Sentence examples for historical capitals from inspiring English sources

Ironically the gentle waters of the Akhuryan River flow past four of the 12 historical capitals of ancient Armenia, including the medieval Armenian city of Ani - the city of "1001 churches" now in ruins near the closed Turkish-Armenian border.

Cetinje, the historical capital of Montenegro, boasts many historic buildings, including the five-complex National Museum of Montenegro, which maintains separate art, ethnographic, and historical museums.

The town was the historical capital of Champagne.

Sukhothai, town and historical capital of a former kingdom of north-central Thailand.

Montenegro's administrative capital is Podgorica, though its cultural centre is the historical capital and older city of Cetinje.

Getting there From Hamburg it's a 90-minute drive to Burg, the historical capital of Fehmarn.

Umerov was the mayor of Bakhchisarai, the historical capital of the Crimean Tatars, for nine years before the Russian annexation.

Ten miles outside this dust-blown city, the historical capital of Afghanistan, gunmen belonging to the local warlord guard the airport, which American forces use as a base.

At the Khan's Palace in Bakhchysarai, the historical capital of the Crimean Tatars, tourists and a Russian wedding party posed for photographs on Sunday as Tatars sat outside the mosque.

Iraqi Kurds enjoy a large degree of autonomy and self-government in the north-east but have long coveted Kirkuk, a city with huge oil reserves which they regard as their historical capital.

Whereas historical capital flows rarely ever produced so-called twin crises — simultaneous collapses of a financial system's exchange rate and its banking system — the past 25 years have produced about 60 such crises.