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Banja Luka
Banja Luka (Бања Лука), second-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina (~185,000) and seat of Republika Srpska, lies on the Vrbas river; rebuilt after the 1969 earthquake, it centers on administration, banking, and timber.
Bansko (Банско)
Bansko (Банско) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria at the foot of the Pirin mountains, 150 km from Sofia, transformed by a 2003 gondola lift into the country's flagship ski resort.
Belgrade (Београд)
Belgrade, also known as Beograd or Белград, is the capital of Serbia, at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, with about 1.68 million people.
Bitola (Битола)
Bitola (Битола; known as Manastır or Monastir under Ottoman rule) is a city in southwestern North Macedonia at the foot of Baba Mountain, a former Ottoman administrative capital and a UNESCO City of Film.
Bjelovar
Bjelovar, city in central Croatia, seat of Bjelovar-Bilogora County. Founded 1756 by Maria Theresa as a Military Frontier center; Free Royal City 1874; 24,392 residents (2021); Day of the City 29 September.
Bor, Serbia
Bor (Бор) is a mining town in eastern Serbia, population about 41,000, built around the RTB Bor copper mine opened in 1903 and majority-owned since 2018 by China's Zijin Mining Group.
Budva
Budva, Montenegro's Adriatic resort town and center of the Budva Riviera, over 2,500 years old with a walled Old Town; leading beach tourism destination, also known for uncontrolled investor-driven construction called Budvanizacija.
Burgas (Бургас)
Burgas (Бургас) is a Black Sea port city in eastern Bulgaria, center of Burgas Province. Key facts: about 189,000 city residents (2025), 5.22% of national GDP from its district, major oil refinery, port, and airport.
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatian Adriatic city whose walled Old City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979; famed for 1,940-metre walls, the 1667 earthquake, the 1991-92 siege, and its Respect the City overtourism management.
Durrës
Durrës, historically Epidamnus and Dyrrachium, is Albania's second largest city and main seaport, about 33 kilometers west of Tirana, handling over 90 percent of national port cargo.
Gabrovo (Габрово)
Gabrovo (Габрово) is a town in central Bulgaria on the Yantra River, an industrial center known as the country's capital of humor and among its longest towns.
Gjakova
Gjakova (Gjakovë, Đakovica) is a city in western Kosovo, seat of Gjakova District, known for its Ottoman-era Grand Bazaar (Çarshia e Madhe), largely burned in 1999 and rebuilt; municipality 78,824 residents per the 2024 census.
Ilidža
Ilidža is a municipality of Kanton Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the foot of Mount Igman near Sarajevo, known for its thermal-mineral springs, Roman-era Aquae settlement, and the Vrelo Bosne park.
Ioannina (Ιωάννινα)
Ioannina (Ιωάννινα, Yannena), city in northwestern Greece, capital of Epirus on Lake Pamvotis; 64,896 residents (2021), Byzantine foundation, Ottoman era under Ali Pasha 1788–1822, joined Greece 1913.
Kavala (Καβάλα)
Kavala (Καβάλα), historically Neapolis and Christoupolis, is a port city in northeastern Greece on the Aegean Sea and the capital of the Kavala regional unit.
Koper
Koper (Capodistria) is a Slovenian Adriatic port city and municipality of about 54,000, home to Slovenia's only seaport, Luka Koper, which handled 1.27 million TEUs in 2025.
Koprivnica
Koprivnica is a city in northwestern Croatia and the seat of Koprivnica-Križevci County, about 96 km from Zagreb, best known as the home of the food company Podravka.
Korçë
Korçë (Korça), southeastern Albanian city, seat of Korçë County; eighth most populous in Albania, home of the 1887 first Albanian school, Old Bazaar, Beer Festival, and new festival and university hubs.
Kotor (Котор)
Kotor (Котор), Montenegro: medieval Adriatic port town at the head of Boka Kotorska Bay, core of the UNESCO World Heritage Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor (inscribed 1979), heavily damaged by the 1979 earthquake, now a major cruise port facing overtourism and risk-management programs.
Kragujevac
Kragujevac (Крагујевац), central Serbian city, fourth largest (171,186, 2022 census), seat of Šumadija District; first capital of modern Serbia 1818–1841, industrial center with Stellantis car plant and October 1941 massacre memorial.
Kraljevo
Kraljevo (Краљево), formerly Karanovac, is a city in central Serbia at the Ibar–West Morava confluence, near the royal coronation monastery Žiča, with 110,196 inhabitants (2022) across 92 settlements.
Kumanovo
Kumanovo (Куманово) is a city and municipality in northeastern North Macedonia, 35 km from Skopje; named after the Cumans, first recorded in 1519, site of the 1912 Battle of Kumanovo.
Labin
Labin, also known as Albona, is a hilltop town in eastern Istria, Croatia, near the coastal resort of Rabac, known for its medieval old town and coal mining.
Marathon, Greece
Marathon (Marathonas), Attica, Greece: coastal town 40 km northeast of Athens, site of the 490 BC battle, origin of the 42.195 km marathon race, home of the Soros mound, Marathon Dam and lake, and the Athens Authentic Marathon start.
Maribor
Maribor (German Marburg) is Slovenia's second largest city on the Drava river, first recorded in 1164 as Marchburch. Seat of the Podravska region, home of the world's oldest vine, European Capital of Culture 2012, about 114,900 residents in 2026.
Mostar
Mostar, city on the Neretva River in Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina; named for its Old Bridge (Stari Most), built 1566 by Hayruddin, destroyed 1993, rebuilt 2004, UNESCO World Heritage since 2005; 105,797 residents (2013 census).
Nicosia (Λευκωσία)
Nicosia (Λευκωσία; Turkish: Lefkoşa) is the capital of Cyprus, the world's last divided capital since 1974, whose Greek and Turkish Cypriot sectors are separated by a UN buffer zone.
Niš
Niš (Ниш), ancient Naissus, is Serbia's third largest city, at the Nišava–South Morava confluence in the Nišava valley. Birthplace of Constantine the Great, seat of the Nišava District, 249,501 residents (2022 census), regional center of southeastern Serbia.
Novi Sad (Нови Сад)
Novi Sad (Нови Сад, Neusatz, Újvidék) is Serbia's second-largest city and the capital of Vojvodina on the Danube; founded as a free royal city in 1748, nicknamed the Serbian Athens, European Capital of Culture 2022.
Ohrid
Ohrid (Охрид) is a lakeside city in southwestern North Macedonia, ancient Lychnidos, core of the transboundary Lake Ohrid UNESCO World Heritage property, with the oldest Slav monastery, 800+ Byzantine icons, and over 200 endemic lake species.