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El Paso del Norte, Mexico (divided in 1848 after the Mexican–American War) El Paso, Texas, United States: Ciudad Juárez, Mexico Laredo, New Spain/Mexico: Laredo, Texas: Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (The Mexican city was founded when the border was established, by people moving over the border from what had just become the US city)
The near-total emphasis on large apartment blocks was a common feature of Eastern Bloc cities in the 1970s and 1980s. [146] East German authorities viewed large cost advantages in the construction of Plattenbau apartment blocks such that the building of such architecture on the edge of large cities continued until the dissolution of the Eastern ...
A reorganization of Cuban provinces in 2011 split La Habana Province into two new provinces, Artemisa and Mayabeque, their respective capital cities being Artemisa and San José de las Lajas. Marshall, Texas, United States, was the capital of the exiled Confederate government of Missouri during the American Civil War.
A Texas National Guard officer stood by his vehicle with Ciudad Juarez in the background. The National Guard was stationed on the Rio Grande after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called up the guard to El ...
De facto capital until 1944 when it became the primary capital Rome: De jure capital until 1944 when it was liberated by the Allies Laos: 1947–1975 Vientiane: Administrative capital Luang Prabang: Royal capital Libya: 1951–1963 Tripoli: One of two official capitals of the Kingdom of Libya, then Bayda became the capital of Libya from 1963 to ...
In eastern Ukraine, Moscow's war machine is gradually churning mile by mile through the wide open fields of the Donbas, enveloping and overwhelming villages and towns. Some civilians are fleeing ...
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Philadelphia was the nation's second-largest city when it was the capital. Washington is the 20th-largest city in the United States, but the Washington metropolitan area is the sixth-largest (estimated 6,216,589 in 2017). Vietnam: Hanoi: 8,053,663: Ho Chi Minh City: 8,993,082: 1.1: Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, was the capital of South ...