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Vis (town)
Vis (town) is a town and port on the northern coast of Dalmatia, founded in the 4th century BC on the site of Issa, an important Greek colony.
Visoko
Visoko, a city in Zenica-Doboj Canton, central Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the medieval Bosnian royal seat (Visoki, Mile, Kulin's 1189 charter) and is now known for tourism and the disputed Bosnian pyramid claims.
Vlorë
Vlorë (Vlora), coastal city in southern Albania where the Adriatic meets the Ionian; Albania's second port and site of the 28 November 1912 declaration of independence by Ismail Qemali, now a Riviera tourism hub with a new airport.
Vratsa
Vratsa (Враца) is a city in northwestern Bulgaria, the largest settlement of the Bulgarian northwest and capital of Vratsa Province, known for the Rogozen Thracian treasure, the Vratsata gorge, and an industrial and cultural economy.
Vukovar
Vukovar: Croatian city in Eastern Slavonia on the Danube border with Serbia; free royal town since 1231; besieged and destroyed by the JNA in an 87-day siege in 1991, site of the Ovčara massacre, reintegrated in 1998.
Zagreb
Zagreb, capital and largest city of Croatia (Gradec and Kaptol united 1850), 769,944 inhabitants at the 2021 census, one-third of national GDP, struck by the 2020 earthquake with ongoing reconstruction.
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin (Зрењанин) is a city in the Banat region of Vojvodina, Serbia, with 76,511 inhabitants at the 2011 census; until 1935 it was called Bečkerek, and from 1935 to 1946 Petrovgrad.