Cusco — Qusqu in Quechua — was founded, according to Inca oral tradition, by the legendary first Inca ruler Manco […]

Marrakech was founded in 1062 by the Almoravid dynasty — Berber Muslim rulers who, at their height, controlled territory stretching

Barcelona’s history is inseparable from its Catalan identity — the city has been the capital of Catalonia, a distinct Romance-language-speaking

It started in 1879 with a British planter named John Daniel Munro, who leased land from the Poonjar royal family

Abu Dhabi’s leap from a modest pearling and fishing settlement to a genuine global capital is almost entirely the story

Everything changes in 1848. Gold turns up in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and San Francisco’s population explodes from a few

Petra was the capital of the Nabataean kingdom — Arab traders who, from around the 4th century BC, controlled the

It started in 1883 with a stroke of luck. Railway workers building the Canadian Pacific Railway stumbled on hot springs

Istanbul’s history runs deep enough that it’s genuinely hard to compress — founded as Byzantium by Greek colonists around 657

Kyoto became Japan’s imperial capital in 794 AD under Emperor Kanmu, who named his new city Heian-kyo. It held that