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Caracas, the capital and largest city in Venezuela, is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa).

Notable people associated with Caracas include Simon Bolivar.

The area of Carcassonne, in southern France near the Mediterrean coast, has had settlements from about 3500 BC.

The fortified Cité de Carcassonne was founded by the Visigoths in the fifth century, though the Romans had fortified the settlement earlier.

Carcassonne was a stronghold of the Occitan Cathars and played an important role in the Albigensian Crusades.

UNESCO World Heritage site.

Cartagena, located on the Caribbean coast, is the fifth-largest city in Colombia as well a popular tourist destination. The name is from the Spanish city of Cartagena which is port located on the Mediterranean.

Cartagena's colonial walled city and extensive fortifications were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.

The privateer Sir Francis Drake sacked and looted Spanish holdings in the Caribbean, including Cartagena, Santo Domingo and Saint Augustine in Spanish Florida, in 1585.

FYI - In the 1984 movie Romancing the Stone the character Joan Wilder was traveling to Cartagena (but the scenes were filmed in Mexico). Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez sets many of his stories in Cartagena, though the city is unnamed in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera, the movie was filmed in the city.

Carthage was a major city that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, in northern Africa.

The city's location made it master of the Mediterranean's maritime trade, first developed from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC.

According to Roman sources, Phoenician colonists from modern-day Lebanon, led by Queen Dido (Elissa), founded Carthage.

It is currently a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia.