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6 May 1948 30 December 1948 interim de facto capital, moved to Jerusalem after captured from Jordanian forces in 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Jerusalem: Jerusalem, Kingdom of: Israel: 1099 1187 moved to Acre (Jerusalem captured by Saladin) Acre: Jerusalem, Kingdom of: Israel: 1187 1291 Kingdom ceased to exist Salalah: Oman, Imamate of: Oman: 1932 ...
European capital may refer to: the capitals of the European countries (see List of national capitals) the Capital of the European Union (usually in reference to Brussels, often alongside Strasbourg and sometimes with Luxembourg City) Strasbourg, as headquarters of the Council of Europe; the European Capital of Culture; A political party in Ukraine
Gyulafehérvár (present-day Alba Iulia), from 1542 to 1570, royal residence and the capital of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (it was also the centre of the latter Principality of Transylvania) Buda, from 1783 to 1873 [9] Debrecen, in 1849 and in 1944 [10] (during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and at the end of World War II)
Common examples of confusion are Paris, where the Paris metropolitan area has different boundaries than the city proper, the City of Brussels that is confused with the Brussels-Capital Region, and Portuguese municipalities, where the population of the municipality's core may be significantly lower than the total population within its boundaries.
List includes metropolitan areas according only to the studies of ESPON, Eurostat, and OECD.For this reason some metropolitan areas, like the Italian Genoa Metropolitan Area (with a population of 1,510,781 as of 2010 [1]) or the Ukrainian Kryvyi Rih metropolitan area (with a population of 1,170,953 as of 2019 [2]), are not included in this list, with data by other statistic survey institutes.
The names used for some major European cities differ in different European and sometimes non-European languages. In some countries where there are two or more languages spoken, such as Belgium or Switzerland, dual forms may be used within the city itself, for example on signage.
Warsaw, [a] officially the Capital City of Warsaw, [8] [b] is the capital and largest city of Poland.The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. [2]