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1. Known in ancient times as Sycaminum, this city is Israel's chief port.
2. This city is the port of Vietnam's capital Hanoi.
3. This ancient city (today's Bodrum, Turkey) was the original site of the Mausoleum of ______, erected ca 350 BC and ranked as one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
4. Known in ancient times as Emesa, this city (now in Syria) was devoted to the worship of the sun god and birthplace of Elagabalus, one of the priests who became Roman emperor in 218 AD.
5. This city (now in Afghanistan) was the capital and cultural center of Persia in the 15th century. It was passed to Afghanistan in 1863.
6. This city in Palestine (West Bank) is called Al Khalil by the Arabs. It is a sacred city of Judaism and Islam.
7. This was the former (Dutch) name of Jayapura, the capital of Irian Jaya state, Indonesia.
8. This city is the port of Yemen's capital Sanaa.
9. This city in Iran is the site of ancient Ecbatana capital of Media Magna and the summer residence of the Persian and Parthian kings.
10. This city (now in Pakistan) was the capital of Sind until 1843 when it surrendered to the British.
11. This city is the capital of Andhra Pradesh state, India.
12. This Chinese city was visited in the 13th century by Marco Polo who knew it as Kinsai. It was then the capital of China (later Sung dynasty, 12th century).
13. This Iranian city was taken from the Portuguese by the Persian leader Shah Abbas I in 1622. It declined after the removal of its trade to Bandar Abbas.
14. This Chinese city was only a village in 1896. It began to grow rapidly with the completion of the railroad to Port Arthur in 1898. It was a Russian administrative headquarter 1898-1905.
15. This city was the Japanese headquarter during the wars in 1894-95, 1900 and 1904-05.
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