Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “Bi...-Bo...-”
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers, theme decor for office and studio.

The area around Birmingham, England shows human activity from the Stone Age, Bronze Age settlements, Roman forts and roads, and the Anglo-Saxon era.

In 1150s a local lord was granted permission to hold a market, he purposely developed a commercial center around the area still known by the name Bull Ring.

The market town then grew as a textile center, and even larger due to the easy access to iron ore and coal that lead to metal working endeavors and the Industrial Revolution. Matthew Boulton, a Birmingham manufacturer of metal products, became a partner to James Watt and promoted the steam engine which assured the city's reputation. Today Birmingham is ranked as a beta world city.

Birmingham was also heavily bombed by the Germans in World War II.

Notable people associated with Birmingham include Francis William Aston, W. H. Auden, Barbara Cartland, Arthur Conan Doyle, Washington Irving, Jane Loudon, Cardinal Newman, Ozzy Osborne, Joseph Priestley, John Ray, J.R.R. Tolkin.

FYI - The city of Birmingham, Alabama was named after Birmingham, England.

Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, was founded by Spanish colonists in 1538.

Bogata is the 3rd highest capital in South America (after La Paz and Quito) at 8,612 ft. (2,625 meters) above sea level.

Bologna is the home of the oldest university in the world, established in 1088.

Famous people associated with Bologna include Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Laura Bassi, Thomas Becket, Boccaccio, Giosuè Carducci, Copernicus, Dante, Umberto Eco, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Farinelli, Lavinia Fontana, Luigi Galvani, Marcello Malpighi, Guglielmo Marconi, Petrarch, Gioachino Rossini, Elisabetta Sirani, Giuseppe Torelli.

Bonn, located south of Cologne on the Rhine River, served as the capitial of post war Germany between 1949-1999.

Bonn was the site of a Roman fort, and the Sterntor (star gate) in the town center is a reconstruction using the last remnants of the medieval city wall which was constructed from the stone fort of the Romans.

Famous people associated with Bonn include Beethoven, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, August Macke, Robert Schumann, and E.F. Schumacher.

Boston, in the US state of Massachusetts, is both its capital and largest city. Boston is also one of the oldest cities in the United States, being founded by English Puritan colonists in 1630 on the Shawmut Peninsula on the Massachusetts Bay.

Notable people associated with Boston include Henry Adams, Samuel Adams, Crispus Attucks, Charles Bulfinch, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Knox, Paul Revere, Phillis Wheatley.