N. European city with a service to fish out cars that fall into its canals, the Dijks, for example
In legend, Peter the Great indicated this city's site by walking into a swamp & planting his bayonet
Many composers including Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, & Strauss, made this capital their home
The 4 cities beginning with "M" that hosted the Summer Olympics in 1968, 1972, 1976 & 1980
Oscar Wilde, Chopin, & Sarah Bernhardt are buried in this city known for its beautiful cemeteries
In a 1918 treaty, this country gave up Ukraine but soon recovered it
In 1929, the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats 8: Slovenes became known as this
The 1867 British North America Act united 3 colonies under this single name
When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of these French Protestants fled to America
In 1835, many of them left Cape Colony & began their historic "Great Trek" to what's now the Transvaal