Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “Mu...-My...-”
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Mumbai, the largest city in India and the second most populous city in the world (14 million), began as fishing villages on seven islands along the west coast of the subcontinent.

The name Mumbai is from the goddess Mumbadevi, and Aai, “mother”; the Portuguese and English called the city Bombay. The English controlled Bombay beginning in 1661 and made it the center of their authority by 1708.

Notable people associated with Mumbai include Rudyard Kipling, Ismail Merchant, Salman Rushdie.

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Munich, the third largest city in Germany (after Berlin and Hamburg), is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

The city's name means “by the monks' place” derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city.

Notable people associated with Munich include: Orlando di Lasso, W.A. Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Carl Orff, Franz Marc, Thomas Mann, Adolph Hitler, Ludwig Hohlwein, Wassily Kandinsky, Lola Montez, William of Ockham, Georg Ohm, Wilhelm Roetgen, Lucia Popp, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Vladimir Lenin, Oswald Spengler, Feodor Lynen.

Muscat, the capital and largest city in Oman, lies on the Arabian Sea along the Gulf of Oman near the Straits of Hormuz. The Western Al Hajar Mountains separating the coastal plain from the high desert plateau, form the backdrop of Muscat.

There is evidence of human community back to the 6th millennium BCE.

In the second millennium BC Mycenae, as a military stronghold dominating much of southern Greece, was one of the major centers of Greek civilization.