Dubai’s modern history is, essentially, a 50-year story of deliberate, willed transformation — from a modest pearling and trading settlement […]

People have lived continuously on this spot since roughly 250 BC, when a Celtic tribe called the Parisii settled the

Bali’s Hindu culture exists because of a historical accident worth knowing. As Islam spread across the Indonesian archipelago from the

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

Jaipur was founded in 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, a Rajput ruler and noted astronomer, who relocated his

Reykjavik’s founding is traditionally dated to 874 AD, when Ingolfur Arnarson, generally regarded as Iceland’s first permanent Norse settler, established