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1. This city is the capital of Brunei.
2. This city of Bangladesh is noted for a natural phenomenon known as "_______ guns", noises like distant thunder or cannon fire, thought to be of seismic origin.
3. This southern Iraqi port was taken by the Turks in 1668. It was occupied by the British in 1941 and became important for the transshipment of supplies to Turkey and USSR.
4. This town in Cambodia was ceded to Siam by Cambodia in 1809 and by Siam to French Indochina in 1907.
5. This town in Sumatra, Indonesia was settled by the British in 1648. A fort was built a few years later. In the early years it was a center of the pepper and spice trade. It was ceded to the Dutch in 1824 in exchange for Melaka (Malacca).
6. This town, now in Vietnam, was formerly the capital of Cambodia.
7. This town in south west Iran is the southern terminus of the Trans-Iranian railroad.
8. This town is the capital of Adjarian autonomous republic, Georgia.
9. In ancient times called Heliopolis, this city (now in Lebanon) was named so by the Greek after a Semitic sun-god. (Heliopolis = city of the sun).
10. This city (now in Pakistan) was the capital of a former state in India. Practically all of the state's territory was in the Thar desert. Its rulers became independent of the Afghans in the early 19th century. It made a treaty with the British in 1838.
11. This city is the capital of Orissa state, India.
12. This city in Turkey was the capital of the Ottoman Empire 1327-61.
13. This city is the capital of Kyrgyzstan. (Mind the spelling).
14. This city in Uzbekistan was once the heart of Muslim Central Asia.
15. In ancient times this Afghan city was called Bactra and was the capital of Bactria. It was once a center of Zoroastrianism. It is now a village near Mazar-i-Sharif.
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