100 Great Cities of the World

25 hrs. 49 min.

Popular Science

Language Russian

Author Nadezhda Ionina

Narrator Tatyana Nenarokomova

Description

Cities began differently. Some rose at crossroads of caravan routes; others grew in empty deserts. There are fortress cities, barracks cities, cities grown around river landings or seaports, monasteries, factories, or markets. The new book from the “100 Great” series tells the story and fate of both vanished ancient cities and those that carried their unique look through the centuries.

Contents:

Nineveh — the ancient capital of Assyria
Sinful and Great Babylon
Jericho — the City of Palms
Warrior Sparta
Ur of the Chaldees
The Elder of Capitals Damascus
Legends and Reality of Merv
Memphis
Anuradhapura — the ancient capital of Ceylon
Mohenjo-daro
Akhetaton — the city of Pharaoh-heretic Akhenaten
Ancient Ebla on the land of Canaan
The bride of the desert Palmyra
Samarkand — the capital of the great Timur
The Hundred-Gated Thebes
Noble Bukhara
Ancient Athens
The Holy City of Jerusalem
Imperial Beijing
Hangzhou — a jewel of China
Carthage must be…
The suffering city of Yerevan
Legends of the “Eternal City”
Under the Star of Bethlehem
Meroe
Legendary Petra
Constantinople — Istanbul
Alexandria in Egypt
Sacred Mecca
Barcelona
Brilliant Cordoba
Xi’an
Aksum — Ethiopia’s sacred city
Toledo — the old capital of Spain
Kabul — the capital of “the country that is higher than the flight of the eagle”
Florence — the flower of Tuscany
London
O, Paris!
Medieval Cologne
Stones of ancient Tipasa
Old and international Geneva
Cave cities of Cappadocia
Warm city of Tbilisi
Golden Prague
Brussels
Chichén-Itzá — the city of cities of the Maya
Most Serene Venice
On the streets of Lhasa
Lisbon — the capital at the edge of Europe
Antwerp
Delhi
Stockholm, sailing on waves
Baghdad — the city of “a thousand and one nights”
Sacred Tula — the capital of the Toltecs
Fez — the religious capital of Morocco
Eternal beauty of Kyoto
Lord the Great Novgorod
Krakow
Tehran
Great Rostov
Kyiv — mother of Russian cities
Budapest — the jewel of the Danube
Madrid
Cairo
Smiling city of Hanoi
Vienna
Old and New Warsaw
Timbuktu — the gateway to the Sahara
Edinburgh
Oslo
How Moscow was built…
Turku — the first capital of Finland
Berlin
The sacred villages of the Dogons
Amsterdam
Along Copenhagen with Andersen
Tokyo
Havana
Jakarta — the capital on the equator
Buenos Aires
Golden cities of the Inca Empire
From Tenochtitlan to Mexico City
High-altitude city of La Paz
Valletta — the capital of the Knights of Malta
Bombay — the gateway to India
Carnival Rio
Manila — the Philippine Babylon
“The Big Apple” of New York
The glorious city of Ulaanbaatar
Montreal — the city of all saints
Calcutta — the most Indian city
Saigon on the Saigon River
The birth of Saint Petersburg
San Francisco
From Ayutthaya to Bangkok
Multifaceted Singapore
In Chicago — on the homeland of May Day
Melbourne — capital of the state of Victoria
Port city of Shanghai
Hong Kong