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Pančevo
Pančevo (Панчево) is a city in the South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia, standing on the Tamiš river just above its confluence with the Danube, about 18 km from Belgrade.
Patras (Πάτρα)
Patras (Πάτρα, Patrai) is Greece's third-largest city and the main port of Western Greece, on the Gulf of Patras 216 km west of Athens; known for the currant trade, the 1829 Patras Carnival, and the University of Patras.
Piraeus (Πειραιάς)
Piraeus (Πειραιάς) is the port city of Athens and Greece's largest port, ancient naval base with three harbors, now Europe's fifth-largest container port, 67% owned by COSCO since 2016.
Plovdiv (Пловдив)
Plovdiv (Пловдив), Bulgaria's second city on the Maritsa River, one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited cities (Eumolpias, Philippopolis, Filibe), Roman theatre and stadium, Trakia Economic Zone, European Capital of Culture 2019.
Podgorica
Podgorica (Подгорица), formerly Titograd (1948-1992), is the capital and largest city of Montenegro on the Morača and Ribnica rivers; 179,505 residents (2023 census), 44.5 m altitude, modified Mediterranean climate.
Podujevë
Podujevë (Podujevo), town and municipality in northeastern Kosovo, center of the Llap region; 88,499 residents in 2011, about 71,000 in 2024 KAS data, 78 villages, mayor Shpejtim Bulliqi.
Pomorie (Поморие)
Pomorie (Поморие), formerly Anhialo/Anchialus, is a Black Sea town in Burgas Province, Bulgaria, on a 3.5 km peninsula. Founded as an Apollonia colony, an Ottoman salt center, burned 1906, renamed 1934, known for salt, mud therapy, and wine.
Pristina
Pristina, also known as Prishtinë (Приштина), is the capital and largest city of Kosovo, its political, administrative, and university center, with a population of about 220,000.
Prizren
Prizren is a historic city in southern Kosovo on the Lumbardh river, seat of the 1878 Albanian League and Kosovo's cultural capital, with a fortress, Sinan Pasha Mosque, and a diverse multiethnic population of about 178,000.
Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska: one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, proclaimed 9 January 1992, verified by the Dayton Agreement; 24,641 km² (49% of BiH), de jure capital Sarajevo, seat in Banja Luka.
Sarajevo
Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a valley city of four municipalities and roughly 275,000–450,000 people; host of the 1984 Winter Olympics, besieged 1992–96, and among Europe's most winter-polluted capitals.
Sarandë
Sarandë (Saranda) is a coastal city and municipality in southern Albania on the Ionian Sea opposite Corfu, the largest town of the Albanian Riviera, ancient Onhezmi, named for the Monastery of the 40 Saints, with ferries to Corfu and Butrint nearby.
Senj
Senj, also known as Zengg, is a Croatian port town on the Adriatic below the Velebit mountains, known for its 1558 Nehaj Fortress and strong bora wind.
Shkodër
Shkodër (Shkodra, historically Scutari) is a city and municipality in northwestern Albania on Lake Shkodër, with about 214,897 residents, four major natural-tourism landscapes, and a €100 million Gateway to the Alps infrastructure program.
Široki Brijeg
Široki Brijeg, a city in West Herzegovina Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Lištica river near Mostar; formerly Lise, Široki brig, and Lištica; about 29,000 municipal residents, Franciscan monastery founded 1846, developed economy, and NK Široki Brijeg football club.
Skopje (Скопје)
Skopje (Скопје), capital and largest city of North Macedonia on the Vardar river; rebuilt after the 1963 earthquake under Kenzo Tange's UN plan, reshaped by the Skopje 2014 project, and home to a third of the country's population.
Slovenj Gradec
Slovenj Gradec is a town in the Mislinja valley, Koroška, Slovenia; seat of the region's only urban municipality (17,063 residents, 2026). Founded by the Counts of Andechs, granted town rights in 1267, Peace Messenger City since 1989.
Smolyan (Смолян)
Smolyan (Смолян), formerly Pashmakli until 1934, is a mountain town and district center in the Central Rhodopes of southern Bulgaria, formed in 1960 by merging Smolyan, Ezerovo, Raykovo, and Ustovo; district population 88,816 (2025), lowest birth rate in Bulgaria, Pamporovo resort nearby.
Sofia (София)
Sofia (София), capital and largest city of Bulgaria, formerly Serdica, Sredets, and Triaditsa; capital since 1879, in the Sofia Valley at about 550 m altitude, with roughly 1.3–1.8 million residents and about 43% of national GDP.
Sombor (Сомбор)
Sombor (Сомбор, Hungarian Zombor) is a city in northwestern Bačka, Vojvodina, Serbia, near the Hungarian border; a free royal city since 1749, former Bač-Bodrog county seat, agricultural center with about 100,000 municipality residents.
Srebrenica
Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia's Republika Srpska on the Drina river, was a medieval silver-mining center and is now known for the July 1995 genocide of over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys and the Potočari memorial.
Stara Zagora (Стара Загора)
Stara Zagora (Стара Загора), also Augusta Trayana, Beroe, Vereya, Boruy, is a city in south-central Bulgaria, provincial capital, settled since the 7th millennium BC, razed in 1877 and rebuilt on a grid plan.
Struga (Струга)
Struga (Струга; Strugë) is a town in southwestern North Macedonia on the northern shore of Lake Ohrid, known as a city of poetry for its Struga Poetry Evenings festival.
Subotica (Суботица)
Subotica (Суботица, Szabadka) is a city in far northern Serbia on the Hungarian border, in Vojvodina, first mentioned in 1391 and famous for over 100 Art Nouveau buildings, including the 1908–1910 City Hall and 1902 Synagogue by Komor and Jakab.
Sunny Beach (Слънчев бряг)
Sunny Beach (Слънчев бряг, Slanchev Bryag) is Bulgaria's largest Black Sea resort near Nessebar, founded by 1958 Decree No. 120, privatized after 1989, with over 1.5 million annual tourists.
Tirana
Tirana (Tiranë), capital and largest city of Albania since 1920; 598,176 residents (2023 census), about 42% of national GDP, marked by Italian-era planning, communist demolition, and a post-1991 construction boom.
Travnik
Travnik, a town in central Bosnia about 90 km west of Sarajevo, was the seat of Ottoman viziers 1699–1850/51. Known for its medieval Stari grad fortress, Ivo Andrić's birthplace, and Plava Voda.
Tuzla
Tuzla (Bosnian city, Turkish tuz = salt), northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, inhabited since the Neolithic; known for salt mining that caused up to 12 m of ground subsidence, the Pannonica salt lakes, and growing urban and health tourism.
Ulcinj
Ulcinj (Albanian: Ulqin) is Montenegro's southernmost coastal town, center of the Albanian community, with a layered old town (Venetian 1421–1571, Ottoman 1571–1878), 15 km of sandy beaches, Velika Plaza, and the Ulcinj Salina bird habitat.
Veliko Tarnovo (Велико Търново)
Veliko Tarnovo (Велико Търново), medieval Tarnovgrad, is a city on the Yantra River in northern Bulgaria, capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire from 1186, centered on the Tsarevets fortress with royal palace and Patriarchate.