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1. This city is the former capital of Sri Lanka.
2. This city is the major port and second largest city of Bangladesh.
3. This ancient ruined city in central Iraq was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Parthia and later of the Sassanid empire.
4. This city is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana states, India.
5. This city is one of the oldest of China. For certain periods it was the imperial capital. It is reputed to have been the home of Chinese 8th century poet Tu Fu.
6. This is one of the two ports of Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
7. This city in Thailand was the former capital of the united Lao kingdom.
8. This Russian city was founded as a frontier outpost on the site of a Bashkir village in 1736. It was the HQ of the Czechoslovak legion fighting the Bolsheviks after the Revolution of 1917.
9. This Japanese city was the capital of a powerful daimyo family (12th-16th century).
10. This town in Turkey (formerly called Kale-i Sultaniye) was bombarded in 1915 by the Allies in the Gallipoli campaign of WW1.
11. This city in Indonesia was the former residency of the Netherlands Indies. It has been a center of Islam in Java since the 16th century. The sultanate became subject to the Dutch in the 17th century.
12. This city was the capital of the Spanish possessions in the Philippines 1565-71.
13. This city (formerly called Zenshu) is the capital of North Cholla province, South Korea.
14. This city is the second largest of Turkmenistan. It was called Leninsk 1926-27.
15. This ancient seaport at a site in Israel now called Horbat Qesari or Qisarya was built by Herod ca. 10 BC and was a major city in the Roman province of Palestine.
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