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Oldham, United Kingdom

Much of Oldham's history is concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution; it has been said that "if ever the Industrial Revolution placed a town firmly and squarely on the map of the world, that town is Oldham." Oldham's soils were too thin and poor to sustain crop growing, and so for decades prior to industrialization the area was used for grazing sheep, which provided the raw material for a local woolen weaving trade.

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Madrid - Spain

Madrid is the capital of Spain.

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Dijon, France

Dijon is a city in eastern France, capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named Divio, located on the road from Lyon to Paris. The province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries and Dijon was a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning and science.


Top: Dijon City Hall, Bottom: Saint Benigne Cathedral, Statue of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Statue of Francois Rude, Saint Michel Church

[wodin]

Nepal

Neolithic tools found in the Kathmandu Valley indicate that people have been living in the Himalayan region for at least eleven thousand years. The oldest population layer is believed to be represented by the Kusunda people.

Nepal is first mentioned in the late Vedic Atharvaveda Pariśiṣṭa as a place exporting blankets and in the post-Vedic Atharvashirsha Upanishad. In Samudragupta's Allahabad Pillar it is mentioned as a bordering country. The Skanda Purana has a separate chapter known as "Nepal Mahatmya" that explains in more details about the beauty and power of Nepal. Nepal is also mentioned in Hindu texts such as the Narayana Puja.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by wodin

... In Samudragupta's Allahabad Pillar it is mentioned as a bordering country....

Thanks very much, wodin, for the very informative post.
I'm adding a little more facts about the Allahabad Pillar.

Spoiler:

Actually, the Allahabad Pillar is an Ashoka Stambha, one of the Pillars of Ashoka, an emperor of the Maurya dynasty who reigned in the 3rd century BCE (Born: August 304 BC, Died: 232 BC), he ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. While it is one of the few extant pillars that carry his edicts, it is particularly notable for containing later inscriptions attributed to the Gupta emperor, Samudragupta (4th century CE). Also engraved on the stone are inscriptions by the Mughal emperor, Jahangir, from the 17th century.

For further information on the well researched historical facts, I would suggest to have a look on Corpus' Inscriptions Indicarum alias The Inscriptions of Asoka, prepared by Alexander Cunningham, and published in 1877 by the Archaeological Survey of India and Royal Asiatic Society, Bengal. This document is available at google books for free.


The Ashoka Pillar at Allahabad in c. 1870 possibly sporting the lion capital fashioned by Captain Edward Smith in 1838, from an Album of Miscellaneous views in India, taken by Thomas A. Rust in the 1870s

Originally Posted by wodin

Nepal

Lafayette, United States

Lafayette is located on the West Gulf Coastal Plain. What is now Lafayette was part of the seabed during the earlier Quaternary Period. During this time, the Mississippi River cut a 325-foot-deep (99 m) valley between what is now Lafayette and Baton Rouge. This valley was filled and is now the Atchafalaya Basin. Lafayette is located on the western rim of this valley.

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Elista - Russia

My sister worked there on a UNICEF mission.

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Aalborg, Denmark

With its theatres, symphony orchestra, opera company, performance venues, and museums such as Aalborg Historical Museum and the Aalborg Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg is an important cultural hub. The Aalborg Carnival, held at the end of May, is one of the largest festivals in Scandinavia, attracting some 100,000 people annually. The major university is the University of Aalborg, founded in 1974, which has more than 17,000 students.

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Göteborg - Sweden.
Or Gothenburg - Sweden if you prefer? Same place, same ending letter..

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Greenland
(Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat [kaˈlaːɬit ˈnunaːt]; Danish: Grønland [ˈɡ̊ʁɶnˌlanˀ]) is an autonomous country within the Danish Realm, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers, as well as the nearby island of Iceland) for more than a millennium.

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Dniprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine

Kamianske formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper River. Administratively, it is incorporated within Kamianske municipality as a city of oblast significance.

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Kabul, Afghanistan

Capital city of Afghanistan.

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Lakewood, United States

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Dublin - Ireland.

Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland.

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New Orleans, USA

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Sabadell - Spain