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1. Formerly called Skobelev this city in Uzbekistan is the capital of an administrative division with the same name. It is situated in a fertile valley in the Alai mountains. This valley also has the same name.
2. Once known as Nantaiu, this city is the capital of Fujian province, China.
3. This city in Kyushu island, Japan was an ancient trade port at the time of the attempted invasion by the Mongul ruler Kublai Khan (1274-81)
4. This city in Pakistan was known as Lyallpur before 1980.
5. This town is the capital of one of the seven United Arab Emirates. It is also the name of the emirate.
6. This town was the most northerly of the twelve Ionian cities on the west coast of Asia Minor (now in Turkey). It was a flourishing maritime state ca. 800-600 BC.
7. Founded in 1570 by Mogul Emperor Akbar this town in Uttar Pradesh, India was made the capital of the Mogul empire. It was abandoned after Akbar's death in 1605.
8. This town is the capital of Badakhstan region, north east Afghanistan.
9. This city is the major port of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
10. Now known as Bukittinggi, this town in inland Sumatra was settled as a Dutch fort in 1825.
11. This city in Honshu Island 70 miles north of Nagoya is the capital of a prefecture with the same name as the city. In the feudal period it was the site of a daimyo. After the restoration it became a large industrial center. It is especially known for the production of habutai, a thin, soft Japanese silk. It was destroyed by earthquake in 1948 and since rebuilt.
12. Most often known as Al-___, this seaport is situated at the mouth of the Shatt al Arab, Iraq.
13. This is the former name of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
14. Formerly called Fort Aleksandrovsk, this city is a former Soviet military station in Kazakhstan, at the tip of the Mangyshlak Peninsula on the north eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
15. This city in Iraq (50 km west of Baghdad) is situated in a Sunni area in which the resistance against the US invasion of Iraq (2003-) is particularly strong. Resistance groups have operated here several times, for example on March 29, 2004 when a police station was attacked. At least 23 people were killed.
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