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1. This city (now in Lebanon) was the chief city of Phoenicia from 11th to 6th century BC. Along with Sidon and Aradus it constituted the federation Tripolis (meaning "three cities" in Greek).
2. This city is the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia.
3. This seaport town in Sri Lanka became the principal British naval base in the Far East after the loss of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942.
4. This Iraqi city was the birthplace of Muslim Sultan Saladin (ca.1138) and of ex-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (1937).
5. This city is the third largest of China. A treaty signed here in 1858 opened 11 Chinese ports to foreign trade. Itself it became a treaty port in 1860.
6. This city is the capital of Taiwan.
7. This resort town is an unofficial summer capital of Saudi Arabia.
8. This city is the capital of Uzbekistan.
9. This city is the capital of East Azerbaijan province, Iran. It became Persian in 1618. It was occupied alternately by Turks and Russians in the 18th and 19th centuries and was an object of conflict between Turkey and Russia in WW1.
10. This town in Tamil Nadu, India was a Danish settlement from 1616 to 1845, when it was bought by the British.
11. This city was the capital and cultural center of Taiwan from the mid 17th to the late 19th century.
12. This town in the highlands of Yemen is the third largest of the country.
13. This city (now in Turkey) was a leading industrial and cultural center of the Roman and early Byzantine empires and the principal city of Cilicia.
14. This city is the capital of Shanxi province, China. It was the scene of a massacre of missionaries in the Boxer uprising.
15. This city was founded by the Cossacks in 1587 and was later moved to its present site. It was the capital of Siberia 1708-1824. The abdicated Czar Nicholas II was moved to this city after the Bolzhevik Revolution (1917).
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