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Colchester, as the oldest recorded Roman town in Britain, claims to be the oldest town in Britain.

Pre-Roman king Cunobeline (Cymbeline) minted coins there, and both Pliny the Elder and Tacitus mentioned the town in their histories.

The name Colchester is from the Latin place-name suffix chester (cester, caster) for castrum or fortified place, though local legend has the town as the home of Old King Cole.

Colchester is also cited as the source of the Humpty-Dumpty rhyme, Jane Taylor wrote the rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star there, it has been suggested as a potential site of Camelot (based on the Celtic name Camulodunon), part of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders is set in Colchester, George Orwell mentions Colchester as where bombs fell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Doctor Who has several episodes set in the town.

Other people associated with Colchester: Margaret Thatcher, John Ball, Sir Roger Penrose.

Most Ancient European Towns Network: Argos, Beziers, Cadiz, Colchester, Cork, Evora, Maastricht, Roskilde, Tongeren, Worms.

Cologne, Germany's fourth-largest city (after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich), is located on the Rhine River.

Cologne was founded by the Romans in 50 AD and due to its location became a major trading center and political center - so important that a bridge was built over the Rhine by Constantine in 310.

Cologne was heavily bombed by Allies during WWII, reducing the city population by 95% (evacuation and death) and destroying much of the old city center. Cologne was called the “world's greatest heap of rubble” in 1945 by an architect/city planner.

Notable people associated with Cologne include Joost van den Vondel, Albertus Magnus, Johann Adam Schall von Bell.

Conakry, a port city on the Atlantic Ocean, is the capital and largest city in Guinea. It was founded on the Tombo Island of the Iles de Los, and has spread to the Kaloum Peninsula.

Constantinople, today known as Istanbul, was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires.

Constantine the Great made the city the eastern capital of the Roman Empire, hence the name the “City of Constantine”.

Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.

Notable people associated with Constantinople: Empress Theodora, Anna Komnene, André Chénier.

Copán was the capital city of a Mayan Classic period kingdom from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. Copán was occupied for more than two thousand years and at the peak of its power had a population of at least 20,000, covering an area of over 100 square miles (250 sq. km.).

The archaelogical site is located in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala.

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Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on the islands of Zealand and Amager.

The year 1167 is the traditional date of the founding of Copenhagen.

Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmo have been connected by toll bridge/tunnel since 2000, creating a major Northern European center of culture, business, media, and science spanning two countries.

Notable people associated with Copenhagen: Niels Bohr, Victor Borge, August Bournonville, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Lauritz Melchior, Kay Nielsen.

Cordobá, in Andalusia, Spain, was both an Iberian and Roman city before becoming the capital of and Islamic caliphate in the Middle Ages. There are archeological traces of Neaderthals dating to c. 32,000 BC.

Famous people associated with Cordobá: Seneca, Averroes, Maimonides, and Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

The site of ancient Corinth, a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth, was occupied as early as the Neolithic period.

The Greek myths inform us that the city was found by Corinthos who descended from Helios, the Sun. (BTW - coincidence? - character Sonny Corinthos of General Hospital.)

Paul wrote two letter, epistles, to the Christian community at Corinth (1 & II Corinthians). The philosopher Diogenes of Sinope died in Corinth.

Cork, the second largest city in Ireland, began as a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century.

Most Ancient European Towns Network: Argos, Beziers, Cadiz, Colchester, Cork, Evora, Maastricht, Roskilde, Tongeren, Worms.