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Saint Augustine, on the Atlantic coast of Florida, was founded in 1565 by Spanish explorer and admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.

It is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city and port in the continental United States.

Saint Johns, the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, is the oldest settlement in North America to be incorporated as a city, with year-round settlement beginning sometime before 1620 and seasonal settlement long before that.

Located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, it is believed that John Cabot was the first European to enter the harbor, on the Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist (6-4-1497). Another source of the city's name was from Basque fishermen who were reminded of the shoreline at the San Juan on the coast of Basque Country (Spain).

Saint Louis, Missouri, is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River near the confluence with the Missouri River. Founded in 1764 by Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, it became a major port on the Mississippi River after the Louisiana Purchase (1803).

The city skyline is dominated by the Gateway Arch, a monument built to commemorate the role of St. Louis in the westward expansion of the United States. The Arch was designed by architect Eero Saarinen.

Saint Petersburg, Russia, is located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea (Karelian Isthmus).

Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia on May 27, 1703, and was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years. Thousands of conscripted peasants from all over Russia died in building the city.

During World War II, from September 1941 to January 1944, Leningrad (Soviet Union name honoring Vladimer Lenin) was devastated by one of the longest and most destructive sieges (Nazi Germany) in history, and one of the most costly in terms of casualties.

The city has been known by other, more “Russianized” names: Petrograd (Peter's City), and Leningrad (Lenin's City).

Notable people associated with Saint Petersburg: George Balanchine, Irina Baronova, Ivan Bilibin, Georg Cantor, Alexandra Kollontai, Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Pavlov, Anna Pavlova, Ayn Rand, Ida Rubinstein, Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Lou Andreas-Salomé.

Samarkand, today the second-largest city in the central Asian country of Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand Province, is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, prospering from its location on the Silk Road trade route between China and the Mediterranean.

In the 14th century, it became the capital of the empire of Timur (Tamerlane), and is the site of his mausoleum (the Gur-e Amir). Noted for being an Islamic center for scholarly study, the Bibi-Khanym Mosque remains one of its most notable landmarks. The Registan was the ancient center of the city.

• Tamerlane and Other Poems, Edgar Allen Poe
• Tamburlaine (Dover Thrift Editions), a play by Christopher Marlowe
• Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World