metropolitan area, including the neighbouring San Andrés del Rabanedo and …

Name. The name Albacete is derived from the Andalusian name for the area, the city having been originally called البسيط (Al-Basīṭ) in Arabic, which translates to "the plain" in reference to the plateau that characterizes the geography of the area.. Pascual Madoz in his famous Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar (Geographical ...

Tirana (/ t ɪ ˈ r ɑː n ə / tih-RAH-nə, Albanian: ; Gheg Albanian: Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania.It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the distance. Due to its location at the Plain of Tirana and the close proximity to the ...

The original core of the city, in the neighbourhood of the present-day street, Cuesta del Rosario, dates to the 8th century BC, when Seville was on an island in the Guadalquivir. Archaeological excavations in 1999 found anthropic remains under the north wall of the Real Alcázar dating to the 8th–7th century BC.. The town was called Spal or Ispal by the Tartessians, the indigenous pre …

Lucerne (/ l uː ˈ s ɜːr n / loo-SURN, French: (); High Alemannic: Lozärn) or Luzern (Swiss Standard German: ()) is a city in central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and part of the district of the same name. With a population of approximately 82,000 people, Lucerne is the most populous city in …

Barcelona (/ ˌ b ɑːr s ə ˈ l oʊ n ə / BAR-sə-LOH-nə, Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə], Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona]) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain.It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain.With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring ...

Palma (Catalan: ; Spanish: ; also known as Palma de Mallorca, officially between 1983–88, 2006–08, and 2012–16) is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Mallorca on the Bay of Palma.The Cabrera Archipelago, though widely separated from Palma proper, is administratively …

Athens (/ ˈ æ θ ɪ n z / ATH-inz; Greek: Αθήνα, romanized: Athína (); Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, romanized: Athênai (pl.) [atʰɛ̂ːnai̯]) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union.Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest ...

Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербург, tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA: [ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk] ()), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia.It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents.

Potsdam (German pronunciation: [ˈpɔt͡sdam] ()) is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region.Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of Berlin, and lies embedded in a hilly morainic landscape dotted with many lakes, around 20 of …

The University of Salamanca (Spanish: Universidad de Salamanca) is a Spanish higher education institution, located in the city of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castile and León.It was founded in 1218 by King Alfonso IX.It is the oldest university in the Hispanic world and one of the oldest in the world in continuous operation.It has over 30.000 students from 50 …

Legazpi, officially known as the City of Legazpi (Central Bikol: Siyudad nin Legazpi; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Legazpi), is a 1st class component city and capital of the province of Albay, Philippines.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 209,533. Legazpi is the regional center and largest city of the Bicol Region, in terms of population. ...

Bern (Swiss Standard German: ()) or Berne is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city" (in German: Bundesstadt, French: ville fédérale, Italian: città federale, and Romansh: citad federala). With a population of about 133,000 (as of 2022), Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland, behind Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne.