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[ "Kielce", "Keltz", "Kel'tse", "Kelts", "Kilts", "Kiltz", "Kel'tsy" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.05, "text": "Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Świętokrzyskie Province, or Holy Cross Province ( ) is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. It is situated in southeastern Poland, in the historical province of Lesser Poland, and takes its name from the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) mountain range. Its capital and largest city is Kielce. Świętokrzyskie Province is bounded by six other voivodeships: Masovian to the north, Lublin to the east, Subcarpathian to the southeast, Lesser Poland to the south, Silesian to the southwest, and Łódź to the northwest. The province was created on 1 January 1999, out of the", "title": "Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.25, "text": "Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski is a town in south-central Poland (historic province of Lesser Poland) with 74,211 inhabitants (2006). The main industry is metallurgy. Ostrowiec is the capital city of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski County, part of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (since 1999), previously it belonged to Kielce Voivodeship (1975–1998). It received town charter in 1613. Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (the town is often referred to as Ostrowiec) lies on the Kamienna river. Northern districts are located in the Iłża Foothills, while southern part belongs to the Opatów Upland. Swietokrzyskie Mountains lie a few kilometers away, southwest of Ostrowiec. The town is one of historic centers", "title": "Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.16, "text": "in the following table (ordering within categories is by decreasing population). Protected areas in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship include one National Park and nine Landscape Parks. These are listed below. Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Świętokrzyskie Province, or Holy Cross Province ( ) is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. It is situated in southeastern Poland, in the historical province of Lesser Poland, and takes its name from the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) mountain range. Its capital and largest city is Kielce. Świętokrzyskie Province is bounded by six other voivodeships: Masovian to the north, Lublin to the east, Subcarpathian", "title": "Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.91, "text": "have had an important influence upon the cultural development of the town. Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski is twinned with the following cities: Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski is a town in south-central Poland (historic province of Lesser Poland) with 74,211 inhabitants (2006). The main industry is metallurgy. Ostrowiec is the capital city of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski County, part of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (since 1999), previously it belonged to Kielce Voivodeship (1975–1998). It received town charter in 1613. Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (the town is often referred to as Ostrowiec) lies on the Kamienna river. Northern districts are located in the Iłża Foothills, while southern part belongs to", "title": "Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.92, "text": "Kielce Kielce () is a city in south central Poland with 196,335 inhabitants. It has been the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Holy Cross Province) since 1999, and was previously the capital of the predecessor Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939, 1945–1998). The city is located in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the banks of the Silnica River, in northern part of the historical Polish province of Lesser Poland. The history of Kielce dates back over 900 years and the exact date when the town was founded remains unknown. The name of the city derives from the", "title": "Kielce" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.61, "text": "Łagów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Łagów is a town in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łagów. It lies approximately east of the regional capital Kielce. The village, which used to be a town from 1253 to 1869, lies at the eastern edge off the Swietokrzyskie Mountains, along National Road Nr. 74, which goes from Kielce to Zamość. Historically, Łagów belongs to Lesser Poland. According to Jan Długosz, in the year 1085 Prince Władysław I Herman gave the settlement of Łagów to the bishops of Włocławek. The name of the", "title": "Łagów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.56, "text": "Ostrowiec County Ostrowiec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, which lies east of the regional capital Kielce. The county also contains the towns of Ćmielów, lying south-east of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, and Kunów, west of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 116,179, out of which the population of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski is", "title": "Ostrowiec County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.52, "text": "Busko-Zdrój Busko-Zdrój ( ) is a spa town in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland. It is the capital of Busko County. In 2010, its population was 32,274. The origin of Busko goes back to the 12th century, when a group of shepherds settled around St. Leonard's church. In 1185, Knight Dersław, the owner of Busko and its surroundings, brought Norbertine nuns to the land. Knight Dersław left his property to the nuns in 1241. In 1251, it received a revenue privilege from King Bolesław V the Chaste \"\"(Bolesław Wstydliwy)\"\" allowing the convent to use the salt water. This is the first record", "title": "Busko-Zdrój" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.45, "text": "Włoszczowa Włoszczowa is a town in Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, about west of Kielce. It is the capital of Włoszczowa County. Population is 10,756 (2004). Włoszczowa lies in historic Lesser Poland, and from its foundation until 1795 (see Partitions of Poland), it belonged to Sandomierz Voivodeship. The town has the area of , and is a junction of regional roads nr 786, nr 742, and 785. Włoszczowa has two rail stations: \"\"PKP Włoszczowa\"\" (on the Kielce - Częstochowa route), and \"\"PKP Włoszczowa Północ\"\" (\"\"Włoszczowa North\"\") (on the Central Rail Line). Włoszczowa was first mentioned in 1154, when Prince Henryk Sandomierski", "title": "Włoszczowa" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.27, "text": "and bones of domesticated animals from the 11th or 12th century. <br> Łagów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Łagów is a town in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łagów. It lies approximately east of the regional capital Kielce. The village, which used to be a town from 1253 to 1869, lies at the eastern edge off the Swietokrzyskie Mountains, along National Road Nr. 74, which goes from Kielce to Zamość. Historically, Łagów belongs to Lesser Poland. According to Jan Długosz, in the year 1085 Prince Władysław I Herman gave the", "title": "Łagów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship" } ]

[ "Manila", "City of Manila" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.95, "text": "Capital of the Philippines This is a list of current and former national capital cities in the Philippines, which includes during the time of the Spanish colonization, the First Philippine Republic, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the Second Republic of the Philippines (Japanese-Sponsored Republic), the Third Republic of the Philippines, the Fourth Republic of the Philippines and the current Fifth Republic of the Philippines. The current capital city, Manila, was established by presidential order on June 24, 1976. On April 7, 1521 Ferdinand Magellan landed in Cebu. He was welcomed by Rajah Humabon, who, together with his wife and about", "title": "Capital of the Philippines" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.44, "text": "and the Philippine Normal University During the time of the Commonwealth, Manila still served as the nation's capital. During these times too that Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon dreamed of a city that could become the future capital of the country, replacing Manila. In the summer of 1939 President Quezon contacted William Parsons and asked him to choose a new site for and then to design a new Philippine capital. Parsons arrived in June 1939 and eventually chose Diliman as the new capital site. He also managed to produce a master plan for the new University of the Philippines. Unfortunately", "title": "Capital of the Philippines" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.62, "text": "a widower, his surviving daughter, Victoria, would serve as the official hostess and perform the functions traditionally ascribed to the First Lady. On July 17, 1948, the Congress approved Republic Act No. 333, amending Commonwealth Act No. 502, declaring Quezon City the capital of the Philippines in place of Manila. Nevertheless, pending the official transfer of the government offices to the new capital site, Manila remained to be such for all effective purposes. The term HukBaLaHap was a contraction of \"\"Hukbong Bayan Laban sa mga Hapones\"\" (in English: The Nation's Army Against the Japanese Soldiers), members of which were commonly", "title": "Elpidio Quirino" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.09, "text": "Tacloban Tacloban was briefly the capital of the Philippines under the Commonwealth Government, from 20 October 1944 to 27 February 1945. In an extensive survey conducted by the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center and released in July 2010, Tacloban ranks as the fifth most competitive city in the Philippines, and second in the emerging cities category. On 8 November 2013, the city was largely destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan, having previously suffered similar destruction and loss of life in 1897 and 1912. On 17 January 2015, Pope Francis visited Tacloban during his Papal Visit to the Philippines and held a", "title": "Tacloban" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.86, "text": "Philippines, the governmental offices and the presidential residence transferred to Baguio, and the Mansion House was used as the official residence. Meanwhile, President Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth resided in the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. After the restoration of independence, plans were made for the construction of a new capital city. However, the plans did not push through and Manila remained as the capital city, and Malacañang Palace as the President's official residence. The Filipino name is derived from the Tagalog phrase \"\"\"\"may lakán diyán\"\"\"\", (\"\"there is a nobleman there\"\"), and this was eventually shortened to \"\"Malakanyáng\"\". Malacañang", "title": "President of the Philippines" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.64, "text": "Baguio was declared as a chartered city and nicknamed the \"\"Summer Capital of the Philippines\"\". The period after saw further development of Baguio with the construction of Wright Park in honor of Governor-General Luke Edward Wright, Burnham Park in honor of Burnham, Governor Pack Road, and Session Road. Prior to World War II, Baguio was the summer capital of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and the home of the Philippine Military Academy. Following the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army used Camp John Hay, an American installation in Baguio, as a military base. The nearby", "title": "Baguio" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.42, "text": "capital of the Philippines, and embassies were to be put up on the stretch of highway. Because the country's capital was moved back to Manila in 1976, other establishments were put up instead. The Don Mariano Marcos Avenue was later extended from the Elliptical Road to Calle Espana (now known as Espana Boulevard). The Don Mariano Marcos Avenue was later renamed into two parts, the Commonwealth Avenue and Quezon Avenue. Later Commonwealth Avenue regained the 8-lane Fairview Avenue, which ends in the Jordan Plains Subdivision in Novaliches. In the 1980s, the road was widened into a six-lane highway. During the", "title": "Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.42, "text": "for Manila based on the original Burnham Plan. This was printed and distributed free to the public for feedback. The final drawings and documents were recommended for approval in 1933 and eventually became the basis for Manila's first zoning ordinances. Burnham’s Manila plan was prepared for a city with a maximum population of 800,000 people. The population of the city of Manila was only 285,000 in 1918, but it grew at 5.6 percent per year to more than 600,000 in 1939. At that rate, Manila would have been filled to capacity. But then in the 1930s just as the Commonwealth", "title": "Capital of the Philippines" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.42, "text": "Bonifacio as part of the conversion plans then. While Gloria Macapagal Arroyo proposed that the nation's capital to move to Cebu City. Manila remains the capital city of the Philippines, but the administrative and political centers of the national government are spread throughout Metro Manila with the Executive (Malacañan Palace) and the Judiciary (Supreme Court) both in Manila while the legislative branch is located in two separate locations: The House of Representatives in Quezon City and the Senate in Pasay City. The Senate would eventually move to Bonifacio Global City in Taguig by 2020, while the New Supreme Court Building", "title": "Capital of the Philippines" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.42, "text": "Greater Manila Area (later, Metro Manila) designated as the seat of government on June 24, 1976 by Presidential Decree No. 940. President Marcos also considered an alternative site for the national capital. A joint study was conducted by the architecture and planning offices of Cesar Concio and Felipe Mendoza, comparing the original Novaliches site and a newly reclaimed stretch of land south of the new Cultural Center of the Philippines. but the Novaliches was still chosen for the proposed capital. During the administration of Fidel V. Ramos there were suggestions during his term to move the nation's capital to Fort", "title": "Capital of the Philippines" } ]

[ "Port of Spain", "Port-of-Spain", "Puerto España" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.84, "text": "municipalities in Trinidad: Port of Spain, the capital, San Fernando, Arima and Chaguanas. The main town in Tobago is Scarborough. Trinidad is made up of a variety of soil types, the majority being fine sands and heavy clays. The alluvial valleys of the Northern Range and the soils of the East–West Corridor are the most fertile. The Northern Range consists mainly of Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous metamorphic rocks. The Northern Lowlands (East–West Corridor and Caroni Plains) consist of younger shallow marine clastic sediments. South of this, the Central Range fold and thrust belt consists of Cretaceous and Eocene sedimentary rocks,", "title": "Trinidad and Tobago" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.75, "text": "Trinidad and Tobago, was appointed Chief Justice of the Federation in August, 1961. Three member states were proposed as hosts for the capital city of the federation: Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. Earlier in the federal negotiations the general opinion had been that the capital should be one of the smaller islands so that the capital would be in a neutral position to the larger territories and it would be able to inject some buoyancy into one of the (then) poorer economies. To this end, Grenada was \"\"tentatively\"\" selected as the member state to host the capital but this", "title": "West Indies Federation" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.7, "text": "capital. The Federation dissolved after the Jamaican Federation of the West Indies membership referendum of 1961, and the resulting withdrawal of the Province of Jamaica. The government of Trinidad and Tobago then also chose to seek independence from the United Kingdom on its own. In 1976, the country became a republic within the Commonwealth, though it retained the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as its final appellate court. Between the years 1972 and 1983, the republic profited greatly from the rising price of oil, as the oil-rich country increased its living standards greatly. In 1990, 114 members of the", "title": "Trinidad and Tobago" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.67, "text": "\"\"\"\"Sanitas Fortis\"\"\"\" - \"\"In a Healthy Environment We Will Find Strength\"\". Many local Trinidadians refer to the city with the shortened name \"\"Sando.\"\" San Fernando is called Trinidad and Tobago's \"\"industrial capital\"\" because of its proximity to the Pointe-a-Pierre oil refinery and many other petrochemical, LNG, iron and steel and aluminium smelters in places such as Point Lisas in Couva, Point Fortin, and La Brea. The Amerindians called the area \"\"Anaparima\"\", which has been translated as either \"\"single hill\"\" or \"\"without water\"\". A single hill, San Fernando Hill, rises from the centre of the city. A town named \"\"San Fernando", "title": "San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.58, "text": "A restructuring programme followed and attempts were made to diversify the economy. The development of a tourist industry began. Trinidad and Tobago obtained its independence from the British Empire in 1962 and became a republic in 1976. The population was 60,874 at the 2011 census. The capital, Scarborough, has a population of 17,537. While Trinidad is multiethnic, Tobago's population is primarily of African descent, although with a growing proportion of Trinidadians of East Indian descent and Europeans. Between 2000 and 2011, the population of Tobago grew by 12.55 percent, making it one of the fastest-growing areas of Trinidad and Tobago.", "title": "Tobago" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.39, "text": "Scarborough, Tobago Scarborough is a city and the capital of the Island of Tobago as well as the ninth-most-populous in Trinidad and Tobago. Scarborough became the capital of Tobago in 1769. In Western Tobago, at the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean, Scarborough is the economic and cultural center of the region of Tobago. The estimated population in 2011 was 17,537. Scarborough is ranked as one of Trinidad and Tobago's most densely populated towns alongside Port of Spain, San Fernando, Chaguanas and Arima. The town's skyline is dominated by Fort King George, an 18th-century fortification named after King George III, which", "title": "Scarborough, Tobago" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.2, "text": "Köppen Climate Classification subtype of Am. Scarborough, Tobago Scarborough is a city and the capital of the Island of Tobago as well as the ninth-most-populous in Trinidad and Tobago. Scarborough became the capital of Tobago in 1769. In Western Tobago, at the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean, Scarborough is the economic and cultural center of the region of Tobago. The estimated population in 2011 was 17,537. Scarborough is ranked as one of Trinidad and Tobago's most densely populated towns alongside Port of Spain, San Fernando, Chaguanas and Arima. The town's skyline is dominated by Fort King George, an 18th-century fortification", "title": "Scarborough, Tobago" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.08, "text": "Port of Spain Port of Spain, officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's second-largest city after San Fernando and the third largest municipality after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a municipal population of 37,074 (2011 census), a metropolitan population of 81,142 (2011 estimate) and a transient daily population of 250,000. It is located on the Gulf of Paria, on the northwest coast of the island of Trinidad and is part of a larger conurbation stretching from Chaguaramas in the west to Arima in the", "title": "Port of Spain" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.91, "text": "President's House, Trinidad and Tobago President's House is the official residence of the President of Trinidad and Tobago, located in the capital city Port of Spain, on Trinidad island, Trinidad and Tobago. It is next to the Royal Botanic Gardens. A previous building on the site, known as \"\"The Cottage,\"\" had been used as the Governor's residence since 1867. This residence, replacing it, was built in 1876. The stone facade is local blue limestone. The roof is covered with Welsh Dutchess slate. The building contains Victorian columns and railings with Victorian Italianate style arched portals and loggias. The house was", "title": "President's House, Trinidad and Tobago" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.88, "text": "Saint Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago St. Joseph was founded in 1592 by Antonio de Berrio and is the oldest town in Trinidad and Tobago. Originally named San José de Oruña, it served as the capital of Spanish Trinidad between 1592 and 1783. In 1595 the place was attacked and held by Sir Walter Raleigh and was used as a base for his exploration of the Orinoco river in search of the fabled city of El Dorado. Soon after his return the place was burnt and sacked. St. Joseph is not an incorporated municipality. It falls within the San Juan–Laventille Regional", "title": "Saint Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago" } ]

[ "Salem", "Salem, Oregon" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.88, "text": "Oregon Capital Bureau The Oregon Capital Bureau is a joint effort of several family-owned news publishers to improve news coverage of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The bureau was launched in 2014 by the Pamplin Media Group, which owns 25 newspapers in the Portland Metropolitan Area and Central Oregon, and the EO Media Group, which owns 11 newspapers in Eastern Oregon and on the Oregon Coast. In 2015 the bureau launched the newsletter \"\"Oregon Capital Insider\"\". One of the leading advocates of establishing the bureau was Steve Forrester, president of the EO Media Group, and then publisher", "title": "Oregon Capital Bureau" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.62, "text": "1843 before the Oregon Territory was created in 1848. Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. Today, at , Oregon is the ninth largest and, with a population of 4 million, 27th most populous U.S. state. The capital, Salem, is the second most populous city in Oregon, with 164,549 residents. Portland, with 632,309 residents, is the most populous and ranks as the 26th most populous city in the United States. The Portland metropolitan area, which also includes the city of Vancouver, Washington, to the north, ranks the 23rd largest metro area in the nation, with a population of", "title": "Oregon" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.62, "text": "Salem, Oregon Salem is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County. Salem was founded in 1842, became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, and was incorporated in 1857. Salem had a population of 154,637 at the 2010 census, making it the third largest city in the state after Portland", "title": "Salem, Oregon" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.42, "text": "remained in Salem. A permanent resolution of the capital location issue came in 1864. In 1860, the legislature put the question once again to a popular vote. On a vote in 1862, no city received the 50 percent minimum required by law. In an 1864 election, Salem received 79 percent and was declared the state capital. The Oregon Constitution lists the seat of state government in Article XIV as Marion County, of which Salem is the seat. The land developed for the permanent capitol buildings was Salem block 84, sold to the state for this purpose by pioneer and Salem", "title": "Oregon State Capitol" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.06, "text": "and recreational marijuana. Oregon's population is largely concentrated in the Willamette Valley, which stretches from Eugene in the south (home of the University of Oregon) through Corvallis (home of Oregon State University) and Salem (the capital) to Portland (Oregon's largest city). Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia River, was the first permanent English-speaking settlement west of the Rockies in what is now the United States. Oregon City, at the end of the Oregon Trail, was the Oregon Territory's first incorporated city, and was its first capital from 1848 until 1852, when the capital was moved to Salem. Bend, near", "title": "Oregon" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.95, "text": "Oregon deems it \"\"still pertinent\"\" and is republishing it as of 2018. Capital Press The Capital Press is a weekly agricultural newspaper covering the West Coast of the United States, and published in Salem, Oregon. The newspaper covers farming, ranching and agriculture industries in the Pacific Northwest. The newspaper is owned by the \"\"EO Media Group\"\". The paper was established in February 1928 as the \"\"Hollywood Press\"\" by Abner M. Church as a community newspaper serving a portion of Oregon's capital city. The name of the newspaper was changed in December 1932 to \"\"Capital Press\"\". Bill Duncan published a column", "title": "Capital Press" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.88, "text": "founder W. H. Willson. Construction of the first capitol building began in 1854, shortly after Congress confirmed Salem as the capital city. However, with the capital moving to Corvallis the next year, construction was temporarily halted. After the capital's return to Salem, the building was nearly completed by late 1855. This territorial capitol, of Greek Revival-style, stood wide and long (15 by 23 m), with a stone facade and a 10-foot (3 m) portico. Built of native ashlar blocks, the exterior walls, two stories high, ranged in color from a deep sky blue to white. The first floor was tall", "title": "Oregon State Capitol" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.81, "text": "the Portland Metro region, Oregon City has become largely a suburb of Portland. Tourism is a growing sector with the emphasis on the city's history and the major renovation of the Willamette Falls into a public-access mixed-use space through theWillamette Falls Legacy Project. Oregon City was the capital of the Oregon Territory until 1851; the following governors served during that time: The city, and several surrounding communities, is served by the Oregon City School District, a public school district consisting of 7 elementary schools, two middle schools, a traditional four-year high school (Oregon City High School), and an alternative secondary", "title": "Oregon City, Oregon" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.81, "text": "Oregon State Capitol The Oregon State Capitol is the building housing the state legislature and the offices of the governor, secretary of state, and treasurer of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located in the state capital, Salem. The current building, constructed from 1936 to 1938, and expanded in 1977, is the third to house the Oregon state government in Salem. Two former capitol buildings were destroyed by fire, one in 1855 and the other in 1935. New York architects Trowbridge & Livingston conceived the current structure's Art Deco, stripped classical design, in association with Francis Keally. Much of", "title": "Oregon State Capitol" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.72, "text": "of Oregon City as the seat of power was by proclamation of Governor Joseph Lane. In 1850, the legislature passed an act designating Salem the capital. However, Governor John P. Gaines refused to relocate and remained in Oregon City along with the Oregon Supreme Court (except justice Orville C. Pratt) until an act of Congress on May 14, 1852 settled the matter in Salem's favor. On January 13, 1855, the Oregon Territorial Legislature passed a bill moving the seat of government from Salem to Corvallis. Governor George Law Curry and many others objected to the move, since public buildings in", "title": "Oregon State Capitol" } ]

[ "Bismarck", "Bismarck, North Dakota", "Bismarck, ND", "West Bismarck, North Dakota", "Edwinton, North Dakota", "Edwinton, ND" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.48, "text": "North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. It is the nineteenth largest in area, the fourth smallest by population, and the fourth most sparsely populated of the 50 states. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, along with its neighboring state, South Dakota. Its capital is Bismarck, and its largest city is Fargo. In the 21st century, North Dakota's natural resources have played a major role in its economic performance, particularly with the oil extraction from the Bakken formation, which lies beneath the northwestern", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.39, "text": "capital city since 1883, first as capital of the Dakota Territory, and then as state capital since 1889. Minot is a city in northern North Dakota and is home of the North Dakota State Fair and Norsk Høstfest. A few miles west of Bismarck on the west side of the Missouri River, the city of Mandan was named for the Mandan Indians who inhabited the area at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. New Salem is the site of the world's largest statue of a holstein cow; the world's largest statue of a bison is in Jamestown. Grand", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.48, "text": "stations open to community programming are offered on cable systems in Bismarck, Dickinson, Fargo, and Jamestown. North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. It is the nineteenth largest in area, the fourth smallest by population, and the fourth most sparsely populated of the 50 states. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, along with its neighboring state, South Dakota. Its capital is Bismarck, and its largest city is Fargo. In the 21st century, North Dakota's natural resources have played a major role in its", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.28, "text": "Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck () is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the second-most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city's population was estimated in 2017 at 72,865, while its metropolitan population was 132,142. In 2017, \"\"Forbes\"\" magazine ranked Bismarck as the seventh fastest-growing small city in the United States. Bismarck was founded by European Americans in 1872 on the east bank of the Missouri River. It has been North Dakota's capital city since 1889, when the state was created from the Dakota Territory and admitted", "title": "Bismarck, North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.02, "text": "the capital of the Dakota Territory, and in 1889 as the state capital of the new state of North Dakota. Bismarck is at (46.813343, −100.779004). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of , of which, is land and is water. The city has developed around downtown Bismarck, the center of historic development. It is distinctive because the city's major shopping center, Kirkwood Mall, is in the center city rather than in the suburbs. Several other major retail stores are in the vicinity of Kirkwood Mall, which was developed near the Bismarck Civic Center. The", "title": "Bismarck, North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25, "text": "part of the state. Such development has led to population growth and reduced unemployment. North Dakota contains the tallest human-made structure in the Western Hemisphere, the KVLY-TV mast. North Dakota is a Midwestern state of the United States. It borders Canada and lies at the center of the North American continent. The geographic center of North America is near the town of Rugby. Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota, and Fargo is the largest city. Soil is North Dakota's most precious resource. It is the base of the state's great agricultural wealth. But North Dakota also has enormous mineral", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.78, "text": "North Dakota State Capitol The North Dakota State Capitol is the house of government of the U.S. state of North Dakota. The Capitol, a 21-story tower, is in Bismarck at 600 East Boulevard Avenue, on a campus that also houses many other government buildings and is the tallest habitable building in North Dakota. The capitol building and the surrounding office buildings house the state's legislative and judicial branches, as well as many government agencies. The State Capitol is largely surrounded by state government buildings. The parks, walking trails, and monuments on the grounds provide a great deal of information about", "title": "North Dakota State Capitol" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.59, "text": "History of Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck is the capital of the state of North Dakota, the county seat of Burleigh County, and the second most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city was formed in 1872 as \"\"Edwinton\"\" after Edwin Ferry Johnson, a chief engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway company, when the railroad reached the eastern banks of the Missouri River. The name was changed less than one year later, honoring German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, in an effort to attract German immigrants. The discovery of gold in the nearby Black Hills in 1874 was the first", "title": "History of Bismarck, North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.56, "text": "Bismarck Blaze and the Bismarck Roughriders, but both teams left the city soon after they were formed. Bismarck once had a professional baseball team, the Dakota Rattlers, but the team moved to Minot after several seasons in Bismarck. Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck () is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the second-most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city's population was estimated in 2017 at 72,865, while its metropolitan population was 132,142. In 2017, \"\"Forbes\"\" magazine ranked Bismarck as the seventh fastest-growing small city in the", "title": "Bismarck, North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "by North Dakota architects Joseph Bell DeRemer of Grand Forks and W. F. Kurke of Fargo in conjunction with the noted Chicago firm of Holabird and Root, It is the tallest building in North Dakota and is known as the \"\"Skyscraper on the Prairie\"\". This tower houses the office of the governor and the offices of multiple state agencies and departments. At the tower's base, in the west wing, the two chambers of the legislature meet when in session while the North Dakota Supreme Court meets in the east wing. The 18th floor of the Capitol is an observation deck", "title": "North Dakota State Capitol" } ]

[ "Tripoli" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.06, "text": "capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over one million of Libya's six million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya. Libya has been inhabited by Berbers since the late Bronze Age. The Phoenicians established trading posts in western Libya, and ancient Greek colonists established city-states in eastern Libya. Libya was variously ruled by Carthaginians, Persians, Egyptians and Greeks before becoming a part of the Roman Empire. Libya was an early centre of Christianity. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the area of Libya was mostly occupied by the Vandals until", "title": "Libya" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.88, "text": "Tripoli Tripoli (; , ; Berber: \"\"Oea\"\", or \"\"Wy't\"\") is the capital city and the largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.158 million people in 2018. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay. It includes the port of Tripoli and the country's largest commercial and manufacturing centre. It is also the site of the University of Tripoli. The vast Bab al-Azizia barracks, which includes the former family estate of Muammar Gaddafi, is also located in", "title": "Tripoli" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.23, "text": "Ghat, Libya Ghat (Berber: Ɣat or ⵗⴰⵜ; ) is the capital of the Ghat District in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya. In historical times, Ghat was an important terminal point on a trans-Saharan trade route and a major administrative center in the Fezzan. It was a stronghold for the Kel Ajjer Tuareg federation whose territory covered most of south-western Libya - including Ubari, Sabha and Ghadames, plus south-eastern Algeria (Djanet and Illizi). From the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD, the Fezzan was home to the Garamantian Empire, a city state which operated the Trans-Saharan trade routes", "title": "Ghat, Libya" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.78, "text": "Jabal al Akhdar Jabal al Akhdar ( \"\"\"\", ), also known as \"\"Jebel el-Akhdar\"\", is one of the districts of Libya. It lies in the north east of the country. The capital is Bayda. In its territory, close to the city of Shahhat, can be found the remains of the old Greek colony of Cyrene, and the neighbouring city of Apollonia, a major port in the Mediterranean Sea in antiquity. On land, it borders Derna in east, Al Wahat in south and Marj in west. Per the census of 2012, the total population in the region was 157,747 with 150,353", "title": "Jabal al Akhdar" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.72, "text": "Kufra District Kufra or Kofra ( \"\"\"\"), also spelled \"\"Cufra\"\", is the largest district of Libya. Its capital is Al Jawf, one of the oases in Kufra basin. There is a very large oil refinery near the capital. In the late 15th century, Leo Africanus reported an oasis in the land of the \"\"Berdoa\"\", visited by a caravan coming from Awjila. It is possible that this oasis was identical with either the Al Jawf or the Taiserbo oasis, and on early modern maps, the Al Kufra region was often labelled as \"\"Berdoa\"\" based on this report. The name \"\"Kufra\"\" (comes", "title": "Kufra District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.67, "text": "Sabha, Libya Sabha, or Sebha ( \"\"Sabhā\"\"), is an oasis city in southwestern Libya, approximately south of Tripoli. It was historically the capital of the Fezzan region and the Military Territory of Fezzan-Ghadames and is now capital of the Sabha District. Sabha Air Base, south of the city, is a Libyan Air Force installation that is home to multiple MiG-25 aircraft. Sabha was where the erstwhile ruler of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi had been schooled and where he started his Peoples revolution. After the Libyan Civil War and the resultant instability in the country, Sabha has grown in importance as a", "title": "Sabha, Libya" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.66, "text": "Ajdabiya Ajdabiya , previously known as Agedabia ( \"\"\"\", ), is a town in and capital of the Al Wahat District in northeastern Libya. It is some south of Benghazi. From 2001 to 2007 it was part of and capital of the Ajdabiya District. The town is divided into three Basic People's Congresses: North Ajdabiya, West Ajdabiya and East Ajdabiya. During the Libyan Civil War, the city changed hands several times between rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces, with the anti-Gaddafi forces finally securing the town in April 2011. Although, as many civilians had fled from the fighting, one March 2011 report", "title": "Ajdabiya" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.62, "text": "Tripoli District, Libya Tripoli District (, Aros Al baher Ṭarābulus) is one of the 22 first level subdivisions (\"\"بلدية\"\") of Libya. Its capital and largest city is Tripoli, the national capital. Tripoli District is in the Tripolitania region of northwestern Libya. The district has a shoreline along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north (Gulf of Tripoli), Zawiya in the west, Jafara in the southwest, Jabal al Gharbi in the south and Murqub in the east. Per the census estimates of 2012, the total population in the region was 157,747 with 150,353 Libyans. The average size of the", "title": "Tripoli District, Libya" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.41, "text": "be one of the best preserved Roman archaeological sites in the world. The most common form of public transport between cities is the bus, though many people travel by automobile. There are no railway services in Libya, but these are planned for construction in the near future (see rail transport in Libya). Libya's capital, Tripoli, has many museums and archives. These include the Government Library, the Ethnographic Museum, the Archaeological Museum, the National Archives, the Epigraphy Museum and the Islamic Museum. The Red Castle Museum located in the capital near the coast and right in the city center, built in", "title": "Libya" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.31, "text": "modern-day Libya, was considered its \"\"capital\"\" or chief city—though Marrakesh in Morocco was the largest and most important Berber city at the time. Some saw Algiers in Algeria, or Tangiers in Morocco as the \"\"capital\"\". The first United States military land action overseas, executed by the U.S. Marines and Navy, was the Battle of Derna, Tripoli (a coastal town in modern eastern Libya) in April 1805. It formed part of an effort to destroy all of the Barbary pirates, to free American slaves in captivity, and to put an end to piracy acts between these warring tribes on the part", "title": "Barbary Coast" } ]

[ "Maseru" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.11, "text": "Maseru Maseru is the capital and largest city of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Caledon River, Maseru lies directly on the Lesotho-South Africa border. Maseru is Lesotho's capital city with a population of 330,760 in the 2016 census. The city was established as a police camp and assigned as the capital after the country became a British protectorate in 1869. When the country achieved independence in 1966, Maseru retained its status as capital. The name of the city is a Sesotho word meaning \"\"red sandstones\"\". Maseru was founded by the British as", "title": "Maseru" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.62, "text": "Lesotho Lesotho (, ) officially the Kingdom of Lesotho () is an enclaved country within the border of South Africa. It is just over in size and has a population of around /1e6 round 0 million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho was previously the British Crown Colony of Basutoland, but it declared independence from the United Kingdom on 4 October 1966. It is now a fully sovereign state that is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The name \"\"Lesotho\"\" roughly translates to \"\"the land of the", "title": "Lesotho" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.05, "text": "the world for gender parity, while neighboring South Africa ranks 17th. Lesotho Lesotho (, ) officially the Kingdom of Lesotho () is an enclaved country within the border of South Africa. It is just over in size and has a population of around /1e6 round 0 million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho was previously the British Crown Colony of Basutoland, but it declared independence from the United Kingdom on 4 October 1966. It is now a fully sovereign state that is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the Southern African Development Community", "title": "Lesotho" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.02, "text": "Most successful of these have been Matlama FC and the football team of the Royal Lesotho Defense Force, with eight championships each. List of sister cities of Maseru, designated by Sister Cities International. Maseru Maseru is the capital and largest city of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Caledon River, Maseru lies directly on the Lesotho-South Africa border. Maseru is Lesotho's capital city with a population of 330,760 in the 2016 census. The city was established as a police camp and assigned as the capital after the country became a British protectorate in", "title": "Maseru" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.8, "text": "Foreign relations of Lesotho Lesotho's geographic location makes it extremely vulnerable to political and economic developments in South Africa. Its capital is the small city of Maseru. It is a member of many regional economic organizations including the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Lesotho also is active in the United Nations, the Organisation of African Unity, now the African Union, the Non-Aligned Movement, and many other international organizations. In addition to the Republic of Korea, the United States, South Africa, Ireland, People's Republic of China, Libya, and the European Union all currently retain", "title": "Foreign relations of Lesotho" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.73, "text": "monarchy. Foreign relations of Lesotho Lesotho's geographic location makes it extremely vulnerable to political and economic developments in South Africa. Its capital is the small city of Maseru. It is a member of many regional economic organizations including the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Lesotho also is active in the United Nations, the Organisation of African Unity, now the African Union, the Non-Aligned Movement, and many other international organizations. In addition to the Republic of Korea, the United States, South Africa, Ireland, People's Republic of China, Libya, and the European Union all currently", "title": "Foreign relations of Lesotho" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "Qacha's Nek Qacha's Nek is, since 1888, the camptown (capital) of Qacha's Nek District in Lesotho, only two kilometers from the South African border at above sea level. It has a population of approximately 15,900 (2016). It is home to Machabeng Government Hospital, one of the two hospitals in the district (the other being the Lesotho Evangelical Church's Tebellong Hospital, which is about away, across the Orange River which is known as Senqu in Lesotho). The town is home to Lesotho's first and only Snake Park, which is conveniently situated at the foot of the historic Letloepe hill/rock formation. This", "title": "Qacha's Nek" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.44, "text": "Butha-Buthe District Butha-Buthe is a district of Lesotho. Butha-Buthe is the capital or camptown, and only town in the district. In the north, Butha-Buthe borders on the Free State Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders on Mokhotlong District in southeast and Leribe District on the south. As of 2014, the district had a population of 118,242 which was 5.88 per cent of the total population of the country. The total area of the district was 1,767 which was 5.82 per cent of the total area of the country. As of 2008, there were 49 per cent economically active people", "title": "Butha-Buthe District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.42, "text": "Maseru District Maseru is a district of Lesotho. Maseru is also the name of the district's capital, and is the only city in the district and also the capital of the country. It is the largest urban area in the country, and therefore the only city. The city of Maseru is located on Lesotho's western border with the Free State Province of South Africa, the frontier being the Caledon River. Maseru borders on Berea District in north, Thaba-Tseka District in the east, Mohale's Hoek District in south, and Mafeteng District in southwest. As of 2006, the district had a population", "title": "Maseru District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.34, "text": "Camptown (country subdivision) A Camptown, in the country of Lesotho, refers to a district capital for one of the ten districts of Lesotho. The largest camptown is the city of Maseru in Maseru District. Camptowns are usually commerce hubs for the district and are the location for the central government offices for the district. Camptowns usually take the same name as the district in which they are located. For example, as mentioned the camptown for Maseru is Maseru but also the camptown for Thaba-Tseka District is Thaba-Tseka. The exceptions to this rule are Berea District whose capital is called Teyateyaneng,", "title": "Camptown (country subdivision)" } ]

[ "Niamey" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.27, "text": "Legislative and Judicial) and capital of the United Mexican States. Niger's capital, Niamey, comprises a capital district of Niger. It is surrounded by the Tillabéri Department. Nigeria's capital Abuja is located in the Federal Capital Territory. The Territory was established in 1976, and the capital was formally moved from Lagos (the historic capital) in 1991. North Korea's capital city, P'yŏng-yang, while traditionally located within South P'yŏng-an Province, is currently seen as a \"\"directly governed city\"\" (\"\"Chikalshi\"\" ). For a time, P'yŏng-yang was considered a \"\"special city\"\" (\"\"T'ŭkpyŏlshi\"\" ), to make it equivalent to its South Korean counterpart, Seoul. Oslo does", "title": "Capital districts and territories" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.97, "text": "Niamey Capital District Niamey Capital District is the capital district of Niger. It has an area of 670 km2 and a 2012 census count final adjustment of 1,026,848 people. The same population figures indicate that Niamey, the eponymous city or settlement itself, is smaller than the capital district in total area and that there are other settlements within. The capital district is projected by the Institut National de la Statistique du Niger (website) to have 1,203,800 residents as of 2017. The capital district population growth rate is lower than the torrid national rate, suggesting large rural migration (urbanization) is negligible", "title": "Niamey Capital District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.91, "text": "in Niger, there is an undercount, and/or the government's forced urban to rural deportations are effective. Niamey Capital District Niamey Capital District is the capital district of Niger. It has an area of 670 km2 and a 2012 census count final adjustment of 1,026,848 people. The same population figures indicate that Niamey, the eponymous city or settlement itself, is smaller than the capital district in total area and that there are other settlements within. The capital district is projected by the Institut National de la Statistique du Niger (website) to have 1,203,800 residents as of 2017. The capital district population", "title": "Niamey Capital District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.78, "text": "clusters in the far south and west of the country. The capital city is Niamey, located in Niger's southwest corner. Niger is a developing country, which consistently ranks near the bottom in the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI); it was ranked 187th of 188 countries for 2015 and 189th out of 189 countries in the 2018 report. Much of the non-desert portions of the country are threatened by periodic drought and desertification. The economy is concentrated around subsistence, with some export agriculture in the more fertile south, and export of raw materials, especially uranium ore. Niger faces serious challenges", "title": "Niger" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.55, "text": "Niamey Niamey () is the capital and largest city of the West African country Niger. Niamey lies on the Niger River, primarily situated on the east bank. It is an administrative, cultural and economic centre. Niamey's population was counted as 978,029 as of the 2012 census; the Niamey Capital District, covering 670 km, had 1,026,848 people. As of 2017, population projections show the capital district growing at a slower rate than the country as a whole, which has the world's highest fertility rate. The city is located in a pearl millet growing region, while manufacturing industries include bricks, ceramic goods,", "title": "Niamey" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.39, "text": "of Meteorological Application for Development. Niamey Niamey () is the capital and largest city of the West African country Niger. Niamey lies on the Niger River, primarily situated on the east bank. It is an administrative, cultural and economic centre. Niamey's population was counted as 978,029 as of the 2012 census; the Niamey Capital District, covering 670 km, had 1,026,848 people. As of 2017, population projections show the capital district growing at a slower rate than the country as a whole, which has the world's highest fertility rate. The city is located in a pearl millet growing region, while manufacturing", "title": "Niamey" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.28, "text": "Say, Niger Say is a town in southwest Niger, situated on the Niger River. It is the capital of the Say Department in the Tillabéri Region. The municipality has 12,000 inhabitants, and its economy is dominated by agriculture, herding and small trade. The town houses the Islamic University of Niger (\"\"Université Islamique de Say\"\"), an institute of international scope, whose founding was decided following a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in 1974, but that opened only in 1986. In 1996, it had 400 students, who paid fees much lower than those of the University of Niamey. In", "title": "Say, Niger" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.88, "text": "prior to the explorer's murder in nearby Zinder. More important to modern Niger, Tessaoua is nearly halfway between the regional capitals of Maradi and Zinder on the one main East/West road in Niger. Zinder used to be the capital of Niger until the French colonialists moved the capital west to Niamey, where it was in closer proximity to others of the French West African holdings and thus easier to manage. Tessaoua used to be a regional capital, until political power was shifted to Maradi. Maradi is still the regional capital today. Tessaoua has one high school (lycée) and several primary", "title": "Tessaoua" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.84, "text": "Niger State Niger or Niger State is a state in Central Nigeria and the largest state in the country. The state capital is Minna, and other major cities are Bida, Kontagora, and Suleja. It was formed in 1976 when the then North-Western State was bifurcated into Niger State and Sokoto State. It is home to Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Alhaji Abubakar, two of Nigeria's former military rulers. The Nupe, Gbagyi, Kamuku, Kambari, Dukawa, Hausa and Koro form the majority of numerous indigenous tribes of Niger State. The state is named after the River Niger. Two of Nigeria's major hydroelectric power", "title": "Niger State" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.7, "text": "Agadez Agadez, formerly spelled Agadès, is the largest city in central Niger, with a population of 118,244 (2012 census). It lies in the Sahara and is the capital of Aïr, one of the traditional Tuareg–Berber federations. The city is also the capital of the Agadez Region. As of 2011, the urban commune had a total population of 124,324 people. The city was founded before the fourteenth century and gradually became the most important Tuareg city, supplanting Assodé, by growing around trans-Saharan trade. The city still sees the arrival of caravans, bringing salt from Bilma. In 1449, Agadez became a sultanate,", "title": "Agadez" } ]

[ "Tarnogsky Gorodok" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.06, "text": "Tarnogsky District Tarnogsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Ustyansky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in the north, Nyuksensky District in the east, Totemsky District in the south, and with Verkhovazhsky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a \"\"selo\"\") of Tarnogsky Gorodok. District's population: 15,363 (2002 Census); The population of Tarnogsky Gorodok accounts for 41.8% of the district's total population. The district is located at the", "title": "Tarnogsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.75, "text": "many of her canvasses were inspired by the surrounding landscapes. Tarnogsky District Tarnogsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Ustyansky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in the north, Nyuksensky District in the east, Totemsky District in the south, and with Verkhovazhsky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a \"\"selo\"\") of Tarnogsky Gorodok. District's population: 15,363 (2002 Census); The population of Tarnogsky Gorodok accounts for 41.8% of", "title": "Tarnogsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.39, "text": "Tarnogsky Gorodok Tarnogsky Gorodok () is a rural locality (a \"\"selo\"\") and the administrative center of Tarnogsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kokshenga River, at its confluence with the Tarnoga River. It also serves as the administrative center of Tarnogsky Selsoviet, one of the thirteen selsoviets into which the district is administratively divided. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Tarnogskoye Rural Settlement. Population: Tarnogsky Gorodok has been first mentioned in the chronicles in 1453. The area produced crops, and the Kokshenga and the Vaga were used to transport bread to Arkhangelsk. In", "title": "Tarnogsky Gorodok" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.55, "text": "Nyuksensky District with the center in the selo of Nyuksenitsa was established. January 25, 1935 Tarnogsky District with the administrative center in Tarnogsky Gorodok was established from some areas formerly in Nyuksensky and Totemsky Districts. The economy of the Tarnogsky Gorodok is based on timber industry. Food industry is also present, in particular, there is a butter factory. Tarnogsky Gorodok is on the paved road connecting Oktyabrsky in Arkhangelsk Oblast in the north with Totma in the south and Veliky Ustyug in the east. There also local roads. There is regular passenger bus service originating from Tarnogsky Gorodok. Tarnogsky Gorodok", "title": "Tarnogsky Gorodok" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.53, "text": "following years, the first-level administrative division of Russia kept changing. In 1936, Northern Krai was transformed into Northern Oblast. In 1937, Northern Oblast itself was split into Arkhangelsk Oblast and Vologda Oblast. Tarnogsky District remained in Vologda Oblast ever since with the exception of the short period in 1962-1965, when some of the districts were merged. The economy of the district is based on timber industry. Food industry is also present; in particular, there is a butter factory in Tarnogsky Gorodok and a food factory in the \"\"selo\"\" of Krasnoye. There are sixteen farms in the district: thirteen of them", "title": "Tarnogsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.44, "text": "in 1453. The area produced crops, and the Kokshenga and the Vaga were used to transport bread to Arkhangelsk. In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, the area was included into Vazhsky Uyezd of Archangelgorod Governorate. In 1780, the governorate was abolished and transformed into Vologda Viceroyalty. The latter was abolished in 1796, and the part of it which included Tarnogsky Gorodok became Vologda Governorate. The area became a part of Totemsky Volost with the seat in Totma. In the 1890s, Tarnogsky Gorodok became the seat of Shevdenitskaya Volost. On July 15,", "title": "Tarnogsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.39, "text": "is currently defunct. The district contains 4 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage by the Russian Federal law, and additionally 123 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local importance. Most of these are wooden farms and churches built prior to 1917. The objects protected at the federal level are: The only state museum in the district is the Museum of Traditional Folk Culture in Tarnogsky Gorodok. The ethnographic department of the museum is located in the village of Zarechye. Artist Dzhanna Tutundzhan lived in the village of Sergiyevskaya from the 1960s until her death in 2011, and", "title": "Tarnogsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.22, "text": "produce milk, two produce meat, and one produces eggs. Tarnogsky Gorodok stands on the paved road connecting Oktyabrsky in Arkhangelsk Oblast in the north with Totma in the south and Veliky Ustyug in the east. A short stretch of the road connecting Vologda and Veliky Ustyg runs within the limits of the district along the left bank of the Sukhona. There also local roads in the district. There is regular passenger bus service originating from Tarnogsky Gorodok. While the Sukhona is navigable within the district, there is no passenger navigation. Tarnogsky Gorodok was served by the Tarnogsky Gorodok Airport which", "title": "Tarnogsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.09, "text": "1929, several governorates, including Vologda Governorate, were merged into Northern Krai, and the uyezds were abolished. Instead, Kokshengsky District with the administrative center in the \"\"selo\"\" of Tarnogsky Gorodok was established as a part of Vologda Okrug. It included parts of the former area of Totemsky Uyezd. On July 30, 1931, Kokshengsky District and the neighboring Sukhonsky District were abolished, and Nyuksensky District with the administrative center in the \"\"selo\"\" of Nyuksenitsa was established. On January 25, 1935, Tarnogsky District with the administrative center in Tarnogsky Gorodok was established on the territories formerly in Nyuksensky and Totemsky Districts. In the", "title": "Tarnogsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.98, "text": "the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great the area was included into Vazhsky Uyezd of Archangelgorod Governorate. In 1796, the area became part of Totemsky Volost in the center in the town of Totma. In 1890s, Tarnogsky Gorodok became the center of Shevdenitskaya Volost. On July 15, 1929, Kokshengsky District with the administrative center in the selo of Tarnogsky Gorodok was established as part of Vologda Okrug of Northern Krai. It included parts of the former area of Totemsky Uyezd. July 30, 1931 Kokshengsky District and the neighboring Sukhonsky District were abolished, and", "title": "Tarnogsky Gorodok" } ]

[ "Stornoway" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.8, "text": "Point (Outer Hebrides) Point (), also known as the Eye Peninsula, is a peninsula some 11 km long in the Outer Hebrides (or Western Isles), Scotland. The majority of Point is connected to the rest of the Isle of Lewis by a narrow isthmus, one mile in length and at one point barely 100 metres wide. The peninsula is just 6 km east of the regional capital of Stornoway, however the district of Point actually starts at the Parkend estate on Stornoway's outskirts. Point is home to around 2,600 people and is one of the few districts of the Western", "title": "Point (Outer Hebrides)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.36, "text": "Stornoway Stornoway (; ) is the main town of the Western Isles and the capital of Lewis and Harris in Scotland. The town's population is around 8,000, making it by far the largest town in the Hebrides, as well as the second largest island town in Scotland after Kirkwall in Orkney. The traditional civil parish of Stornoway, which includes various nearby villages, has a combined population of just over 10,000. Stornoway is an important port and the major town and administrative centre of the Outer Hebrides. It is home to \"\"Comhairle nan Eilean Siar\"\" (the Western Isles Council) and a", "title": "Stornoway" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.23, "text": "of the Outer Hebrides. Based in the island capital of Stornoway the Authority consists of a Chief Executive, Secretary and two inspectors and stampers. There is also an overseeing board of unpaid members and a legal team in support. There are three mills operating on the islands, each with a public facing company associated with them. The companies handle marketing, sales, customer service and distribution of Harris Tweed to customers while their mills handle certain aspects of the production process. All weavers are self-employed and can work as a 'mill weaver' commissioned by any of the three mills or as", "title": "Harris Tweed" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.33, "text": "pool; Harris Sports Centre; Lionacleit Sports Centre on Benbecula; and Castlebay Sports Centre on Barra. The Western Isles is a member of the International Island Games Association. South Uist is home to the Askernish Golf Course. The oldest links in the Outer Hebrides, it was designed by Old Tom Morris. Although it was in use until the 1930s, its existence was largely forgotten until 2005 and it is now being restored to Morris's original design. \"\"I Know Where I'm Going!\"\" is a 1945 British drama/romance film set mostly in the Outer Hebrides, depicting local lifestyles and speech. Outer Hebrides The", "title": "Outer Hebrides" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.28, "text": "is a subspecies of wren whose range is confined to the islands whose name it bears. The islands' total population was 26,502 at the 2001 census, and the 2011 figure was 27,684. During the same period Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702. The largest settlement in the Outer Hebrides is Stornoway on Lewis, which has a population of about 8,100. In addition to the major North Ford (\"\"\"\") and South Ford causeways that connect North Uist to Benbecula via the northern of the Grimsays, and another causeway from Benbecula to South Uist, several other islands", "title": "Outer Hebrides" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.02, "text": "Ireland around the year 1000. Kisimul Castle at Castlebay is the hereditary seat of the MacNeils. It is located on an island in the bay, so giving the village its name. Other places of interest on the island include a blackhouse museum, a ruined church and museum at Cille Bharra, a number of Iron Age brochs such as those at Dùn Chuidhir and An Dùn Bàn, and a whole range of other Iron Age and later structures which have recently been excavated and recorded. As the name implies, Eilean Taighe, in the Flannan Isles, hosts a ruined stone shelter. Eilean", "title": "History of the Outer Hebrides" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.91, "text": "Parliament constituency covering this area is , the seat being held by Angus MacNeil MP since 2005, while the Scottish Parliament constituency for the area is , the incumbent being Alasdair Allan MSP. The Scottish independence referendum has led some islanders to call for a debate on the constitutional position of the Western Isles, linked with similar initiatives in Orkney and Shetland. The Outer Hebrides have historically been a very strong Scottish Gaelic (\"\"Gàidhlig\"\") speaking area. Both the 1901 and 1921 census reported that all parishes were over 75% Gaelic speaking, including areas of high population density such as Stornoway.", "title": "Outer Hebrides" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.69, "text": "perhaps Eilean Taighe as well. However, it is unlikely that there were permanent residents on the islands once the Celtic Church fell into decline in the Hebrides (as a result of 9th century Viking invasions), until the construction of the lighthouse and its occupation very shortly before the dawn of the 20th century. The main settlement on the island is Breaclete (Scottish Gaelic: \"\"Breacleit\"\"), home to a small museum. Bernera is also known for its Iron Age (or possibly Pictish) settlement at Bostadh, discovered in 1992 and now covered by sand to preserve it. A replica Iron Age house matching", "title": "History of the Outer Hebrides" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.67, "text": "Outer Hebrides The Outer Hebrides (), also known as the Western Isles ( or ' ), ' (\"\"islands of the strangers\"\") or the Long Isle or the Long Island (), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland. The islands are geographically coextensive with , one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. They form part of the archipelago of the Hebrides, separated from the Scottish mainland and from the Inner Hebrides by the waters of the Minch, the Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides. Scottish Gaelic is the predominant spoken language, although in", "title": "Outer Hebrides" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.55, "text": "Up until the arrival of Godred the islands had been administered by the Norse Kingdoms of Dublin and Orkney. The later Kingdom of Mann was centred around the Isle of Man but also contained the Outer Hebrides, the Inner Hebrides forming the Kingdom of the Hebrides. Known as \"\"Suðreyar\"\" or southern islands in Old Norse. Norse control of the Hebrides was formalised in 1098 when Edgar of Scotland recognised the claim of Magnus III of Norway. The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides and", "title": "History of the Outer Hebrides" } ]

[ "Brussels Capital Region", "Brussels Region", "Brussels", "BE-BRU", "Bruxelles-Capitale", "BXL", "20e", "04000", "BHG", "Brussel", "Brussels Gewest", "Bruxelles", "Brussel-Hoofdstad", "Région Bruxellois", "Brussels-Capital Region" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.27, "text": "European Community (EC) is a supranational union of nations in Europe. The capital, where the EC Central Assembly operates, is Paris, France. The union's roots date back to the European Union's (EU) genesis in 1993. In the late 1990s, the EU's founding member-states began to convince other European countries to join their banner. The EU is renamed as the European Community in 2005 as the last of the non-EU countries agree to join the bloc. Organization of African Consolidation The Organization of African Consolidation (OAC) is an alliance of African countries. The union's roots date back to 2026, when the", "title": "Front Mission" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.14, "text": "the \"\"de facto\"\" capital of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions (the two other capitals are Luxembourg and Strasbourg)<ref name=\"\"12010E/PRO/06\"\"></ref> and its name is sometimes used metonymically to describe the EU and its institutions. The secretariat of the Benelux and headquarters of NATO are also located in Brussels. As the economic capital of Belgium and one of the top financial centres of Western Europe with Euronext Brussels, it is classified as an \"\"Alpha\"\" global city. Brussels is a hub for rail, road and air traffic, sometimes earning the moniker \"\"Crossroads of Europe\"\". The Brussels", "title": "Brussels" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.89, "text": "An international panel of cultural experts is in charge of assessing the proposals of cities for the title according to criteria specified by the European Union. For two of the capitals each year, eligibility is open to cities in EU member states only. From 2021 and every three years thereafter, a third capital will been chosen from cities in countries that are candidates or potential candidates for membership, or in countries that are part of the European Economic Area (EEA)– an example of the latter being Stavanger in Norway, which was a European Capital of Culture in 2008. A 2004", "title": "European Capital of Culture" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.7, "text": "European Capital of Culture The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union (EU) for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong pan-European dimension. Preparing a European Capital of Culture can be an opportunity for the city to generate considerable cultural, social and economic benefits and it can help foster urban regeneration, change the city's image and raise its visibility and profile on an international scale. In 1985, Melina Mercouri, Greece’s minister of culture, and her French counterpart Jack Lang came up with the idea", "title": "European Capital of Culture" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.69, "text": "study conducted for the Commission, known as the \"\"Palmer report\"\", demonstrated that the choice of European Capital of Culture served as a catalyst for the cultural development and the transformation of the city. Consequently, the beneficial socio-economic development and impact for the chosen city are now also considered in determining the chosen cities. Bids from five United Kingdom cities to be the 2023 Capital of Culture were disqualified in November 2017, because by 2023 it is expected that the UK will no longer be an EU member The European Capital of Culture programme was initially called the European City of", "title": "European Capital of Culture" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.44, "text": "European Capitals and Cities of Sport Federation The European Capitals and Cities of Sport Federation (ACES Europe) is a non-profit federation based in Brussels which has granted the awards of European Capital, City, Community and Town of Sport every year since 2001. These awards are given for a period of one calendar year. The European Capital of Sport is awarded to a municipality that has an official population of 500,000 or more inhabitants in the European continent: The European Community of Sport is a title awarded to a community consisting of a maximum of three municipalities, which together have a", "title": "European Capitals and Cities of Sport Federation" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.36, "text": "known as \"\"the capital of the EU\"\". The seats have been a matter of political dispute since the states first failed to reach an agreement at the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952. However, a final agreement between member states was reached in 1992, and later attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam. Despite this, the seat of the European Parliament remains controversial. The work of Parliament is divided between Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg, which is seen as a problem due to the large number of MEPs, staff, and documents which need to be moved. As the", "title": "Institutional seats of the European Union" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.33, "text": "potential candidate for EU membership to hold the title every third year as of 2021. This will be selected through an open competition, meaning that cities from various countries may compete with each other. European Capital of Culture The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union (EU) for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong pan-European dimension. Preparing a European Capital of Culture can be an opportunity for the city to generate considerable cultural, social and economic benefits and it can help foster urban", "title": "European Capital of Culture" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.3, "text": "of designating an annual Capital of Culture to bring Europeans closer together by highlighting the richness and diversity of European cultures and raising awareness of their common history and values. It is strongly believed that the ECoC significantly maximises social and economic benefits, especially when the events are embedded as a part of a long–term culture-based development strategy of the city and the surrounding region. The Commission of the European Union manages the title and each year the Council of Ministers of the European Union formally designates European Capitals of Culture: more than 40 cities have been designated so far.", "title": "European Capital of Culture" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.12, "text": "European Youth Capital The European Youth Capital (abbreviated EYC) is the title awarded to a European city for the period of one year, during which it is given the chance to showcase, through a multi-faceted programme, its youth-related cultural, social, political and economic life and development. The European Youth Capital is an initiative by the European Youth Forum, and the first capital was chosen in 2009. Since 2014, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe is an official endorsing partner the European Youth Capital title. The current, capital for the 2018 calendar year is Cascais.", "title": "European Youth Capital" } ]

[ "Kinshasa", "Léopoldville", "Leopoldstad", "Leopoldville" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.31, "text": "land while 500 km² is water. Congo claims of territorial sea. The capital of the Republic of the Congo is Brazzaville, located on the Congo river immediately across from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a metropolitan population of approximately 1.5 million, Brazzaville is by far the largest city in the Republic, having almost twice the population of Pointe-Noire (663,400 as of the 2005 census), the country's second largest city. About 70% of the population lives in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or along the railroad between them. See Also Geology in ROC Congo is a tropical nation, which", "title": "Geography of the Republic of the Congo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.69, "text": "Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; formerly Léopoldville ( or Dutch )) is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is situated alongside the Congo River. Once a site of fishing and trading villages, Kinshasa is now a megacity with an estimated population of more than 11 million. It faces Brazzaville, the capital of the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, which can be seen in the distance across the wide Congo River, making them the world's second-closest pair of capital cities after Rome and Vatican City. The city of Kinshasa is also one of", "title": "Kinshasa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.61, "text": "the mouth, north and south of the Congo River. The capital of this Kongolese kingdom, Mbanza Kongo, later baptized as São Salvador by the Portuguese, is a town in northern Angola near the border with the DRC. From the capital they ruled over an empire encompassing large parts of present-day Angola, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They ruled over nearby tributary states, often by appointing sons of the Kongo kings to head these states. It had six so-called provinces called Mbemba, Soyo, Mbamba, Mbata, Nsundi and Mpangu. With the Kingdom of Loango in the north", "title": "History of the Republic of the Congo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.5, "text": "Lubumbashi Lubumbashi (former names: (French) and (Dutch)) in the southeastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second-largest city in the country, the largest being the capital, Kinshasa. Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, acting as a hub for many of the country's biggest mining companies. The copper-mining city serves as the capital of the relatively prosperous Haut-Katanga Province and is near the border with Zambia. Population estimates vary widely but average around 1.5 million. The Belgian government established the modern-day government in the city of \"\"Élisabethville\"\" (sometimes Elizabethville, both in French,", "title": "Lubumbashi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.25, "text": "Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo Boma is a port town on the Congo River, some 100 km upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Kongo Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It had an estimated population of 162,521 in 2012. Boma was the capital city of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1 May 1886 to 1926, when the capital was moved to Léopoldville (since renamed Kinshasa). The port handles exports of tropical timber, bananas, cacao, and palm products. Boma was founded as a slaving station and", "title": "Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.22, "text": "Free State, designating Boma as its capital. He ran the state as his personal fiefdom for several years, nearly enslaving many Congolese with a private military, and abusing them to force rubber production. International outrage and action by the Belgian legislature resulted in the government taking over supervision of what was established as the colony of the Belgian Congo. Boma continued as the capital of the Belgian Congo until 1926. Léopoldville, since renamed as Kinshasa, was designated as the new capital. (This territory is now the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo). Boma lies on the north bank of the", "title": "Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.06, "text": "Brazzaville Brazzaville (, ) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo and is on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa. Its population is estimated to exceed 1.8 million. Over a third of the population of the Republic of Congo lives in the capital, and it is home to 40% of non-agricultural employment. It is also a financial and administrative capital. Between 1940 and 1942 in World War II, Brazzaville was also the capital of Free France. Brazzaville has been designated \"\"City of Music\"\" in 2013 by UNESCO and has become a member", "title": "Brazzaville" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.03, "text": "between latitudes 4°N and 5°S, and longitudes 11° and 19°E. To the south and east of it is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also bounded by Gabon to the west, Cameroon and the Central African Republic to the north, and Cabinda (Angola) to the southwest. It has a short coast on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital, Brazzaville, is located on the Congo River, in the south of the country, immediately across from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The southwest of the country is a coastal plain for which the primary drainage is", "title": "Republic of the Congo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.95, "text": "Kisangani Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville or Stanleystad) is the capital of Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the third largest urbanized city in the country and the largest of the cities that lie in the tropical woodlands of the Congo. Formerly known as \"\"Stanleyville\"\" in French (or, in Dutch, as ), the city takes its current name from Boyoma Falls, the seven-arched falls located south of the city, whose name was also initially given to the landscape on which the city is located. Singitini (or Singatini) as rendered in Lingala (Kisangani is from present Swahili), each", "title": "Kisangani" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.81, "text": "\"\"Congo\"\" in their names, the Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville, as opposed to Congo-Kinshasa (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known from 1971 to 1997 as Zaïre, the capital of which is Kinshasa). Kinshasa lies on the southern bank of the Congo, directly across from Brazzaville. This is the only place in the world where two national capital cities are on opposite banks of a river, within sight of each other. Since the mid-19th century the two cities have been rivals in trade, sports and power. There have been proposals to connect the two capitals by a", "title": "Brazzaville" } ]

[ "Kerema" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.52, "text": "Gulf Province Gulf Province is a province of Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast. The provincial capital is Kerema. The 34,472 km² province is dominated by mountains, lowland river deltas, and grassland flood plains, the Kikori, Turama, Purari and Vailala rivers all meet the sea known as the Papuan Gulf. The province has the second-smallest population of all the provinces of Papua New Guinea with 106,898 inhabitants (2000 census). The province shares land borders with Western Province to the west, Southern Highlands, Chimbu, and Eastern Highlands to the north, Morobe Province to the east, and Central Province to", "title": "Gulf Province" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.36, "text": "Kerema Kerema is the capital of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. It is located on the coast of Gulf of Papua. The Gulf region is aptly named for its concave coastline with large deltas. The Gulf area is a riparian region where many rivers from the southern slopes of the highlands drain into. There are more than twenty languages spoken in Gulf Province. Languages spoken in the Kerema area include Toaripi, Kakiae, Opae, Moivo Hivi and Tairuma. The villages towards the east of Kerema from Hamuhamu, Miaru to Iokea and inland to Moveave all speak Toaripi. The Gulf's traditional culture", "title": "Kerema" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.22, "text": "province and each district is represented by a Member of the National Parliament. There is one provincial electorate and each district is an open electorate. Gulf Province Gulf Province is a province of Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast. The provincial capital is Kerema. The 34,472 km² province is dominated by mountains, lowland river deltas, and grassland flood plains, the Kikori, Turama, Purari and Vailala rivers all meet the sea known as the Papuan Gulf. The province has the second-smallest population of all the provinces of Papua New Guinea with 106,898 inhabitants (2000 census). The province shares land", "title": "Gulf Province" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.56, "text": "in the 1930s, mainly by Australians. Currently oil and gas explorations are showing positive results and it will be major income earner to the province. The Interoil Gas Field has proven huge reserves. Fishing, logging and oil are the main industries, although betelnut and sago are the major cash crop for the local people. Gulf people supply 15% of the betelnut and sago to Port Moresby markets for cash. Kerema Kerema is the capital of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. It is located on the coast of Gulf of Papua. The Gulf region is aptly named for its concave coastline", "title": "Kerema" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.03, "text": "The major localities encompassed by the electoral area are: According to the Canada 2006 Census: The Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area of the Capital Regional District (CRD) of the Canadian province of British Columbia consists of unincorporated districts in the CRD located on Galiano, Saturna, Mayne, and North and South Pender Islands, as well as many smaller islands located in the Gulf of Georgia north and east of Victoria. It is previously known as the Outer Gulf Islands Electoral Area. Its population of 5,101 is represented by one director on the CRD. The major localities encompassed by the electoral area", "title": "Capital Regional District" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.56, "text": "in Burao, the capital city of Togdheer province in the modern-day Somaliland. Initially a general trading enterprise, the firm began specialising in remittance broking during the 1970s, when many Somali males from Somaliland migrated to the Gulf States for work. This resulted in a growing demand for services to transfer money from those migrant workers back to their families. Because of foreign exchange controls imposed by the Somali government at the time, most of the funds were transferred via a trade-based system known as \"\"Franco Valuta\"\" (FV); the latter process involved the import of goods, proceeds from the sale of", "title": "Dahabshiil" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.47, "text": "Gulf. In Bahrain they settled mostly in and around Awadhiya which is now a busy commercial district. The neighborhood contains some of the last remaining houses built in the traditional architectural style featuring badgeer wind towers in Bahrain. Bastak Bastak (; also known as Bustak) is a city and capital of Bastak County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. Bastak was traditionally part of the region of Irahistan. Bastak's inhabitants are Achomi people. Bastak's inhabitants speak Bastaki, a dialect of Achomi. At the 2006 census, its population was 8,376, in 1,765 families. The history of Bastak can be traced back to the Safavids", "title": "Bastak" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.19, "text": "as ship repair yard. The major cities of the Eastern Province cities such as Abqaiq, Dammam, Dhahran, Hofuf, Jubail, Khafji, Khobar, Ras Tanura, Sihat and Qatif (Gulf Road (Saudi Arabia)) are well connected by highways. Dammam is connected to the Saudi capital, Riyadh and Jeddah on the west coast by Highway 40. The Eastern Province is also linked to Bahrain by the 28 km long King Fahd Causeway, and to other Middle-Eastern countries such as Kuwait (Abu Hadriyah Highway), Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Inter-city bus services are operated in the province by the Saudi Arabian Public Transport", "title": "Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.17, "text": "Khemarak Phoumin Krong Khemarak Phoumin (, ) is the capital and largest city of Koh Kong Province in Cambodia. It is located near the mouth of the Kah Bpow river in Smach Mean Chey district on the Gulf of Thailand. The city lies only 10 kilometres from the Thai border. However, it is 138 kilometres by Highway 48 to National Highway 4 at Sre Ambel and a further 133 kilometres to Phnom Penh. After the completion of the bridges on the Highway 48 in 2007 - 2010 the terrestrial link to Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville has significantly improved. Koh Kong", "title": "Khemarak Phoumin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.08, "text": "Sharjah Sharjah (; \"\"\"\"; Gulf Arabic: \"\"aš-šārja\"\") is the third largest and third most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. It is located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula. Sharjah is the capital of the emirate of Sharjah. Sharjah shares legal, political, military and economic functions with the other emirates of the UAE within a federal framework, although each emirate has jurisdiction over some functions such as civil law enforcement and provision and upkeep of local facilities. Sharjah has been ruled by the Al Qasimi dynasty", "title": "Sharjah" } ]

[ "Sucha Beskidzka" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.38, "text": "Sucha County Sucha County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its administrative seat and largest town is Sucha Beskidzka, which lies south-west of the voivodeship capital Kraków. The county also contains the towns of Maków Podhalański, lying east of Sucha Beskidzka, and Jordanów, south-east of Sucha Beskidzka. The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 82,045, out of which the population of Sucha Beskidzka is 9,726, that of Maków Podhalański is 5,738, that of Jordanów is 5,112, and the", "title": "Sucha County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.91, "text": "Sucha Beskidzka Sucha Beskidzka (before 1961 called only \"\"Sucha\"\") is a town in the \"\"Beskid Żywiecki\"\" mountain range in southern Poland, on the Skawa river. It is the county seat of Sucha County. It has been in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975–1998). Sucha Beskidzka lies in a basin, between the hills of the Beskids (Beskid Makowski and Beskid Maly), on the Skawa river. In 2002, Sucha had the area of 27,46 km., with forests occupying 44%. The town is a rail junction, located along two lines – the 97th from Skawina to", "title": "Sucha Beskidzka" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.8, "text": "significant numbers of tourists, particularly to the skiing centre at Zawoja. Sucha County is bordered by Żywiec County to the west, Wadowice County to the north, Myślenice County to the east and Nowy Targ County to the south-east. It also borders Slovakia to the south-west. The county is subdivided into nine gminas (two urban, one urban-rural and six rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population. <br> Sucha County Sucha County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its administrative seat", "title": "Sucha County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.44, "text": "the royal palace in Kraków (now it serves as a hotel with a restaurant), a church with a cloister (17th century) and an old wooden inn, called \"\"Rzym\"\" (literally meaning \"\"Rome\"\"; 18th century). In the town, there are two higher education schools: Sucha Beskidzka is twinned with: Sucha Beskidzka Sucha Beskidzka (before 1961 called only \"\"Sucha\"\") is a town in the \"\"Beskid Żywiecki\"\" mountain range in southern Poland, on the Skawa river. It is the county seat of Sucha County. It has been in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975–1998). Sucha Beskidzka lies", "title": "Sucha Beskidzka" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.17, "text": "Mandera Mandera () is the capital of Mandera County in the former North Eastern Province of Kenya. It is situated at around , near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. Mandera is the capital of the Mandera District. As a whole, it used to constitute one district, which was divided into three smaller constituencies; namely, Mandera East, Mandera Central and Mandera West. However, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in 2007 ordered the creation of two more districts: Mandera Central Mandera West Lafey, Mandera north and Banisa. This brought the total number of local districts to six. The town occupies an area", "title": "Mandera" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.89, "text": "rural population is 61,469. Sucha County existed between 1956 and 1975, but on the abolition of the powiats its territory was split between the two newly created voivodeships of Bielsko-Biała and Nowy Sącz. The county was recreated on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998, which restored the powiats and created 16 large voivodeships. The county is located in the area of the Maków Beskids of the Beskidy Mountains. Its highest point is Babia Gora, above sea level, which since 1954 has been a national park and Biosphere Reserve. This area attracts", "title": "Sucha County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.83, "text": "of rain. Droughts are not unusual, often resulting in significant loss of livestock in rural areas where pastoralism is common. Mandera Mandera () is the capital of Mandera County in the former North Eastern Province of Kenya. It is situated at around , near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. Mandera is the capital of the Mandera District. As a whole, it used to constitute one district, which was divided into three smaller constituencies; namely, Mandera East, Mandera Central and Mandera West. However, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in 2007 ordered the creation of two more districts: Mandera Central Mandera West", "title": "Mandera" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.61, "text": "Gmina Suchań Gmina Suchań is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Stargard County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Suchań, which lies approximately east of Stargard and east of the regional capital Szczecin. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 4,324 (out of which the population of Suchań amounts to 1,446, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 2,878). Apart from the town of Suchań, Gmina Suchań contains the villages and settlements of Brudzewice, Ininy, Kolonia Brudzewice, Kolonia Zaolzie, Modrzewo, Nosowo, Podłęcze,", "title": "Gmina Suchań" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.44, "text": "Gmina Nowa Sucha Gmina Nowa Sucha is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sochaczew County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Nowa Sucha, which lies approximately 9 kilometres (5 mi) south-west of Sochaczew and 57 km (35 mi) south-west of Warsaw. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 5,966. Gmina Nowa Sucha contains the villages and settlements of Antoniew, Borzymówka, Braki, Glinki, Gradów, Kolonia Gradowska, Kornelin, Kościelna Góra, Kozłów Biskupi, Kozłów Szlachecki, Kurdwanów, Leonów, Marysinek, Mizerka, Nowa Sucha, Nowy Białynin, Nowy Dębsk, Nowy Kozłów Drugi, Nowy Kozłów", "title": "Gmina Nowa Sucha" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 18.34, "text": "New districts with blocks of flats were built, new factories were opened. In 1956, for the first time in history, Sucha became the seat of a county, and in 1975, the town became part of Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship. In 1983, new hospital was completed. Since the beginning of the 20th century Sucha Beskidzka has been a tourist centre for the Beskidy Mountains (part of the Carpathians). Here several tourist trails begin, which lead into the mountains. First trail was marked in 1906. In the town there are fine examples of old architecture: a Renaissance castle (16th century), named \"\"Little Wawel\"\" after", "title": "Sucha Beskidzka" } ]

[ "Vienna", "Wien", "Vienna, Austria", "W" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.38, "text": "Lower Austria Lower Austria ( ; ; ) is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna has not officially been part of Lower Austria since 1921. With a land area of and a population of 1.612 million people, it is the largest state in Austria, and in terms of population second only to the federal state of Vienna. Situated east of Upper Austria, Lower Austria derives its name", "title": "Lower Austria" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.25, "text": "Vienna Vienna (; , ) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria, and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primate city, with a population of about 1.9 million (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of Austria's population), and its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 7th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union. Until the beginning of the 20th century, it was the largest German-speaking city in the world, and before the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I, the city had 2 million", "title": "Vienna" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.12, "text": "elevated Henry's Margraviate of Austria to a duchy with complete independence from Bavaria. Unlike his father, who resided in Klosterneuburg most of the time, Henry moved his residence to Vienna in 1145. Only by this act could the modern Austrian capital surpass cities such as Krems, Melk or Klosterneuburg. Since then, it has remained the capital of the country. Also in 1147, the St. Stephen's Church was completed, which became a visible landmark of the city, showing its prominence. In 1155, Henry founded the Schottenstift monastery in Vienna, in the courtyard of which a statue of him stands to this", "title": "Henry II, Duke of Austria" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.09, "text": "Battle of Vienna, 1683). A plague epidemic ravaged Vienna in 1679, killing nearly a third of its population. In 1804, during the Napoleonic Wars, Vienna became the capital of the Austrian Empire and continued to play a major role in European and world politics, including hosting the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Vienna remained the capital of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city was a centre of classical music, for which the title of the First Viennese School is sometimes applied. During the latter half of the 19th century, the city developed", "title": "Vienna" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.97, "text": "Archduchy of Austria The Archduchy of Austria () was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire and the nucleus of the Habsburg Monarchy. With its capital at Vienna, the archduchy was centered at the Empire's southeastern periphery. The Archduchy developed out of the Bavarian Margraviate of Austria, elevated to the Duchy of Austria according to the 1156 \"\"Privilegium Minus\"\" by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. The House of Habsburg came to the Austrian throne in Vienna in 1282 and in 1453 Emperor Frederick III, also Austrian ruler, officially adopted the archducal title. From the 15th century onwards, all Holy Roman Emperors", "title": "Archduchy of Austria" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.78, "text": "Upper Austria Upper Austria ( ; Austro-Bavarian: \"\"Obaöstarreich\"\"; ) is one of the nine states or \"\"Bundesländer\"\" of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg. With an area of and 1.437 million inhabitants, Upper Austria is the fourth-largest Austrian state by land area and the third-largest by population. For a long period of the Middle Ages, much of what would become Upper Austria constituted , a region of the Duchy of Bavaria, while the area around Steyr was part", "title": "Upper Austria" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.61, "text": "of German Austria. Archduchy of Austria The Archduchy of Austria () was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire and the nucleus of the Habsburg Monarchy. With its capital at Vienna, the archduchy was centered at the Empire's southeastern periphery. The Archduchy developed out of the Bavarian Margraviate of Austria, elevated to the Duchy of Austria according to the 1156 \"\"Privilegium Minus\"\" by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. The House of Habsburg came to the Austrian throne in Vienna in 1282 and in 1453 Emperor Frederick III, also Austrian ruler, officially adopted the archducal title. From the 15th century onwards, all", "title": "Archduchy of Austria" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.59, "text": "international partnerships all over the world. A detailed list can be found on the following webpage of the City of Vienna. Vienna Vienna (; , ) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria, and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primate city, with a population of about 1.9 million (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of Austria's population), and its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 7th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union. Until the beginning of the 20th century, it was the largest German-speaking", "title": "Vienna" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.53, "text": "standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene. Austria is a federal republic with a parliamentary representative democracy comprising nine federated states. The capital and largest city, with a population exceeding 1.8 million, is Vienna. Other major urban areas of Austria include Graz, Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck. Austria is consistently ranked as one of the richest countries in the world by per capita GDP terms. The country has developed a high standard of living and in 2018 was ranked 20th in the world for its Human Development Index. The republic declared", "title": "Austria" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.27, "text": "Culture of Austria Austrian culture has largely been influenced by its past and present neighbours: Italy, Poland, Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia. Vienna, the capital city of Austria has long been an important centre of musical innovation. Composers of the 18th and 19th centuries were drawn to the city by the patronage of the Habsburgs, and made Vienna the European capital of classical music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johann Strauss, Jr., among others, were associated with the city. During the Baroque period, Slavic and Hungarian folk forms influenced Austrian music. Vienna's status began its rise as a cultural", "title": "Culture of Austria" } ]

[ "Khouribga" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.16, "text": "Khouribga Khouribga (, ) is the capital of Khouribga Province in the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region of Morocco. With a population of 196,196 (2014 census), Khouribga owes its growth to the phosphate deposits nearby. Khouribga was also a large site of colonial French settlement, with many houses still standing today in the city. Located at least 120 km from Casablanca, 154 km from the capital, Rabat, 200 km from the city of Marrakesh, 99 km from the city of Beni Mellal and 60 km from the city of Settat. Khouribga is located 820 meters above sea level on the Ouardigha plateau.", "title": "Khouribga" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.97, "text": "emergence of other industries in various economic sectors: The province has three Industrial zones: The province has several services, among them: The agricultural lands is divided into 50% arable land, 20% forests, 30% unused land. Livestock is the most important source of income for the rural population, the herd is estimated to be: The handicrafts sector represents a sizable part of the local economy with 9 cooperatives (260 members), and a handicrafts association. The facilities cover most of the province with: Khouribga Khouribga (, ) is the capital of Khouribga Province in the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region of Morocco. With a", "title": "Khouribga" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.44, "text": "The city was founded in 1923 by the authorities of the French protectorate when they discovered phosphate in the region, for which Morocco is considered to be the biggest exporter in the world. There are several mines in the province, most notably the mine of Sidi Shennan near the town of Oued Zem, which lies 30 km from the village of Boulanouar (5 km) and the town of Boujniba (10 km) and the village of Hattane. The Province of Khouribga is bordered by the Province of Beni Mellal in the east, Province of Ben Slimane in the west, the Province", "title": "Khouribga" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.88, "text": "Khovd (city) Khovd or Hovd (), formerly known as Kobdo or Khobdo, is the capital of the Khovd Province of Mongolia. Officially known as Jargalant sum. It is situated at the foot of the Mongol Altay Mountains, on the Buyant River. The Khar-Us Lake is located approximately 25 km east of Khovd, and is the location of a Strictly Protected Area (Mongolian Government designation), called the Mankhan Nature Preserve. As a result of administrative reforms in 1992, Khovd was accorded the status of Jargalant sum. City area is 80 km. Khovd has a cold desert climate (Köppen climate classification \"\"BWk\"\")", "title": "Khovd (city)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.56, "text": "of Settat in the south, and Khémisset Province in the north. In Khouribga, there is a local steppe climate. In winter there is more rainfall than in summer. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is BSh. The average annual temperature in Khouribga is . About of precipitation falls annually. The Province of Khouribga has a large phosphate reserve estimated 35 to 40 billion cubic meters, which is ranked first at the national level. Also Khouribga is one of the cities that brings hard currency and that is due to its community residents from Italy. Regardless of phosphate mining, the province knew the", "title": "Khouribga" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.3, "text": "Ouled Abdoun Basin The Oulad Abdoun Basin (also known as the Ouled Abdoun Basin or Khouribga Basin) is a phosphate sedimentary basin located in Morocco, near the city of Khouribga. It is the largest in Morocco, comprising 44% of Morocco's phosphate reserves, and at least 26.8 billion tons of phosphate. It is also known as an important site for vertebrate fossils, with deposits ranging from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) to the Eocene epoch (Ypresian), a period of about 25 million years. The Oulad Abdoun is located west of the Atlas Mountains, near the city of Khouribga. The Oulad Abdoun phosphate", "title": "Ouled Abdoun Basin" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.03, "text": "and there is a rail line with passenger service that runs between Oued Zem, Khouribga and Casablanca. Béni Mellal-Khénifra Béni Mellal-Khénifra (, ) is one of the twelve regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 28,374 km and recorded a population of 2,520,776 in the 2014 Moroccan census. The capital of the region is Beni Mellal. Béni Mellal-Khénifra is located in the interior of the country. It borders Rabat-Salé-Kénitra to the north, Fès-Meknès to the northeast, Drâa-Tafilalet to the southeast, Marrakesh-Safi to the southwest and Casablanca-Settat to the northeast. In the western and central part of the region is", "title": "Béni Mellal-Khénifra" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.58, "text": "Khujand Khujand (; ; ), sometimes spelled Khodjent and known as Leninabad (; ) in 1936–1991, is the second-largest city of Tajikistan and the capital of the northernmost province of Tajikistan, now called Sughd. Khujand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, dating back about 2,500 years. It is situated on the Syr Darya at the mouth of the Fergana Valley and was a major city along the ancient Silk Road, mainly inhabited by ethnic Tajiks. It is proximate to both the Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan borders. Khujand is the site of Cyropolis () which was established when king", "title": "Khujand" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.55, "text": "Khoy Khoy (; ; also Romanized as and Khoi), is a city and capital of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2012 census, its population was 200,985. Khoy is biggest city in the Azerbaijan region that is not the capital of a province. Khoy is located north of the province's capital and largest city Urmia, and 807 km north-west to Tehran. The region's economy is based on agriculture, particularly the production of fruit, grain, and timber. Khoy is nicknamed as the Sunflower city of Iran. At the 2006 census, the city had a population of 178,708, with an", "title": "Khoy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.52, "text": "Khojavend (town) Khojavend (), or Martuni () is a town and the provincial capital of Martuni Region of the \"\"de facto\"\" independent Republic of Artsakh. However, it is a \"\"de jure\"\" part of the Republic of Azerbaijan, with the status of an administrative division of the surrounding Khojavend. It is located approximately 41 kilometers east of the Republic's capital Stepanakert. It has a population of 5,700 as of 2015. Excavations in Khojavand have uncovered a number of tombs dating to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Martuni is also home to several ruined medieval churches and remains of settlements, and \"\"khachkars\"\"", "title": "Khojavend (town)" } ]

[ "Ruijin" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.66, "text": "in Ruijin (瑞金), Jiangxi province, which was selected as the national capital. The \"\"Chinese Soviet Republic\"\" (Chinese: \"\"中華蘇維埃共和國\"\") was born, even though the majority of China was still under the control of the nationalist Government of the Republic of China. On that day, they had an open ceremony for the new country, and Mao Zedong and other communists attended the military parade. Because it had its own bank, printed its own money and collected tax through its own tax bureau, it is considered as the beginning of Two Chinas. With Mao Zedong as both head of state (中央執行委員會主席, \"\"Chairman of", "title": "Communist-controlled China (1927–1949)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.66, "text": "1937. On November 7, 1931 (the anniversary of the 1917 Russian October Revolution) a National Soviet People's Delegates Conference was held in Ruijin (瑞金), Jiangxi province. Ruijin was the national capital, and the Republic had received assistance from the Soviet Union to host the gathering. The Chinese Soviet Republic (Chinese: \"\"中華蘇維埃共和國\"\") was born, although most of China was still controlled by the nationalist Government of the Republic of China; an opening ceremony was held for the new country, and Mao Zedong and other communists attended the military parade. Because the CSR had its own national bank, printed its own money", "title": "Chinese Soviet Republic" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.92, "text": "of its Encirclement Campaigns. This last campaign in 1934-35 precipitated the most famous of the grand retreats known collectively as the Long March. On November 7, 1931, the anniversary of the 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union helped organize a National Soviet People's Delegates Conference in Ruijin (瑞金), Jiangxi province. Ruijin was the county seat, and was selected as the capital of the new Soviet republic. \"\"Chinese Soviet Republic\"\" (Chinese: \"\"中華蘇維埃共和國\"\") was born, even though the majority of China was still under the control of the nationalist Government of the Republic of China. On that day, they had an", "title": "Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.33, "text": "charge of the Northeast Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area (赣东北革命根据地) under Fang Zhimin moved from Yiyang county to Hengfeng, setting up the \"\"Soviet government of the Special Administration Region of northeast Jiangxi\"\" in Geyuan town. In November at Ruijin the Chinese Soviet Republic was declared a sovereign state; and Geyuan was named the \"\"capital\"\" of one of its constituent parts, \"\"i.e.\"\" the Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet. In the December of the following year, the Soviet territory officially expanded into counties in Zhejiang and Fujian. In November 1934 (23 ROC), Geyuan was occupied by Chinese government forces. The speciality products are eatabe oil,", "title": "Geyuan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.08, "text": "Jiangxi on August 1, 1927, during the Chinese Civil War. Later the Communist leadership hid in the mountains of southern and western Jiangxi, hiding from the Kuomintang's attempts to eradicate them. In 1931, the Chinese Soviet Republic's government was established in Ruijin (瑞金), which is sometimes called the \"\"Former Red Capital\"\" (红色故都), or just the \"\"Red Capital\"\". In 1935, after complete encirclement by the Nationalist forces, the Communists broke through and began the Long March to Yan'an. Following the Doolittle Raid during World War II, most of the B-25 American crews that came down in China eventually made it to", "title": "History of Jiangxi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.78, "text": "Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet The Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet () was a constituent part of the Chinese Soviet Republic, an unrecognised sovereign state that existed from November 1931 to 1935 (arguably continuing on from its new capital at Yan'an). Before that declaration of overarching statehood, the area was known as the Hunan-Jiangxi Revolutionary Base (). The Revolutionary Base headquarters and later constituent Soviet administrative centre was at Lianhua County in the present-day Pingxiang municipal region. Lianhua lies in the Luoxiao Mountains, running roughly north-south between the two provinces. The range also nestled the famous Jinggangshan redoubt of the anti-Rightist troops of the abortive Autumn", "title": "Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.53, "text": "Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet The Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet () was a constituent part of the Chinese Soviet Republic (1931 - November 1935). Any military threat it posed to the Nationalist Party-controlled Chinese State (1927–1949) had been roundly neutered by an early 1931 campaign (while it was still known as the North-eastern Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area), and thus the area was never going to make a formidable component soviet of the CSR. The administrative centre or Soviet capital was at the town of Geyuan in northern Hengfeng County, now in Shangrao. The town was taken rather unceremoniously by the Chinese army in", "title": "Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.27, "text": "one of the earliest bases for the Communists and many peasants were recruited to join the growing people's revolution. The Nanchang Uprising took place in Jiangxi on August 1, 1927, during the Chinese Civil War. Later the Communist leadership hid in the mountains of southern and western Jiangxi, hiding from the Kuomintang's attempts to eradicate them. In 1931, the Chinese Soviet Republic's government was established in Ruijin, which is sometimes called the \"\"Former Red Capital\"\" (, Gan: Fūng-set Kū-tu), or just the \"\"Red Capital\"\". In 1935, after complete encirclement by the Nationalist forces, the Communists broke through and began the", "title": "Jiangxi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.09, "text": "as far as Harbin in China. Unlike Vladivostok, the city has never been closed to foreigners, despite it being the headquarters of the Far East Military District, and retains its historically international flavor. Once the capital of the Soviet Far East (from 1926 to 1938), since the demise of the Soviet Union, it has experienced an increased Asian presence. It is estimated that over one million Chinese travel to and through Khabarovsk yearly, and foreign investment by Japanese and Korean corporations has grown in recent years. The city has a multi-story shopping mall and about a dozen hotels. Aleksandr Fedosov,", "title": "Khabarovsk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.05, "text": "combined force under general He Long was redesignated the Second Front Red Army. Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet The Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet () was a constituent part of the Chinese Soviet Republic, an unrecognised sovereign state that existed from November 1931 to 1935 (arguably continuing on from its new capital at Yan'an). Before that declaration of overarching statehood, the area was known as the Hunan-Jiangxi Revolutionary Base (). The Revolutionary Base headquarters and later constituent Soviet administrative centre was at Lianhua County in the present-day Pingxiang municipal region. Lianhua lies in the Luoxiao Mountains, running roughly north-south between the two provinces. The range also", "title": "Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet" } ]

[ "Hanover", "Hannover", "Hanover, Germany" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.67, "text": "became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hanover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636-1692), the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1692-1814), the Kingdom of Hanover (1814-1866), the Province of Hanover of the Kingdom of Prussia (1868-1918), the Province of Hanover of the Free State of Prussia (1918-1946), and of the State of Hanover (1946). From 1714 to 1837, Hanover was by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title of the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover). The city is a", "title": "Hanover" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.62, "text": "Hanover Hanover or Hannover (; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German federal state of Lower Saxony, and its 535,061 (2017) inhabitants make it the thirteenth largest city of Germany, as well as the third-largest city of Northern Germany after Hamburg and Bremen. The city lies at the confluence of the River Leine (progression: ) and its tributary Ihme, in the south of the North German Plain, and is the largest city of the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen, and Bremen. Before it", "title": "Hanover" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.25, "text": "with the city of Hanover as the capital of the new state. History of Hanover (region) Hanover () is a territory that was at various times a principality within the Holy Roman Empire, an Electorate within the same, an independent Kingdom, and a subordinate Province within the Kingdom of Prussia. The territory was named after its capital, the city of Hanover, which was the principal town of the region from 1636. In contemporary usage, the name is only used for the city; most of the historical territory of Hanover forms the greater part of the German \"\"Land\"\" of Lower Saxony", "title": "History of Hanover (region)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.88, "text": "formed. It was only troops from Hanover and Brunswick that consistently opposed France throughout the entire Napoleonic wars. The Legion later played an important role in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 elevated the electorate to the Kingdom of Hanover. The capital town Hanover expanded to the western bank of the Leine and since then has grown considerably. In 1837, the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended because William IV's heir in the United Kingdom was female (Queen Victoria). Hanover could be inherited only by male heirs. Thus, Hanover passed to", "title": "Hanover" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.77, "text": "Otto von Bismarck to finance his continuing efforts against Ludwig II of Bavaria. In 1946, the British military administration recreated the \"\"Land of Hanover\"\" based on the former Kingdom of Hanover; but within the year, at the instigation of the German leadership, it was merged into the new Bundesland of Lower Saxony—along with the states of Oldenburg, Brunswick, and Schaumburg-Lippe—with the city of Hanover as the capital of this new state. Hanover was subdivided into six regions first called \"\"Landdrostei[en]\"\" (High-Bailiwick[s]), which were reorganised into Prussian standard Regierungsbezirke (governorates) on 1 April 1885. On 1 April 1885 the six \"\"Landdrosteien\"\"", "title": "Province of Hanover" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.75, "text": "William IV's brother, Ernest Augustus, and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during the Austro-Prussian war. Despite Hanover being expected to defeat Prussia at the Battle of Langensalza, Prussia employed Moltke the Elder's Kesselschlacht order of battle to instead destroy the Hanoverian army. The city of Hanover became the capital of the Prussian Province of Hanover. After the annexation, the people of Hanover generally opposed the Prussian government. To Hanover's industry, however, the new connection with Prussia meant an improvement in business. The introduction of free trade promoted economic growth and led to the recovery", "title": "Hanover" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.62, "text": "Prime Minister, Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf, played a central role when the state of Lower Saxony was founded just a few months later by merging Hanover with several smaller states, with the city of Hanover as its capital. The former territory of Hanover makes up 85 percent of Lower Saxony's territory, and the state continues to use the old Hanover coat of arms. The Lutheran church was the state church of the Kingdom of Hanover with the King being (Supreme Governor of the Lutheran Church). Regional consistories supervised church and clergy. These were in Aurich, a simultaneously Lutheran and Calvinist consistory", "title": "Kingdom of Hanover" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.36, "text": "History of Hanover (region) Hanover () is a territory that was at various times a principality within the Holy Roman Empire, an Electorate within the same, an independent Kingdom, and a subordinate Province within the Kingdom of Prussia. The territory was named after its capital, the city of Hanover, which was the principal town of the region from 1636. In contemporary usage, the name is only used for the city; most of the historical territory of Hanover forms the greater part of the German \"\"Land\"\" of Lower Saxony but excludes certain areas. Hanover was formed by the union of several", "title": "History of Hanover (region)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.98, "text": "and Botanischer Schulgarten Linden). The University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover also maintains its own botanical garden specializing in medicinal and poisonous plants, the Heil- und Giftpflanzengarten der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover. The following is a selection of famous Hanover-natives, personalities connected with the city and honorary citizens: Hanover is twinned with: Hanover Hanover or Hannover (; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German federal state of Lower Saxony, and its 535,061 (2017) inhabitants make it the thirteenth largest city of Germany, as well as the third-largest city of Northern Germany after Hamburg and Bremen. The city lies", "title": "Hanover" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.75, "text": "capital of the Kingdom of Hanover. The route to Göttingen ran relatively easily through the Leine Valley, although it bypassed the major brewing city of Einbeck. In order to avoid passing through the former state of the Electorate of Hesse (\"\"Kurhessen\"\"), the line continued south through difficult terrain with steep grades between Dransfeld and Münden, known accordingly as the Dransfeld Ramp. Until the 1960s, this whole length of the line was one of the most important lines in Germany. Due to the nearby post-war Inner German border, most rail traffic moved in a north-south direction, which made route the second", "title": "Hanoverian Southern Railway" } ]

[ "Banjul" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.97, "text": "Banjul Banjul, officially the City of Banjul and formerly known as Bathurst, is the capital of The Gambia and is in a division of the same name. Banjul is on St Mary's Island (Banjul Island), where the Gambia River enters the Atlantic Ocean. The population of the city proper is 31,301, with the Greater Banjul Area, which includes the City of Banjul and the Kanifing Municipal Council, at a population of 413,397 (2013 census). The island is connected to the mainland to the west and the rest of Greater Banjul Area via bridges. There are also ferries linking Banjul to", "title": "Banjul" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.78, "text": "The Gambia The Gambia (), officially the Republic of the Gambia, is a country in West Africa that is almost entirely surrounded by Senegal with the exception of its western coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the smallest country within mainland Africa. The Gambia is situated on either side of the Gambia River, the nation's namesake, which flows through the centre of the Gambia and empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is with a population of 1,857,181 as of the April 2013 census. Banjul is the Gambian capital and the largest cities are Serekunda and Brikama. The Gambia", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.41, "text": "2005, the Turkish armed forces helped train Gambian soldiers. It has also hosted British and United States training teams from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment and US AFRICOM. The Gambia is divided into eight local government areas, including the national capital, Banjul, which is classified as a city. The Divisions of the Gambia were created by the Independent Electoral Commission in accordance to Article 192 of the National Constitution. The local government areas are further subdivided (2013) into 43 districts. Of these, Kanifing and Kombo Saint Mary (which shares Brikama as a capital with the Brikama Local Government Area) are effectively", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.34, "text": "Janjanbureh, Gambia Janjanbureh or Jangjangbureh is a town, founded in 1832, on Janjanbureh Island in the Gambia River in eastern Gambia. It was formerly known as Georgetown and was the second largest in the country. It is now the capital of the Central River Division and is best known as home to Gambia's main prison. The Wassu stone circles lie 22 km northwest of Lamin Koto, on the north bank across from Janjanbureh. It is also noted for being the site of the first church in Gambia and the first high school, according to one expatriate who was born there.", "title": "Janjanbureh, Gambia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.09, "text": "the capital of the Central River Division and is best known as home to Gambia's main prison. The Wassu stone circles lie 22 km northwest of Lamin Koto, on the north bank across from Janjanbureh. It is one of Gambia's more popular tourist destinations. Tourism in the Gambia The tourism industry today in the Gambia started when a party of 300 Swedish tourists arrived in 1965. That pioneering trip was organised by a Swede named Bertil Harding together with the tour operators Vingresor. It was seen as an ideal place to escape the harsh winter months of Scandinavia where Europeans", "title": "Tourism in the Gambia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.08, "text": "25,000 visitors in 1976. The number of tourists has continued to rise sharply throughout the years, and as the government is eager to diversify the economy, it recognised tourism as a potential major foreign exchange source of revenue. However, despite increasing popularity as a tourist destination, infrastructure development has been slow. Banjul, which is the capital city of the Gambia, is a popular area for tourists. The population of the city is only 34,828, with the Greater Banjul Area, which includes the City of Banjul and the Kanifing Municipal Council, having a population of 357,238 (2003 census). It is located", "title": "Tourism in the Gambia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.95, "text": "West Coast Division (Gambia) West Coast Region, originally the Western Division, was one of the five administrative divisions of the Gambia. Its capital was Brikama. It was subsequently reorganised as the Brikama Local Government Area (LGA), without any change in the area covered. Per 2013 census, the region had a population of 699,704 with a population density of 397. The total number of households was 45,396 as of 2003. As of 2003, the total area of the region is 1764.3 km. The infant mortality rate was 71 for every thousand births and the under-five mortality was 93 per every thousand", "title": "West Coast Division (Gambia)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.89, "text": "Central River Division Central River was the largest of the five administrative divisions of the Gambia. Its capital was Janjanbureh (formerly Georgetown), on MacCarthy Island. The largest settlement was Bansang, with an estimated population in 2008 of 8,381. Until 1995 the division was known as MacCarthy Island Division, which had been established as one of five administrative areas of Gambia Protectorate in the early 20th century. It was located on both sides of the Gambia River, and its total population according to the 2013 census was 226,018 The total number of households was 17,399 as of 2003. As of 2003,", "title": "Central River Division" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.78, "text": "Lower River Division Lower River Division is one of the five administrative divisions of the Gambia. Its capital is Mansa Konko. The city and area council elections were held during April 2002, when Wally S.M. Sanneh, an APRC candidate became the Mayor, winning unopposed. The council was led by Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), which won all the 12 seats. Per 2013 census, the region had a population of 82,361 with a population density of 051. The total number of households was 8,474 as of 2003. As of 2003, the total area of the region is 1618 km.", "title": "Lower River Division" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.75, "text": "independents. Central River Division Central River was the largest of the five administrative divisions of the Gambia. Its capital was Janjanbureh (formerly Georgetown), on MacCarthy Island. The largest settlement was Bansang, with an estimated population in 2008 of 8,381. Until 1995 the division was known as MacCarthy Island Division, which had been established as one of five administrative areas of Gambia Protectorate in the early 20th century. It was located on both sides of the Gambia River, and its total population according to the 2013 census was 226,018 The total number of households was 17,399 as of 2003. As of", "title": "Central River Division" } ]

[ "Athens" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.05, "text": "1938). Capitalizing on this success, the government instituted debt relief for farmers and instituted price floors on some agricultural goods to redistribute wealth to the countryside. Also, on the legislation sector the Greek civil code, was finally completed by a jurist commission; a plan pending since the years of Otto of Greece. Another organization established by the regime was for the first time a state radio station; the YRE, suitable also for the propaganda of the regime. There is some debate over how the regime relates to other totalitarian regimes of the 1930s, especially Italian Fascism and German Nazism. Richard", "title": "4th of August Regime" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.16, "text": "4th of August Regime The 4th of August Regime (, \"\"Kathestós tis tetártis Avgoústou\"\"), commonly also known as the Metaxas Regime (, \"\"Kathestós Metaxá\"\"), was a totalitarian regime under the leadership of General Ioannis Metaxas that ruled the Kingdom of Greece from 1936 to 1941. On 4 August 1936, Metaxas, with the support of King George II, suspended the Greek parliament and went on to preside over a conservative, staunchly anti-communist government. The regime took inspiration in its symbolism and rhetoric from Fascist Italy, but never developed into a fully-fledged fascist dictatorship, and retained close links to Britain and the", "title": "4th of August Regime" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.59, "text": "as most Venizelists supported the right-wing alliance during the civil war. 4th of August Regime The 4th of August Regime (, \"\"Kathestós tis tetártis Avgoústou\"\"), commonly also known as the Metaxas Regime (, \"\"Kathestós Metaxá\"\"), was a totalitarian regime under the leadership of General Ioannis Metaxas that ruled the Kingdom of Greece from 1936 to 1941. On 4 August 1936, Metaxas, with the support of King George II, suspended the Greek parliament and went on to preside over a conservative, staunchly anti-communist government. The regime took inspiration in its symbolism and rhetoric from Fascist Italy, but never developed into a", "title": "4th of August Regime" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.58, "text": "regimes. A large community of Sephardic Jews was present in the region of Thessaloniki which was annexed by Greece in 1913, and Jews were largely in opposition to Venizelism. Metaxas was firmly opposed to the irredentist factions of the Slavophones of northern Greece (consisting of Macedonians and Bulgarians mainly in Aegean Macedonia and Thrace), some of whom underwent political persecution due to advocacy of irredentism with regard to neighbouring countries. Metaxas' regime continued repression of the use of Slavic languages both in public and in private and of expressions of Slavic cultural distinctiveness. Despite their supposed disloyalty, however, Slavophone Greeks", "title": "4th of August Regime" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.45, "text": "regime founded the Workers' Center (Εργατικό Κέντρο), which was established to look after workers' housing and recreation, among other things. The 4th of August regime initially stabilized the drachma, which had been suffering from high inflation. Exploiting the newfound solidity of the currency, Metaxas' government embarked on large public works programs (such as the Ellinikon International Airport), including land drainage, construction of railways, road improvements, and modernization of the telecommunications infrastructure. Metaxas' economic program met with initial success, with a marked rise in per capita income and temporary decline in unemployment in Greece between 1936 and 1938 (unemployment skyrocketed after", "title": "4th of August Regime" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.42, "text": "identified with the Greek state and fought ferociously for Greece on the Italo-Albanian front. Again in contrast to some totalitarian regimes, no mass killings were ever instituted and there is no evidence that any were planned. One of the 4th of August government's main objectives was the repudiation of the old capitalist system and its replacement with a corporatist economic system in order to promote national and social solidarity. This idea \"\"harmonized perfectly with Metaxas' convictions on social and national solidarity as well as his rejection of individualism and class struggle\"\". The plan for the creation of a corporatist state", "title": "4th of August Regime" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.36, "text": "social situation prevalent in Greece in the 1930s, in which political factionalization had disrupted Greek parliamentary democracy. The sinking credibility of the Parliament was accompanied by several coup attempts; in March 1935, a Venizelist putsch failed, and in the following October, elections reinforced the Royalist majority, which allowed the exiled King George II to return to Greece. The king re-established the monarchy in the country, but the parliament, split into incompatible factions, was unable to shape a clear political majority so that the government could govern. Meanwhile, the increasing activity of the Communists, whose 15 deputies from the 1936 elections", "title": "4th of August Regime" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.2, "text": "school in Sofia. The 4th of August Regime in Greece (1936 to 1941) under the leadership of General Ioannis Metaxas was firmly opposed to the pro-Bulgarian factions of the Slavophones of northern Greece, some of whom underwent political persecution due to advocacy of irredentism with regard to neighboring countries. Metaxas' regime continued repression of the use of Slavic languages both in public and in private as well as expressions of Slavic cultural distinctiveness. As a consequence after the German invasion in Greece (6 April 1941) followed also a Bulgarian annexation of Eastern Macedonia and part of Western Thrace. Bulgaria joined", "title": "Andon Kalchev" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.19, "text": "was manifest in the early days of the regime by public declarations by Metaxas and by government ministers. To this end, Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Konstantinos Zavitsianos \"\"published details about a horizontal (according to branches of production), not vertical (according to social class), syndicalist organization\"\" of the state. However, due to the external crisis with Italy, the plan had to be temporarily postponed with the result that it never fully materialized. Metaxas' government, initially unpopular, also gained popularity through an elaborate program to socialize the Greek economy, including: Many elements of this program persist in Greek economic policy. Metaxas'", "title": "4th of August Regime" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.11, "text": "held the balance between 143 Monarchists and 142 Liberals, Agrarians, and Republicans, created a deadlock. In May 1935 widespread agrarian unrest (tobacco farmers) and industrial unrest in the north of the country erupted, which eventually brought General Metaxas to suspend the parliament on the eve of a major strike, on 4 August 1936. Endorsed by the King, Metaxas declared a state of emergency, decreed martial law, annulled various articles of the constitution and established a crisis cabinet to put to an end the growing riots and to restore social order. In one of his first speeches, Metaxas announced: \"\"I have", "title": "4th of August Regime" } ]

[ "Mirambeau" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.28, "text": "Miragoâne Miragoâne () is a coastal commune in western Haiti and the capital of the Nippes department. It is also the headquarters of the Miragoâne Arrondissement. It is regarded as one of the major ports in the trade in used goods. Bales of used clothing, shoes, appliances and used cars arrive at the port from Miami and other U.S. cities. Local merchants in the informal sector buy boxes and bales of used goods to sort and resell them in street markets. Inexpensive merchandise is thus dispersed around Haiti. The port was used by Reynolds Metals aluminum for export of bauxite", "title": "Miragoâne" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.17, "text": "Bagaces (canton) Bagaces is the fourth canton in the province of Guanacaste in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 1,273.49 km², and has a population of 17,087. Its capital city is also called Bagaces. The Río Salto on the west and Río Tenorio on the east delineate this canton, with the Río Tempisque as the southern border and the northern border high in the Cordillera de Guanacaste. Miravalles Volcano sits near that border's midway point. The canton of Bagaces is subdivided into four districts (\"\"distritos\"\"): Bagaces was first mentioned as a canton in a decree dated December 7,", "title": "Bagaces (canton)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.03, "text": "1848. Bagaces (canton) Bagaces is the fourth canton in the province of Guanacaste in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 1,273.49 km², and has a population of 17,087. Its capital city is also called Bagaces. The Río Salto on the west and Río Tenorio on the east delineate this canton, with the Río Tempisque as the southern border and the northern border high in the Cordillera de Guanacaste. Miravalles Volcano sits near that border's midway point. The canton of Bagaces is subdivided into four districts (\"\"distritos\"\"): Bagaces was first mentioned as a canton in a decree dated December", "title": "Bagaces (canton)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.95, "text": "which was mined inland between the 1960s and 1980s. It is now the site of a collaboration between Max Hardberger and the Bigio family's GB Group for further port development. Miragoâne Miragoâne () is a coastal commune in western Haiti and the capital of the Nippes department. It is also the headquarters of the Miragoâne Arrondissement. It is regarded as one of the major ports in the trade in used goods. Bales of used clothing, shoes, appliances and used cars arrive at the port from Miami and other U.S. cities. Local merchants in the informal sector buy boxes and bales", "title": "Miragoâne" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.91, "text": "Upala (canton) Upala is the 13th canton in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of , and has a population of 48,910 (estimate as of 2013). The capital city of the canton is also called Upala. Upala Canton is bordered by Nicaragua on the north, the Río Las Haciendas on the northwest, Río Rito on the southeast, and the Cordillera de Guanacaste on the south. The Rincón de la Vieja, Santa María, Miravalles and Tenorio volcanoes are landmarks along the southern border. The canton of Upala is subdivided into eight districts (\"\"distritos\"\"): The canton", "title": "Upala (canton)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.89, "text": "was established by a decree of March 17, 1970. Upala (canton) Upala is the 13th canton in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of , and has a population of 48,910 (estimate as of 2013). The capital city of the canton is also called Upala. Upala Canton is bordered by Nicaragua on the north, the Río Las Haciendas on the northwest, Río Rito on the southeast, and the Cordillera de Guanacaste on the south. The Rincón de la Vieja, Santa María, Miravalles and Tenorio volcanoes are landmarks along the southern border. The canton of", "title": "Upala (canton)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.89, "text": "is known) The town is the capital of the canton of the same name whose general counsel is Leopold Rosso, deputy mayor of Le Grau-du-Roi and president of the Community of Communes Terre de Camargue (UMP). The canton is part of the arrondissement of Nîmes and the second electoral district of Gard where the member is Gilbert Collard (FN ). In 2010 the commune had 8,341 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is", "title": "Aigues-Mortes" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.47, "text": "Mirax-Plaza Russia The Mirax-Plaza Russia (Russian: \"\"Миракс-Плаза Россия\"\") is an unfinished building in Moscow, the capital of Russia. It is located in Moscow Kutuzovsky prospect (crossing with Kulnev street). The complex will have a monorail connection crossing the Moskva River to the Federation complex and parking spaces for 2,950 cars. The construction project was led by the Russian project developers Mirax Group, also responsible for the nearby 506 metre-high Federation Tower. Designed by Sergey Kisselev & Partners, the multifunctional complex comprises two towers with 41 and 47 floors, and two lower buildings. The exclusive Mirax Plaza will house offices and", "title": "Mirax-Plaza Russia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.41, "text": "a total of 47,390 (or 19.9% of the population) who were resident foreigners. The capital is Frauenfeld. In prehistoric times the lands of the canton were inhabited by people of the Pfyn culture along Lake Constance. During Roman times the canton was part of the province \"\"Raetia\"\" until in 450 the lands were settled by the Alamanni. In the 6th century \"\"Thurgovia\"\" became a Gau of the Frankish Empire as part of Alemannia, passing to the Duchy of Swabia in the early 10th century. At this time, \"\"Thurgovia\"\" included not just what is now the canton of Thurgau, but also", "title": "Canton of Thurgau" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.41, "text": "Mirandola Mirandola (Mirandolese: ) is a city and \"\"comune\"\" of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, in the Province of Modena, northeast of the provincial capital by railway. Mirandola originated as a Renaissance city-fortress. For four centuries it was the seat of an independent principality (first a county, then a duchy), a possession of the Pico family, whose most outstanding member was the polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–94). It was besieged two times: in 1510 and 1551. It was acquired by the Duchy of Modena in 1710. The city started to decay after the castle was destroyed in 1714. On 29 May 2012,", "title": "Mirandola" } ]

[ "Bentiu" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.78, "text": "are hosted by a major city, usually the state capital, in the German state presiding over the Bundesrat in the respective year (a sequence determined by the \"\"Königstein Agreement\"\"). After Bonn in 2011, Frankfurt am Main was the second non-state capital to host the celebrations in 2015; however, both cities bear a significance for German history (Bonn as former capital of West Germany and Frankfurt Parliament of 1848/49). In addition, various celebrations are held in the federal capital Berlin, mainly based on the Straße des 17. Juni and around the Brandenburg Gate. State capitals and also other cities often have", "title": "German Unity Day" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.62, "text": "Unity\"\" by One Malaysia Foundation for racial harmony that existed in the city because of cross-racial marriages, multi-racial schools, fair scholarship distributions, and balanced workforce patterns. As a capital of Sarawak, Kuching plays an important role in the political and economic welfare of the population of the entire state as it become the seat of the state government where almost all of their ministries and agencies are based. The Sarawak State Legislative Assembly is located at the suburb of Kuching in Petra Jaya. There are 3 Members of Parliament (MPs) representing the three parliamentary constituencies in the city: Petra Jaya", "title": "Kuching" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.39, "text": "Unity State Unity, sometimes known as Western Upper Nile, was one of the 10 states of South Sudan. Unity state was in the Greater Upper Nile region. It had an area of . Unity was inhabited predominantly by two ethnic groups, the Nuer (majority) and the Dinka (minority). In 2015, a presidential decree established a new system of 28 states, replacing the previously established 10. Unity state was replaced by the states of Ruweng, Northern Liech and Southern Liech. The capital of Unity state was Bentiu. Before an administrative reorganization in 1994, Unity was part of a much larger province", "title": "Unity State" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.31, "text": "Unity Bank plc Unity Bank, also known as Unity Bank plc, is a commercial bank in Nigeria. Unity Bank is a large financial services provider in Nigeria. Headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, Unity Bank also maintains an operations base on Victoria Island, in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital. , the bank's total assets were valued at about US$2.45 billion (NGN:396 billion), with shareholders' equity of approximately US$322 million (NGN:51.5 billion). In January 2006, nine financial institutions with expertise in corporate banking, retail banking, as well as investment banking, came together to form Unity Bank plc. Unity Bank plc, is the flagship", "title": "Unity Bank plc" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.19, "text": "residential tower contains 162 residential units of mainly two and three bedroom duplex apartments, as well as a residents' gym and underground parking. Prior to the construction of the Unity Buildings, another project was tipped for development on the same site. The 40 storey building was to be called 'Capital Exchange', however it was scrapped in favour of the Unity Buildings. The Unity Buildings alongside Palestra in London won the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual tall buildings awards in 2007, the RIBA described the towers as follows: \"\"arrangement minimises any interruption to views of the Mersey and allows Unity,", "title": "Unity Buildings" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23, "text": "the \"\"\"\"Deutscher Gemeindetag\"\"\"\" (German Local Authorities Association). Fiehler was appointed chairman of this unity organization. The administrative office was situated on \"\"Alsenstraße\"\" in the Berlin-Tiergarten district. On 2 August 1935 a memorable conversation took place between Hitler and Karl Fiehler in the course of which Munich received a new epithet: \"\"Hauptstadt der Bewegung\"\" (Capital of the Movement). This \"\"title\"\" was given to remind the Germans of the NSDAP origins in Bavaria's metropolis. During the 1930s a number of model buildings, prime examples of grandiose Nazi architecture, had been erected by Paul Ludwig Troost, the predecessor of Albert Speer as Hitler's", "title": "Karl Fiehler" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.75, "text": "Palace of Unity The Palace of Unity (Tajik: Кохи Ваҳдат/\"\"Kokhi Vahdat\"\"/کاخ وحدت), also referred to as Vahdat Palace, is a building in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Located in the northern part of Dushanbe's main thoroughfare, Rudaki Avenue, near Hotel Avesto and the embassy of Uzbekistan, it is the headquarters of the ruling People's Democratic Party and is also used to host international conferences. In November 2007, a bomb was left in a plastic bag near a wall outside of the Palace, in an incident labelled by authorities as a terrorist act. A 77-year-old man, variously reported to be a janitor, a street", "title": "Palace of Unity" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.16, "text": "by SAPS and Sri Venkateswara University Teachers Association (SVUTA) intellectuals strongly opposed the state bifurcation saying that they have already sacrificed two state capital cities Chennai and Kurnool during the formation of Andhra State and Andhra Pradesh State respectively and that they are not ready to sacrifice another capital city Hyderabad. In Delhi, activist peacefully stood outside Digvijaya Singh's residence with posters carrying message of unity is strength and many like that. On July 11 the state chief minister, deputy chief minister and state party president presented their views in the Congress core committee meeting, post which it was announced", "title": "Samaikyandhra Movement" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.95, "text": "unity of action among all workers of the industry throughout the United States and Canada, claiming, as we do, that labor is capital, and is the only capital that possesses power to reproduce itself or in other words, to create capital. Labor is the interest underlying all other interests; therefore, it is entitled to and should receive from society and government protection and encouragement..\"\" United Association The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA or United Association) is a labor union which represents workers in the", "title": "United Association" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.91, "text": "sweeper, or a security guard, was the only victim; he was killed at 08:10 on 14 November 2007 when he picked up the plastic bag containing the bomb, causing it to explode. The explosion also blew out many windows at the palace. Palace of Unity The Palace of Unity (Tajik: Кохи Ваҳдат/\"\"Kokhi Vahdat\"\"/کاخ وحدت), also referred to as Vahdat Palace, is a building in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Located in the northern part of Dushanbe's main thoroughfare, Rudaki Avenue, near Hotel Avesto and the embassy of Uzbekistan, it is the headquarters of the ruling People's Democratic Party and is also used to", "title": "Palace of Unity" } ]

[ "Boston", "Boston, Lincolnshire", "Boston, England" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.61, "text": "Boston Boston is the capital and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city proper covers with an estimated population of 685,094 in 2017, making it also the most populous city in the New England region. Boston is the seat of Suffolk County as well, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest such area", "title": "Boston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.27, "text": "government for a mayor-council or manager-council form. Boston is the state capital and largest city in Massachusetts. The population of the city proper is 673,184, and Greater Boston, with a population of 4,628,910, is the 10th largest metropolitan area in the nation. Other cities with a population over 100,000 include Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, and Cambridge. Plymouth is the largest municipality in the state by land area, followed by Middleborough. Massachusetts, along with the five other New England states, features the local governmental structure known as the New England town. In this structure, incorporated towns—as opposed to townships or counties—hold many", "title": "Massachusetts" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.92, "text": "(the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire), Providence (the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island), Worcester, Massachusetts (the second largest city in New England), as well as the South Coast region and Cape Cod in Massachusetts. While the small footprint of the city of Boston itself only contains an estimated 685,094, the urbanization has extended well into surrounding communities, with the MSA having a population of 4,732,161. Some of Greater Boston's most well-known contributions involve the region's higher education and medical institutions. Greater Boston has been influential upon American history and industry.", "title": "Greater Boston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.8, "text": "and Mexico, over 1.4 million international tourists visited Boston in 2014, with those from China and the United Kingdom leading the list. Boston's status as a state capital as well as the regional home of federal agencies has rendered law and government to be another major component of the city's economy. The city is a major seaport along the East Coast of the United States and the oldest continuously operated industrial and fishing port in the Western Hemisphere. The financial services industry is important to Boston, especially involving mutual funds and insurance. In the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index, Boston", "title": "Boston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.62, "text": "(46%) of water. The city's official elevation, as measured at Logan International Airport, is above sea level. The highest point in Boston is Bellevue Hill at above sea level, and the lowest point is at sea level. Situated onshore of the Atlantic Ocean, Boston is the only state capital in the contiguous United States with an oceanic shoreline. Boston is surrounded by the \"\"Greater Boston\"\" region and is contiguously bordered by the cities and towns of Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, Milton, and Quincy. The Charles River separates Boston from Watertown and the", "title": "Boston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.62, "text": "Greater Boston Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, and the most populous city in New England, as well as its surrounding areas. The region forms the northern arc of the US northeast megalopolis and as such, Greater Boston can be described as either a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), or as a broader combined statistical area (CSA). The MSA consists of most of the eastern third of Massachusetts, excluding the South Coast region and Cape Cod; while the CSA additionally includes the municipalities of Manchester", "title": "Greater Boston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.61, "text": "Authority (MWRA), and the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport)—play a role in the life of Bostonians. As the capital of Massachusetts, Boston plays a major role in state politics. The city has several federal facilities, including the John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Federal Building, the John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Both courts are housed in the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse. Federally, Boston is split", "title": "Boston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.14, "text": "glorious city I know of none that has approached so near in some points, distant as it may still be from that illustrious model.' From this, Boston has been called the \"\"Athens of America\"\" (also a nickname of Philadelphia) for its literary culture, earning a reputation as \"\"the intellectual capital of the United States.\"\" In the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in Boston. Some consider the Old Corner Bookstore to be the \"\"cradle of American literature,\"\" the place where these writers met and where \"\"The", "title": "Boston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.66, "text": "2006 and ending in 2013, the Boston MSA had the greatest percentage decline of workers commuting by automobile (3.3 percent) among MSAs with more than a half-million residents. The City of Boston has eleven official sister cities: The City of Boston has formal partnership relationships through a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with four additional cities or regions: In 1900, Americans from Boston bought a piece of land in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa and developed it for residential purposes. In memory of their hometown, they called it Boston. Boston Boston is the capital and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth", "title": "Boston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.59, "text": "\"\"home rule\"\" authority. Most county governments were abolished in the 1990s and 2000s, although a handful remain. The capital of Massachusetts is Boston. The seat of power is Beacon Hill, which is home to the legislative and executive branches. The Supreme Judicial Court occupies nearby Pemberton Hill. There are 151 departments or agencies in Massachusetts, and over 700 independent boards and commissions. The Governor exercises direct control over many of the largest agencies, but only indirect control over independent entities through appointments. The statewide elected officials are: Other elected officials are: Some executive agencies are delegated by the legislature with", "title": "Government of Massachusetts" } ]

[ "Neuburg an der Donau", "Neuburg/Donau", "Neuburg a.d.Donau" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.19, "text": "Neuburg an der Donau Neuburg an der Donau, literally \"\"Newcastle on the river Danube\"\", is a town which is the capital of the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany. The municipality has 16 divisions: Neuburg was originally an episcopal see. In the 10th century it passed to the counts of Scheyern and through them to Bavaria, being ceded to the Rhenish Palatinate at the close of a war in 1507. From 1557 to 1742 it was the capital of a small principality ruled by a cadet branch of the family of the elector palatine of the Rhine.", "title": "Neuburg an der Donau" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.83, "text": "Oberhausen (near Neuburg) Oberhausen is a municipality in the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany. Oberhausen combines historic Oberhausen, Unterhausen, Sinning and Kreut. Neighboring communities include Rennertshofen, Burgheim, Ehekirchen, Rohrenfels, Königsmoos and Neuburg an der Donau. Bahnhof Unterhausen is the local train station. The population as of January, 2005: In 1214, Oberhausen and Unterhausen were documented. There were heavy casualties and great damage to Oberhausen and Unterhausen during World War II. In the woods just outside Sinning, there are reinforced, concrete bunkers built during World War II that still exist today. In 1972, Oberhausen, Unterhausen and Sinning", "title": "Oberhausen (near Neuburg)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.2, "text": "Neuhausen-Nymphenburg Neuhausen and Nymphenburg are boroughs of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. They had been merged into the borough 09 - Neuhausen-Nymphenburg () in 1992. For further information on the Munich boroughs, see: Boroughs of Munich. Nymphenburg borders in the north-west on Obermenzing, in the southwest on Pasing in the north on Moosach and in the southeast on Neuhausen. The borough 09 ranges from the Mars-field at the inner edge of town to the Nymphenburg Palace in the west and extends from the Olympic Park over the villa colony in Gern to the railway tracks. Neuhausen", "title": "Neuhausen-Nymphenburg" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.17, "text": "were combined under the name Oberhausen. In 1994, Kreut was added to the municipality. Oberhausen is made up of Oberhausen, Unterhausen, Sinning, Kreut. Oberhausen was first documented in 1214. Grumoldshausen or Grünwaldshausen oder Grimoldshausen, the original name of Unterhausen, was created in the 8th century. Sinning was first documented in 1176. Kreut joined the municipality in 1994. Oberhausen (near Neuburg) Oberhausen is a municipality in the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany. Oberhausen combines historic Oberhausen, Unterhausen, Sinning and Kreut. Neighboring communities include Rennertshofen, Burgheim, Ehekirchen, Rohrenfels, Königsmoos and Neuburg an der Donau. Bahnhof Unterhausen is the", "title": "Oberhausen (near Neuburg)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.33, "text": "Hildburghausen Hildburghausen is a town in Thuringia in central Germany, capital of the district Hildburghausen. It is situated in the Franconian part of Thuringia south of the Thuringian Forest, in the valley of the Werra river. The town centre is located about south of Suhl and northwest of Coburg. The settlement of \"\"Hilteburgehusin\"\" was first mentioned in a 1234 deed, when the Counts of Henneberg sold it to the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg. Repurchased in 1316, the Henneberg lords vested the citizens with town privileges in 1324 and had city walls erected. In 1353 the estates of Hildburghausen were inherited by", "title": "Hildburghausen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.19, "text": "the following results: Chairman of the BA is Ingeborg Staudenmeyer (SPD). The Vice-Chairmen are Roland Zintl (Greens) and Immoi Scheibel (CSU). The Greens and the ÖDP provide a common fraction. The municipality is represented in the City Council by Oliver Belik (SPD) and Councilwoman Elizabeth Schmucker (CSU). All are only in German! Neuhausen-Nymphenburg Neuhausen and Nymphenburg are boroughs of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. They had been merged into the borough 09 - Neuhausen-Nymphenburg () in 1992. For further information on the Munich boroughs, see: Boroughs of Munich. Nymphenburg borders in the north-west on Obermenzing, in", "title": "Neuhausen-Nymphenburg" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.95, "text": "Neuhausen am Rheinfall Neuhausen am Rheinfall (called Neuhausen until 1938) is a town and a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The town is close to the Rhine Falls. Neuhausen am Rheinfall is first mentioned in 900/910 as \"\"Niuhusen\"\". In 1253 it was mentioned as \"\"Niuwenhusin\"\". The German blazon reads: \"\"In gelb über grünem Kleeblatt weisses nach rechts gekehrtes Rebmesser mit braunem Griff.\"\" The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Or in base a cloverleaf couped proper above which a billhook argent hafted proper. In 1569, Neuhausen bore arms with a gold field and", "title": "Neuhausen am Rheinfall" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.92, "text": "Gelnhausen Gelnhausen is a town and the capital of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located approximately 40 kilometers east of Frankfurt am Main, between the Vogelsberg mountains and the Spessart range at the river Kinzig. It is one of the eleven towns (urban municipalities) in the district. Gelnhausen has around 22,000 inhabitants. According to the \"\"Institut Géographique National\"\" from 1 January 2007 until July 2013 the geographic centre of the European Union was located on a wheat field outside the town. Gelnhausen is located on the German Fairy Tale Route, a tourist route. Gelnhausen was founded by Emperor", "title": "Gelnhausen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.88, "text": "Karlshuld Karlshuld is a municipality in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in Bavaria in Germany. The locality was created in the course of the draining of the \"\"Donaumooses\"\" begun at 1790, in the year 1795 it became a colony of Karl Freiherr v. Eckart and was named after \"\"Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria\"\". The place was until 1840 seat of an aristocracy yard Mark (and/or a Patrimonialgerichts). 1804 had five times more than originally planned, already over 300 inhabitants. The living conditions were in particular in the beginning, very hard, and improved in the course of the decades only little. 1824", "title": "Karlshuld" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.81, "text": "village, built around a central square) on the south foot of the Randen range near the Rhine Falls. Today it is an industrial city. It is located on the south-west border of the city of Schaffhausen. Until 1938 Neuhausen am Rheinfall was known as Neuhausen. The neighboring municipalities are Laufen-Uhwiesen, Flurlingen, Feuerthalen, Schaffhausen, Beringen, Guntmadingen and the German municipality Jestetten, with which it has a border crossing along Zollstrasse to the southwest of town. Neuhausen am Rheinfall has a population () of 10,080, of which 35.1% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 16.1% are from Germany, 16.2% are", "title": "Neuhausen am Rheinfall" } ]

[ "Montreal", "Montréal", "City of Montreal", "Montreal, Quebec", "Ville de Montréal", "Ville de Montreal" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.66, "text": "Canada after being united into the Province of Canada. It became the province of Ontario after Confederation. The location of the capital city of the Province of Canada changed six times in its 26-year history. The first capital was in Kingston (1841–1844). The capital moved to Montreal (1844–1849) until rioters, spurred by a series of incendiary articles published in \"\"The Gazette\"\", protested against the Rebellion Losses Bill and burned down Montreal's parliament buildings. It then moved to Toronto (1849–1852). It moved to Quebec City from 1852 to 1856, then Toronto for one year (1858) before returning to Quebec City from", "title": "Province of Canada" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.66, "text": "1859 to 1866. In 1857, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the permanent capital of the Province of Canada, initiating construction of Canada's first parliament buildings, on Parliament Hill. The first stage of this construction was completed in 1865, just in time to host the final session of the last parliament of the Province of Canada before Confederation. The Governor General remained the head of the civil administration of the colony, appointed by the British government, and responsible to it, not to the local legislature. He was aided by the Executive Council and the Legislative Council. The Executive Council aided in", "title": "Province of Canada" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.53, "text": "After this date, Quebec was designated as the capital until 1866 (one year before Canadian Confederation). Since then, the capital of Canada has remained Ottawa, Ontario. Toronto became the capital of the province of Ontario after its official creation in 1867. The seat of government of the Ontario Legislature is located at Queen's Park. Because of its provincial capital status, the city was also the location of Government House, the residence of the viceregal representative of the Crown in right of Ontario. Long before the Royal Military College of Canada was established in 1876, supporters of the concept proposed military", "title": "Toronto" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.02, "text": "National Capital Region is not a separate political or administrative entity. Its component parts are within the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Defined by the National Capital Act, the National Capital Region consists of an area of that straddles the Ottawa River, which serves as the boundary between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. This area is smaller than that of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA), which is in size. Ottawa–Gatineau is the only CMA in the nation to fall within two provinces. The European first settlement in the region was led by Philemon Wright, a New Englander from", "title": "National Capital Region (Canada)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.48, "text": "Canada East for representation by population, but the roles reversed as Canada West's population surpassed the east's. The single colony remained governed in this way until 1 July 1867, often with coalition governments. A new capital city was being built at Ottawa, chosen in 1857 by Queen Victoria, and became a national capital. At the conferences held in London to determine the form of confederation that would unite the Province of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec), the Province of New Brunswick and the Province of Nova Scotia, a delegate from either Nova Scotia or New Brunswick proposed the name \"\"Canada\"\"", "title": "Name of Canada" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.48, "text": "are concerned about their influence on provincial politics. Glen Murray has stated that Canadian cities must rely on property taxes, as they have no ability to enact other taxes or collect income or consumption taxes. The Province of Toronto was first proposed as the name of the province of Ontario during the debates leading to Canadian Confederation in 1867. British imperial officials considered the name after noting that Quebec City was the capital of Quebec, and hence Toronto should be the capital of a similarly named province. The idea had little traction and was dismissed in favour of using the", "title": "Proposal for the Province of Toronto" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.38, "text": "only province in Canada that borders the Pacific Ocean. British Columbia's capital is Victoria, located at the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island. Only a narrow strip of Vancouver Island, from Campbell River to Victoria, is significantly populated. Much of the western part of Vancouver Island and the rest of the coast is covered by temperate rainforest. The province's most populous city is Vancouver, which is at the confluence of the Fraser River and Georgia Strait, in the mainland's southwest corner (an area often called the Lower Mainland). By land area, Abbotsford is the largest city. Vanderhoof is near the geographic", "title": "British Columbia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.27, "text": "of British Columbia, and Victoria became the united colony's capital. In 1871, British Columbia became the sixth province of Canada. Its Latin motto is \"\"Splendor sine occasu\"\" (\"\"Splendour without Diminishment\"\"). The capital of British Columbia remains Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Queen Victoria who ruled during the creation of the original colonies. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second-largest in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2013, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,606,371 (about 2.5 million of whom were in Greater Vancouver). The", "title": "British Columbia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.25, "text": "National Capital Region (Canada) The National Capital Region (), also referred to as Canada's Capital Region and Ottawa–Gatineau (formerly \"\"Ottawa–Hull\"\"), is an official federal designation for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the neighbouring city of Gatineau, Quebec, and surrounding urban and rural communities. The term National Capital Region is often used to describe the Ottawa–Gatineau metropolitan area, although the official boundaries of the NCR do not precisely correspond to the statistical metropolitan area. Unlike capital districts in some other federal countries, such as the District of Columbia in the United States or the Australian Capital Territory in Australia, the", "title": "National Capital Region (Canada)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.19, "text": "the French Community and has members in the Parliament of the French Community, elected by the French linguistic group of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is not located in a separate territory or district. It instead is within the province of Ontario, of which Toronto is the capital. In the bicameral Parliament, Ottawa is represented by eight Members of Parliament in the House of Commons and is collectively represented with the rest of the province by Ontario's 24 appointed Senators in the Senate. As part of Ontario, Ottawa also elects eight Members of Provincial", "title": "District of Columbia voting rights" } ]

[ "Nicosia", "Lefkosia" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.34, "text": "Nicosia Nicosia ( ; ; ) is the largest city, capital, and seat of government of the island of Cyprus. It is located near the centre of the Mesaoria plain, on the banks of the River Pedieos. Nicosia is the southeasternmost of all EU member states' capitals. It has been continuously inhabited for over 4,500 years and has been the capital of Cyprus since the 10th century. The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities of Nicosia segregated into the south and north of the city respectively in 1963, following the crisis from 1955–64 that broke out in the city. This", "title": "Nicosia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.92, "text": "to be around 20,000. Kyrenia is considered the capital of tourism in Northern Cyprus, with its numerous hotels, entertainment facilities, vibrant nightlife and shopping areas. In 2012, 62.7% of the visitors in Northern Cyprus stayed in the Girne District during their visit. Out of the 145 hotels in Northern Cyprus, 99 were in the Girne District in 2013. Northern Cyprus has traditionally been an attraction for beach holidays, partly thanks to its reputation as an unspoiled area. Its mild climate, rich history and nature are seen as sources of attraction. A significant sector of eco-tourism has been developed in Northern", "title": "Northern Cyprus" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.91, "text": "separation became a militarized border between the Republic of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus after Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus in 1974, occupying the north of the island, including northern Nicosia. Today North Nicosia is the capital of Northern Cyprus, a state recognized only by Turkey, that is considered to be occupied Cypriot territory by the international community. Apart from its legislative and administrative functions, Nicosia has established itself as the island's financial capital and its main international business centre. In 2018, Nicosia was the 32nd richest city in the world in relative purchasing power. The earliest mention of Nicosia", "title": "Nicosia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.7, "text": "North Nicosia North Nicosia or Northern Nicosia ( ) is the capital and largest city of the \"\"de facto\"\" state of Northern Cyprus. It is the northern part of the divided city of Nicosia and is governed by the Nicosia Turkish Municipality. , North Nicosia had a population of 61,378 and a metropolitan area with a population of 82,539. Following the intercommunal violence of the 1960s, the capital of Republic of Cyprus was divided between the island's Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities in the south and north respectively in 1963. A coup by the Greek military junta in an", "title": "North Nicosia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.69, "text": "king of the Pafian kingdom. It wasn't until the second century that the city grew in importance and became the capital of Roman Cyprus. The earliest account of Pafos as the capital of the island actually comes from \"\"The Acts of the Apostles\"\" in the New Testament, where Paul and Barnabas stayed to preach to Sergius Paulus, who then converted to Christianity. Roman Pafos reached its golden age under the Severan Dynasty (and it is attested that there was even an imperial cult to Septimius Severus). Nea Pafos is not to be confused with Palaipafos (\"\"Old Pafos\"\"). However, it is", "title": "Roman Cyprus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.53, "text": "on a smaller scale and renamed Constantia after the Roman Emperor Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, residing in Constantinople. The new city was now the capital of the island. It was mainly Christian and due to this some alterations were made during the rebuilding. The palaestra was turned into a meeting place and many architectural elements were used to erect spacious churches decorated with murals, mosaics and coloured marbles. The main event in Cyprus in this period was the spreading of the Christian faith. At that time, its bishop, while still subject to the Church, was made autocephalous", "title": "Cyprus in the Middle Ages" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.47, "text": "capital of the medieval Kingdom of Cyprus, the seat of Lusignan kings, the Latin Church and the Frankish administration of the island. During the Frankish rule, the walls of the city were built along with many other palaces and buildings, including the gothic St. Sophia Cathedral. The tombs of the Lusignan kings can be found there. The exonym Nicosia appeared with the arrival of the Lusignans. The French-speaking Crusaders either could not, or did not care to, pronounce the name \"\"Lefkosia\"\", and tended to say \"\"Nicosie\"\" translated into Italian and then internationally known as \"\"Nicosia\"\". In 1374 Nicosia was occupied", "title": "Nicosia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.42, "text": "Presidential Palace, Nicosia The Presidential Palace ( \"\"Proedrikó Mégaro\"\" ) is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the Republic of Cyprus. It is located close to the center of Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, and is surrounded by a thick pine woodland. The original building was a prefabricated structure erected in November 1878 on a site known as Snake Hill, on which Richard the Lionheart is said to have set up camp. The building was shipped by the war office from London to Ceylon, its original destination; but by the time it reached Port Said, it", "title": "Presidential Palace, Nicosia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.36, "text": "it is now generally (although not universally) agreed that Alashiya refers to at least part of Cyprus. Specifically, it was generally argued that the site of Enkomi was the capital of the kingdom of Alashiya, which covered the entire island of Cyprus. The identification of Cyprus with Alashiya was confirmed by the 2003 publication by Goren et al. of an article in the\"\" American Journal of Archaeology \"\"detailing the petrographic and chemical analysis of a number of the Amarna and Ugaritic letters sent from Alashiya. These examinations of the provenance of the clay used to create the tablets indicate that", "title": "Alashiya" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.23, "text": "Tower 25 Tower 25 (also called The White Walls) is a high-rise building located in the centre of Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus. It was designed by the world-famous architect Jean Nouvel and is a major addition to Nicosia's landmarks owing to its original design and location. Standing 62 meters tall, Tower 25 is the fourth tallest building in Cyprus. The ground floor, the mezzanine areas and the six floors above them are offices of Ernst & Young (EY) with amazing views of the city in all directions. The next seven floors contain unique luxurious apartments overlooking the whole capital.", "title": "Tower 25" } ]

[ "Guatemala City", "Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción", "City of Guatemala", "Guate", "Ciudad de Guatemala", "Guatemala", "Guatemala (Guatemala)" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.48, "text": "Guatemala City Guatemala City (), locally known as Guatemala or Guate, officially Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción (New Guatemala of the Assumption), is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nestled in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita (). It is estimated that its population is about 1 million. Guatemala City is also the capital of the Municipality of Guatemala and of the Guatemala Department. Human settlement on the present site of Guatemala City began with the Maya who built", "title": "Guatemala City" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.08, "text": "municipalities: Guatemala City Guatemala City (), locally known as Guatemala or Guate, officially Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción (New Guatemala of the Assumption), is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nestled in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita (). It is estimated that its population is about 1 million. Guatemala City is also the capital of the Municipality of Guatemala and of the Guatemala Department. Human settlement on the present site of Guatemala City began with the Maya who", "title": "Guatemala City" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.42, "text": "Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (\"\"St. James of the Knights of Guatemala\"\") was the name given to the capital city of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Guatemala in Central America. The name was first associated with the Kaqchikel Maya capital Iximche, adopted as the Spanish capital soon after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala began in July 1524. The Kaqchikel capital was called Guatemala by the Spanish, with its origin in the Nahuatl word \"\"Quauhtemallan\"\", which means \"\"forested land\"\". The Spanish took the name of the city used by their Nahuatl-speaking Mexican allies", "title": "Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.34, "text": "a city at Kaminaljuyu. The Spanish colonists established a small town, which was made a capital city in 1775. At this period the Central Square with the Cathedral and Royal Palace were constructed. After Central American independence from Spain the city became the capital of the United Provinces of Central America in 1821. The 19th century saw the construction of the monumental Carrera Theater in the 1850s, and the Presidential Palace in the 1890s. At this time the city was expanding around the \"\"30 de junio\"\" Boulevard and elsewhere, displacing native settlements from the ancient site. Earthquakes in 1917–1918 destroyed", "title": "Guatemala City" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.23, "text": "City). The former capital at Panchoy has now become known as Antigua Guatemala (\"\"Old Guatemala\"\"). Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (\"\"St. James of the Knights of Guatemala\"\") was the name given to the capital city of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Guatemala in Central America. The name was first associated with the Kaqchikel Maya capital Iximche, adopted as the Spanish capital soon after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala began in July 1524. The Kaqchikel capital was called Guatemala by the Spanish, with its origin in the Nahuatl word \"\"Quauhtemallan\"\", which means \"\"forested", "title": "Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.97, "text": "this city would become one of the richest of the New World capitals. However, it too was destroyed, this time by a devastating series of earthquakes, and the city was ordered abandoned in 1776. The final and current capital is the modern-day Guatemala City. The Church played an important role in the administration of the overseas possessions of the Spanish crown. The first dioceses were established in León, Nicaragua and Guatemala in 1534. Another diocese was created in Chiapas in 1539. The dioceses of Guatemala and Chiapas were suffragan to the Archdiocese of Seville, until 1546 when they were placed", "title": "Captaincy General of Guatemala" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.88, "text": "\"\"palace\"\". Tecpán is sometimes called the \"\"first\"\" capital because it was the first permanent Spanish military center, but the Spaniards soon abandoned it due to Kaqchikel attacks that made defense of the city untenable. In 1527, the capital was moved to the Almolonga Valley to the east, on the site of today's San Miguel Escobar district of Ciudad Vieja, near Antigua Guatemala. This settlement was destroyed by a catastrophic lahar from Volcan de Agua in 1541, and the survivors abandoned the site. In 1543, the capital was again refounded several kilometres away at Antigua Guatemala. Over the next two centuries,", "title": "Captaincy General of Guatemala" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.77, "text": "various expeditions into Guatemala and Honduras. In the south Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, acting under the auspices of Pedro Arias Dávila in Panama, moved into what is today Nicaragua. The capital of Guatemala has moved many times over the centuries. On 27 July 1524, Pedro de Alvarado declared the Kaqchikel city Iximche the first regional capital, styled \"\"Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala\"\" (\"\"St. James of the Knights of Guatemala\"\"). However, hostilities between the Spaniards and the Kaqchikel soon made the city uninhabitable. In 1526 the Spanish founded a new capital at Tecpán Guatemala. \"\"Tecpán\"\" is the Nahuatl word for", "title": "Captaincy General of Guatemala" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.66, "text": "On 11 September 1541, the new capital was flooded when the lagoon in the crater of the Agua Volcano collapsed due to heavy rains and earthquakes; the capital was then moved to Antigua in the Panchoy Valley, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This city was destroyed by several earthquakes in 1773–1774. The King of Spain authorized moving the capital to its current location in the Ermita Valley, which is named after a Catholic church dedicated to the Virgen del Carmen. This new capital was founded on 2 January 1776. On 15 September 1821, the Captaincy General of Guatemala, formed", "title": "Guatemala" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.61, "text": "the modern capital of Guatemala, now stands. This new city did not retain its old name and was christened Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción (New Guatemala of the Assumption), and its patron saint is Our Lady of the Assumption. The badly damaged city of Santiago de los Caballeros was ordered abandoned, although not everyone left, and was thereafter referred to as la Antigua Guatemala (the Old Guatemala). Beginning in 2002, the Volcán de Fuego entered a new active period, with more or less continuous activity, interspersed with monthly eruptive episodes. These episodes would typically send ash falling on communities within", "title": "Volcán de Fuego" } ]

[ "Tunis" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.05, "text": "Tunis Tunis ( \"\"\"\") is the capital and the largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as \"\"Grand Tunis\"\", has some 2,700,000 inhabitants. Situated on a large Mediterranean Sea gulf (the Gulf of Tunis), behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette (Ḥalq il-Wād), the city extends along the coastal plain and the hills that surround it. At its core lies its ancient medina, a World Heritage Site. East of the medina through the Sea Gate (also known as the \"\"Bab el Bhar\"\" and the \"\"Porte de France\"\") begins the modern", "title": "Tunis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.16, "text": "Kairouan Kairouan ( \"\"\"\", also known as \"\"al-Qayrawan\"\"), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The city was founded by the Umayyads around 670. In the period of Caliph Mu'awiya (reigned 661–680), it became an important centre for Sunni Islamic scholarship and Quranic learning, and thus attracting a large number of Muslims from various parts of the world, next only to Mecca and Medina. The holy Mosque of Uqba is situated in the city. In 2014, the city had about 186,653 inhabitants. The name ( \"\"Al-Qairuwân\"\") is an Arabic deformation of", "title": "Kairouan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.16, "text": "Sidi Bouzid Sidi Bouzid ( \"\"\"\"), sometimes called \"\"Sidi Bou Zid\"\" or \"\"Sīdī Bū Zayd\"\", is a city in Tunisia and is the capital of Sidi Bouzid Governorate in the centre of the country. Following the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid, it was the site of the first clashes of the Tunisian Revolution and a catalyst for other protests in the region, often known as the Arab Spring. Ruins at Henchir-Simindja, Bou-Zid have been identified with the Roman era town of Simingi. Simingi was a civitas of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. Roman era Simingi was also", "title": "Sidi Bouzid" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.88, "text": "Gafsa Gafsa ( '), originally called Capsa in Latin, is the capital of Gafsa Governorate of Tunisia. It lends its Latin name to the Mesolithic Capsian culture. With a population of 105,264, Gafsa is the 9th-largest Tunisian city. Gafsa is the capital of the southwest of Tunisia and is both a historical oasis and home to the mining industry of Tunisia. The city had 111,170 inhabitants at the 2014 census, under the ruling of the mayor, Malek Necibi. The city lies by road southwest of Tunis. Its geographical coordinates are . Excavations at prehistoric sites in the Gafsa area have", "title": "Gafsa" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.28, "text": "History of Tunisia The present day Republic of Tunisia, \"\"al-Jumhuriyyah at-Tunisiyyah\"\", has over ten million citizens, almost all of Arab-Berber descent. The Mediterranean Sea is to the north and east, Libya to the southeast, and Algeria to the west. Tunis is the capital and the largest city (population over 800,000); it is located near the ancient site of the city of Carthage. Throughout its recorded history, the physical features and environment of the land of Tunisia have remained fairly constant, although during ancient times more abundant forests grew in the north, and earlier in prehistory the Sahara to the south", "title": "History of Tunisia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.22, "text": "of construction of a large sports complex that will include several sports academies, a 20,000-seat stadium, and a swimming centre. Known as Tunis Sports City, it will expand around the lake of Tunis, on the road to La Marsa. Tunis is twinned with: Tunis Tunis ( \"\"\"\") is the capital and the largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as \"\"Grand Tunis\"\", has some 2,700,000 inhabitants. Situated on a large Mediterranean Sea gulf (the Gulf of Tunis), behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette (Ḥalq il-Wād), the city extends along", "title": "Tunis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.14, "text": "Mansouria, Tunisia El-Mansuriya or Mansuriya (), near Kairouan, Tunisia, was the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate during the rule of the Ismaili Shia Muslim Imams al-Mansur Billah (r. 946–953) and al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (r. 953–975). Built between 946 and 972, el-Mansuriya was a walled city holding elaborate palaces surrounded by gardens, artificial pools and water channels. It was briefly the centre of a powerful state that encompassed most of North Africa and Sicily. It continued to serve as provincial capital of the Zirids until 1057, when it was destroyed by the invading Banu Hilal tribes. Any useful objects or relics", "title": "Mansouria, Tunisia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.12, "text": "Béja Beja ( \"\"\"\") is a city in Tunisia. It is the capital of the Béja Governorate. It is located from Tunis, between the Medjerdah River and the Mediterranean, against the foothills of the Khroumire, the town of Beja is situated on the sides of Djebel Acheb, facing the greening meadows, its white terraces and red roofs dominated by the imposing ruins of the old Roman fortress. The city endured brutal assaults by the Carthaginians, the Numidians, the Romans, and, later on, by the Vandals. The Numidian king Jugurtha made the town his governing headquarters. Originally the town was named", "title": "Béja" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.09, "text": "Sfax Sfax ( '; \"\"Sifaks\"\") is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD849 on the ruins of Roman Taparura, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate (about 955,421 inhabitants in 2014), and a Mediterranean port. Sfax has a population of 330,440 (census 2014). The main economic activities of Sfax are industries (phosphate processing), agriculture (olive and olive oil, nuts), fishing (largest fishing port in Tunisia) and trade (import-export). The city is often described as Tunisia's \"\"second city\"\", being the second-most populous city after the capital Tunis. Present-day Sfax was founded in AD849 on the", "title": "Sfax" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.06, "text": "Tataouine Tataouine (Berber: Tiṭṭawin; ) is a city in southern Tunisia. It is the capital of the Tataouine Governorate. The below-ground \"\"cave dwellings\"\" of the native Berber population, designed for coolness and protection, render the city and the area around it a tourist and film makers' attraction. The name \"\"Tiṭṭawin\"\" means \"\"eyes\"\" and \"\"water springs\"\" in the Berber language. It is sometimes transliterated in European languages as \"\"Tatahouine\"\", \"\"Tatahouïne\"\", \"\"Tatawin\"\" or \"\"Tatooine\"\". The city is sometimes also called \"\"Fum Taṭāwīn\"\" (), alternatively spelled \"\"Fumm Tattauin\"\", \"\"Foum Tatahouine\"\", \"\"Fum Tatawin\"\", or \"\"Foum Tataouine\"\", which means \"\"mouth of the springs\"\". From 1892", "title": "Tataouine" } ]

[ "Jask" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.44, "text": "Jask Jask (, Balochi: جاشک also Romanized as Jāsk; also Bandar-e Jask (), (Balochi: بندن ءِ جاشک) also Romanized as Bandar-e Jāsk) is a city and capital of Jask County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,133, in 2,406 families. Jask is a port town, about south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman. It serves as the capital of Jask County, and is the site of a base of the Iranian Navy which opened on October 28, 2008. The base's position provides the Iranian Navy with the capability to close the Strait of Hormuz", "title": "Jask" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.48, "text": "world. On July 31, 2015, Jask observed a temperature of degrees with a dew point of , leading to a heat index of . Jask Jask (, Balochi: جاشک also Romanized as Jāsk; also Bandar-e Jask (), (Balochi: بندن ءِ جاشک) also Romanized as Bandar-e Jāsk) is a city and capital of Jask County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,133, in 2,406 families. Jask is a port town, about south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman. It serves as the capital of Jask County, and is the site of a base of the", "title": "Jask" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.56, "text": "Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok (, ) is the name of an administrative county (comitatus or \"\"megye\"\") in Hungary. It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hajdú-Bihar, Békés, Csongrád, and Bács-Kiskun. The rivers Tisza and Körös flow through the county. The capital of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county is Szolnok. Its area is 5582 km². The county is named after the Ossetians (Jasz) and Cumans (Kun) who settled there, along with Szolnok. The county was part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion between 1997 and 2004. This county has a total area of – 6,00% of Hungary. The county's", "title": "Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.61, "text": "Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County (former) Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok was an administrative county (comitatus) in the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which is now in central Hungary, was slightly smaller than that of present Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county. The capital of the county was Szolnok. Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Heves, Hajdú, Békés, and Csongrád. The rivers Tisza and Körös flow through the county. Its area was 5251 km² around 1910. Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county was formed in the 19th century from the territories of Szolnok, Jászság (Jazygia) and Nagykunság (\"\"great Cumania\"\"). After World War II, the territory of the county was modified: the area", "title": "Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County (former)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.28, "text": "remains of the former Franciscan abbey and the 1472 erected church. After the end of the Turkish rule, Leopold I sold the Jászság to the Teutonic Knights (22. March 1702) and disestablished the privileges of the county. The Teutonic Knights also took Jászberény as main seat and made it the official capital of the county \"\"Jászkun\"\", consisting out of Jászság, Kiskunság and Nagkunság. In the general population, the sale was opposed. The region therefore supported Francis II Rákóczi in Rákóczi's War of Independence but, after defeat, they took to legal means, collected the required sum and bought their own county", "title": "Jászberény" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.66, "text": "Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun is the name of an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Hungary, comprising the territory of the present Hungarian county Pest and the northern part of present Bács-Kiskun county. The capital of the county was Budapest. Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county shared borders with the counties Komárom, Esztergom, Hont, Nógrád, Heves, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Csongrád, Bács-Bodrog, Tolna and Fejér. Its territory covered the eastern bank of the river Danube from Visegrád in the north to (excluding) Baja in the south, stretching to the river Tisza in the east. A part of the county (Pilis)", "title": "Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.62, "text": "Jajarm Jajarm (, also Romanized as Jājarm) is a city and capital of Jajarm County, in North Khorasan Province, Iran. Because of several historical and archeological sites, Jajarm is one of the most attractive cities in North Khorasan province. The city is placed on the border of Central Desert of Iran and has a unique vegetation. Jajarm has also known for its wildlife refuge which Iranian cheetah lives there. Jajarm has several bauxite mines and a plant is producing Alumina from bauxite. The region of north-eastern Iran has not been explored archaeologically until recently. But now a lot of work", "title": "Jajarm" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.61, "text": "Jahrom Jahrom (, also known as Jahrūm) is a city and capital of Jahrom County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 114,208, in 25,946 families. Jahrom is located southeast of Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province. The majority of people in Jahrom are Persians. Many tropical and sub-tropical plants are grown in Jahrom (i.e. palm date, citrus, wheat. Based on Ahmad Kasravi, the late Iranian historians and philologist, the name Jahrom can be analyzed to render a \"\"warm-place\"\". But a more satisfactory etymology interprets the name as a \"\"green-place\"\". Jahrom's history goes back some 2500 years", "title": "Jahrom" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.53, "text": "Jakar Jakar (Dzongkha: བྱ་ཀར་; Wylie: \"\"Bya-kar\"\"), also officially referred to as Bumthang , is a town in the central-eastern region of Bhutan. It is the district capital (dzongkhag thromde) of Bumthang District and the location of Jakar Dzong, the regional dzong fortress. The name Jakar roughly translates as \"\"white bird\"\" in reference to its foundation myth, according to which a roosting white bird signaled the proper and auspicious location to found a monastery around 1549. The town is the site of Chakhar Lhakhang, a small and unassuming temple which marks the site of the \"\"Iron Palace\"\" of Sindhu Raja, the", "title": "Jakar" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.08, "text": "the main lyricist and musician in the court of the great Sassanid king Khosrau II(Parviz). There are four major universities in the city: Jahrom Jahrom (, also known as Jahrūm) is a city and capital of Jahrom County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 114,208, in 25,946 families. Jahrom is located southeast of Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province. The majority of people in Jahrom are Persians. Many tropical and sub-tropical plants are grown in Jahrom (i.e. palm date, citrus, wheat. Based on Ahmad Kasravi, the late Iranian historians and philologist, the name Jahrom can be", "title": "Jahrom" } ]

[ "Seuthopolis" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.17, "text": "by Cotys I (383-358 BC) is in the village of Starosel, while in 315 BC Seuthopolis was built as a capital. An early capital was Vize. The kingdom broke up and Kabyle was a co-capital by the end of the 4th century BC. The Odrysians (Odrysae or Odrusai, Ancient Greek: Ὀδρύσαι) were one of the most powerful Thracian tribes that dwelled in the plain of the Hebrus river. This would place the tribe in the modern border area between Southeastern Bulgaria, Northeastern Greece and European Turkey, centered around the city of Edirne. The river Artescus passed through their land as", "title": "Odrysian kingdom" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.94, "text": "Odrysian kingdom The Odrysian Kingdom (; Ancient Greek: ; ) was a state union of over 40 Thracian tribes and 22 kingdoms that existed between the 5th century BC and the 1st century AD. It consisted mainly of present-day Bulgaria, spreading to parts of Southeastern Romania (Northern Dobruja), parts of Northern Greece and parts of modern-day European Turkey. It is suggested that the kingdom had no capital. Instead, the kings may have moved between residences. A capital was the city of Odryssa (assumed to be Uscudama, modern Edirne), as inscribed on coins. Another royal residence believed to have been constructed", "title": "Odrysian kingdom" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.78, "text": "Latin forms): Odrysian kingdom The Odrysian Kingdom (; Ancient Greek: ; ) was a state union of over 40 Thracian tribes and 22 kingdoms that existed between the 5th century BC and the 1st century AD. It consisted mainly of present-day Bulgaria, spreading to parts of Southeastern Romania (Northern Dobruja), parts of Northern Greece and parts of modern-day European Turkey. It is suggested that the kingdom had no capital. Instead, the kings may have moved between residences. A capital was the city of Odryssa (assumed to be Uscudama, modern Edirne), as inscribed on coins. Another royal residence believed to have", "title": "Odrysian kingdom" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.3, "text": "kingdom probably only as a client on a power-sharing basis with the appointed Macedonian satrap of Thrace Lysimachus in 323 BC. But Seuthes had warred often against Lysimachus and set the capital at Seuthopolis from 320 BC until it was sacked by the Celts in 281 BC. By 212 BC an army led by an Odrysian king Pleuratus destroyed the Celtic kingdom and its capital Tylis. The Odrysian kingdom had maintained continuity with its own kings, but broken up into several kingdoms (including Canite and Odrissae) by the early second century BC, until succumbing to complete Roman conquest in 146", "title": "Odrysian kingdom" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.05, "text": "During the construction of the dam was discovered the ancient Thracian city Seuthopolis which was the capital of the Odrysian kingdom. The remains of the city were carefully studied and the artifacts were collected in the Regional Museum of History. In 2005, the Bulgarian architect Zheko Tilev proposed a project to uncover, preserve and reconstruct the city of Seuthopolis which is the best preserved Thracian city in Bulgaria by means of a dam wall surrounding the ruins in the middle of the dam, enabling the site's inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and making it a tourist destination of", "title": "Koprinka Reservoir" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.52, "text": "a stalemate. The Odrysian kingdom gradually overcome the Macedonian suzerainty, while the city was destroyed by the Celts as part of the Celtic settlement of Eastern Europe, most likely in the 270s BC. In 183 BCE, Philip V of Macedon conquered the city, but shortly after, the Thracians re-conquered it. In 72 BCE, the city was seized by the Roman general Marcus Lucullus but was soon restored to Thracian control. In 46 CE, the city was finally incorporated into the Roman Empire by emperor Claudius; it served as capital of the province of Thrace and gained city status in the", "title": "Plovdiv" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.28, "text": "Seuthopolis Seuthopolis (Ancient Greek: Σευθόπολις) was an ancient hellenistic-type city founded by the Thracian king Seuthes III between 325–315 BC and the capital of the Odrysian kingdom. Its ruins are now located at the bottom of the Koprinka Reservoir near Kazanlak, Stara Zagora Province, in central Bulgaria. Several kilometres north of the city is the Valley of the Thracian Rulers where many magnificent royal tombs are located. Seuthopolis was not a true polis, but rather the seat of Seuthes and his court. His palace had a dual role, functioning also as a sanctuary of the Cabeiri, the gods of Samothrace.", "title": "Seuthopolis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.88, "text": "numerous later invasions. The Odrysian state was the first Thracian kingdom that acquired power in the region, by the unification of many Thracian tribes under a single ruler, King Teres, probably in the 470s BC after the Persian defeat in Greece. Initially, during the reign of Teres or Sitalces the state was at its zenith and extended from the Black Sea to the east, Danube to the north, the region populated with the tribe called Triballi to the north-west, and the basin of the river Strymon to the south-west and towards the Aegean - present-day Bulgaria, Romanian Dobruja, Turkish East", "title": "Odrysian kingdom" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.81, "text": "northeastern wall of the Thracian kings' residence, 13 m in length and preserved up to 2 m in height. They also found the names of Cleobulus and Anaxandros, Philip II of Macedon's generals who led the assault on the Odrysian kingdom. The list below includes the known Odrysian kings of Thrace, but much of it is conjectural. Various other Thracian kings (some of them perhaps Odrysian like Pleuratus) are included as well. Odrysian kings though called Kings of Thrace never exercised sovereignty over all of Thrace. Control varied according to tribal relationships. Odrysian kings (names are presented in Greek or", "title": "Odrysian kingdom" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.69, "text": "of Lausanne Monument and Museum, which opened in 1998, are located next to the former railway station. When Greece held the town (1920-1923), Karaağaç was renamed Orestias, in remembrance of the ancient Thracian town with the same name, which probably lay near or at the site of present-day Edirne. Orestias or Orestia is thought to have been the same town as Uscudama (other variants: Uskudama, Uskadama, Uskodama) or Odrysa (other variants: Odrysia, Odrysos, Odrysus) which was the first Odrysian capital. Orestias took its name by the Greeks, at least from the time Philip II of Macedon took over the town.", "title": "Karaağaç, Edirne" } ]

[ "Tartu", "Dorpat", "Dörpt", "Derpt", "Tarbatu", "Jurjev", "Tartto", "Tartus" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.11, "text": "1569, together with Duchy of Livonia, Tartu became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1598 Tartu became capital of the Dorpat Voivodeship, which remained part of the PLC until the 1620s, when the city was conquered by the Swedes. King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden established the University of Tartu in 1632. Estonia's first teachers' training school was established in Tartu County in 1684, as well as the first Estonian schools for the children of peasants. Closed during and after the Great Northern War, Tartu University was re-opened in 1802 as the only university operating in German language in the Russian", "title": "Tartu County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.66, "text": "findings suggest that people first inhabited the territory of the current Tartu County about 5000 years ago. City of Tartu was first mentioned in historical records in 1030, when Yaroslav I the Wise oraganized a military campaign against Chuds, defeated them and established fort Yuryev in what is modern day Tartu. In 1224, after the conquest of the stronghold by the German invaders, Tartu became the capital of a diocese, stretching from Northern Estonia to Latvia. Since the 13th century, Tartu belonged to the Hanseatic League, and the town became a well-known trade centre in the Baltic Sea region. In", "title": "Tartu County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.62, "text": "Tartu Tartu (, South Estonian: \"\"Tarto\"\") is the second largest city of Estonia, after Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn. Tartu is often considered the intellectual centre of the country, especially since it is home to the nation's oldest and most renowned university, the University of Tartu. The city also houses the Supreme Court of Estonia, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the new building of the Estonian National Museum, opened to the public in October 2016. It is also the birthplace of Estonian Song Festivals. Situated southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Tartu", "title": "Tartu" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.88, "text": "World Orienteering Championships were held in Tartu. The annual running event Tartu Sügisjooks takes place in Tartu. Tartu is twinned with: Tartu Tartu (, South Estonian: \"\"Tarto\"\") is the second largest city of Estonia, after Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn. Tartu is often considered the intellectual centre of the country, especially since it is home to the nation's oldest and most renowned university, the University of Tartu. The city also houses the Supreme Court of Estonia, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the new building of the Estonian National Museum, opened to the public in October 2016. It", "title": "Tartu" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.88, "text": "Kreis Dorpat Kreis Dorpat (\"\"Tartu kreis\"\", \"\"Дерптский уезд\"\", 1893-1918 \"\"Юрьевский уезд\"\") was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate (in present-day eastern Estonia). Its capital was Tartu (\"\"Dorpat\"\"). The territory of Kreis Dorpat corresponds to the present-day Tartu County, most of Jõgeva County, parts of Põlva and Valga counties and a small part of Ida-Viru County. At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Dorpat had a population of 190,317. Of these, 86.8% spoke Estonian, 7.2% Russian, 4.4% German, 0.8%", "title": "Kreis Dorpat" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.61, "text": "In light of this and without any prospect of external help the town surrendered. The local bishop was imprisoned in Moscow, which effectively ended the period of local self-government. In the effect of the Truce of Jam Zapolski of 1582 the city along with southern regions of Livonian Confederation became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1598 it became the capital of the Dorpat Voivodeship of the Duchy of Livonia. A Jesuit grammar school \"\"Gymnasium Dorpatense\"\" was established in 1583. In addition, a translators' seminary was organized in Tartu and the city received its red and white flag from the", "title": "Tartu" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.44, "text": "Târgu Jiu Târgu Jiu () is the capital of Gorj County in the Oltenia region of Romania. It is situated on the Southern Sub-Carpathians, on the banks of the river Jiu. Eight localities are administered by the city: Bârsești, Drăgoieni, Iezureni, Polata, Preajba Mare, Romanești, Slobozia and Ursați. The city takes its name from the river Jiu, which runs through it. In antiquity, there was a Dacian village in around the location of today's city surrounded by forests. After the Roman conquests of Oltenia (101-102), military units were stationed around the roads that connected different important routes at the time.", "title": "Târgu Jiu" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.19, "text": "the fort, it was besieged and conquered for one last time by the German crusaders. Subsequently, known as Dorpat (Latin: \"\"Tarbatum\"\"), Tartu became a commercial centre of considerable importance during the later Middle Ages and the capital of the semi-independent Bishopric of Dorpat. In 1262 the army of Prince Dmitri of Pereslavl, son of Alexander Nevsky launched an assault on Dorpat, capturing and destroying the town. His troops did not manage to capture the bishop's fortress on Toome Hill. The event was recorded both in German and Old East Slavic chronicles, which also provided the first record of a settlement", "title": "Tartu" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.12, "text": "Valga, Estonia Valga () is a town in southern Estonia and the capital of Valga County. Until their separation in 1920, Valga and the town of Valka in northern Latvia were one town. They are now twin-towns. The area of Valga is and that of Valka is . Their populations are respectively 12,261 and 6,164. On 21 December 2007 all border-crossing points were removed and roads and fences opened between the two countries with both countries joining the Schengen Agreement. The distance to Tartu is , Pärnu , Tallinn , Riga and Pskov . Valga is situated at the junction", "title": "Valga, Estonia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.98, "text": "Yiddish, 0.4% Latvian and 0.3% Polish as their native language. Kreis Dorpat Kreis Dorpat (\"\"Tartu kreis\"\", \"\"Дерптский уезд\"\", 1893-1918 \"\"Юрьевский уезд\"\") was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate (in present-day eastern Estonia). Its capital was Tartu (\"\"Dorpat\"\"). The territory of Kreis Dorpat corresponds to the present-day Tartu County, most of Jõgeva County, parts of Põlva and Valga counties and a small part of Ida-Viru County. At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Dorpat had a population of 190,317.", "title": "Kreis Dorpat" } ]

[ "Salt", "As Salt" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.53, "text": "Balqa Governorate Balqa' ( \"\"Al Balqā’\"\") is one of the governorates of Jordan. It is located northwest of Amman, Jordan's capital. The governorate has the fourth largest population of the 12 governorates of Jordan, and is ranked 10th by area. It has the third highest population density in the kingdom after Irbid Governorate and Jerash Governorate. The historical name \"\"Balqa\"\"' was applied to the entire area of the eastern plateau of the Jordan valley as early as the 7th century when Heraclius' brother Theodore fought an early campaign against the Arabs on the approaches to southern Syria. During World War", "title": "Balqa Governorate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.53, "text": "also home to the SESAME facility, the first research facility of its type in the Middle East. Balqa Governorate Balqa' ( \"\"Al Balqā’\"\") is one of the governorates of Jordan. It is located northwest of Amman, Jordan's capital. The governorate has the fourth largest population of the 12 governorates of Jordan, and is ranked 10th by area. It has the third highest population density in the kingdom after Irbid Governorate and Jerash Governorate. The historical name \"\"Balqa\"\"' was applied to the entire area of the eastern plateau of the Jordan valley as early as the 7th century when Heraclius' brother", "title": "Balqa Governorate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.86, "text": "\"\"capital\"\" of the Balqa by geographer al-Yaqubi. Likewise, in 985, the Jerusalemite historian al-Muqaddasi described Amman as the capital of Balqa, and that it was a town in the desert fringe of Syria surrounded by villages and cornfields and was a regional source of lambs, grain and honey. Furthermore, al-Muqaddasi describes Amman as a \"\"harbor of the desert\"\" where Arab Bedouin would take refuge, and that its citadel, which overlooked the town, contained a small mosque. The occupation of the Citadel Hill by the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem is so far based only on interpretations of Crusader sources. William of", "title": "Amman" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.8, "text": "Salt. Other cities and towns in the governorate are Mahis, Fuhais and Ain Al Basha. The population of districts according to census results: Due to its fertile mountains, the governorate's economy is based on agriculture, and a light industry, mainly the Cement factory in Fuheis by the Jordan Cement Factories Ltd- Lafarge. Some pharmaceutical industries are based in Salt, such as the Arab Pharmaceutical Manufacturing company. There are 2 universities in the governorate of Balqa: Balqa Applied University (BAU) located near the Salt Ringroad and Al-Ahliyya Amman University (AAU) located on the main highway between Amman and Salt. It is", "title": "Balqa Governorate" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.61, "text": "I, the British army led by General Edmund Allenby entered Salt on 24th of March 1918, in the Battles for Amman campaign, marking the end of a 500-year Ottoman rule. On March 21, 1968, the town of Karameh near Shouna al-Janubiyya was the site of Battle of Karameh, between Israel on one side, and Jordan and Palestinian forces (Fatah, PLO) on the other side. It was one of the largest military confrontations of the War of Attrition, in the period between the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The capital of the Balqa' Governorate is", "title": "Balqa Governorate" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.34, "text": "Al-Salt Al-Salt ( \"\"Al-Salt\"\" ) is an ancient agricultural town and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway leading from Amman to Jerusalem. Situated in the Balqa highland, about 790–1,100 metres above sea level, the town is built in the crook of three hills, close to the Jordan Valley. One of the three hills, Jabal al-Qal'a, is the site of a 13th-century ruined fortress. It is the capital of Balqa Governorate. The Greater Salt Municipality has about 97,000 inhabitants (2006) of which 65% are Muslim and 35% Christians. It is not known when the city", "title": "Al-Salt" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.09, "text": "collapsed layer of the Umayyad Palace have revealed remains of kilns from the time of the Abbasids (750-696) and the Fatimids (969-1099). In the late 9th century, Amman was noted as the \"\"capital\"\" of the Balqa by geographer al-Yaqubi. Likewise, in 985, the Jerusalemite historian al-Muqaddasi described Amman as the capital of Balqa, and that it was a town in the desert fringe of Syria surrounded by villages and cornfields and was a regional source of lambs, grain and honey. Furthermore, al-Muqaddasi describes Amman as a \"\"harbor of the desert\"\" where Arab Bedouin would take refuge, and that its citadel,", "title": "History of Amman" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.53, "text": "the largest number of factories in Jordan, Jordan's only oil refinery plant is located in Zarqa. Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, the largest in the country, is located in Azraq. Zarqa Governorate hosts three universities, Hashemite University, Al-Balqa` Applied University-Zarqa College, and Zarqa Private University. Zarqa Governorate Zarqa Governorate (Arabic \"\"محافظة الزرقاء\"\" \"\"Muħāfazat az-Zarqāʔ\"\", local dialects \"\"ez-Zergā\"\" or \"\"ez-Zer'a\"\") is the third largest governorate in Jordan by population. The capital of Zarqa governorate is Zarqa City, which is the largest city in the governorate. It is located east of the Jordanian capital Amman. The second largest city in the governorate is", "title": "Zarqa Governorate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.36, "text": "Amman Governorate Amman Governorate, officially known as Muhafazat al-Asima (, English translation: The Capital Governorate), is one of the governorates in Jordan. The governorate's capital is the city of Amman, which is also the country's capital. The administrative center of the governorate as well as all government offices and parliament are located in the Abdali district. The Amman Governorate has the largest population of the 12 governorates of Jordan. It borders Zarqa Governorate to the north and north east, the governorates of Balqa and Madaba to the west, Karak and Ma'an governorates to the south. It also shares an international", "title": "Amman Governorate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.23, "text": "Madaba Governorate Madaba (Arabic مادبا) is one of the governorates of Jordan. It is located southwest of Amman, the capital of Jordan, and its capital is Madaba. The governorate is ranked 8th (of 12 governorates) by population and by area. It is bordered by Balqa Governorate to the north, The Capital Governorate to the east, Karak Governorate to the south and the Dead Sea to the west. Many civilizations existed on the soils of Madaba, most prominent are the Moabites, Nabateans, Romans, and the Arab Muslim empires. The city of Madaba is best known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics,", "title": "Madaba Governorate" } ]

[ "Iloilo City", "Iloilo", "City of Iloilo", "Iloilo, Iloilo", "Iloilo City, Iloilo" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.09, "text": "429\"\" pending the approval of an implementation plan for the orderly transfer of Palawan from Region IV-B to Region VI. Hence, Palawan is currently still part of Region IV-B. By virtue of \"\"Executive Order No. 183\"\" issued on May 29 of 2015, by President Benigno Aquino III, the province of Negros Occidental and its capital, Bacolod City, were both removed from Western Visayas in order to form the Negros Island Region along with Negros Oriental. But later regained Negros Occidental and its capital, Bacolod City back into Western Visayas on August 9, 2017 when President Rodrigo Duterte dissolved the Negros", "title": "Western Visayas" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.53, "text": "of . Pototan, Iloilo ', officially the ', is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. The town lies on the banks of the Suage River, north from Iloilo City. The town has an area of 94 km², 85% of which is agricultural land. In December 1997, it was declared as the \"\"Christmas Capital of Western Visayas\"\" because of its famed Christmas Festival of Lights. Considered the rice granary of Panay, the town is bordered by Dingle to the north, Zarraga to the south, Barotac Nuevo to the east, New", "title": "Pototan, Iloilo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.52, "text": "Pototan, Iloilo ', officially the ', is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. The town lies on the banks of the Suage River, north from Iloilo City. The town has an area of 94 km², 85% of which is agricultural land. In December 1997, it was declared as the \"\"Christmas Capital of Western Visayas\"\" because of its famed Christmas Festival of Lights. Considered the rice granary of Panay, the town is bordered by Dingle to the north, Zarraga to the south, Barotac Nuevo to the east, New Lucena, Iloilo", "title": "Pototan, Iloilo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.45, "text": "absorbed back to the Philippines because of the American takeover of the archipelago. On May 23, 2005, Palawan (including its highly-urbanized capital city of Puerto Princesa) were transferred from MIMAROPA (Region IV-B) to Western Visayas (Region VI) under \"\"Executive Order No. 429\"\", signed by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who was the president at that year. However, Palaweños criticized the move, citing a lack of consultation, with most residents in Puerto Princesa and all Palawan municipalities but one preferring to stay in MIMAROPA (Region IV-B). Consequently, \"\"Administrative Order No. 129\"\" was issued on 19 August 2005 that the implementation of \"\"E.O. 429\"\"", "title": "Visayas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.34, "text": "its capital city from Western Visayas and the latter province from Central Visayas. On August 9, 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte signed \"\"Executive Order No. 38\"\", revoking the \"\"Executive Order No. 183\"\" signed by (former) President Benigno Aquino III on May 29, 2015, due to the reason of the lack of funds to fully establish the NIR according to Benjamin Diokno, the Secretary of Budget and Management. Historical documents written in 1907 by Visayan historian Pedro Alcántara Monteclaro in his book \"\"Maragtas\"\" tell the story of the ten leaders (Datus) who escaped from the tyranny of Rajah Makatunaw from Borneo and", "title": "Visayas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.14, "text": "Catholicism. Bacolod City is the capital, seat of government and the most populous city of the province, but is governed independently as a highly urbanized city. With a population of inhabitants, it is the most populated province in Western Visayas, the second most-populous province in the Visayas after Cebu and the 8th most-populous province of the Philippines. Negros was originally known to the natives as \"\"Buglas\"\", meaning \"\"cut off\"\" in old Hiligaynon. When the Spaniards arrived in April 1565, they named it \"\"Negros\"\" because of the dark-skinned natives they found. Two of the earliest native settlements were Binalbagan and Ilog", "title": "Negros Occidental" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.14, "text": "Western Visayas Western Visayas (; ) is an administrative region in the Philippines, numerically designated as Region VI. It consists of six provinces (Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo and Negros Occidental) and two highly urbanized cities (Bacolod City and Iloilo City). The regional center is Iloilo City. The region is dominated by the native speakers of four Visayan languages: Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon, Aklanon and Capiznon. The land area of the region is , and with a population of inhabitants, it is the most populous region in the Visayas. On May 29, 2015, the region was redefined, when Western Visayas (Region VI)", "title": "Western Visayas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.03, "text": "Samar (province) Samar, formerly named as Western Samar, is a province in the Philippines located on Samar Island in Eastern Visayas. Its capital is Catbalogan City. It is bordered by Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Leyte and the Leyte Gulf, and includes several islands in the Samar Sea. Samar is connected to the island of Leyte via the San Juanico Bridge. In 1768, Leyte and modern Samar was created out of the historical province of Samar. In 1965, Northern and Eastern Samar were created. Fishing and agriculture are the major economic activities in the province. On 8 November 2013, the province", "title": "Samar (province)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.75, "text": "Alimodian, Iloilo ', officially the ', is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people (40, 176 in 2017). It has a total land area of , making up 2.89% of the provincial land area of Iloilo. It has some rugged terrains as well as ample flat lands for agriculture. Mountain range which serves as a natural boundary with other towns is located in the northern hinterlands of the town. Nicknamed as the \"\"Banana Capital of Western Visayas,\"\" it produces not only the most harvest in Western Visayas but also the", "title": "Alimodian, Iloilo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.75, "text": "Miagao ', (also written Miag-ao), officially the ', (; ; ), is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Miagao is considered as the \"\"Onion Capital of the Visayas\"\". The town center of the municipality lies on the western bank of the Tumagbok River, the largest river in the municipality. The poblacion is made up of eight barangays. The town holds their patronal fiesta in honor of St. Thomas of Villanova (more commonly known as Sto. Tomas de Villanueva) every September 22 that lasts several days. The town is also", "title": "Miagao" } ]

[ "Konya", "Iconium" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.69, "text": "Seljuks in 1084. From 1097 to 1243 it was the capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum. It was briefly occupied by the Crusaders Godfrey of Bouillon (August 1097), and Frederick Barbarossa (May 18, 1190) after the Battle of Iconium (1190). The area was retaken by the Turks. The name of the town was changed to Konya (in \"\"quniya\"\") by Mesud I in 1134. Konya reached the height of its wealth and influence in the second half of the 12th century when the Seljuk sultans of Rum also subdued the Anatolian beyliks to their east, especially that of the Danishmends,", "title": "Konya" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.52, "text": "of the Ottoman dynasty, which eventually conquered the rest and reunited Anatolia to become the Ottoman Empire. In the 1070s, after the battle of Manzikert, the Seljuk commander Suleiman ibn Qutulmish, a distant cousin of Malik-Shah I and a former contender for the throne of the Seljuk Empire, came to power in western Anatolia. In 1075, he captured the Byzantine cities of Nicaea (İznik) and Nicomedia (İzmit). Two years later, he declared himself sultan of an independent Seljuq state and established his capital at İznik. Suleyman was killed in Antioch in 1086 by Tutush I, the Seljuk ruler of Syria,", "title": "Sultanate of Rum" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23, "text": "became the first capital of the Seljuk Turkish Sultanate of Rum until its recapture by the First Crusade in 1097. After the capture of Constantinople and the establishment of the Latin Empire by the Fourth Crusade (1204), the city became the capital of the Empire of Nicaea, and the seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in exile until the recapture of Constantinople in 1261. Among the 46 bishops recorded by Le Quien (\"\"Oriens Christianus\"\", Vol. I, 639–56), the most notable are: Theognis, the first known bishop, excommunicated in 325; Anastasius in the 6th century; Peter, Theophanes the Branded, Ignatios the", "title": "Metropolis of Nicaea" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.97, "text": "of Rum seceded from the Great Seljuk Empire under Suleiman ibn Qutulmish in 1077, following the Battle of Manzikert, with capitals first at İznik and then at Konya. It reached the height of its power during the late 12th and early 13th century, when it succeeded in taking Byzantine key ports on the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts. In the east, the sultanate absorbed other Turkish states and reached Lake Van. Trade from Iran and Central Asia across Anatolia was developed by a system of caravanserai. Especially strong trade ties with the Genoese formed during this period. The increased wealth", "title": "Sultanate of Rum" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.94, "text": "the Emperor. Alexios persuaded many of the princes to pledge allegiance to him and that their first objective should be Nicaea, which Kilij Arslan I had declared the capital of the Sultanate of Rum. Having already destroyed the earlier People's Crusade, the over-confident Sultan left the city to resolve a territorial dispute, enabling its capture in 1097 after a Crusader siege and a Byzantine naval assault. This marked a high point in Latin and Greek co-operation and also the start of Crusader attempts to take advantage of political and religious disunity in the Muslim world: Crusader envoys were sent to", "title": "Crusades" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.59, "text": "Kubadabad Palace Kubadabad Palace or Kubad Abad Palace () was a complex of summer residences built for sultan Kayqubad I (1220–1236), ruler of the Sultanate of Rum. The palace is located on the southwestern shores of Lake Beyşehir in south-west Central Anatolia, Turkey, just over 100 kilometers west of the Seljuq capital at Konya. The site was formerly only known from the descriptions of the contemporary historian Ibn Bibi, who wrote that toward the end of his reign Kayqubad himself drew up plans for the palace and assigned responsibility for their completion to his vizier Sa'd al-Din Köpek. The palace", "title": "Kubadabad Palace" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.59, "text": "Sultanate of Rûm in 1176, with the intention of taking its capital, Konya, and destroying Turkish power in Anatolia. The Seljuk sultan Kilij Arslan II ambushed Manuel’s impressively large army as it moved through the pass of Tivritze in mountainous border region between the two states. In the ensuing Battle of Myriokephalon parts of the Byzantine force were very badly mauled; however, Andronikos Kontostephanos managed to get his division, bringing up the rear, through the pass with few casualties. He is credited with having persuaded his uncle the emperor, whose confidence had been severely shaken, to remain with his troops", "title": "Andronikos Kontostephanos" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.8, "text": "and Suleyman's son Kilij Arslan I was imprisoned. When Malik Shah died in 1092, Kilij Arslan was released and immediately established himself in his father's territories. Kilij Arslan was defeated by soldiers of the First Crusade and driven back into south-central Anatolia, where he set up his state with capital in Konya. In 1107, he ventured east and captured Mosul but died the same year fighting Malik Shah's son, Mehmed Tapar. Meanwhile, another Rum Seljuq, Malik Shah (not to be confused with the Seljuq sultan of the same name), captured Konya. In 1116 Kilij Arslan's son, Mesud I, took the", "title": "Sultanate of Rum" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.75, "text": "are made of bricks. The buildings make frequent use of muqarnas (stalactite vaulting). In the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum the courts are often covered to protect against the colder and snowier winters of the Anatolian plateau. Thus some madrasas (theological seminaries) such as the Çifte Minareli Medrese in Erzurum have an open court, and others, such as the Karatay Medrese in Konya, have covered courts. Konya, the capital of the Seljuks and the other great Seljuk cities--Alanya, Erzurum, Kayseri, Sivas—have important Seljuk buildings, but Seljuk works are abundant in almost any Anatolian city or town, especially in Central and Eastern", "title": "Seljuk architecture" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.56, "text": "Ramadi Ramadi ( \"\"Ar-Ramādī\"\"; also formerly rendered as \"\"Rumadiyah\"\" or \"\"Rumadiya\"\") is a city in central Iraq, about west of Baghdad and west of Fallujah. It is the capital of Al Anbar Governorate. The city extends along the Euphrates and is the largest city in Al-Anbar. Founded by the Ottoman Empire in 1879, by 2011 it had a population of about 375,000 people, the vast majority of whom are Sunni Arabs from the Dulaim tribal confederation. It lies within the Sunni Triangle of western Iraq. Ramadi occupies a highly strategic location on the Euphrates and the road west into Syria", "title": "Ramadi" } ]

[ "Ljubljana", "Ljubljana, Slovenia", "Laibach", "Lublana", "Labacum", "Aemona" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.77, "text": "Ljubljana Ljubljana (, ; also known by other, historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It has been the cultural, educational, economic, political, and administrative centre of independent Slovenia since 1991. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the area. Ljubljana itself was first mentioned in the first half of the 12th century. Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, one of the Slovene-inhabited parts of the Habsburg Monarchy. It was under Habsburg rule from the Middle Ages", "title": "Ljubljana" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.3, "text": "National Assembly Building of Slovenia The National Assembly Building (, also colloquially the Parliament () in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, is a modernist palace housing the legislature of Slovenia. Built between 1954 and 1959 by the architect Vinko Glanz, it is a three-storey building with an area of . It is located on the Republic Square in the center of Ljubljana. Annual visitor numbers are around 13,000. Despite its name, the building houses both the National Assembly (lower house) and the National Council (upper house) of the legislature. The building is an officially protected monument, listed in the records", "title": "National Assembly Building of Slovenia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.27, "text": "outside the fence. Since 1985, the a commemorative trail has ringed the city where this iron fence once stood. Postwar reprisals resulted in a number of mass graves in Ljubljana. After World War II, Ljubljana became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It retained this status until Slovenia became independent in 1991. Ljubljana remains the capital of independent Slovenia, which joined the European Union in 2004. The city, with an area of , is situated in the Ljubljana Basin in Central Slovenia, between the Alps and the Karst. Ljubljana is", "title": "Ljubljana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.25, "text": "Ravne na Koroškem Ravne na Koroškem (; until 1952: \"\"Guštanj\"\", ) is a town in northern Slovenia. It is the largest town and the capital of Slovenia's Carinthia region. The town has a long tradition in steel industry. The name \"\"Ravne na Koroškem\"\" literally means 'Ravne in Carinthia'. The word \"\"ravne\"\" means 'flat terrain' in Slovene, and is a common place name in the Slovene-inhabited territories. The name of the settlement was changed from \"\"Guštanj\"\" (from German \"\"Gutenstein\"\") to \"\"Ravne na Koroškem\"\" in 1952 on the basis of the 1948 \"\"Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets,", "title": "Ravne na Koroškem" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.97, "text": "Government Building and President's Office The Government Building and President's Office (), also simply the Government Building () or the President's Office (), is a building in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, that houses the Office of the President of Slovenia, the Secretary-General of the Government of Slovenia, and the Protocol of Slovenia. It stands at the corner of Prešeren Street (), Erjavec Street (), and Gregorčič Street () in the Center District, next to the Cankar Centre. It is used for state and ceremonial functions, as well as for receptions and meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries and heads of", "title": "Government Building and President's Office" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.95, "text": "Postage stamps and postal history of Slovenia This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Slovenia. Slovenia is a country in Central Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy on the west, the Adriatic Sea on the southwest, Croatia on the south and east, Hungary on the northeast, and Austria on the north. The capital and largest city of Slovenia is Ljubljana. Slovenia covers an area of 20,273 square kilometres and has a population of over 2 million. The majority of the population speaks Slovene which is also the country's official language.", "title": "Postage stamps and postal history of Slovenia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.88, "text": "finally to the current capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana (Laibach). Before the coming of the Romans (c. 200 BC), the Taurisci dwelt in the north of Carniola, the Pannonians in the southeast, the Iapodes or Carni, a Celtic tribe, in the southwest. Carniola formed part of the Roman province of Pannonia; the northern part was joined to Noricum, the south-western and south-eastern parts and the city of Aemona to Venice and Istria. In the time of Augustus all the region from Aemona to the Kolpa river (Culpa) belonged to the province of Savia. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire", "title": "Carniola" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.77, "text": "until the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. After World War II, Ljubljana became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It retained this status until Slovenia became independent in 1991 and Ljubljana became capital of the newly formed state. The origin of name of the city, Ljubljana, is unclear. In the Middle Ages, both the river and the town were also known by the German name Laibach. This name was in official use as an endonym until 1918, and it remains frequent as a German exonym, both in common", "title": "Ljubljana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.77, "text": "Slovenia Slovenia ( ; ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: \"\"RS\"\"), is a sovereign state located in southern Central Europe at a crossroads of important European cultural and trade routes. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. It covers and has a population of 2.07 million. One of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is a parliamentary republic and a member of the United Nations, of the European Union, and of NATO. The capital and", "title": "Slovenia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.48, "text": "Prešeren Square Prešeren Square () is the central square in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is part of the old town's pedestrian zone and a major meeting point, where festivals, Ljubljana carnival, concerts, sports, political, and protest events take place. It was renovated in 2007. Lying in front of the medieval town's entrance, the square is a funnel-shaped hub of streets that run from it into different directions. To the south, across the Triple Bridge (), it is connected to Stritar Street (), which leads through a symbolic town gate formed by the Kresija Palace and Philip Mansion towards", "title": "Prešeren Square" } ]

[ "Bucharest", "Little Paris", "Paris of the East", "București", "Bucureşti", "Bucuresti", "Буцуреșти" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.81, "text": "Bucharest Bucharest (; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, at , on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. It became the capital of Romania in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical (neo-classical), interbellum (Bauhaus and art deco), communist-era and modern. In the period between the two World Wars,", "title": "Bucharest" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.8, "text": "hotel and restaurant industry added gross value of $8,074 million to the Romanian economy in 2005. Romania's capital is Bucharest. The \"\"City of Bucharest\"\" is Bucharest's major financial district, and one of the regional's leading financial centres. The city is where the Bucharest Stock Exchange, as well as many other exchanges, are based. Service industries, particularly banking, insurance, and business services, account by far for the largest proportion of GDP and employ around 55% of the working population. Many other international banks are beginning to operate bases in Romania, as the sector expands. In 2007 there were 52 banks. In", "title": "Services in Romania" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.44, "text": "Romania, after the national capital Bucharest, and the seat of Cluj County. From 1790 to 1848 and from 1861 to 1867, it was the official capital of the Grand Principality of Transylvania. Brașov is an important tourist destination, being the largest city in a mountain resorts area, and a central location, suitable for exploring Romania, with the distances to several tourist destinations (including the Black Sea resorts, the monasteries in northern Moldavia, and the wooden churches of Maramureș) being similar. Sibiu is one of the most important cultural centres of Romania and was designated the European Capital of Culture for", "title": "Transylvania" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.42, "text": "Sfântu Gheorghe Sfântu Gheorghe (; or \"\"Szentgyörgy\"\" ; ) is the capital city of Covasna County, Romania. Located in the central part of the country and in the historical region of Transylvania, it lies on the Olt River in a valley between the Baraolt Mountains and Bodoc Mountains. The city administers two villages, Chilieni (\"\"Kilyén\"\") and Coșeni (\"\"Szotyor\"\"). The majority of the city's inhabitants are Hungarians. In the census of 2011, 41,770 (77%) of the city's 54,312 inhabitants classed themselves as ethnic Hungarians, 11,921 (22%) as Romanians, 420 (0.8%) as Roma, and 201 as \"\"others.\"\" Sfântu Gheorghe is one of", "title": "Sfântu Gheorghe" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25, "text": "\"\"There should be no Romanian who does not know of it\"\". Still referred to as \"\"The Moldavian Capital\"\", Iași is the main economic and business centre of the Moldavian region of Romania. At the 2011 census, the city proper had a population of 290,422 (making it the fourth most populous in Romania at the time). With 474,035 residents (), the Iași urban area is the second most populous in Romania (after Bucharest), whereas more than 500,000 people live within its peri-urban area. Home to the oldest Romanian university and to the first engineering school, Iași is one of the most", "title": "Iași" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.83, "text": "the union of the two principalities was recognised under the name of \"\"Romania\"\", the national capital was established in Bucharest. For the loss caused to the city in 1861 by the removal of the seat of government to Bucharest the constituent assembly voted 148,150 lei to be paid in ten annual instalments, but no payment was ever made. During World War I, Iași was the capital of a much reduced Romania for two years, following the Central Powers' occupation of Bucharest on 6 December 1916. The capital was returned to Bucharest after the defeat of Imperial Germany and its allies", "title": "Iași" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.53, "text": "Deva is considered the \"\"Gymnastics capital of Romania\"\" because the National gymnastics training center is located within the city. Many of the country's Olympic gymnasts have trained in Deva. Deva, Romania Deva (; Hungarian: \"\"Déva\"\", ; German: \"\"Diemrich\"\", \"\"Schlossberg\"\", \"\"Denburg\"\"; Latin: \"\"Sargetia\"\"; Turkish: \"\"Deve\"\", \"\"Devevar\"\") is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, on the left bank of the Mureș River. It is the capital of Hunedoara County. Its name was first recorded in 1269 as castrum \"\"Dewa\"\". The origin of the name gave rise to controversy. Some thought that the name is of old Turkic origin", "title": "Deva, Romania" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.53, "text": "Iași Iași (, ; ; also referred to as Jassy or Iassy) is the second largest city in Romania, and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, Iași has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life. The city was the capital of the Principality of Moldavia from 1564 to 1859, then of the United Principalities from 1859 to 1862, and the capital of Romania from 1916 to 1918. Known as \"\"The Cultural Capital of Romania\"\", Iași is a symbol in Romanian history. The historian Nicolae Iorga said", "title": "Iași" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.28, "text": "Capital (Romanian magazine) Capital (\"\"Capital\"\" in Romanian) is a Romanian financial and economic weekly magazine published in Bucharest. \"\"Capital\"\" offers analyses, investigations and trend predictions accompanied by graphics, tables and photos to all with an interest in economics. Capital offers its readers guidance in their entrepreneurial initiatives, going beyond the news in order to discover the causes that generate the events. \"\"Capital\"\" was the first publication launched by Ringier in Romania. It was started in 1990. \"\"Capital\"\" was re-launched in 2000 and 2004 in a new and modern graphic concept. Capital has launched the Top 300 Richest Romanians. Other two", "title": "Capital (Romanian magazine)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.27, "text": "Jassy), in the Moldavia region. After World War I, Bucharest became the capital of Greater Romania. In the interwar years, Bucharest's urban development continued, with the city gaining an average of 30,000 new residents each year. Also, some of the city's main landmarks were built in this period, including Arcul de Triumf and Palatul Telefoanelor. However, the Great Depression took its toll on Bucharest's citizens, culminating in the Grivița Strike of 1933. In January 1941, the city was the scene of the Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom. As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for", "title": "Bucharest" } ]

[ "Welch", "Welch, West Virginia" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.61, "text": "McDowell County, North Carolina McDowell County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 44,996. Its county seat is Marion. McDowell County comprises the Marion, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Hickory-Lenoir, NC Combined Statistical Area. Archaeological excavations performed by Dr. David Moore, during the early 1980s, revealed the earliest inhabitants of McDowell County to be from the Mississippian and Woodland eras. Dr. Moore discovered evidence in an area close to the Catawba River in and around an unusual topographical site known as Round Hill.", "title": "McDowell County, North Carolina" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.16, "text": "per year, with 1,400 of those statistically attributed to deaths from heart, respiratory and kidney disease from living in an Appalachian coal county. In 2015, McDowell County had the highest rate of drug-induced deaths of any county in the United States, with a rate of 141 deaths per 100,000 people. Four of the five US counties with the highest rates of drug-induced deaths are located in West Virginia (McDowell, Wyoming, Cabell and Raleigh Counties). West Virginia's capital and seat of government is the city of Charleston, located in the southwest area of the state. The West Virginia Legislature is bicameral.", "title": "West Virginia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.88, "text": "McDowell County, West Virginia McDowell County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,113. Its county seat is Welch. McDowell county is the southernmost county in the state. It was created in 1858 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor James McDowell. It became a part of West Virginia in 1863, when several counties seceded from the state of Virginia during the American Civil War. McDowell County was also home of the famous Rocket Boys, who were from Coalwood. McDowell County was formed by an act", "title": "McDowell County, West Virginia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.22, "text": "The West Virginia Division of Highways is currently trying to construct new highways, such as U.S. Route 121, known as the Coalfields Expressway. The county also had one airport, Welch Municipal Airport, which is now closed indefinitely. McDowell County, West Virginia McDowell County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,113. Its county seat is Welch. McDowell county is the southernmost county in the state. It was created in 1858 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor James McDowell. It became a part of West Virginia", "title": "McDowell County, West Virginia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.81, "text": "the American Revolutionary War. Marion, the county seat of McDowell County, was planned and built on land selected by the first McDowell County Commissioners on March 14, 1844 at the Historic Carson House. It was not until 1845, however, that the official name of Marion was sanctioned as the county seat by the state legislature. The name of Marion came from Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War hero, known as the \"\"Swamp Fox\"\" and the man upon whom the movie \"\"The Patriot\"\" was based. During the Carolina Gold Rush period of the early 19th century, the south county area was", "title": "McDowell County, North Carolina" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.59, "text": "the total votes) followed by Ted Cruz who came in second with 2,422 votes (or 39.1% of the total votes). In the 2016 Democratic Primary, Bernie Sanders received 1,622 votes (49.0%) whereas Hillary Clinton only won 1,353 votes (40.9%). The following is a list of schools located in McDowell County: McDowell County, North Carolina McDowell County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 44,996. Its county seat is Marion. McDowell County comprises the Marion, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Hickory-Lenoir, NC Combined Statistical", "title": "McDowell County, North Carolina" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.2, "text": "Keystone, West Virginia Keystone is a city in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 282 at the 2010 census. Keystone is one of several municipalities in West Virginia with an African-American majority, with 65 percent of the residents being black. Larry Scott Deaner wrote about the historical geography of the African-American population of Keystone in his 2004 Master's thesis. Deaner calls Keystone the cultural capital of the \"\"Free State of McDowell\"\" - a term coined by Matthew Thomas Whittico, a local newspaper editor and community leader from Keystone in the early 20th century. Keystone possessed a unique", "title": "Keystone, West Virginia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.02, "text": "McDowell County Courthouse (West Virginia) The McDowell County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Welch, West Virginia. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1979. The courthouse was built in two phases. The first part was built in 1893 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was the earliest independent work of architect Frank P. Milburn, then practicing in Kenova. Milburn would go on to be prolific designer of courthouses in the southern states. He reported that the original brick design had been built in stone, and that the jail had been turned around, but", "title": "McDowell County Courthouse (West Virginia)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.98, "text": "of the Virginia Legislature on February 20, 1858, from what was originally included in Tazewell County, Virginia. Five years later, the Legislature decided to allow county residents to determine where the county seat should be. They chose Perryville (now called English), which was then the most populated town. \"\"The \"\"Restored Government\"\" commissioners, in October, 1866, located the county seat on a farm near the mouth of Mill Creek, where it remained until it moved to Perryville in 1874.\"\" The debate over the location of the county seat continued until 1892. The town of Welch became the county seat. The county", "title": "McDowell County, West Virginia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.78, "text": "those age 65 or over. Keystone, West Virginia Keystone is a city in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 282 at the 2010 census. Keystone is one of several municipalities in West Virginia with an African-American majority, with 65 percent of the residents being black. Larry Scott Deaner wrote about the historical geography of the African-American population of Keystone in his 2004 Master's thesis. Deaner calls Keystone the cultural capital of the \"\"Free State of McDowell\"\" - a term coined by Matthew Thomas Whittico, a local newspaper editor and community leader from Keystone in the early 20th", "title": "Keystone, West Virginia" } ]

[ "Hasselt" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.78, "text": "was the \"\"capital\"\" of a short-lived state called Free State Bottleneck (or \"\"Freistaat Flaschenhals\"\" in German) because it was the nearest unoccupied town to the Weimar Republic. The municipal election held on 6 March 2016 yielded the following results: The town's mayor is currently Marius Hahn (SPD). In 1956, a \"\"Patenschaft\"\" – roughly, a sponsorship – was undertaken for Sudeten Germans driven out of the town of Mährisch Neustadt in the Sternberg district. Limburg is a traditional transport hub. Already in the Middle Ages, the \"\"Via Publica\"\" crossed the navigable Lahn here. Today the A 3 (Emmerich–Oberhausen–Cologne–Frankfurt–Nuremberg–Passau) and \"\"Bundesstraße\"\" 8,", "title": "Limburg an der Lahn" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.48, "text": "of Liège. On the south end, it has borders with the Flemish exclave of Voeren and its surrounding part of Liège, Wallonia. The Vaalserberg is on the extreme south-eastern point, marking the tripoint of Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Limburg's major cities are the provincial capital Maastricht, as well as Heerlen, and Sittard-Geleen in the south, Venlo in the north and Roermond and Weert in the middle. More than half of the population, approximately 620,000 people, live in the south of Limburg, which corresponds to roughly one-third of the province's area proper. In South Limburg, most people live in the urban", "title": "Limburg (Netherlands)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.33, "text": "Brabant and Antwerp to the west, and the Dutch province of North Brabant to the north. The province of Limburg has an area of which comprises three arrondissements (\"\"arrondissementen\"\" in Dutch) containing 44 municipalities. Among these municipalities are the current capital Hasselt, the early medieval capital Borgloon, Genk, Diepenbeek (home to Hasselt University), and Tongeren, the only Roman city in the province and regarded as the oldest city of Belgium. The municipality of Voeren is geographically detached from Limburg and the rest of Flanders, with the Netherlands to the north and the Walloon province of Liège to the south. This", "title": "Limburg (Belgium)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.16, "text": "Duchy of Limburg The Duchy of Limburg or Limbourg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. Its main territory including the capital Limbourg is today located within the Belgian province of Liège, with a small part in the neighbouring province of Belgian Limburg, within the east of Voeren. From about 1020, Limburg Castle served as the residence of the Counts of Limburg, who in 1100 adopted the ducal title (\"\"Herzog\"\" in German, \"\"Hertog\"\" in Dutch) as Dukes of Lower Lorraine, one of the most important and ancient titles in this part of the empire. The extinction of the line", "title": "Duchy of Limburg" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.75, "text": "not the softer name of the Gauls.) The capital of the Eburones is named by Caesar as Aduatuca, and the capital of the region in later Roman times was \"\"Aduatuca Tungrorum\"\" (modern Tongeren). It is possible that these were the same place, except that the term \"\"Aduatuca\"\" may simply mean \"\"fortification\"\". One reason for doubt is that Caesar seems to indicate that Aduatuca was near the centre of the Eburone territory, and that the main part of this territory lay between the Meuse (Dutch \"\"Maas\"\") and the Rhine, while Belgian Limburg lies entirely to the west of the Maas. Apart", "title": "History of Belgian Limburg" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.73, "text": "(note Tongeren, in Roman times the capital of the area). Especially the southern part of current Limburg, along the Via Belgica was thoroughly Romanized and a few still existing towns and cities were founded in this period, including \"\"Mosa Trajectum\"\" (Maastricht) and \"\"Coriovallum\"\" (Heerlen). Bishop Servatius introduced Christianity in Roman Maastricht, where he died in 384. As Roman authority in the area weakened, Franks took over from the Romans, and the area, now called Austrasia, flourished under their rule. Especially the middle and southern part of the current province formed an important part of the heartland of Austrasia. In 714", "title": "Limburg (Netherlands)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.72, "text": "part of the province of Liège at the time. Its capital was Maastricht. For legal matters, the province was subdivided into the arrondissements of Maastricht, Hasselt and Roermond. In 1830, some 338,000 people lived in this province and in 1846, about 186,000 people were counted in the new, smaller province of Belgian Limburg. Their main religion was, and still is, Roman Catholicism. Following the Napoleonic Era, the great powers, United Kingdom, Prussia, the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire and France, created a new United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. A new province was formed from the former French Empire", "title": "Province of Limburg (1815–39)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.41, "text": "Susteren Abbey was founded, as far as is known the first proprietary abbey in the current Netherlands. Main benefactor was Plectrude, the consort of Pepin of Herstal. Charles Martel was born in nearby Herstal and Charlemagne also had close links with the area. He made Aachen the capital of the Frankish empire. In 870 the treaty of Meerssen, the third partition treaty of the Frankish empire, was signed in Meerssen, just north of Maastricht. The river Meuse became the border between the Western- and Eastern Frankish kingdoms, placing the largest part of the current Dutch province of Limburg in the", "title": "Limburg (Netherlands)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.28, "text": "the Romans encamped was called Aduatuca. This was possibly a general word for a fort, associated not only with the Eburones, but also the Aduatuci, and the Tungri. The Roman city established in Belgian Limburg was referred to as \"\"Aduatuca Tungrorum\"\" meaning \"\"Aduatuca of the Tungri\"\". Today this has become \"\"Tongeren\"\", in the southeast of Belgian Limburg, and it was the capital of a Roman administrative region called the \"\"\"\"Civitas Tungrorum\"\"\"\". Under the Romans, the Tungri \"\"civitas\"\" was first a part of Gallia Belgica, and later split out with the more militarized border regions between it and the Rhine, to", "title": "Limburg (Belgium)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.17, "text": "and ruled an empire that included much of Western Europe. Early Christianity was established earliest in the romanised southeastern corner of Limburg, around Tongeren, and missionaries went north from there to convert the Franks. The church capital moved to nearby Maastricht and then Liège, this was the area of activity of St Servatius and later Lambert of Maastricht. The archbishops, therefore, became responsible for a very large territory stretching up to the delta of the Maas river Another early saint in the south of Limburg was St Trudo, whose name survives in one of the major towns in southern Limburg.", "title": "Limburg (Belgium)" } ]

[ "Girona", "Girona, Spain", "Gérone", "Gerone", "Gerona", "Gerona, Spain", "Girona, Catalonia" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.69, "text": "Terni Terni ( ; ) is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria in central Italy. The city is the capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is northeast of Rome. It was founded as an Ancient Roman town. During the 19th century, steel mills were introduced and led the city to have a role in the second industrial revolution in Italy. Because of its industrial importance, the city was heavily bombed during World War II by the Allies. It still remains an industrial hub and has been", "title": "Terni" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.66, "text": "Australia and Asia Pacific, especially in China where Tera Capital can leverage on its knowledge of the local market and network. In addition, it also seeks to acquire real estate assets, including hospitality assets, in the above markets. Tera Capital's key strengths lie in its strategic business relationships with Chinese and Asian developers, familiarity with real estate and hospitality markets in China and the rest of Asia, and its extensive network of business owners across various industries in Asia Pacific. The principals of Tera Capital are David Tan, Harry Tan and Ted Fang. In 2003, the principals successfully acquired the", "title": "Tera Capital" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.14, "text": "Days Inn master franchise for Greater China from Wyndham Worldwide Corporation. Since starting operations in 2004, the principals have made Days Inn China one of China's fastest growing mid-market hotel chains, with a portfolio of over 180 hotels in 114 cities across 25 provinces and 3 municipalities. Tera Capital's offices are located in Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. Tera Capital Tera Capital Limited is a Singapore-based investment firm with interests in technology, new media, e-commerce, hospitality and real estate businesses. Tera Capital has in addition played an active and crucial role in the development of the companies it invests in, such", "title": "Tera Capital" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.14, "text": "Tera Capital Tera Capital Limited is a Singapore-based investment firm with interests in technology, new media, e-commerce, hospitality and real estate businesses. Tera Capital has in addition played an active and crucial role in the development of the companies it invests in, such as Frontier Group, a hotel management firm which owns the Days Hotel master franchise for Greater China. Under Tera Capital's strategic guidance, Frontier has become one of the fastest growing mid-market international hotel companies on the Mainland. Tera Capital also partners top-tier private equity firms, family offices and funds to seek investment opportunities in the US, Europe,", "title": "Tera Capital" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.97, "text": "Kálvin tér Kálvin tér (English: Calvin Square) is a major square and intersection in the city center of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It was named after the French Protestant Reformer John Calvin (\"\"Kálvin János\"\" in Hungarian) due to the large Reformed Church located there. The square is located in Pest at the junction of the 5th \"\"(Belváros-Lipótváros)\"\", 8th \"\"(Józsefváros)\"\" and 9th \"\"(Ferencváros)\"\" districts. Roads which converge at the square include the 'Kiskörút' (Inner Circuit, encompassing Múzeum körút ('Museum boulevard') north of the square, and Vámház körút to the south), Üllői út ('Üllő street'), Baross utca ('Baross street'), and Kecskeméti", "title": "Kálvin tér" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.77, "text": "where there is an environmental park with gazebos. Teresina is the largest capital in the northeastern territorial extension, with 1.755,698 km². Located in a transition zone between the northeast and the Amazon (Mid-North), Teresina is surrounded by mata dos cocais, savannas and cerradões where many carnaúba, babaçu, buriti palms, jatobás, ipês, and many other medium-sized trees can be seen. In the region there are also remnants of Teresina Atlantic Forest, which makes the landscape shrub coverage very rich and dense. Teresina has a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen climate classification: \"\"Aw\"\") with two seasons with semi-humid characteristics: the rainy", "title": "Teresina" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.66, "text": "Terazije Terazije () is the central town square and the surrounding neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Stari Grad. Despite the fact that many Belgraders consider the Republic Square or Kalemegdan to be the city's centerpiece areas, Terazije is Belgrade's designated center. When street numbers are assigned to the streets of Belgrade, numeration begins from the part of the street closest to Terazije. Terazije itself is also a short street, connected by the King Milan Street, the main street in Belgrade, to the Slavija square, by the Nikola Pašić Square to the", "title": "Terazije" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.58, "text": "Kuala Terengganu Kuala Terengganu ( Jawi: , ), often abbreviated as K.T., is a city, the administrative capital, royal capital and the main economic centre of Terengganu, Malaysia. Kuala Terengganu is also the capital of Kuala Terengganu District. It is also the only royal capital among the nine royal states of the country that bore its state's name. Kuala Terengganu is located about 440 kilometres northeast of Kuala Lumpur on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The city is situated at the estuary of Terengganu River, facing the South China Sea. As a district, Kuala Terengganu is the smallest in", "title": "Kuala Terengganu" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.52, "text": "separates Teresina from Timon is the Parnaíba river, one of the largest in the Northeast. Teresina is the capital with the second best quality of life in the North-Northeast according to FIRJAN. According to IPEA, Teresina is the third safest capital of Brazil (only after Natal and Palmas). It is also among the 50 cities in the world with the highest murder rates, with 315 homicides in 2017. Its motto is the Latin phrase \"\"Omnia in Charitatis\"\", which means, in English, \"\"All for charity\"\". The city is the birthplace of, among others, Torquato Neto, who belonged to the Tropicalismo movement.", "title": "Teresina" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.47, "text": "Province of Terni The Province of Terni () is the smaller of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising one-third of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Terni. The province came into being in 1927, when it was carved out of the original unitary province of Umbria. The province of Terni has an area of 2,122 km², and a total population of 228,836 (2016). There are 33 \"\"comunes\"\" () in the province. In June 2006, the only \"\"comunes\"\" with a population over 10,000 were Terni, Orvieto, Narni and Amelia.", "title": "Province of Terni" } ]

[ "Indianapolis", "Circle City", "Indy", "Naptown", "Crossroads of America", "Racing Capital of the World", "Amateur Sports Capital of the World", "INDPLS", "Indianapolis, Indiana", "India-no-place", "Railroad City" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.02, "text": "Indiana Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th U.S. state on December 11, 1816. Indiana borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, Kentucky to the south and southeast, and Illinois to the west. Before becoming a territory, various indigenous peoples and Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Since", "title": "Indiana" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.92, "text": "Indianapolis Indianapolis (), often shortened to Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. As of 2017, Indianapolis is the third most populous city in the American Midwest and 16th most populous in the U.S., with an estimated population of 863,002. The Indianapolis metropolitan area is the 34th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with 2,028,614 residents. Its combined statistical area ranks 27th, with a population of 2,411,086. Indianapolis covers , making it the 16th largest city by land area in the U.S. Indigenous peoples inhabited", "title": "Indianapolis" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.5, "text": "rolling plains and river valleys. The highest point in Indiana is Hoosier Hill, at above sea level in northern Wayne County. The state capital and largest city, Indianapolis, is situated in the central portion of the state. It is intersected by numerous Interstates, U.S. highways, and railways giving the state its motto as \"\"The Crossroads of America\"\". Other cities located within the area include Anderson, Carmel, Kokomo, Lafayette, Richmond, and Terre Haute. Rural areas in the central portion of the state are typically composed of a patchwork of fields and forested areas. The geography of Central Indiana consists of gently", "title": "Geography of Indiana" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.42, "text": "credit rating, with an annual budget of $1.1 billion. The judicial branch consists of a circuit court, a superior court with four divisions and 32 judges, and a small claims court. The three branches, along with most local government departments, are based in the City-County Building. As the state capital, Indianapolis is the seat of Indiana's state government. The city has hosted the capital since its move from Corydon in 1825. The Indiana Statehouse, located downtown, houses the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government, including the offices of the Governor of Indiana and Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, the", "title": "Indianapolis" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.36, "text": "Indianapolis is the seat of Indiana's state government. The city has hosted the capital since its move from Corydon in 1825. The Indiana Statehouse, located Downtown, houses the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government, including the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, the Indiana General Assembly, and the Indiana Supreme Court. Most state departments and agencies are located in Indiana Government Centers North and South. The consolidated city-county government of Indianapolis and Marion County (known as Unigov) is also located based Downtown at the City-County Building. The City-County Building houses the executive, legislative, and judicial", "title": "Downtown Indianapolis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.25, "text": "Indiana, Pennsylvania Indiana is a borough in and the county seat of Indiana County in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The population was 13,975 at the 2010 census, and since 2013 has been part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area after being a long time part of the Pittsburgh Media Market. Indiana is also the principal city of the Indiana, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. The borough and the region as a whole promotes itself as the \"\"Christmas Tree Capital of the World\"\" because the national Christmas Tree Grower's Association was founded there. There are still a large number of Christmas tree", "title": "Indiana, Pennsylvania" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.16, "text": "The first territorial capital was established at Vincennes, where it remained from 1800 to 1813, when territorial official relocated the seat of government to Corydon. After the Illinois Territory was formed in 1809, Indiana's territorial legislature became fearful that the outbreak of war on the frontier could cause an attack on Vincennes, located on the western border of the territory, and made plans to move the capital closer to the territory's population center. Governor Harrison also favored Corydon, a town that he had established in 1808 and where he was also a landowner. Construction on the new capitol building began", "title": "History of Indiana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.11, "text": "is held by the Wayne County Historical Museum and the second by Earlham College's Joseph Moore Museum, leading to the local nickname of \"\"Mummy capital of Indiana\"\". The arts were supported by a strong economy increasingly based on manufacturing. Richmond was once known as \"\"the lawn mower capital\"\" because it was a center for manufacturing of lawn mowers from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. Manufacturers included Davis, Motomower, Dille-McGuire and F&N. The farm machinery builder Gaar-Scott was based in Richmond. The Davis Aircraft Co., builder of a light parasol wing monoplane, operated in Richmond beginning in 1929.", "title": "Richmond, Indiana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.78, "text": "this region. Vincennes, founded by French traders in 1732 and the oldest settlement in the state, is located on the Wabash River as served as the first capital of the Indiana Territory. Vincennes is also home of the Pantheon Theatre. Indiana was settled from its southern periphery northward; many more of its oldest settlements, including its first capital, Corydon, are in southern Indiana. Until 1950, the United States Census found the center of population to lie in southern Indiana. Southern Indiana is a mixture of farmland, forest and very hilly areas, especially near Louisville and in the south central lime", "title": "Geography of Indiana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.62, "text": "20th century. The third building was a structure modeled on the Parthenon, but was condemned in 1877 because of structural defects and razed so the current statehouse could be built on its location. When Indiana became a state in 1816, the capital was located in Corydon. The first capitol building was a humble, two-story limestone building constructed in 1813 to house the legislature of the Indiana Territory. The building was constructed by a company owned by Dennis Pennington, a member of the early territorial legislature. Construction cost $1,500, paid for by the citizens of Harrison County, and was completed in", "title": "Indiana State House" } ]

[ "Cairo", "Cairo, Egypt" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.95, "text": "Cairo Cairo ( ; \"\"\"\", ; \"\"Kashromi\"\") is the capital of Egypt. The city's metropolitan area is one of the largest in Africa, the largest in the Middle East and the Arab world, and the 15th-largest in the world, and is associated with ancient Egypt, as the famous Giza pyramid complex and the ancient city of Memphis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, modern Cairo was founded in 969 CE by the Fatimid dynasty, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of ancient national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of", "title": "Cairo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.59, "text": "Al-Askar al-‘Askar () was the capital of Egypt from 750-868, when Egypt was a province of the Abbasid Caliphate. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641, Rashidun commander Amr ibn al-As established Fustat just north of Coptic Cairo. At Caliph Umar's request, the Egyptian capital was moved from Alexandria to the new city on the eastern side of the Nile. The reach of the Umayyads was extensive, stretching from western Spain all the way to eastern China. However, they were overthrown by the Abbasids, who moved the capital of the Umayyad empire itself to Baghdad. In Egypt, this shift", "title": "Al-Askar" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.48, "text": "Proposed new capital of Egypt The proposed new capital of Egypt is a large-scale project announced by Egyptian housing minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Egypt Economic Development Conference on 13 March 2015. The new, yet-unnamed city is to be located 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of Cairo and just outside the Second Greater Cairo Ring Road in a currently largely undeveloped area halfway to the seaport city of Suez. According to the plans, the city would become the new administrative and financial capital of Egypt, housing the main government departments and ministries, as well as foreign embassies. On total area,", "title": "Proposed new capital of Egypt" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.22, "text": "in order to prepare it for the construction work. Proposed new capital of Egypt The proposed new capital of Egypt is a large-scale project announced by Egyptian housing minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Egypt Economic Development Conference on 13 March 2015. The new, yet-unnamed city is to be located 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of Cairo and just outside the Second Greater Cairo Ring Road in a currently largely undeveloped area halfway to the seaport city of Suez. According to the plans, the city would become the new administrative and financial capital of Egypt, housing the main government departments and", "title": "Proposed new capital of Egypt" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.06, "text": "Avaris Avaris (; Egyptian: ḥw.t wꜥr.t, sometimes transcribed \"\"Hut-waret\"\" in works for a popular audience, , ) was the capital of Egypt under the Hyksos. It was located at modern Tell el-Dab'a in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta, at the juncture of the 8th, 14th, 19th and 20th Nomes. As the main course of the Nile migrated eastward, its position at the hub of Egypt's delta emporia made it a major administrative capital of the Hyksos and other traders. It was occupied from about 1783 to 1550 BC, or from the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt through the second", "title": "Avaris" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.78, "text": "to this day. Cairo's bounds grew to eventually encompass the three earlier capitals of al-Fusṭāṭ, al-Qatta'i and al-‘Askar, the remnants of which can today be seen in \"\"Old Cairo\"\" in the southern part of the city. Al-Askar al-‘Askar () was the capital of Egypt from 750-868, when Egypt was a province of the Abbasid Caliphate. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641, Rashidun commander Amr ibn al-As established Fustat just north of Coptic Cairo. At Caliph Umar's request, the Egyptian capital was moved from Alexandria to the new city on the eastern side of the Nile. The reach of", "title": "Al-Askar" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.69, "text": "Fatimid caliphs, while the actual economic and administrative capital was in nearby Fustat. Fustat was established by 'Amr ibn al-'As following the conquest of Egypt. Al-Askar, located in what is now Old Cairo, was the capital of Egypt from 750 to 868. Ahmad ibn Tulun established al-Qata'i as the new capital of Egypt, and it remained the capital until 905, when the Fustat once again became the capital. After Fustat was destroyed in 1168/9 to prevent its capture by the Crusaders, the administrative capital of Egypt moved to Cairo, where it has remained ever since. It took four years for", "title": "Islamic Cairo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.36, "text": "An ambitious plan to build a new city near Cairo to serve as the country's new capital was announced during the Egypt Economic Development Conference. Located east of Cairo approximately midway between Cairo and Suez, this proposed new capital of Egypt is yet to be formally named and is intended to relieve population pressures from the greater Cairo area. President Sisi has set a national goal of eliminating all unsafe slums in two years. The first stage of the project was inaugurated on 30 May 2016 containing 11,000 housing units built at a cost of 1.56 billion EGP (177.8 Million", "title": "Abdel Fattah el-Sisi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.19, "text": "2020 and 2022 at a cost of US $45 billion. A full cost and timescale for the overall project has not been disclosed. Feedback on former experiences of capital relocation was looked at, for instance by meeting with representatives from Astana, which replaced Almaty as the capital city of Kazakhstan in 1997. Speaking prior to the official announcement, Egypt's investment minister Ashraf Salman had already mentioned the possibility of a new capital being \"\"developed, master-planned and executed by a private sector company\"\", at no cost to the Egyptian treasury. It was revealed that the city will be built by Capital", "title": "Proposed new capital of Egypt" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.19, "text": "Church. Alabbar serves as the Founding Partner of Capital City Partners (CPC), a private real estate investment and development firm. In March 2015, CPC, alongside the Egyptian government led by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, announced plans for a $300 billion proposed new capital of Egypt to be as large as Singapore and located east of Cairo. The announcement for the fund was made at the Egypt Economic Development Conference held in Sharm El Sheikh. However, as of June 2015, negotiations had stalled and it was reported that the Egyptian government cancelled an Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CPC. Alabbar participates", "title": "Mohamed Alabbar" } ]

[ "Ruteng" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.98, "text": "West Manggarai Regency West Manggarai Regency () is one of the eight regencies which divide the island of Flores, located in the province of East Nusa Tenggara (\"\"Nusa Tenggara Timur\"\") in Indonesia. The regency's capital is the town of Labuan Bajo. The regency includes the western portion of Flores island (\"\"Pulau Flores\"\") and several small islands around it, including the two largest islands, Komodo (\"\"Pulau Komodo\"\") and Rinca (\"\"Pulau Rinca\"\") as well as others such as Seraya Besar (\"\"Pulau Seraya Besar\"\"), Seraya Kecil (\"\"Pulau Seraya Kecil\"\"), Bidadari (\"\"Pulau Bidadari\"\") and Longgos (\"\"Pulau Longgos\"\"). The total area of West Manggarai Regency", "title": "West Manggarai Regency" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.95, "text": "East Manggarai Regency East Manggarai Regency () is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established in 2007 (out of part of Manggarai Regency), the regency has its seat (capital) in Borong. The population in 2010 was slightly over 250,000. The East Manggarai Regency is divided into six districts (\"\"kecamatan\"\"), tabulated below with their 2010 Census population: The local government is aiming to promote a range of tourist sites including the following: An additional feature of interest in the regency is the Pota Komodo dragon which has similar traits to the more well-known Komodo dragon found in neighbouring", "title": "East Manggarai Regency" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.75, "text": "which consists of three districts: Manggarai district, West Manggarai district, and East Manggarai district. Outside Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia, there are some Manggarai-speaking people in the village of Manggarai in the eastern part of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. Formerly a concentration of workers from “Greater Manggarai”, the population is now just a few of the original people, because the majority in the village has now become the Betawi. The Manggarai language is part of the Austronesian family, and is therefore related to Indonesian and other Malay varieties. Most speakers of Manggarai also speak Indonesian for", "title": "Manggarai language" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.98, "text": "Manggarai language The Manggarai language (Manggarai: \"\"tombo Manggarai\"\", Indonesian: \"\"bahasa Manggarai\"\") is the language of the Manggarai people from the western parts of the island of Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. There are also some pockets of Manggarai speakers in the village of Manggarai in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. It is the native language of more than 730,000 people, based on statistical data reported by Central Agency on Statistics (BPS) in 2009 for the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The data include statistics for the population of the Regency of “Greater Manggarai” on Flores island,", "title": "Manggarai language" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.58, "text": "official and commercial purposes and to communicate with non-Manggarai Indonesians. Manggarai language The Manggarai language (Manggarai: \"\"tombo Manggarai\"\", Indonesian: \"\"bahasa Manggarai\"\") is the language of the Manggarai people from the western parts of the island of Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. There are also some pockets of Manggarai speakers in the village of Manggarai in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. It is the native language of more than 730,000 people, based on statistical data reported by Central Agency on Statistics (BPS) in 2009 for the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The data include statistics for the", "title": "Manggarai language" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.39, "text": "West Manggarai Regency. The population of the Pota Komodo dragon has been declining and there is now concern about conservation of the local dragon population. International visitors travel through various parts of the district, sometimes liaising with local groups such as village Catholic communities. In late 2012, one visiting Polish couple took the decision to be married in Lait valley in the Kota Komba area, East Manggarai Regency East Manggarai Regency () is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established in 2007 (out of part of Manggarai Regency), the regency has its seat (capital) in Borong. The", "title": "East Manggarai Regency" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.81, "text": "Mangrai Mangrai (; ; 1238–1311), also known as Mengrai (), was the 25th king of Ngoenyang (r. 1261–1292) and the first king of Lanna (r. 1292–1311). He established a new city, Chiang Mai, as the capital of the Lanna Kingdom (1296–1558). King Mangrai was born on October 2, 1238 in Ngoen Yang (present day Chiang Saen) Thailand on the Mekong River, a son of the local ruler Lao Meng and his wife Ua Ming Chom Mueang, a princess from the Tai Lue city of Chiang Rung, which is now called Jinghong, in Sipsongpanna (Xishuangbanna), China. In 1259, Mangrai succeeded his", "title": "Mangrai" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.25, "text": "Manggarai railway station Manggarai Station (MRI) is a train station in Manggarai, Tebet, South Jakarta. It serves primarily as a commuter station for the Jabodetabek area, and is operated by KA Commuter Jabodetabek. Bukit Duri depot is located in south. Manggarai Station opened on 1 May 1918 even though construction was not fully finished — World War I in Europe delayed the delivery of certain parts of its roof. Its tracks branched to Meester Cornelis (Jatinegara) and continued to Bandung and also to Tanah Abang. The construction was supervised by Van Grendt. The first class waiting room has not changed", "title": "Manggarai railway station" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.19, "text": "Manggatal Manggatal is a Malaysian town and sub-district on the west coast of Sabah. It is an outskirt of the state capital, Kota Kinabalu, and is under the jurisdiction of Kota Kinabalu City Hall. It is located along Jalan Tuaran, which is the main road leading north from Kota Kinabalu city centre. The town is notable for being one of few towns in Sabah where wooden pre-World War II era shophouses still stand. The name \"\"Manggatal\"\" derives from the Malay words \"\"mangga\"\" (mango) \"\"gatal\"\", which means 'itch mango'. Since 2014, there have been proposal to change the name spelling into", "title": "Manggatal" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.03, "text": "Manggarai people The Manggarai are an ethnic group found in western Flores in the East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. Manggarai people are spread across three districts in the province, namely the West Manggarai Regency, Manggarai Regency and East Manggarai Regency. The Manggarai people sometimes refer to themselves as Ata Manggarai, which means \"\"people of Manggarai\"\". Manggarai people are the aboriginal population of the island of Flores. Manggarai settlements cover over 6,700 square kilometers, almost a third of Flores Island. According to historical records, they have been occupied alternately by other tribes such as the Bima people from the island of", "title": "Manggarai people" } ]

[ "Adelaide", "Greater Adelaide" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.75, "text": "the capital, and with then planning and surveying the site of the city into one-acre Town Sections and its surrounds into 134-acre Country Sections. Eager to commence the establishment of their whale and seal fisheries, the South Australian Company sought, and obtained, the Commissioners' permission to send Company ships to South Australia, in advance of the surveys and ahead of the Commissioners' colonists. The Company's settlement of seven vessels and 636 people was temporarily made at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, until the official site of the capital was selected by William Light, where the City of Adelaide is currently located.", "title": "South Australia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "South Australian border. The state capital is Brisbane, a coastal city 100 kilometres (60 mi) by road north of the New South Wales border. The state is divided into several officially recognised regions. Other smaller geographical regions of note include the Atherton Tablelands, the Granite Belt, and the Channel Country in the far southwest. Queensland has many areas of natural beauty, including the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast, home to some of the state's most popular beaches; the Bunya Mountains and the Great Dividing Range, with numerous lookouts, waterfalls and picnic areas; Carnarvon Gorge; Whitsunday Islands; and Hinchinbrook Island.", "title": "Queensland" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.69, "text": "Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2017, Adelaide had an estimated resident population of 1,333,927. Adelaide is home to more than 75 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches from the coast to the foothills, and from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach", "title": "Adelaide" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.45, "text": "first settlers having arrived on the \"\"Duke of York\"\", and named for Henry Kingscote, one of the founding directors of the South Australian Company. It was early suggested that Kingscote could serve as the capital of South Australia, but the island's resources were insufficient to support such a large community; the South Australian Company moved almost six months later to Adelaide after sending surveyors to find a better site. There was a shore-based bay whaling station operating on the shore D’Estrees Bay by 1843. The history of the area is displayed in the museum in Hope Cottage, to the north", "title": "Kingscote, South Australia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.19, "text": "Transport in South Australia Transport in South Australia is provided by a mix of road, rail, sea and air transport. The capital city of Adelaide is the centre to transport in the state. With its population of 1.1 million people, it has the majority of the state's 1.6 million inhabitants. Adelaide has the state's major airport and sea port. Road transport is predominant in the state. Its extensive road network connect the state's regional centres and other towns, few of which have populations greater than 10,000. Private cars are a dominant form of transport throughout. Adelaide is an isolated city", "title": "Transport in South Australia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.03, "text": "Mount Lofty occur during winter. Dewpoints in the summer typically range from . There are usually two to three days in summer where the temperature reaches or above, although the frequency of these temperatures has been increasing in recent years. The average sea temperature ranges from in August to in February. Adelaide, as the capital of South Australia, is the seat of the Government of South Australia. As Adelaide is South Australia's capital and most populous city, the State Government co-operates extensively with the City of Adelaide. In 2006, the Ministry for the City of Adelaide was created to facilitate", "title": "Adelaide" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.02, "text": "the capital. Labor had spent all but 12 of the 48 years since the end of the Playmander in government due to its traditional dominance of Adelaide, home to over three-quarters of the state's population. South Australia is by far the most centralised state in Australia, and so Adelaide decides election outcomes to a far greater extent than is the case with other state capitals. Since the end of the Playmander, most elections have seen Labor win most of the metropolitan seats, with most of the Liberal vote locked up in safe rural seats. In 2010, for instance, the Liberals", "title": "2018 South Australian state election" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.02, "text": "of Adelaide's water requirements (100GL per annum) was commissioned in 2013. The provision of water services is by the government-owned SA Water. Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2017, Adelaide had an estimated resident population of 1,333,927. Adelaide is home to more than 75 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges", "title": "Adelaide" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.77, "text": "South Australia South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the most highly centralised of any state in Australia, with more than 75 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the", "title": "South Australia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.56, "text": "Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory (ACT; known as the Federal Capital Territory until 1938) is Australia's federal district, located in the south-east of the country and enclaved within the state of New South Wales. It contains Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Geographically, the territory is bounded by the Goulburn-Cooma railway line in the east, the watershed of Naas Creek in the south, the watershed of the Cotter River in the west, and the watershed of the Molonglo River in the north-east. These boundaries were set to give the ACT an adequate water supply. The Jervis Bay Territory,", "title": "Australian Capital Territory" } ]

[ "Teresina" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.42, "text": "Piauí Piauí (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. Piauí has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66 km (41 mi), and the capital, Teresina, is the only state capital in the northeast to be located inland. The reason for this is, unlike the rest of the area, Piauí was first colonized inland and slowly expanded towards the ocean, rather than the other way around. In the southeast of the state, the National Park of Serra da Capivara is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park has more than", "title": "Piauí" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.02, "text": "of the Battle of Jenipapo, an engagement in Brazil's war of independence. Cities in Piaui include: Piauí Piauí (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. Piauí has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66 km (41 mi), and the capital, Teresina, is the only state capital in the northeast to be located inland. The reason for this is, unlike the rest of the area, Piauí was first colonized inland and slowly expanded towards the ocean, rather than the other way around. In the southeast of the state, the National", "title": "Piauí" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.58, "text": "capital of Piauí in 1759. In 1761 it became a city. The capital was transferred to Teresina in 1851. Oeiras, Piauí Oeiras is a municipality in the Microregion of Picos, in the northeastern Brazilian State of Piauí. According to the \"\"Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística\"\" (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), its population was 34,538 inhabitants in 2003. The municipality covers an area of 2,720 km². The city is served by Oeiras Airport. Oeiras grew up around a church founded in 1695 dedicated to Our Lady of the Victory. Since 1944 it is the cathedral episcopal see of the", "title": "Oeiras, Piauí" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.59, "text": "the state of Piaui. In industry, there is the textile and garment industry, which exports to other regions and generates about ten thousand jobs. There are also manufacturers bicycles, drink industries, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, furniture and ceramics, among others. The building deserves to be a fast-growing sector due to the verticality of the city over the past 15 years. Teresina has a subway service comprising nine different stations. There is also bus service through the city. Teresina/Senador Petrônio Portella Airport, opened in 1967, lies north of the capital, between the rivers Parnaíba and Poty. The Albertão Stadium holds 60,000 spectators, houses", "title": "Teresina" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.92, "text": "carnauba wax and dyewoods. Exports included hides, skins, rubber, wax, tobacco and cotton. Teresina was the first Brazilian city to be planned. In 1852, an architect designed it, after being inspired by a chessboard. Situated at the confluence of the Parnaíba and Poti Rivers, Teresina was (and still is) known as the Green City because of the countless mango trees that line the city's streets. Piauí is bounded on the west by Maranhão, on the east by Ceará and Pernambuco on the south by Bahia. It has a short Atlantic coastline on the north. The Parnaíba River forms the boundary", "title": "Piauí" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.56, "text": "Piripiri, Piauí Piripiri, Piauí is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil. The city's population numbered approximately 62,600 people as of 2014. The municipality contains part of the Serra da Ibiapaba Environmental Protection Area, created in 1996. The name \"\"Piripiri\"\" comes from \"\"Peripery\"\", which means, for some, grass or grasses, and for others, bulrush, bush found near ponds. The city was so named for having much of this grass on founder's farm, Father Domingos de Freitas e Silva. On November 21, 1944, one IBGE resolution renamed the city of Piripiri. The city origin comes", "title": "Piripiri, Piauí" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.03, "text": "Piatra Neamț Piatra Neamț (), , ) is the capital city of Neamț County, in the historical region of Moldavia, eastern Romania. Because of its privileged location in the Eastern Carpathian mountains, it is considered one of the most picturesque cities in Romania. The \"\"Nord-Est\"\" Regional Development Agency is located in Piatra Neamț. The \"\"piatra\"\" toponym (meaning \"\"rock\"\" in Romanian) was always part of the settlement's name throughout its history. Other names that the city has been called are: Piatra lui Crăciun (Christmas Rock, thus also corresponding to the Hungarian name of the city, \"\"Karácson-Kő\"\"); Târgu Piatra (Rock Fair, Rock", "title": "Piatra Neamț" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.86, "text": "people (0.17%), 2,000 Amerindian people (0.05%). Piaui is one of the poorest states of Brazil. The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 60.1%, followed by the industrial sector at 27.3%. Agriculture represents 12.6% of GDP (2004). Piauí exports include essential oils 19.5%, soybeans 17.1%, woven cotton 15.1%, cashews 12.6%, crustaceans 12.4%, and leather 8.3% (2002). Grupo Claudino is the largest industrial company with headquarters in the state. They have annual sales of around R$700 million. Transfers from the Federal government are estimated to represent around a third of state GDP. The state government has been involved in", "title": "Piauí" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.73, "text": "Province of Piacenza The province of Piacenza () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its provincial capital is the city Piacenza. As of 2016, it has a total population of 286,572 inhabitants over an area of , giving it a population density of 111.38 inhabitants per square kilometre. The city Piacenza has a population of 102,269, as of 2015. The provincial president is Patrizia Barbieri and it contains 48 \"\"comuni\"\" (singular: \"\"comune\"\"). The province dates back to its founding by the Romans in 218 BCE. Piacenza was founded by the Romans for military purposes in 218 BCE.", "title": "Province of Piacenza" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.7, "text": "Piaseczno Piaseczno is a town in central Poland with 47,660 inhabitants. It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship, approximately south of Warsaw. It is a popular residential area and a suburb of Warsaw and is strongly linked to the capital, both economically and culturally. It is the capital of Piaseczno County. The origins of the city date back to a 13th-century village, located on the route between Warsaw and Czerskiem. Its strategic position meant that the village grew quickly. On 5 November 1429 the town obtained a charter, and soon became a local market. A further charter was confirmed in", "title": "Piaseczno" } ]

[ "Monrovia" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.38, "text": "Liberia, Costa Rica Liberia () is the capital and largest city of Guanacaste province, Costa Rica, located northwest of the national capital, San José, in the canton with the same name. It is a major center for the country's tourism industry. Liberia has been nicknamed \"\"la ciudad blanca\"\" (the white city) due to the white gravel that was once used to make the city’s roads and the whitewashed colonial houses which used to make up a large part of the city. It had a population of 56,899 in 2013. Modern-day Liberia was founded as a hermitage without any legal or", "title": "Liberia, Costa Rica" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.83, "text": "Buutuo Buutuo is the capital of Zoegeh district in eastern Nimba County, Liberia. It is also known as the place where the 14-year-long civil war of Liberia began in 1989. Once a growing city with over 25,000 people in the mid and late 1980s, the city has been ruined and reduced nearly to nothing. Before diamonds were found by the locals in the late 1990s and the Ivorian uprising in 2003, the once center of commerce held a population of just over 600 people. Now it is estimated that the town holds just about 2,500 people due to the refugees", "title": "Buutuo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.48, "text": "season can get quite hot and sometimes become uncomfortable for those who are not accustomed to such dry heat. Liberia, Costa Rica Liberia () is the capital and largest city of Guanacaste province, Costa Rica, located northwest of the national capital, San José, in the canton with the same name. It is a major center for the country's tourism industry. Liberia has been nicknamed \"\"la ciudad blanca\"\" (the white city) due to the white gravel that was once used to make the city’s roads and the whitewashed colonial houses which used to make up a large part of the city.", "title": "Liberia, Costa Rica" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.42, "text": "fleeing the war in Ivory Coast. Buutuo Buutuo is the capital of Zoegeh district in eastern Nimba County, Liberia. It is also known as the place where the 14-year-long civil war of Liberia began in 1989. Once a growing city with over 25,000 people in the mid and late 1980s, the city has been ruined and reduced nearly to nothing. Before diamonds were found by the locals in the late 1990s and the Ivorian uprising in 2003, the once center of commerce held a population of just over 600 people. Now it is estimated that the town holds just about", "title": "Buutuo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.12, "text": "Liberia were increased to a total of thirteen. The capital is Gbarnga, named after an old farm in the location.Gbarnga was used by Charles Taylor as the base for his rebellion against the Presidency of Samuel Doe in the early 1990s. Having failed to capture Monrovia, in early 1991, he established an unofficial provisional government (the (National Patriotic Reconstruction Assembly Government, or NPRAG) after ECOMOG forces arrived for peacekeeping and were based in the Liberian capital. NPRAG continued to operate out of Gbarnga until 1994. Bong County Bong is a county in the north-central portion of the West African nation", "title": "Bong County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26, "text": "Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east, the Atlantic Ocean to its south. It covers an area of and has a population of around 4,700,000 people. English is the official language and over 20 indigenous languages are spoken, representing the numerous ethnic groups who make up more than 95% of the population. The country's capital and largest city is Monrovia. Liberia began as a settlement of the American Colonization Society (ACS), who", "title": "Liberia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.88, "text": "Kakata Kakata, Kak-ah-tah, is the capital city of Liberia's Margibi County and is located in Kakata District just over the Du River bridge which is its border with Todee District. It is a transit town at the heart of the historical natural rubber cultivation belt in Liberia. The city is colloquially known as \"\"Kak City\"\". The City host the Office of the National Civil Society Council of Liberia, Margibi Chapter. The Council which is headed by Mr. Friday Edwin Crusor, is known for its diligent role in Advocacy, Dialogue, and Peacebuilding among others. It is estimated that the city is", "title": "Kakata" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.83, "text": "Gbarnga Gbarnga is the capital city of Bong County, Liberia, lying north east of Monrovia. During the First Liberian Civil War, it was the base for Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia. Cuttington College, a private, Episcopal-affiliated institution, is located near the town. Its campus was once home to the Africana Museum, which was destroyed during the civil war. As of the 2008 census, Gbarnga has a population of 34,046. Of this, 16,080 were male and 17,966 female; it is the fourth-most populous urban area in Liberia. Gbarnga is the hometown of Tamba Hali, a professional football player of", "title": "Gbarnga" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.72, "text": "Monrovia Monrovia is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Located on the Atlantic Coast at Cape Mesurado, Monrovia had a population of 1,010,970 as of the 2008 census. With 29% of the total population of Liberia, Monrovia is the country's most populous city. Founded on April 25, 1822, Monrovia was the second permanent Black American settlement in Africa after Freetown, Sierra Leone. Monrovia's economy is shaped primarily by its harbour and its role as the location of Liberia's government offices. Monrovia is named in honor of U.S. President James Monroe, a prominent supporter of the colonization", "title": "Monrovia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.62, "text": "Voinjama Voinjama is a small city that serves as the capital of Lofa County, Liberia and is located in the hilly, far northern part of the country near the Guinean border. As of the 2008 national census, the population stood at 26,594. Before the Liberian civil war it was a busy crossroads town, with a large weekly market. The population was principally from the Lorma and Mandingo tribes, with other ethnic groups from surrounding areas also present. It boasted a number of schools, including the public Voinjama Multilateral High School, as well as Saint Joseph's Catholic school under the direction", "title": "Voinjama" } ]

[ "Delhi", "National Capital Region of Delhi", "NCR" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.3, "text": "the nearby Lodhi Estate area, Lodhi colony near historic Lodhi Gardens, was the last residential areas built by the British Raj. After India gained independence in 1947, a limited autonomy was conferred to New Delhi and was administered by a Chief Commissioner appointed by the Government of India. In 1966, Delhi was converted into a union territory and eventually the Chief Commissioner was replaced by a Lieutenant Governor. The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 declared the Union Territory of Delhi to be formally known as National Capital Territory of Delhi. A system was introduced under which the elected Government was", "title": "New Delhi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.94, "text": "Jhelum District in 1985. The Islamabad Capital Territory was carved out of Rawalpindi District in 1959. Qazi also known as Lodhi are from the ruling class of the Pothohar region who established the Qazian Village where they build the first university of Pothohar region and now live in the twin city areas. The Dhanial occupy the Karor village of Kotli Sattian Tehsil, as well as the adjoining areas of the Islamabad Capital Territory. The Jethal are a Rajput clan who claim Bhatti Rajput descent. Their origin is traced to a Bhutta who 12 or 14 generations ago married the sister", "title": "Tribes and clans of the Pothohar Plateau" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.69, "text": "among both Muslims and non-Muslims. A humble tomb of the founder of Lodhi dynasty, Bahlul Khan Lodhi (r.1451-89) lies close to the shrine, in the present day locality of ‘Chirag Delhi’ that grew around the tomb since 1800, and still goes by his name, it is very close to the locality of Greater Kailash, in South Delhi. location of dargah from google map Chirag Delhi Dargah 7JWVG6QG+FR https://goo.gl/maps/VMrQzTUqwDU2 Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehalvi, unlike his spiritual master Nizamuddin Auliya, did not listen to \"\"sema\"\", which was considered un-Islamic by a section of the Muslim intelligentsia in that period. He did not however", "title": "Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.58, "text": "Lodi dynasty The Lodi dynasty (or Lodhi) was an Afghan. dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1451 to 1526. It was the last dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, and was founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi when he replaced the Sayyid dynasty. Bahlul Khan Lodi () was the nephew and son-in-law of Malik Sultan Shah Lodi, the governor of Sirhind in (Punjab), India and succeeded him as the governor of Sirhind during the reign of Sayyid dynasty ruler Muhammad Shah. Muhammad Shah raised him to the status of an emir. He was the most powerful of the Punjab chiefs and", "title": "Lodi dynasty" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.53, "text": "Lodhruva Lodrawa (Also Lodurva, Lodarva or Laudrava) is a village in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan, India. It is 15 km to the north-west of Jaisalmer. Lodrawa was the ancient capital of the Bhatti dynasty till 1156 AD, when Rawal Jaisal founded the Jaisalmer state and shifted the capital to Jaisalmer. In the 9th century, Deoraj, a famous prince of the Bhati clan, captured Lodrawa from Lodhruva and made it his capital. The city stood on an ancient trade route through the Thar Desert, which also vulnerable to frequent attacks. Mahmud of Ghazni laid siege on the city in 1025 AD, in", "title": "Lodhruva" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.52, "text": "ruled from 1451 to 1526. The dynasty's last ruler, Ibrahim Lodhi, was defeated and killed by Babur in the first Battle of Panipat. The Vijayanagara Empire was based in the Deccan Plateau, but its power was diminished after a major military defeat in 1565 by the Deccan sultanates. The empire is named after its capital city of Vijayanagara. The rise of the Great Mughal Empire is usually dated from 1526, around the end of the Middle Ages. It was an Islamic Persianate imperial power that ruled most of the area as Hindustan by the late 17th and the early 18th", "title": "Early modern period" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.5, "text": "Lodi (Pashtun tribe) Lodi or Lodhi (; ) is a sub tirbe of Ghilzai tribe of Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Lodi dynasty was an Afghan dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1451 to 1526. It was the last dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, and was founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi. The most important and oldest Pashtun settlement in the district was that of the Lodi tribe. The Lodi clan name originates from the Pashto word Loya, which means \"\"big\"\" or \"\"great\"\". Many Lodis are very tall in stature. Kot Bure Khan, north of the city of Jalandhar,", "title": "Lodi (Pashtun tribe)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.86, "text": "Shish Gumbad Shish Gumbad (\"\"glazed dome\"\"), also spelt Shisha Gumbad, is a tomb from the last lineage of the Lodhi Dynasty and is thought to have possibly been constructed between 1489 and 1517 CE. The Shish Gumbad (glass dome) houses tombs of an unknown family that may have been a part of the Lodhi family and a part of Sikandar Lodi's court. It is however believed by some historians that the tomb is of Bahlul Lodi (died 12 July 1489), who was chief of the Afghan Lodi tribe and founder & Sultan of the Lodi dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate,", "title": "Shish Gumbad" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.86, "text": "Sultanpur Lodhi Sultanpur Lodhi is a city and a Municipal Council in Kapurthala district in the Indian state of Punjab. The town is named after its founder, Sultan Khan Lodhi, who was a general of Mahmud of Ghazni in 1103 AD, which has been also mentioned in Ain-e-Akbari. Sultanpur Lodhi is located on the south bank of a seasonal rivulet called Kali Bein, which runs north of the intersection of Beas and Sutlej Rivers, two of the Five Rivers of Punjab. The word Punj - ab, literally means five river - land. Sultanpur Lodhi is one of the most Ancient", "title": "Sultanpur Lodhi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.84, "text": "on the South Side. Safdarjang Tomb is situated on South-West corner of the Lodhi Garden. Tomb of Sikandar Lodi Tomb of Sikandar Lodi () is the tomb of the second ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Sikandar Lodi (reign: 1489–1517 CE) situated in New Delhi, India. The tomb is situated in Lodhi Gardens in Delhi and was built in 1517–1518 CE by his son Ibrahim Lodi. The monument is situated 100 meters away from the Bara Gumbad and the area in which it is situated was formally called \"\"village Khairpur\"\". Sikandar Lodi (born Nizam Khan), was the Sultan of Delhi between", "title": "Tomb of Sikandar Lodi" } ]

[ "Lansing", "Lansing, Michigan" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.8, "text": "Lansing, Michigan Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2010 Census placed the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan. The population of its Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) was 464,036, while the even larger Combined Statistical Area (CSA) population, which includes Shiawassee County, was 534,684. It was named the new state capital of Michigan in 1847, ten years after Michigan became a state. The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to", "title": "Lansing, Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.34, "text": "capital of Michigan, and was relocated to Lansing in 1847, due to the need to develop the state's western portion and for better defense from British troops stationed in Windsor, Ontario. On July 13, 1787, the Second Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, creating the Northwest Territory which included Michigan. In 1805, the U.S. Congress created the Michigan Territory, with Detroit as its territorial capital. Michigan first applied for statehood as early as 1832, though it was rebuffed due to a dispute with Ohio over the Toledo Strip, a 468-square mile (1,210 km²) area that included the important port city", "title": "Michigan State Capitol" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.23, "text": "the Township of Lansing out of frustration. When announced, many present openly laughed that such an insignificant settlement was now the capital city of Michigan. Two months later, Governor William L. Greenly signed into law the act of the legislature officially making Lansing Township the state capital. Persons of European ancestry have formed the overwhelming majority of the population since the late 19th century. Farmers, mostly of English and Scots-Irish immigrants, many of whom arrived from Canada. Other settlers of the same ancestry migrated from eastern states such as New York, and Pennsylvania, as well as from New England. After", "title": "Central Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.95, "text": "Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word \"\"mishigamaa\"\", meaning \"\"large water\"\" or \"\"large lake\"\". Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Michigan has a population of about 10 million. Its capital is Lansing and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Michigan is the only state to", "title": "Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.64, "text": "wrangling, the Michigan House of Representatives privately chose the Township of Lansing out of frustration. When announced, many present openly laughed that such an insignificant settlement was now Michigan's capital. Two months later, Governor William L. Greenly signed into law the act of the legislature making Lansing Township the state capital. With the announcement that Lansing Township had been made the capital, the small village quickly transformed into the seat of state government. The legislature gave the settlement the temporary name of the \"\"Town of Michigan\"\". In April 1848, the legislature then gave the settlement the name of \"\"Lansing\"\". Within", "title": "Lansing, Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.64, "text": "The animal was found dead in 2010. Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word \"\"mishigamaa\"\", meaning \"\"large water\"\" or \"\"large lake\"\". Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Michigan has a population of about 10 million. Its capital is Lansing and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan", "title": "Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.64, "text": "Lake City, Michigan The City of Lake City is a city in and the county seat of Missaukee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 836. Lake City is locally known as the “Christmas Tree Capital,” because of the millions of Christmas trees produced annually. The community's first settler, Daniel Reeder, build his cabin on Muskrat Lake, now Lake Missaukee, in 1868. On January 22, 1872, Reeder was the name of post office open and the last name of its first postmaster, Daniel. The county selected Reeder by a one-vote margin", "title": "Lake City, Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.48, "text": "for several years. The western border of the Upper Peninsula was marked at the Montreal River on the Lake Superior shoreline and the Menominee River on the coast of Lake Michigan. Detroit remained the capital until March 17, 1847 when Lansing was chosen as a replacement. The population of Michigan at the time of statehood is estimated to have been about 200,000, which was well above the Northwest Ordinance's minimum requirement of 60,000. The area that became Michigan had been British territory, and was ceded to the United States in 1783, although the native peoples of the area had not", "title": "Michigan Territory" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.09, "text": "was Lansing, the state capital. In 1877, Lansing attempted to take the status of county seat for itself, but the two cities made an agreement that moved some county offices and courts to Lansing in exchange for Mason remaining the county seat. As a result, Michigan is the only state in the country with a capital city that is not also a county seat. Up into the early 1900s, the local Ojibwa tribe had a visible presence in the town. In the 1900s, The Wyeth Corporation began producing baby formula in Mason, but that was discontinued in the 1990s. Today,", "title": "Mason, Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.08, "text": "Capital News Service (Michigan) The Capital News Service (CNS) is a wire service based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. CNS covers the state capital in Lansing for various member papers from September to early May. The circulation of the combined member papers is one of the largest in the state—larger than the \"\"Detroit Free Press\"\". The service is headed by Eric Freedman, a Pulitzer-winning reporter formerly of \"\"The Detroit News\"\". Correspondents are selected from juniors, seniors and master's students in the School of Journalism by an application process. CNS was founded in 1981 by Michigan Journalism Hall", "title": "Capital News Service (Michigan)" } ]

[ "Papeete" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.75, "text": "Papeete Papeete (pronounced ) is the capital of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. The commune (municipality) of Papeete is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, of which Papeete is the administrative capital. The French High Commissioner also resides in Papeete. It is the primary center of Tahitian and French Polynesian public and private governmental, commercial, industrial and financial services, the hub of French Polynesian tourism and a commonly used port of call. The Windward Islands are themselves part of the Society Islands. The name \"\"Papeete\"\" means", "title": "Papeete" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.42, "text": "economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity (sometimes referred to as an overseas country) of France. The capital of French Polynesia, Papeete, is located on the northwest coast of Tahiti. The only international airport in the region, Fa'a'ā International Airport, is on Tahiti near Papeete. Tahiti was originally settled by Polynesians between 300 and 800AD. They represent about 70% of the island's population, with the rest made up of Europeans, Chinese people, and those of mixed heritage. The island was part of the Kingdom of Tahiti until its annexation by France in 1880, when it was", "title": "Tahiti" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.41, "text": "capital of Papeetē was founded in 1843. In 1880, France annexed Tahiti, changing the status from that of a protectorate to that of a colony. The island groups were not officially united until the establishment of the French protectorate in 1889. After France declared a protectorate over Tahiti in 1840, the British and French signed the Jarnac Convention in 1847, declaring that the kingdoms of Raiatea, Huahine and Bora Bora were to remain independent from either powers and that no single chief was to be allowed to reign over the entire archipelago. France eventually broke the agreement, and the islands", "title": "French Polynesia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.7, "text": "Society Islands, is the most populous island, having close to 69% of the population of French Polynesia . Papeete, located on Tahiti, is the capital. Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until 2007. Following the Great Polynesian Migration, European explorers visited the islands of French Polynesia on several occasions. Traders and whaling ships also visited. In 1842, the French took over the islands and established a French protectorate they called \"\"\"\" (French Establishments/Settlements in Oceania). In 1946, the ' became an overseas territory under the constitution of the French Fourth Republic,", "title": "French Polynesia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.69, "text": "Taha'a, Tetiaroa, Tupua'i, and Tūpai. French Polynesia has five administrative subdivisions (\"\"): Total population at the August 2017 census was 275,918 inhabitants. At the 2017 census, 68.7% of the population of French Polynesia lived on the island of Tahiti alone. The urban area of Papeete, the capital city, has 136,771 inhabitants (2017 census). At the 2012 census, 88.7% of people living in French Polynesia were born in French Polynesia, 8.3% were born in metropolitan France, 1.3% were born in overseas France outside of French Polynesia, and 1.7% were born in foreign countries. The population of natives of metropolitan France living", "title": "French Polynesia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.42, "text": "of the five administrative divisions (\"\"\"\") of French Polynesia. French and Tahitian are the official languages of government. The capital of the Marquesas Islands administrative subdivision is the settlement of Taiohae on the island of Nuku Hiva. The sparsely populated Marquesas Islands are located from Tahiti. With 183,645 inhabitants (2012 census), Tahiti is the most populous island of French Polynesia, containing 68.5% of the total population of the grouping. Residents of the Marquesas have chafed at Tahiti's overwhelming dominance, complaining of neglect by politicians based in Tahiti, and leaders have suggested developing a direct relationship with the metropole, the government", "title": "Marquesas Islands" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.22, "text": "or to the main island of Tongatapu, where the capital, Nukuʻalofa, is. French Polynesia escaped much of the damage inflicted against other Polynesian countries and territories by the earthquake. Concern centered on the Marquesas Islands, the northernmost archipelago in French Polynesia. Unlike the other islands of French Polynesia, the Marquesas have no protective coral reefs which would absorb the impact of a potential tsunami. French High Commissioner Adolphe Colrat warned residents of the Marquesas to seek shelter at an elevation of at least above sea level. Residents across French Polynesia were advised to avoid valleys and bays, tie up watercraft", "title": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.84, "text": "Atuona Atuona, located on Atuona Bay on the southern side of Hiva Oa island, French Polynesia, is the administrative centre of the commune (municipality) of Hiva-Oa. Atuona was the capital of all the Marquesas Islands but it has been replaced by Taiohae (on Nuku Hiva). The peak Temetiu, rising to 1,213 m (3,980 ft) above sea level, towers above the town. Atuona was the final home of Paul Gauguin, who died there in 1903 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, which overlooks the town. The Belgian singer Jacques Brel is also buried there. In 2003, construction on the Paul Gauguin", "title": "Atuona" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.83, "text": "Vaitape Vaitape is the largest city of Bora Bora Island in French Polynesia. It has a population of 4,927, about half of the island's population which is about 9,000. It is located about northwest of Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia. The main language of Vaitape is French, although 20 percent of the population speaks Tahitian. The area was first settled by early Polynesians who arrived on canoes during the 4th century. The early Polynesians built grass huts and hunted fish with spears and sticks. The Tahitians lost the \"\"French Tahitian War\"\" making Tahiti and all the other islands belong", "title": "Vaitape" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.72, "text": "Moorea-Maiao, make up the Windward Islands administrative subdivision. The capital is Pape'ete and the largest commune by population is Fa'a'ā while Taiarapu-Est has the largest area. The following is a list of communes and their subdivisions sorted alphabetically: Tourism is a significant industry. In July, the Heivā festival in Papeete celebrates Polynesian culture and the commemoration of the storming of the Bastille in Paris. After the establishment of the CEP (Centre d'Experimentation du Pacifique) in 1963, the standard of living in French Polynesia increased considerably and many Polynesians abandoned traditional activities and emigrated to the urban centre of Pape'ete. Even", "title": "Tahiti" } ]

[ "Forfar" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.59, "text": "of an imaginary line between Dundee and Greenock, thus including all of Aberdeenshire and Angus. Inverness is traditionally regarded as the capital of the Highlands, although less so in the Highland parts of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Perthshire and Stirlingshire which look more to Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee and Stirling as their commercial centres. Under some of the wider definitions in use, Aberdeen could be considered the largest city in the Highlands, although it does not share the recent Gaelic cultural history typical of the Highlands proper. The Highland Council area, created as one of the local government regions of Scotland, has been", "title": "Scottish Highlands" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.31, "text": "Ferryden & Craig and Hillside, Dun and Logie Pert community councils. Since 2002 they have produced a number of promotional leaflets and have established a weekly Saturday market in the town centre. In 2002 plans were unveiled to renovate the Mid Links. The project was completed in 2003 at the total cost of £1.8million with £1.2million granted by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Plaques have been incorporated to inform visitors of the historical heritage of the town's buildings. Montrose is regarded as the culture and sculpture capital of Angus, with over 20 statues of note scattered around the town. The statues", "title": "Montrose, Angus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.97, "text": "Angus, Scotland Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross. Main industries include agriculture and fishing. Global pharmaceuticals company GSK has a significant presence in Montrose in the north of the county. Angus was historically a county, known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928. It remains a registration county and a lieutenancy area. In 1975 some of its administrative functions were transferred to the council district of the Tayside Region, and in 1995 further", "title": "Angus, Scotland" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.59, "text": "the larger towns. In between lies Strathmore (\"\"the Great Valley\"\"), which is a fertile agricultural area noted for the growing of potatoes, soft fruit and the raising of Angus cattle. Montrose in the north east of the county is notable for its tidal basin. Most common surnames in Angus (Forfarshire) at the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1881: Angus, Scotland Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross. Main industries include agriculture and fishing. Global", "title": "Angus, Scotland" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.56, "text": "Coupar Angus Coupar Angus (; Gaelic: \"\"Cùbar Aonghais\"\") is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, situated four miles south of Blairgowrie. The name Coupar Angus serves to differentiate the town from Cupar, Fife. The town was traditionally on the border between Angus and Perthshire, the town centre being in Perthshire. The Angus part was transferred to Perthshire in 1891, but the town retained its name. It is located on the A94 Perth-Forfar road, although the town centre itself is now bypassed. The 6 storey Tolbooth was built in 1762, funded by public subscription. In the Middle Ages the Cistercian", "title": "Coupar Angus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.45, "text": "Montrose, Angus Montrose ( , ) is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is situated north of Dundee between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers. It is the northernmost coastal town in Angus and developed at a natural harbour that traded in skins, hides and cured salmon in medieval times. With a population of approximately 12,000, the town functions as a port, but the major employer is GlaxoSmithKline, which was saved from closure in 2006. The skyline of Montrose is dominated by the steeple of Old and St Andrew's Church, designed", "title": "Montrose, Angus" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.31, "text": "the Dundee City council area, which is divided between the Dundee East and Dundee West constituencies. Major towns in the House of Commons constituency are Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar, Kirriemuir and Montrose. Angus (UK Parliament constituency) Angus is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system. It was created for the 1997 general election, largely replacing East Angus. As a result of boundary changes for the 2005 general election, the boundaries became quite different from those of the Angus Scottish", "title": "Angus (UK Parliament constituency)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.12, "text": "and Rescue Service. Montrose, Angus Montrose ( , ) is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is situated north of Dundee between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers. It is the northernmost coastal town in Angus and developed at a natural harbour that traded in skins, hides and cured salmon in medieval times. With a population of approximately 12,000, the town functions as a port, but the major employer is GlaxoSmithKline, which was saved from closure in 2006. The skyline of Montrose is dominated by the steeple of Old and St", "title": "Montrose, Angus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.12, "text": "Angus, Texas Angus is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The population was 414 at the 2010 census. Angus is located at (31.988851, -96.424350). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which of it are land and of it (0.60%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 334 people, 129 households, and 97 families residing in the city. The population density was 101.5 people per square mile (39.2/km²). There were 139 housing units at an average density of 42.3 per square mile (16.3/km²). The racial makeup", "title": "Angus, Texas" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.03, "text": "Angus (UK Parliament constituency) Angus is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system. It was created for the 1997 general election, largely replacing East Angus. As a result of boundary changes for the 2005 general election, the boundaries became quite different from those of the Angus Scottish Parliament constituency, which was created in 1999 and abolished in 2011. The constituency is dominated by farmland, and includes the towns of Arbroath, Montrose, Brechin and Forfar. 1997-2005: The Angus District", "title": "Angus (UK Parliament constituency)" } ]

[ "Beach", "Beach, North Dakota" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.23, "text": "Golden Valley County, Montana Golden Valley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 884, making it the third-least populous county in Montana. Its county seat is Ryegate. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.08%) is water. It is the fifth-smallest county in Montana by area. The county has historically tended to strongly lean Republican. For example, former Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, only received 71 votes in 2016. The last Democrat to win there was", "title": "Golden Valley County, Montana" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.08, "text": "Golden Valley County, North Dakota Golden Valley County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,680, making it the fourth-least populous county in North Dakota. The county seat is Beach. The county was organized on November 13, 1912. The county should not be confused with the city of Golden Valley, which is located in Mercer County. Golden Valley was originally part of Billings County. Voters elected to separate from Billings County in 1910, but litigation prevented formal organization of the county until 1912. The territory in the surrounding", "title": "Golden Valley County, North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.91, "text": "Golden, Colorado Golden is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Golden lies along Clear Creek at the base of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Founded during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush on June 16, 1859, the mining camp was originally named \"\"Golden City\"\" in honor of Thomas L. Golden. Golden City served as the capital of the provisional Territory of Jefferson from 1860 to 1861, and capital of the official Territory of Colorado from 1862 to 1867. In 1867, the territorial capital was moved about east to Denver City.", "title": "Golden, Colorado" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.84, "text": "for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,319. About 3.4% of families and 10.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.7% of those under age 18 and 5.8% of those age 65 or over. Golden Valley County, Montana Golden Valley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 884, making it the third-least populous county in Montana. Its county seat is Ryegate. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.08%) is", "title": "Golden Valley County, Montana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.83, "text": "Golden Valley, Minnesota Golden Valley is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is a western suburb of Minneapolis and is the main corporate headquarters of General Mills and Pentair. Golden Valley is also the home of NBC affiliate KARE, the Perpich Center for Arts Education and Breck School. The population was 20,371 at the 2010 census. Tribes of Chippewa and Sioux had encampments on nearby Medicine Lake. The first white settlers arrived in the early 1850s. Golden Valley was incorporated December 17, 1886. In the early twentieth century, it was mostly a farming community. According to the", "title": "Golden Valley, Minnesota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.48, "text": "for females. The per capita income for the county was $21,899. About 8.9% of families and 13.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.7% of those under age 18 and 11.4% of those age 65 or over. Golden Valley County, North Dakota Golden Valley County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,680, making it the fourth-least populous county in North Dakota. The county seat is Beach. The county was organized on November 13, 1912. The county should not be confused with the city of", "title": "Golden Valley County, North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.39, "text": "Golden Valley, North Dakota Golden Valley is a city in Mercer County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 182 at the 2010 census. Golden Valley was founded in 1913. The city should not be confused with the Golden Valley County. Golden Valley is located at (47.291648, -102.067771). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 182 people, 92 households, and 54 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 117 housing units at an average density", "title": "Golden Valley, North Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.42, "text": "is organized into 12 separate districts that cover 16 different counties, each operated by a professional District Executive and volunteer leadership. Amador: Covers Amador County. Includes Jackson, CA and Sutter Creek, CA. Buttes Area: Colusa, Sutter, and Yuba Counties. Includes the communities of Yuba City, CA and Marysville, CA. Capital City: Yolo and Sacramento Counties. Includes the communities of West Sacramento, CA, South Sacramento, and Rancho Cordova, CA. Discovery: Covers Placer county. Includes the towns of Roseville, CA, Rocklin, CA, and Lincoln, CA. El Dorado: El Dorado County and eastern Sacramento County. Include Placerville, CA, El Dorado Hills, CA, and", "title": "Golden Empire Council" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.41, "text": "Golden Valley, Arizona Golden Valley is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 4,515 at the 2000 census. Golden Valley, Arizona was named after a company from Hollywood, California, that went into partnership with Crystal Collins to develop most of the land south of Highway 68 into 2.5 acre parcels. The company’s name was Golden Valley Development Company. The land was split into 2.5 acre parcels and sold for $695 each: $10 down and $10 per month. The community of Golden Valley lies in the Sacramento Valley, separated from the", "title": "Golden Valley, Arizona" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.34, "text": "unit to quell the disturbances. In August 2015, Arizona governor Doug Ducey terminated the contract with MTC after an Arizona Department of Corrections investigative report revealed the company had \"\"a culture of disorganization, disengagement, and disregard\"\" of DOC policies. Golden Valley, Arizona Golden Valley is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 4,515 at the 2000 census. Golden Valley, Arizona was named after a company from Hollywood, California, that went into partnership with Crystal Collins to develop most of the land south of Highway 68 into 2.5 acre parcels. The", "title": "Golden Valley, Arizona" } ]

[ "Madrid", "City of Madrid", "Madrid, Spain" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.83, "text": "empire and seized its capital, creating it as the Ottoman capital and the Ottomans controlled a rich area of the eastern Mediterranean, with links to Asia, Egypt, and India and in by the mid-sixteenth century, they ruled a third of Europe. The Ottomans had created an impressive land and maritime empire, with port cities and short and long range trade connections. Charles's great rival was Suleiman the Magnificent, whose rule almost exactly coincided with Charles's. A contemporary Spanish writer, Francisco López de Gómara, compared Charles unfavorably with Suleiman in the 1540s, saying that although both were wealthy and pursued war,", "title": "Spanish Empire" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.66, "text": "in the New World: New Granada in the 1530s (later in the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 and present day Colombia), Lima in 1535 as the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, Buenos Aires in 1536 (later in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1776), and Santiago in 1541. Florida was colonized in 1565 by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés when he founded St. Augustine and then promptly defeated an attempt led by the French Captain Jean Ribault and 150 of his countrymen to establish a French foothold in Spanish Florida territory. Saint Augustine quickly became a", "title": "Spanish Empire" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.03, "text": "in Spain. However, the economy of the city is now becoming more and more dominated by the service sector. Madrid is the 5th most important leading Center of Commerce in Europe (after London, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam) and ranks 11th in the world. As the capital city of the Spanish Empire from 1561, Madrid's population grew rapidly. Administration, banking, and small-scale manufacturing centred on the royal court were among the main activities, but the city was more a locus of consumption than production or trade, geographically isolated as it was before the coming of the railways. Industry started to develop", "title": "Madrid" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.02, "text": "Spanish Town Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. The town is home to numerous memorials, the national archives, and one of the oldest Anglican churches outside England (the others are in Virginia, Maryland and Bermuda). The Spanish settlement of Villa de la Vega was founded by governor Francisco de Garay in 1534 as the capital of the colony. Later, it was also called Santiago de la Vega or St. Jago de", "title": "Spanish Town" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.97, "text": "and weaken. The death toll rose steadily over the course of the next 60 days. Cortés founded the Spanish capital of Mexico City on the ruins of Tenochtitlan. Despite the extensive damage to the built environment, the site retained symbolic power and legitimacy as the capital of the Aztec empire, which Cortés sought to appropriate. For a time this , the highest rank in the Spanish hierarchy of settlement designation, was called Mexico–Tenochtitlan. Charles Gibson devotes the final chapter of his classic work, \"\"The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule\"\", to what he called \"\"The City,\"\" with later historians building on his", "title": "Tenochtitlan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.95, "text": "and five hundred men accompanied by Augustinian friars, and further strengthened in 1567 by two hundred soldiers, he was able to repel the Portuguese and create the foundations for the colonization of the archipelago. In 1571, the Spanish, their American recruits and their Visayan allies attacked and occupied the Kingdom of Tondo as well as Maynila, a vassal-state of the Sultanate of Brunei, establishing it as the capital of the Spanish East Indies, renamed Manila. Spaniards were few and life was difficult. They attempted to mobilize subordinated populations through the encomienda. Unlike in the Caribbean where the indigenous populations rapidly", "title": "Spanish Empire" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.86, "text": "capital of the island. After the seat of government was relocated, Spanish Town lost much of its economic and cultural vitality. Built on the west bank of the Rio Cobre, the town lies thirteen miles from Kingston on the main road. Its history was shaped by two significant colonial periods: Spanish rule from 1534–1655 and the English from 1655–1872. After that the capital was relocated to Kingston. The Anglican Church took over the 16th century cathedral. The historic architecture and street names mark the colonial history, such as Red Church and White Church streets, symbolic of the Spanish chapels of", "title": "Spanish Town" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.78, "text": "lavishly applied to the main entrance and the slender flanking towers. The true capital of New Spanish Baroque is Puebla, Puebla, where a ready supply of hand-painted glazed tiles (talavera) and vernacular gray stone led to its evolving further into a personalised and highly localised art form with a pronounced Indian flavour. Spanish colonial Chinese influence exclusive to Spanish East Indies was born when Spain colonized what was now the Philippines, which is located south of China. The architecture in the Philippines based its principle on the native Nipa hut of the locals who's architecture corresponds to the tropical climate,", "title": "Spanish architecture" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.38, "text": "presidency of the regional government is headquartered at the Royal House of the Post Office, at the very centre of the city, the Puerta del Sol. Madrid is the capital of the Kingdom of Spain. The King of Spain, whose functions are mainly ceremonial, has their official residence in the Zarzuela Palace. As the seat of the Government of Spain, Madrid also houses the official residence of the President of the Government (Prime Minister) and regular meeting place of the Council of Ministers, the Moncloa Palace, as well as the headquarters of the ministerial departments. Both the residences of the", "title": "Madrid" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.27, "text": "The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan became the Spanish capital Mexico City, which was and remains the most populous city in Mexico. From 1521, the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire incorporated the region into the Spanish Empire, with New Spain its colonial era name and Mexico City the center of colonial rule. It was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and became the capital of New Spain. During the colonial era, Mexico's long-established Mesoamerican civilizations mixed with European culture. Perhaps nothing better represents this hybrid background than Mexico's languages: the country is both the most populous", "title": "History of Mexico" } ]

[ "Plesetsk" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.86, "text": "Plesetsky District Plesetsky District () is an administrative district (raion) one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Plesetsky Municipal District. It is located in the west of the oblast and borders with Primorsky District in the north, Kholmogorsky District in the northeast, the territories of the town of oblast significance of Mirny and Vinogradovsky District in the east, Shenkursky District in the southeast, Nyandomsky and Kargopolsky Districts in the south, Pudozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia in the west, and with Onezhsky District in the northwest. The area of the", "title": "Plesetsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.39, "text": "Plesetsk Plesetsk () is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Plesetsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated about northeast of Moscow and south of Arkhangelsk. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Plesetskoye Urban Settlement, one of eight urban settlements in the district. Population: The vast Plesetsk Cosmodrome territory is located nearby and is administered from the town of Mirny which is away from Plesetsk. The territory also includes the Plestsy Airport. The name is derived from the word \"\"\"\" (\"\"plyos\"\") which means \"\"river reach\"\". Plestsy is the name for a small lake which Plesetsk adjoins.", "title": "Plesetsk" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.38, "text": "district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Plesetsk. Population: The population of Plesetsk accounts for 22.5% of the district's total population. The Plesetsk Cosmodrome is located on the territory of the district but is administered by the federal government of Russia. The western part of the district belongs to the basin of the Onega River, which is the biggest river in the district. The Onega crosses the district from south to north, splitting it into two parts of roughly equal areas. The biggest tributaries of the Onega within the district are the Kena", "title": "Plesetsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.33, "text": "system. The district hospital is located in Plesetsk. Plesetsk Plesetsk () is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Plesetsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated about northeast of Moscow and south of Arkhangelsk. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Plesetskoye Urban Settlement, one of eight urban settlements in the district. Population: The vast Plesetsk Cosmodrome territory is located nearby and is administered from the town of Mirny which is away from Plesetsk. The territory also includes the Plestsy Airport. The name is derived from the word \"\"\"\" (\"\"plyos\"\") which means \"\"river reach\"\". Plestsy is the", "title": "Plesetsk" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.38, "text": "The southwestern part of the district, including Lake Kenozero, is included into Kenozersky National Park (which is split between Kargopolsky and Plesetsky Districts). The area was originally populated by the Finno-Ugric peoples and then colonized by the Novgorod Republic. It was located at the trading routes connecting central and northern Russia: first, from Moscow to the White Sea along the Onega River, and then, after 1765, along the newly built road between St. Petersburg and Arkhangelsk, which still exists and passes Kargopol and Plesetsk. In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, the", "title": "Plesetsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.2, "text": "area divided between Plesetsky and Onezhsky Districts. Within the framework of administrative divisions, the district is divided into eleven selsoviets and four urban-type settlements with jurisdictional territory (Obozersky, Plesetsk, Savinsky, and Severoonezhsk). The following selsoviets have been established (the administrative centers are given in parentheses): As a municipal division, the district is divided into four urban settlements and thirteen rural settlements: Bauxite extraction (close to Severoonezhsk) is a developed industry in the district. The bauxites were discovered in the area in 1949, and the extraction began in 1978. A big cement plant is located in Savinsky. Timber industry is also", "title": "Plesetsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.12, "text": "an important branch. Plesetsk is located on the road connecting Kargopol with one of the principal highways in Russia, M8 between Moscow and Arkhangelsk (the highways meet in the settlement of Brin-Navolok). This is the historic trading route which connected Kargopol with Arkhangelsk before the railroad was built, and long stretches of this road are still unpaved. The stretch between Kargopol and Plesetsk was paved in 2011. Plesetsk (Plesetskaya station) is located on the railway line between Moscow and Arkhangelsk (built in the south-north direction). In Obozersky, the line to Onega and Belomorsk branches off to the west from the", "title": "Plesetsky District" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.92, "text": "by Russian Federal law, and additionally 110 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local importance. Most of these are wooden churches, chapels, farms, and also monuments to the Red Army soldiers who died in the Russian Civil War. Some of the protected wooden buildings are located in Kenozersky National Park. The monuments classified as historical and architectural heritage are the following: Some of the monuments have been protected as part of the Kenozersky National Park. The district weekly newspaper, \"\"Kuryer Prionezhya\"\" () has been published since 1999. The editorial office is in the settlement of Severoonezhsk. Plesetsky District", "title": "Plesetsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.83, "text": "into Northern Oblast. In 1937, Northern Oblast was split into Arkhangelsk Oblast and Vologda Oblast, and Plesetsk remains the center of Plesetsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast. Plesetsk is divided into: It has a youth bandy team called Yunost Pl. Plesetsk is located on the road connecting Kargopol with one of the principal highways in Russia, M8 between Moscow and Arkhangelsk (the highways meet in the village of Brin-Navolok). This is the historic trading route which connected Kargopol with Arkhangelsk before the railroad was built, and long stretches of this road are still unpaved. The stretch between Kargopol and Plesetsk was", "title": "Plesetsk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.8, "text": "main railway. From Severoonezhsk, a railway line to the west, connecting to Undozero and Yangory (an extension of the line from Puksa to Navolok) is one of the biggest railways in Russia which does not belong to Russian Railways. The owner of the railway is the State Department of Corrections. Plans to extend this line to Medvezhyegorsk have not been realized. The Onega is not navigable within the limits of the district because of the rapids. Plesetsky District has a very high concentration of historical, archaeological, and architectural monuments. The district contains 14 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage", "title": "Plesetsky District" } ]

[ "Castries" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.31, "text": "Saint Lucia Saint Lucia (; ) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of and reported a population of 165,595 in the 2010 census. Its capital is Castries. The French were the island's first European settlers. They signed a treaty with the native Island Caribs in 1660. England took control of the island from 1663 to 1667. In ensuing", "title": "Saint Lucia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.2, "text": "Lucia is in the Caribbean, an island between the Caribbean Sea and [North Atlantic Ocean], north of Saint Vincent and north-west of Barbados. The capital city of Saint Lucia is Castries, where about one third of the population lives. Major towns include Gros Islet, Soufrière and Vieux Fort. Saint Lucia is in the tropical zone, although its climate is moderated by northeast trade winds. Since it is fairly close to the equator, the temperature does not fluctuate much between winter and summer. The dry season is from December to June, and the rainy season is from June to November. Average", "title": "Geography of Saint Lucia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.95, "text": "and Venezuelan Embassy. Castries Castries , population 20,000, aggl. 53,639, is the capital and largest city of Saint Lucia, an island country in the Caribbean. The quarter with the same name had a population of 70,000 on 22 May 2013 and stretches over an area of . Castries is in a flood gut and is built on reclaimed land. It houses the seat of government and the head offices of many of foreign and local businesses. The city's design is in a grid pattern. Its sheltered harbour receives cargo vessels, ferry boats, and cruise ships. It houses duty-free shopping facilities", "title": "Castries" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.81, "text": "Castries Castries , population 20,000, aggl. 53,639, is the capital and largest city of Saint Lucia, an island country in the Caribbean. The quarter with the same name had a population of 70,000 on 22 May 2013 and stretches over an area of . Castries is in a flood gut and is built on reclaimed land. It houses the seat of government and the head offices of many of foreign and local businesses. The city's design is in a grid pattern. Its sheltered harbour receives cargo vessels, ferry boats, and cruise ships. It houses duty-free shopping facilities such as Point", "title": "Castries" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.91, "text": "Soufrière, Saint Lucia Soufrière is a town on the West Coast of Saint Lucia, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The town and the surrounding district has a population of 7,935. It was founded by the French and was the original capital of the island. There were large estates run by plantation owners of French origin and their descendants still live in the area. The French Revolution of 1789 resulted in many Royalists being executed and the slaves freed. However, Napoleon reintroduced slavery when he came to power. The British invaded St Lucia shortly after, but the slaves and French deserters", "title": "Soufrière, Saint Lucia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.72, "text": "capital, Castries. Despite a high emigration rate, the population is growing rapidly at about 1.2% per year. Migration from Saint Lucia is primarily to Anglophone countries, with the United Kingdom having almost 10,000 Saint Lucian-born citizens, and over 30,000 of Saint Lucian heritage. The second most popular destination for Saint Lucian émigrés is the United States, where a combined (foreign and national-born Saint Lucians) almost 14,000 reside. Canada is home to a few thousand Saint Lucians. Saint Lucia's population is predominantly of African and mixed African-European descent, with a small Indo-Caribbean minority (3%). Members of other or unspecified ethnic groups,", "title": "Saint Lucia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.39, "text": "Soufrière Quarter Soufrière is a quarter on the Southwest coast of Saint Lucia in the West Indies. Soufrière was the former capital of Saint Lucia during times of French rule. It is now a small fishing port with an emerging tourism industry. It has several tourist sites, including a \"\"drive-in\"\" volcano, the Diamond Botanical Gardens with waterfall (briefly featured in the Superman II movie) and historic mineral baths, plus the nearby beaches of Anse Chastanet to the north and Malgretout to the south. The nearby plantation at Anse Mamin, formerly Malmaison, was at one time owned by Gaspard-Joseph Tascher de", "title": "Soufrière Quarter" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.39, "text": "prime minister for a third time. In the June 2016 elections the UWP assumed power again, under Prime Minister Allen Chastanet. The volcanic island of Saint Lucia is more mountainous than most Caribbean islands, with the highest point being Mount Gimie, at above sea level. Two other mountains, the Pitons, form the island's most famous landmark. They are located between Soufrière and Choiseul on the western side of the island. Saint Lucia is also one of the few islands in the world that contains a drive-in volcano. The capital city of Saint Lucia is Castries (population 60,263) where 32.4% of", "title": "Saint Lucia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.3, "text": "Castries Quarter Castries Quarter is one of eleven Quarters on the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. According to the 2012 census, the population of the Quarter was 80,573, having shown a slow but steady increase over the past ten years. The capital of Saint Lucia, the city of Castries, is located in this Quarter. During the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival, the city of Castries plays host to several stages. Castries is a port city. Shoppers flock to the city's dozens of stores and to Castries Market for fruits, vegetables and handicrafts. Sightseers admire murals painted by a local artist", "title": "Castries Quarter" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.8, "text": "Santa Lucía, Boaco Santa Lucía () is a municipality in the Boaco department of Nicaragua. It has a population of 10,300 (2006, est.) and an extension of 120.78 km². The capital is the town of Santa Lucía located 94 km from Managua. Approx. 72% of the population lives in rural areas and 28% in the urban zones. The economy is based mainly on agriculture with around 2,200 small farmers in the whole municipality. There are also some agropecuarian activities. The mayor of the municipality of Santa Lucía is Elba Maria Salinas Guzmán from the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC). Back in", "title": "Santa Lucía, Boaco" } ]

[ "Merthyr Tydfil", "Merthyr Tudful", "Merthyr-Tydvil" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.38, "text": "Town, Merthyr Tydfil Town is the name of a local government community and electoral ward in the town of Merthyr Tydfil, in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales. The Town community covers Merthyr Tydfil town centre east of the River Taff, stretching as far as Merthyr Common and the border with Caerphilly County Borough. It includes the residential areas of Cae-draw, Penyard, Penyrheol, Thomastown, Twynyrodyn and Ysgubor Newydd. The community of Troed-y-rhiw borders to the south, Cyfarthfa to the west, Park, Penydarren and Dowlais to the north and the Caerphilly community of Darran Valley to the east. According to the 2011", "title": "Town, Merthyr Tydfil" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.95, "text": "Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil (; ) is a large town in Wales, with a population of about 63,546, situated approximately north of Cardiff. At one time the largest town in Wales, Merthyr Tydfil is today its fifth largest urban area by population. Situated in the historic county of Glamorgan, it is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough and is administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. Both the town and the county borough are often referred to as simply 'Merthyr'. According to legend, the town is named after Tydfil, a daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog. According to", "title": "Merthyr Tydfil" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.86, "text": "Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Merthyr Tydfil County Borough (; ) has been one of the 22 unitary authorities in Wales since 1 April 1996 (though the area was originally granted county borough status in 1908). Merthyr Tydfil County Borough today has a population of 59,000. It is located in the historic county of Glamorgan and takes its name from Merthyr Tydfil town. The County Borough consists of the northern part of the Taff Valley and the smaller neighbouring Taff Bargoed Valley. It borders the counties of Rhondda Cynon Taf and Caerphilly county borough. Following the industrial revolution and growth, initially", "title": "Merthyr Tydfil County Borough" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.77, "text": "with a population of around 62,000 people, situated between the Brecon Beacons and Cardiff, at the centre of the Heads of the Valleys region, with one fifth of the county borough lying within the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is accessible via the A470 and A465 transport corridors, also lying close to the intersection of the A470 and A472 in the South. Only around 30 minutes North of Cardiff, Wales’ capital city. Merthyr Tydfil is rich in heritage, culture and history, once known as \"\"iron capital of the world\"\", as well as once contributing to Cardiff’s title as largest coal", "title": "Sustainability in Merthyr Tydfil" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.56, "text": "a local government district in the administrative county of Mid Glamorgan. It reverted to a county borough again on 1 April 1996. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is the governing body for the area. It consists of 33 councillors representing 11 wards. During the local government elections of 1 May 2008, the long-ruling Welsh Labour Party lost its majority control of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council as a cohort of independents took seats and the Liberal Democrats also made a significant breakthrough. However the Labour group gained back majority control in the following election on 3 May 2012. The current", "title": "Merthyr Tydfil County Borough" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.52, "text": "drawn to Merthyr town and Dowlais during the 1940s, establishing the Merthyr Tydfil Educational settlement and the Dowlais Art Centre/Settlement. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Merthyr Tydfil County Borough (; ) has been one of the 22 unitary authorities in Wales since 1 April 1996 (though the area was originally granted county borough status in 1908). Merthyr Tydfil County Borough today has a population of 59,000. It is located in the historic county of Glamorgan and takes its name from Merthyr Tydfil town. The County Borough consists of the northern part of the Taff Valley and the smaller neighbouring Taff Bargoed", "title": "Merthyr Tydfil County Borough" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.33, "text": "Tir-Phil, and Twyn Carno. 2010–present: The Merthyr Tydfil County Borough electoral divisions of Bedlinog, Cyfarthfa, Dowlais, Gurnos, Merthyr Vale, Park, Penydarren, Plymouth, Town, Treharris, and Vaynor, and the Caerphilly County Borough electoral divisions of Darran Valley, Moriah, New Tredegar, Pontlottyn, and Twyn Carno. As its name suggests, the main towns are Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. The seat is bordered by the constituencies of Blaenau Gwent, Brecon and Radnorshire, Caerphilly, Cynon Valley, and Islwyn. The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, prior to this Merthyr Tydfil had been in its own eponymous constituency and Rhymney was in the seat", "title": "Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (UK Parliament constituency)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.31, "text": "Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council () is the governing body for Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, one of the Principal Areas of Wales. Elections take place every four years. The last election was 4 May 2017. This election saw a big swing, with Independent councillors winning majority control from the Labour Party, in what was previously a Labour stronghold. The final result was delayed because of the death of a candidate in the Cyfarthfa ward, where the election took place on 8 June to choose the final three councillors. Labour council leader Brendan Toomey lost his", "title": "Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.27, "text": "Park, Merthyr Tydfil Park () is a community and electoral ward of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. The community covers an area north of Merthyr Tydfil town centre, including Cyfarthfa Park and the residential areas of Abermorlais, Georgetown, Williamstown and The Quar. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 4307, increasing to 4,326 at the 2011 census. Park has several notable landmarks, but its most notable is Cyfarthfa Castle, which dominates the community. The Park electoral ward is coterminous with the community and elects three councillors to Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. At the May", "title": "Park, Merthyr Tydfil" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.25, "text": "a large open cast coal mine, which will extract 10 million tonnes of coal over 15 years, was authorised just east of Merthyr as part of the Ffos-y-fran open cast mine. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is the governing body for the town and the County Borough, which stretches as far south as Treharris. The town includes the electoral wards of Park, Penydarren and Town. The Member of Parliament for the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency is Gerald Jones, and the Welsh Assembly member is Dawn Bowden AM. Merthyr was regarded as a nonconformist stronghold in the 19th century, but", "title": "Merthyr Tydfil" } ]

[ "Minsk", "Мінск", "Менск", "Минск", "Mińsk", "Minskas", "Mensk", "Miensk" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.34, "text": "Palace in St Petersburg and acts as the consultative parliamentary wing of the CIS created to discuss problems of parliamentary cooperation and reviews draft documents of common interest and passes model laws to the national legislatures in the CIS (as well as recommendations) for their use in the preparation of new laws and amendments to existing legislation too which have been adopted by more than 130 documents that ensure the convergence of laws in the CIS to the national legislation. The Assembly is actively involved in the development of integration processes in the CIS and also sends observers to the", "title": "Commonwealth of Independent States" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.27, "text": "Рытаровіч ; навук. рэд. Г. Сагановіч. — Мінск : Зміцер Колас, 2016. — 436 с. Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblasć) and Minsk District (rajon). The population in January 2018 was 1,982,444, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of the Executive Secretary. The earliest historical references", "title": "Minsk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.88, "text": "2016 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup 2016 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was the 24th annual Commonwealth of Independent States Cup since its establishment in 1993. It was hosted in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 17 and 23 January 2016. Saint Petersburg hosted the event for the seventh time, with all matches being held in a single venue (Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex). All participating nations were represented by their youth (U20/U21) national teams. This edition sees a reduction in sides to eight Under 21 teams. The number of participants was reduced from 12 to 8, split in two groups", "title": "2016 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.84, "text": "chances of the Soviet Union staying together low, the Commonwealth of Independent States was founded in it place on 8 December 1991 by the Byelorussia SSR, the Russian SFSR, and the Ukraine SSR, when the leaders of the three republics, met in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Natural Reserve, about north of Brest in Belarus and signed the \"\"Agreement Establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States\"\", known as the \"\"Creation Agreement\"\" (, \"\"Soglasheniye\"\"). The CIS announced that the new organization would be open to all republics of the former Soviet Union, and to other nations sharing the same goals. The CIS charter stated", "title": "Commonwealth of Independent States" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.8, "text": "Commonwealth of Independent States The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS; ), also sometimes called the Russian Commonwealth in order to distinguish it from the Commonwealth of Nations, is a regional intergovernmental organization of 10 post-Soviet republics in Eurasia formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It has an area of 20,368,759 km² (8,097,484 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 239,796,010. The CIS encourages cooperation over economical, political and military aspects and has certain powers possessing coordinating in trade, finance, lawmaking and security. It has also promoted cooperation on cross-border crime prevention. The CIS has its origins in", "title": "Commonwealth of Independent States" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.53, "text": "2013 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup 2013 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was the 21st annual Commonwealth of Independent States Cup since its establishment in 1993. It was hosted in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 18 and 27 January 2013. Saint Petersburg hosted the event for the fourth time, with all matches being held in a single venue (Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex). All participating nations were represented by their youth (U20/U21) national teams. Twelve teams were divided into three groups of four. The top two of each group qualified automatically for a play-off along with the two best third", "title": "2013 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.5, "text": "2015 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup 2015 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was the 23rd annual Commonwealth of Independent States Cup since its establishment in 1993. It was hosted in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 16 and 25 January 2015. Saint Petersburg hosted the event for the sixth time, with all matches being held in a single venue (Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex). All participating nations were represented by their youth (U20/U21) national teams. Twelve teams were divided into three groups of four. The top two of each group qualified automatically for a play-off along with the two best third", "title": "2015 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.48, "text": "Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblasć) and Minsk District (rajon). The population in January 2018 was 1,982,444, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of the Executive Secretary. The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial", "title": "Minsk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.48, "text": "2012 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup 2012 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was the 20th annual Commonwealth of Independent States Cup since its establishment in 1993. It was hosted in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 19 and 29 January 2012. Saint Petersburg hosted the event for the third time, with all matches being held in a single venue (Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex). For this edition of the tournament the format of the competition has changed dramatically. Most importantly, all participating nations were represented by their youth (U20/U21) national teams, rather than by champions of domestic leagues. Twelve teams were", "title": "2012 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.48, "text": "2014 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup 2014 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was the 22nd annual Commonwealth of Independent States Cup since its establishment in 1993. It was hosted in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 24 January and 2 February 2014. Saint Petersburg hosted the event for the fifth time, with all matches being held in a single venue (Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex). All participating nations were represented by their youth (U20/U21) national teams. Twelve teams were divided into three groups of four. The top two of each group qualified automatically for a play-off along with the two best", "title": "2014 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup" } ]

[ "Polkowice" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.38, "text": "Polkowice County Polkowice County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of . Its administrative seat is the town of Polkowice, and it also contains the towns of Chocianów and Przemków. As at 2006 the total population of the county is 61,138, out of which the population of Polkowice is 22,279, that of Chocianów is 8,215, that of Przemków is 6,551, and the rural population", "title": "Polkowice County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.25, "text": "Gmina Polkowice Gmina Polkowice is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Polkowice County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Polkowice, which lies approximately north-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 26,034 (out of which the population of Polkowice amounts to 22,279, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 3,755). Gmina Polkowice is bordered by the gminas of Chocianów, Grębocice, Jerzmanowa, Lubin, Radwanice and Rudna. Apart from the town of Polkowice, the gmina contains the villages of", "title": "Gmina Polkowice" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.73, "text": "Biedrzychowa, Dąbrowa, Guzice, Jędrzychów, Kaźmierzów, Komorniki, Moskorzyn, Nowa Wieś Lubińska, Pieszkowice, Polkowice Dolne, Sobin, Sucha Górna, Tarnówek, Trzebcz, Żelazny Most and Żuków. Gmina Polkowice Gmina Polkowice is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Polkowice County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Polkowice, which lies approximately north-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 26,034 (out of which the population of Polkowice amounts to 22,279, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 3,755). Gmina Polkowice is bordered by", "title": "Gmina Polkowice" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.64, "text": "Polkowice Polkowice () is a town in south-western Poland. It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The town is the seat of Polkowice County and of the smaller administrative district called Gmina Polkowice. Polkowice is located in historic Lower Silesia, about northwest of Lubin on National road 3. The nearest airport is Wrocław–Copernicus Airport, located from Polkowice. Situated in a traditional mining region, the town is part of the largest industrial copper-extraction area in Poland, with a copper-processing plant operating nearby. Nearby Polkowice Dolne is the site of a former State Agricultural Farm (PGR) and, since 1998, of a Volkswagen", "title": "Polkowice" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.44, "text": "is twinned with: Polkowice Polkowice () is a town in south-western Poland. It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The town is the seat of Polkowice County and of the smaller administrative district called Gmina Polkowice. Polkowice is located in historic Lower Silesia, about northwest of Lubin on National road 3. The nearest airport is Wrocław–Copernicus Airport, located from Polkowice. Situated in a traditional mining region, the town is part of the largest industrial copper-extraction area in Poland, with a copper-processing plant operating nearby. Nearby Polkowice Dolne is the site of a former State Agricultural Farm (PGR) and, since 1998,", "title": "Polkowice" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.44, "text": "Polk County, Iowa Polk County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 430,640, making it Iowa's most populous county, hosting over 14% of the state's residents. The county seat is Des Moines, which is also the capital city of Iowa. Polk County is included the Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. On January 13, 1846, the legislative body of the Indiana Territory authorized creation of twelve counties in the Iowa Territory, with general descriptions of their boundaries. On January 17 they further enacted a resolution setting the effective", "title": "Polk County, Iowa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.44, "text": "Polk County, Iowa Polk County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 430,640, making it Iowa's most populous county, hosting over 14% of the state's residents. The county seat is Des Moines, which is also the capital city of Iowa. Polk County is included the Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. On January 13, 1846, the legislative body of the Indiana Territory authorized creation of twelve counties in the Iowa Territory, with general descriptions of their boundaries. On January 17 they further enacted a resolution setting the effective", "title": "Polk County, Iowa" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.3, "text": "is 24,093. Polkowice County is bordered by Głogów County to the north, Lubin County to the south-east, Legnica County to the south, Bolesławiec County to the south-west and Żagań County to the west. The county is subdivided into six gminas (three urban-rural and three rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population. <br> Polkowice County Polkowice County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The", "title": "Polkowice County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.3, "text": "Chocianów Chocianów () is a town in Polkowice County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Chocianów. The town lies approximately south-west of Polkowice, and west of the regional capital Wrocław. As of 2006, it has a population of 8,215. It developed from a castle called \"\"Chodzenow\"\" built in 1297 by Duke Bolko I the Strict of Świdnica, who had to secure his lands against the claims of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia. Prior to World War II, Chocianów was in Germany and was known by its German name of \"\"Kotzenau\"\".", "title": "Chocianów" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.09, "text": "as a town (\"\"civitas\"\") in a 1276 deed. It passed to the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in 1365. Parts of the medieval town were destroyed by a blaze in 1457, it suffered further damages during the Thirty Years' War and by a plague epidemic in 1680. After the First Silesian War in 1742, the town was annexed by Prussia and later incorporated into the Province of Silesia. In 1937, \"\"Polkwitz\"\" was renamed \"\"Heerwegen\"\" by the German Nazi authorities. After World War II, the region passed to the Republic of Poland under the terms of the 1945 Potsdam Agreement. Polkowice", "title": "Polkowice" } ]

[ "Copenhagen", "København", "CPH", "Köpenhamn", "Kööpenhamina", "Kopenhagen", "Kobenhavn", "Köbenhavn", "Hafnia", "Hafn", "Havn" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.11, "text": "For population growth, see Regions of Denmark. For information about the reform, see Municipalities of Denmark. Municipalities of the regions can be accessed from the Municipalities of Denmark template at the bottom of the page. The Capital Region of Denmark is one of five regions in Denmark and consists of the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, the former counties of Copenhagen and Frederiksborg, and the regional municipality of Bornholm. In Danish the name is Region Hovedstaden. Denmark's largest lake (Danish \"\"sø\"\"), Arresø, lies 43 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Copenhagen. There are several other lakes, the deepest in Denmark being", "title": "Capital Region of Denmark" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.08, "text": "Capital Region of Denmark The Capital Region of Denmark () is the easternmost administrative region of Denmark, established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which abolished the traditional counties (Danish plural: \"\"amter\"\", singular: \"\"amt\"\") and set up five regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 271 before 1 January 2006, when Ærø Municipality was created, to 98. The Capital Region has 29 municipalities. The reform was implemented on January 1, 2007. The main task for the Danish regions are hospitals and healthcare. It", "title": "Capital Region of Denmark" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.03, "text": "The Capital Region (Denmark) The Capital Region () was the administrative name of the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg and the counties of Frederiksborg, Copenhagen, and Roskilde. It was replaced by the Capital Region of Denmark () as an administrative region on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform. The new region includes the island of Bornholm (in the Baltic Sea 100 nautical miles from Copenhagen), and excludes the southwestern parts of Greater Copenhagen that were covered by Roskilde County. These southwestern areas are instead included in Region Zealand (). In 2007 the Capital Region had", "title": "The Capital Region (Denmark)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.8, "text": "municipality of Bornholm is therefore called \"\"Bornholm Regional Municipality\"\". In some respects the island forms a region of its own. As Denmark is a unitary state, its \"\"capital region\"\" is not a capital district, but merely one among several regions of Denmark, that happens to contain the national capital. The region does not include the Ertholmene archipelago which is situated to the northeast of Bornholm. The following hospitals are managed by the Capital Region of Denmark: There are 29 municipalities in the Capital Region of Denmark. Capital Region of Denmark The Capital Region of Denmark () is the easternmost administrative", "title": "Capital Region of Denmark" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.23, "text": "year) in Furuögrund (Swedish Wikipedia ), the northeastern part of Skellefteå Municipality, north of Kvarken.) Because of the mobility of the sand dunes, forests have been planted along the coast of Kattegat in the municipalities of Helsingør, Gribskov, and Halsnæs. Without the remote island municipality Bornholm, located southeast of Copenhagen and directly east of Vordingborg Municipality (Møn) (across the Baltic Sea), and regarding only the land area of the 28 municipalities in and around Copenhagen, between 1,800 and 1,850 sq km (between 700 and 715 sq. mi.), 1,000 inhabitants per sq km will be reached in 2018 or 2019 with", "title": "Capital Region of Denmark" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.22, "text": "Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. As of July 2018, the city has a population of 777,218 (616,098 in Copenhagen Municipality, 103,914 in Frederiksberg Municipality, 43,005 in Tårnby Municipality, and 14,201 in Dragør Municipality). It forms the core of the wider urban area of Copenhagen (population 1,627,705) and the Copenhagen metropolitan area (population 2,057,737). Copenhagen is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand; another small portion of the city is located on Amager, and is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the strait of Øresund. The Øresund Bridge connects the two", "title": "Copenhagen" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.08, "text": "a population as of 1 October 2018 at 1,795,962 persons, and 39,575 persons living on Bornholm. For the purpose of the road and rail connection to Øresund Bridge land has been added to Amager, which has a tunnel connecting it with the artificial island Peberholm just south of Saltholm. The land area of east Denmark is approximately 9,622 sq km (year?) (3,715 sq mi), possibly slightly more with new land added because of housing projects in the north of Copenhagen Municipality and the bridge and tunnels including the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link and other traffic infrastructure projects. A new Copenhagen-Ringsted", "title": "Capital Region of Denmark" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.89, "text": "a population of 1,834,492 and an area of 2,861.41 km² The area consisted of: Frederiksberg municipality is an enclave surrounded by Copenhagen municipality. Copenhagen Zoo is located in Frederiksberg municipality, but uses \"\"Copenhagen\"\" (Danish, \"\"København\"\") in its name. The same area has (31 December 2012) 1.937.450 inhabitants ( 680 inhabitants/km²) However the Capital Region has been expanded and Stevns Municipality has been added. That area is 3030 km² and has 1.957.611 inhabitants ( 646 inhabitants/km²) The Capital Region is still in use at several levels: The Capital Region (Denmark) The Capital Region () was the administrative name of the municipalities", "title": "The Capital Region (Denmark)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.69, "text": "Line is being built to increase transport capacity and relieve congestion in Roskilde and the narrow 9-9.5 mile isthmus between Roskilde Fjord and Køge Bugt by moving international and national train traffic to the new train line and only keeping local and regional traffic. Before 2007, a Danish Capital Region () did exist, but it did not cover exactly the same area and did not have the same legal functions. The primary function and largest expenditure, around 90% of the budget, of the Capital Region, as with all the regions of Denmark, is to own and operate the hospital and", "title": "Capital Region of Denmark" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.53, "text": "is not to be confused with the Copenhagen Metropolitan Area nor with the Øresund Region. Unlike the counties (1970-2006) (Danish \"\"\"\" literally \"\"county municipality\"\") the regions are not municipalities and are thus not allowed to have coat of arms, but only logotypes, and cannot \"\"shuffle money around\"\" from one area of expenditure to another area of expenditure, that is, use money for any other purpose than has been stated specifically, but must pay money not used back rather like departments or agencies of the central government. The regions do not levy any taxes but are financed only through block grants.", "title": "Capital Region of Denmark" } ]

[ "Beijing", "Peking", "Beiping", "Peiping", "Yanjing", "Zhongdu", "Khanbaliq", "BJ", "Shun Tian Fu", "Pekin", "beijing" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.58, "text": "Beiyang government The Beiyang government (北洋政府), also sometimes spelled \"\"Peiyang Government\"\" (), refers to the government of the Republic of China, which was in place in the capital city Beijing from 1912 to 1928. It was internationally recognized as the legitimate Chinese government. The name derives from the Beiyang Army, which dominated its politics with the rise of Yuan Shikai, who was a general of the previous imperial Qing government. After his death the army fractured into competing factions. Although the government and the state were nominally under civilian control under a constitution, the Beiyang generals were effectively in charge", "title": "Beiyang government" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.06, "text": "than Yuan Shikai's regime. Beiyang government The Beiyang government (北洋政府), also sometimes spelled \"\"Peiyang Government\"\" (), refers to the government of the Republic of China, which was in place in the capital city Beijing from 1912 to 1928. It was internationally recognized as the legitimate Chinese government. The name derives from the Beiyang Army, which dominated its politics with the rise of Yuan Shikai, who was a general of the previous imperial Qing government. After his death the army fractured into competing factions. Although the government and the state were nominally under civilian control under a constitution, the Beiyang generals", "title": "Beiyang government" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.58, "text": "several outlying islands. Following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in the aftermath of the Xinhai Revolution, China fell into a brief period of civil war before Yuan Shikai assumed the presidency of the newly formed Republic of China. The administration became known as the Beiyang Government, with its capital in Peking. After the death of Yuan Shikai in 1916, the following years were characterized by the power struggle between different cliques in the former Beiyang Army. In the meantime, the Kuomintang, led by Sun Yat-sen, created a new government in Guangzhou to resist the rule of Beiyang Government through", "title": "Chinese Civil War" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.39, "text": "seized Beiping and tried to establish a rival national government but lost the city to Zhang Xueliang, the son of Zhang Zuolin who was allied with Chiang Kai-shek. During the Beiyang period, Beijing transitioned from an imperial capital into a modern city. The city's population grew from 725,235 in 1912 to 863,209 in 1921. The municipal government reconfigured city walls and gates, paved and widened streets, installed tram service and introduced urban planning and zoning rules. The authorities also built modern water utilities, improved urban sanitation, educated the public about the proper handling of food and waste and monitored outbreaks", "title": "History of Beijing" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.2, "text": "34 heads of government, 25 cabinets, five parliaments, and four charters within the span of twelve years. It was near bankruptcy several times where a mere million dollars could decide the fate of the bureaucracy. Its income came primarily from the customs revenue, foreign loans, and government bonds, as it had difficulty collecting taxes outside the capital even if the surrounding regions were controlled by allied warlords. After the 1920 Zhili-Anhui War, no taxes were remitted to Beijing outside of Zhili province. After the Xinhai Revolution of 1911–1912, the rebels established a republican Provisional Government in Nanjing under President Sun", "title": "Beiyang government" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.73, "text": "Chaoyang, Liaoning Chaoyang () is a prefecture-level city of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. With a vast land area of almost , it is by area the largest prefecture-level city in Liaoning, and borders on Hebei province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the west. The area under Chaoyang's jurisdictional control is split up into two counties (Jianping, Chaoyang), two urban districts (Longcheng, Shuangta), two county-level cities (Beipiao, Lingyuan), and the Harqin Left Wing Mongolian Autonomous County. The total regional population is 3 million, while the urban centre where the government office is located has a population of", "title": "Chaoyang, Liaoning" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.62, "text": "Beisheng, Liuyang Beisheng Town () is a town under the administration of Liuyang, Hunan, China. it had a population of 58,400 and an area of . It borders Shashi Town in the north, Yong'an Town in the west, Jiaoxi Township and Chunkou Town in the east, and Dongyang Town in the south. The town is divided into 13 villages and 2 communities: Beishengcang Community, Wulong Community, Mazhan Village, Bajiao Village, Bianzhou Village, Boyang Village, Zhakou Village, Yanwuzhou Village, Lianfang Village, Yaojin Village, Huanyuan Village, Baitang Village, Yazhouhu Village, Bamao Village, and Zhuoran Village. Public junior high school in the town", "title": "Beisheng, Liuyang" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.41, "text": "of Yuan. The disorder gave Yuan the pretext to stay in the north to guard against unrest. On 10 March, Yuan was inaugurated in Beijing as the provisional president of the Republic of China. On 5 April, the Provisional Senate in Nanjing voted to make Beijing the capital of the Republic and convened in Beijing at the end of the month. On 10 March 1912, Yuan Shikai was sworn as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China in Beijing. The government based in Beijing, called the Beiyang Government, was not internationally recognized as the legitimate government of the", "title": "Xinhai Revolution" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.39, "text": "the provincial capital of Kwangtung. The Guangxi warlords pledged loyalty to the KMT. The KMT now became a rival government in opposition to the warlord Beiyang government based in Peking. Chiang assumed leadership of the KMT on 6 July 1926. Unlike Sun Yat-sen, whom he admired greatly, and who forged all his political, economic and revolutionary ideas primarily from what he had learned in Hawaii and indirectly through British Hong Kong and Empire of Japan under Meiji Restoration, Chiang knew relatively little about the West. He also studied in Japan, but he was firmly rooted in his ancient Han Chinese", "title": "Kuomintang" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.27, "text": "the tide turned against the Guominjun, Duan restored the office of premier to shift responsibilities away from himself. The March 18 Massacre of protesters in Beijing led to Duan's downfall. Under heavy pressure, Duan held a special session of the provisional legislature that passed a resolution condemning the massacre. It did not stop Guominjun soldiers from disarming Duan's guards and forcing the Chief Executive to flee to a diplomatic legation the next month. When Zhang's troops retook the capital weeks later, he refused to restore Duan whom he saw as a treacherous double-dealing opportunist. The capital suffered heavily during the", "title": "Beiyang government" } ]

[ "Perth", "Perth, Western Australia", "Perth, Australia", "Perth, W.A." ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.95, "text": "crown of New Holland, at King George Sound, a natural strategic harbour. Two years later, Governor James Stirling, established Perth, as the capital of the Swan River Company settlement, beginning the human settlement geography of Western Australia. Stirling, as a naval man, chose three sites that were easily defensible as the major towns for the colony. Fremantle, situated beneath the Monument, was to be the port, Perth, surrounded by water on three sides, with the barracks defending its western entrance, was to be the capital, and Guildford, also surrounded by water to the west south and north (the loop of", "title": "Geography of Western Australia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.88, "text": "Perth Perth () is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most populous city in Australia, with a population of 2,022,044 living in Greater Perth. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with the majority of the metropolitan area located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The first areas settled were on the Swan River at Guildford, with the city's central business district and port (Fremantle) both later founded downriver. Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling", "title": "Perth" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.34, "text": "Tourism in Perth Tourism in Perth - the capital city of Western Australia, is an important part of the Australian state's economy, contributing to the prosperity of businesses in the city, as well as other regions of the state. Perth had approximately 2.8 million domestic visitors and 0.7 million international visitors in the year ending March 2012. Traditionally produced information about Perth, and Western Australia has been in pamphlets and brochures, however a considerable amount of information is now on the internet with a range of promotional websites emanating from government and commercially based organisations. Tourism Western Australia's web site", "title": "Tourism in Perth" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.83, "text": "the city to buy a pie floater. Perth is his next stop. He describes the Western Australian capital as \"\"the most isolated capital in the world\"\". He describes the aboriginal belief that the Swan River was carved out by the rainbow serpent. He then visits Kings Park where there are gum trees planted along the side of the road in dedication of every Australian man and woman who lost his or her life in war. He then travels out to Rottnest Island, originally named \"\"Wadjemup\"\". He takes a bike ride along the coast of the island until he stops by", "title": "Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.66, "text": "Neerabup, Western Australia Neerabup is a rural locality in Perth, the capital of Western Australia within the local government area of the City of Wanneroo. Prior to European settlement, Noongar Aboriginal people had lived in the area for more than 40,000 years, taking advantage of the abundant food and water around the chain of wetlands on the coastal plain. In winter, they moved eastwards away from coastal weather, to return in summer as inland supplies dried up. The Mooro people (led by elder Yellagonga during the early years of European settlement) stretched from the Moore River near Guilderton to what", "title": "Neerabup, Western Australia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.56, "text": "by Major Edmund Lockyer, landed at King George Sound. On 21 January 1827 Lockyer formally took possession of the western third of the continent of Australia for the British Crown. This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, including the site of the present-day capital, Perth. The harsh conditions faced by the settlers resulted in population growth being minimal until the discovery of gold in the 1880s. Since the gold rush, the population of the state has risen steadily, with substantial growth in the period since World War II. Western Australia gained the right of", "title": "History of Western Australia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.53, "text": "to Jakarta in Indonesia, than to the Australian national capital in Canberra. Western Australia's geology has components that are considered some of the oldest and most recent. The oldest minerals of the world have been discovered at the Jack Hills, and the Yilgarn Craton of the Great Western Plateau, which occupies most of the state, has been above sea level for over 2.5 billion years, giving it some of the oldest soils of the planet. The European settlement of Western Australia started in 1827, at Albany, but the state was only established as an administrative colony in 1829, and much", "title": "Geography of Western Australia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.53, "text": "This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, including the site of the present-day capital, Perth. York was the first inland settlement in Western Australia. Situated east of Perth, it was settled on . Western Australia achieved responsible government in 1890, and federated with the other British colonies in Australia in 1901. Today its economy mainly relies on mining, agriculture and tourism. The state produces 46% of Australia's exports. Western Australia is the second-largest iron ore producer in the world. Western Australia is bounded to the east by longitude 129°E, the meridian 129 degrees east", "title": "Western Australia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.48, "text": "Girrawheen, Western Australia Girrawheen is a northern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. Its local government area is the City of Wanneroo. In October 1969, the Government, in a bid to offer affordable land for housing following the McCarrey Report, rezoned a large portion of land in the area from Urban Deferred to Urban, which was then included in land set aside for the State Housing Commission under the Mirrabooka satellite city development scheme. The plan never came to fruition, although a town planning scheme was approved by the Shire of Wanneroo in September 1970. On 26", "title": "Girrawheen, Western Australia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.41, "text": "Western Australian Legislative Assembly The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House in the Western Australian capital, Perth. The Legislative Assembly today has 59 members, elected for four-year terms from single-member electoral districts. Members are elected using the preferential voting system. As with all other Australian states and territories, voting is compulsory for all Australian citizens over the legal voting age of 18. Most legislation in Western Australia is initiated in the Legislative Assembly. The party or coalition that", "title": "Western Australian Legislative Assembly" } ]

[ "Minsk", "Мінск", "Менск", "Минск", "Mińsk", "Minskas", "Mensk", "Miensk" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.27, "text": "Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblasć) and Minsk District (rajon). The population in January 2018 was 1,982,444, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of the Executive Secretary. The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial", "title": "Minsk" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.83, "text": "Рытаровіч ; навук. рэд. Г. Сагановіч. — Мінск : Зміцер Колас, 2016. — 436 с. Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblasć) and Minsk District (rajon). The population in January 2018 was 1,982,444, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of the Executive Secretary. The earliest historical references", "title": "Minsk" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.52, "text": "Belarus Belarus (; , ), officially the Republic of Belarus (, ), formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia (), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital and most populous city is Minsk. Over 40% of its is forested. Its major economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including the Principality of Polotsk (11th to 14th centuries), the Grand Duchy", "title": "Belarus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.12, "text": "were laid down 20 January 2006 Belarusian presidential ukase No. 36 Hlybokaye Hlybokaye or Glubokoye (, , , , ) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus, the capital of Hlybokaye Raion (). The city is located on the international road from Polotsk to Vilnius with the historic railway line to Woropajewo (Варапаева) completed in 1932 in the interwar Poland (the town was incorporated in 1940 by the Soviet Union after the 1939 invasion of Poland). It has 18,200 inhabitants as of 2010. Within the city limits there are two smaller lakes: Kahalnaye (Кагальнае) and Grand (Вялікае) from which the", "title": "Hlybokaye" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.81, "text": "capital of Belarus. It has developed industrial and services sectors which serve the needs not only of the city, but of the entire nation. Minsk's contributions form nearly 46% of Belarusian budget. According to 2010 results, Minsk paid 15 trillion BYR to state budget while the whole income from all other regions was 19.9 trillion BYR. In the period January 2013 to October 2013, 70.6% of taxes in the budget of Minsk were paid by non-state enterprises, 26.3% by state enterprises, and 1.8% by individual entrepreneurs. Among the top 10 taxpayers were five oil and gas companies (including two Gazprom's", "title": "Minsk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.58, "text": "Vitebsk Vitebsk, or Viciebsk (, Łacinka: \"\"Viciebsk\"\", ; , ), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it had 342,381 inhabitants in 2004, making it the country's fourth-largest city. It is served by Vitebsk Vostochny Airport and Vitebsk Air Base. Vitebsk developed from a river harbor where the Vitba River (Віцьба, from which it derives its name) flows into the larger Western Dvina, which is spanned in the city by the Kirov Bridge. Archaeological research indicates that Baltic tribes had settlements at the mouth of Vitba. In the 9th century, Slavic settlements of the tribal union", "title": "Vitebsk" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.52, "text": "\"\"From Minsk to Vilnius. Belarus’ history in journalistic notes\"\" (2016), the series of postcards \"\"Vilnius – Viĺnia. The Capital of Lithuania in the History of Belarus\"\" (2015). He is compiling a guidebook on the places of Vilnius connected with the Belarusian history and culture. The author guides his own excursion routes called Minsk. \"\"The Best View to This City. 10 centuries within 3 hours\"\", \"\"Vilnius – Viĺnia. The Capital of Lithuania in the History of Belarus\"\". Korbut is a compiler of Juhasia Kaliada's first book of a writer \"\"The Main Mistake of Afanasij\"\" (2005). Viktar Andrejevič Korbut Viktar Andrejevič Korbut", "title": "Viktar Andrejevič Korbut" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.48, "text": "ethnic groups are: Russians (8.3%), Poles (3.1%), and Ukrainians (1.7%). Belarus has a population density of about 50 people per square kilometer (127 per sq mi); 70% of its total population is concentrated in urban areas. Minsk, the nation's capital and largest city, was home to 1,937,900 residents . Gomel, with a population of 481,000, is the second-largest city and serves as the capital of the Homiel Voblast. Other large cities are Mogilev (365,100), Vitebsk (342,400), Hrodna (314,800) and Brest (298,300). Like many other eastern European countries, Belarus has a negative population growth rate and a negative natural growth rate.", "title": "Belarus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.42, "text": "(Belarusian) principalities were acquired by the expanding Lithuania, beginning with the rule of Lithuanian King Mindaugas (1240–63). From the 13th to 15th century, Baltic and Ukrainian lands were consolidated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with its initial capital unknown, but which presumably could have been either Navahrudak, Voruta, Trakai, Kernavė or Vilnius. Since the 14th century, Vilnius had been the only official capital of the state. The Lithuanians' smaller numbers in this medieval state gave the Ruthenians (present-day Belarusians and Ukrainians) an important role in the everyday cultural life of the state. Owing to the prevalence of East Slavs", "title": "History of Belarus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.41, "text": "Vitebsk www.gorod212.by, a news portal. Vitebsk Vitebsk, or Viciebsk (, Łacinka: \"\"Viciebsk\"\", ; , ), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it had 342,381 inhabitants in 2004, making it the country's fourth-largest city. It is served by Vitebsk Vostochny Airport and Vitebsk Air Base. Vitebsk developed from a river harbor where the Vitba River (Віцьба, from which it derives its name) flows into the larger Western Dvina, which is spanned in the city by the Kirov Bridge. Archaeological research indicates that Baltic tribes had settlements at the mouth of Vitba. In the 9th century, Slavic", "title": "Vitebsk" } ]

[ "Basse-Terre" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.14, "text": "Pointe-à-Pitre Pointe-à-Pitre (, ; Creole: \"\"Lapwent\"\", ) is the largest city of Guadeloupe, an overseas \"\"région\"\" and \"\"département\"\" of France located in the Lesser Antilles, of which it is a \"\"sous-préfecture\"\", being the seat of the Arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre. Although Pointe-à-Pitre is not Guadeloupe's administrative capital (that distinction goes to Basse-Terre), it is nonetheless the region's largest city and economic capital. In 1999 it had a population of 171,773 inhabitants in its urban area, of whom 17,541 lived in the city (commune) of Pointe-à-Pitre proper. The inhabitants are called \"\"Pointois\"\". In 2014, its metropolitan population was estimated at 314,647 people.", "title": "Pointe-à-Pitre" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.64, "text": "16 communes (municipalities). The population density was . The largest city on Basse-Terre Island is the city of Basse-Terre which had 37,455 inhabitants in its urban area at the 2006 census. The city of Basse-Terre is the prefecture (capital) of Guadeloupe. Despite its name, Basse-Terre Island (literally \"\"Low Land\"\" Island, \"\"Down Land\"\" Island) is the highest island of Guadeloupe, rising to above sea level at the Soufrière volcano. The name of the island is the result of French terminology used in the Caribbean in the 17th century. In the Caribbean, the prevailing winds blow from the northeast (see trade wind),", "title": "Basse-Terre Island" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.41, "text": "Basse-Terre Basse-Terre () is a French commune in the Guadaloupe department of France in the Lesser Antilles. It is also the \"\"prefecture\"\" (capital city) of Guadeloupe. The city of Basse-Terre is located on Basse-Terre Island, the western half of Guadeloupe. Although it is the administrative capital, Basse-Terre is only the second largest city in Guadeloupe behind Pointe-à-Pitre. Together with its urban area it had 44,864 inhabitants in 2012 (11,534 of whom lived in the city of Basse-Terre proper). Basse-Terre is located in the south-western corner of the Basse-Terre portion of the island of Guadeloupe which is itself located some 100", "title": "Basse-Terre" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.3, "text": "area – with 171,773 inhabitants at the 1999 census, representing 40% of the population – is the largest in Guadeloupe and one of the largest among French Overseas territories and departments. The seven communes making up the urban area of Pointe-à-Pitre, with their 1999 populations, are: The city is the commercial capital of Guadeloupe, serving as the main port of call for cargo and passengers alike. The main seaport is the Port de Jarry located across the Bay of Cul-de-Sac Marin in the commune (municipality) of Baie-Mahault. It has one of the biggest container terminals in the Eastern Caribbean with", "title": "Pointe-à-Pitre" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23, "text": "Basse-Terre Island \"\"For the largest city on the island of Basse-Terre and capital of Guadeloupe, see Basse-Terre. For the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis see Basseterre.\"\" Basse-Terre Island () is the name of the western-half of Guadeloupe proper, in the Lesser Antilles. To the South lies Les Saintes and Dominica. In the North-East, it is separated from the other half of Guadeloupe proper, Grande-Terre, by a narrow sea channel called the \"\"Rivière Salée\"\" (in English Salt River). Basse-Terre Island has a land area of . At the 2006 census the population of Basse-Terre Island was 186,661 inhabitants living in", "title": "Basse-Terre Island" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.77, "text": "island. The department also includes the Dependencies of Guadeloupe, which include the smaller islands of Marie-Galante and La Désirade, and the Îles des Saintes. Guadeloupe, like the other overseas departments, is an integral part of France. As a constituent territory of the European Union and the Eurozone, the euro is its official currency and any European Union citizen is free to settle and work there indefinitely. As an overseas department, however, it is not part of the Schengen Area. The prefecture (regional capital) of Guadeloupe is the city of Basse-Terre, which lies on the island of the same name. The", "title": "Guadeloupe" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.69, "text": "part of the French overseas \"\"région\"\" and \"\"département\"\" of Guadeloupe. Saint Martin is separated from the island of Anguilla by the Anguilla Channel. Its capital is Marigot. Hurricane Irma hit the island on 6–7 September 2017 with Category 5 winds causing widespread and significant damage to buildings and infrastructure. As of 10 September, reports indicated that ten deaths were attributed to the storm on this island and on Saint Barthelemy (combined) and that seven people were still missing. Saint Martin was for many years a French commune, forming part of Guadeloupe, which is an overseas \"\"région\"\" and \"\"département\"\" of France.", "title": "Collectivity of Saint Martin" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.2, "text": "destroyed by an earthquake. The history of Pointe-à-Pitre is marked by many disasters: the fires of 1850, 1871 and 1931, the earthquakes of 1851 and 1897 and the hurricanes of 1865 and 1928. The city also experienced several epidemics of cholera. Its location and large sheltered port have nonetheless allowed Pointe-à-Pitre to become Guadeloupe's largest city and economic capital. The former cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, Ancienne cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, testifies that Pointe-à-Pitre has been the episcopal seat of a Roman Catholic Diocese of Pointe-à-Pitre on Grande-Terre. This was united with the present diocese for all Guadeloupe, at Basse-Terre, in", "title": "Pointe-à-Pitre" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.05, "text": "as historical monuments. For a complete list with links to descriptions (in French) and photos click here. Some of the most interesting are shown below. Sports facilities in the commune: They are used by sports clubs: The TV channel Guadeloupe I and radio Guadeloupe I are available in the commune. Basse-Terre Basse-Terre () is a French commune in the Guadaloupe department of France in the Lesser Antilles. It is also the \"\"prefecture\"\" (capital city) of Guadeloupe. The city of Basse-Terre is located on Basse-Terre Island, the western half of Guadeloupe. Although it is the administrative capital, Basse-Terre is only the", "title": "Basse-Terre" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.8, "text": "time of crisis. Demonstrations erupted across Guadeloupe in response to Jégo's trip to France. More than 10,000 people marched in Pointe-à-Pitre, the largest city in Guadeloupe, while an additional 1,500 protesters gathered in Basse-Terre, the capital city. Protesters chanted, \"\"la Gwadloup se tan nou, la Gwadloup a pa ta yo, yo peke fe sa yo vle an peyi an nou\"\", which translates to \"\"Guadeloupe is ours, it is not theirs, they will not do what they want in our country.\"\" Demonstrators forced the closure of local stores and businesses in those cities. However, the stores reopened as soon as the", "title": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes" } ]

[ "Kyiv", "Kiev", "Kyjiv", "Kyyiv", "Kyjiw", "Kyiw", "Kyïv", "Kief", "Kieff", "Kiew", "Kioff", "Kiof", "Kiowia", "Kiovia", "Kiow", "Kiou", "Kyїv" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.52, "text": "Kiev Kiev ( ) or Kyiv ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper. The population in July 2015 was 2,887,974 (though higher estimated numbers have been cited in the press), making Kiev the 7th most populous city in Europe. Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural centre of Eastern Europe. It is home to many high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and world-famous historical landmarks. The city has an extensive infrastructure and highly developed system of public transport, including the Kiev Metro.", "title": "Kiev" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.22, "text": "cities of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Ulan-Ude, Makhachkala, and the Komi Republic due to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Kiev Kiev ( ) or Kyiv ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper. The population in July 2015 was 2,887,974 (though higher estimated numbers have been cited in the press), making Kiev the 7th most populous city in Europe. Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural centre of Eastern Europe. It is home to many high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and", "title": "Kiev" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.06, "text": "proclaimed by the Red Army, and, from 1934, Kiev was its capital. During World War II, the city again suffered significant damage, but quickly recovered in the post-war years, remaining the third largest city of the Soviet Union. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991, Kiev remained the capital of Ukraine and experienced a steady migration influx of ethnic Ukrainians from other regions of the country. During the country's transformation to a market economy and electoral democracy, Kiev has continued to be Ukraine's largest and richest city. Kiev's armament-dependent industrial output fell after the Soviet", "title": "Kiev" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.92, "text": "first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, from December 1919 to January 1934, after which the capital relocated to Kiev. Presently, Kharkiv is a major cultural, scientific, educational, transport and industrial centre of Ukraine, with 6 museums, 7 theatres and 80 libraries. Its industry specializes primarily in machinery and in electronics. There are hundreds of industrial companies in the city, including the Morozov Design Bureau and the Malyshev Tank Factory (leaders in world tank production from the 1930s to the 1980s); Khartron (aerospace and nuclear power plants automation electronics); the Turboatom (turbines for hydro-, thermal- and nuclear-power plants), and", "title": "Kharkiv" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.7, "text": "Ukraine Ukraine (; ), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a country in Eastern Europe. Excluding Crimea, Ukraine has a population of about 42.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. Its capital and largest city is Kiev. Ukrainian is the official language and its alphabet is Cyrillic. The dominant religions in the country are Eastern Orthodoxy and Greek Catholicism. Ukraine is currently in a territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th", "title": "Ukraine" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.67, "text": "(France, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom) ended up as the \"\"Last Four\"\", all placing in the bottom four position of the scoreboard in the final. Kiev is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper. The Palace of Sports, a multi-purpose indoor arena, was confirmed by officials as the host venue in September 2004. However, in order to host the contest, the facilities had been brought up to the standard required by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). At the end of December 2004, work began on the renovation of", "title": "Eurovision Song Contest 2005" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.64, "text": "take part in a mass civil parade in the city's center—\"\"to prevent panic\"\". Later, thousands of refugees from accident zone were resettled in Kiev. After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Kiev became the capital of independent Ukraine in 1991. The city was the site of mass protests over the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election by supporters of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko beginning on 22 November 2004 at Independence Square. Much smaller counter-protests in favor of Viktor Yanukovych also took place. Kiev hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 on 19 and 21", "title": "History of Kiev" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.36, "text": "again, almost completely, but quickly recovered in the post-war years becoming the third most important city of the Soviet Union, the capital of the second most populous Soviet republic. It now remains the capital of Ukraine, independent since 1991 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. According to a legend, East Slavs founded Kiev in the 5th century. The legend of Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv speaks of a founder-family consisting of a Slavic tribal leader \"\"Kyi\"\", the eldest, his brothers Schek and Khoriv, and also their sister Lybid, who founded the city. Kiev (\"\"Kyiv\"\", Київ, in Ukrainian) is translated as", "title": "History of Kiev" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.22, "text": "in the media as \"\"Kharkov – Pervaya Stolitsa (the first capital)\"\" with implication to the era of Soviet regime. Kharkiv was also the city where the first Soviet Ukrainian government was created in 1917 with strong support from Russian SFSR authorities. However, in 1934, the capital was moved from Kharkiv to Kiev, which remains the capital of Ukraine today, although at first Kharkiv retained some government offices and buildings for some time after the move. During the 1930s, there were significant numbers of ethnic minorities living within the Ukrainian SSR. National Districts were formed as separate territorial-administrative units within higher-level", "title": "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.14, "text": "old soviet names as their change must be reflected in an amendment to the Ukrainian Constitution. Two cities carry special status: the city of Kiev which is the capital of Ukraine and the city of Sevastopol. Following the 2014 Crimean crisis, Sevastopol is controlled by Russia and is incorporated as a federal subject of Russia. It is recognized as a part of Ukraine by most of the international community. Raions are smaller territorial units of subdivision in Ukraine. There are 490 raions. Ukraine has two types of settlements: rural and urban. Rural populated areas (сільський населений пункт) can be either", "title": "Administrative divisions of Ukraine" } ]

[ "Caracas", "Ciudad de Caracas Venezuela", "Santiago de León de Caracas", "Santiago de Leon de Caracas" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.11, "text": "Capital District (Venezuela) The Capital District () is Venezuela's federal district. It has an area of 433 km and there is only one administrative division (\"\"municipio\"\"), Libertador, which contains about half of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital city, which is also the seat of the three branches of the federal government of Venezuela (legislative, executive and judiciary). The population in 2004 was 2,073,768. The District borders on the states of Vargas and Miranda. Formerly it had its own local government with a governor, but the constitutional reform of 1999 abolished the district government and created instead the Metropolitan District of Caracas,", "title": "Capital District (Venezuela)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.44, "text": "According to the 2011 Census, the racial composition of the population was: Capital District (Venezuela) The Capital District () is Venezuela's federal district. It has an area of 433 km and there is only one administrative division (\"\"municipio\"\"), Libertador, which contains about half of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital city, which is also the seat of the three branches of the federal government of Venezuela (legislative, executive and judiciary). The population in 2004 was 2,073,768. The District borders on the states of Vargas and Miranda. Formerly it had its own local government with a governor, but the constitutional reform of 1999", "title": "Capital District (Venezuela)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.25, "text": "Caracas Caracas (), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and centre of the Greater Caracas Area. Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). Terrain suitable for building lies between 760 and 1,140 m (2,490 and 3,740 ft) above sea level, although there is some settlement above this range. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2,200-metre-high (7,200 ft) mountain", "title": "Caracas" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.2, "text": "extreme sports, and features castles, fortresses and churches of great cultural value. This island is found in the Caribbean Sea and is well known for its pearls. Caracas is the capital of Venezuela, is a world-class cosmopolitan city. In the west of the city, the Libertador municipality, tourism is important in regard to the historic center of the city, the Caracas Cable Car (Ávila mountain Cable Car), the University City of Caracas, Zoos, Sabana Grande Boulevard, among others. In the east of the city, especially in the Chacao and Baruta municipalities environment of progress and modernism is indisputable, European-style shopping", "title": "Tourism in Venezuela" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.75, "text": "with jurisdiction over the territory of the District and also four adjacent \"\"municipios\"\" (Baruta, Chacao, el Hatillo and Sucre) in Miranda which all together form the city. On 13 April 2009, the National Assembly passed a law creating the figure of a head of government for the district which would be designated by the President. On 14 April 2009, Jacqueline Faría became the first Head of Government of the Capital District. During the 2017 Venezuelan protests, General Antonio José Benavides Torres of the National Guard was appointed to be the Head of Government of the Capital District by President Maduro.", "title": "Capital District (Venezuela)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.58, "text": "Venezuela Venezuela ( ; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and a large number of small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. It has a territorial extension of 916,445 km (353,841 sq mi). The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. With", "title": "Venezuela" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.56, "text": "Ciudad Bolívar Ciudad Bolívar (; Spanish for \"\"Bolivar City\"\"), formerly known as Angostura and St. Thomas de Guyana, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar State. It lies at the spot where the Orinoco River narrows to about in width, is the site of the first bridge across the river, and is a major riverport for the eastern regions of Venezuela. Historic Angostura gave its name to the Congress of Angostura, to the Angostura tree, to the House of Angostura, and to Angostura bitters. Modern Ciudad Bolívar has a well-preserved historic center; a cathedral and other original colonial buildings surround", "title": "Ciudad Bolívar" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.55, "text": "San Fernando de Atabapo San Fernando de Atabapo was the capital city of Venezuela's Amazonas state until the early 1900s. The population in 1997 was approximately 5,000. In the early twentieth century it was ruled for a long time by Tomas Funes, a powerful caudillo who controlled the local rubber industry (derived from indigenous rubber plants) by enslaving the local native populations. His power eventually became great enough to threaten the Venezuelan authorities and he was ultimately executed in the town square in the early 1930s. The town displays a photograph of a United States military aircraft that was shot", "title": "San Fernando de Atabapo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.55, "text": "Cumaná Cumaná () is the capital of Venezuela's Sucre State. It is located east of Caracas. Cumaná was one of the first settlements founded by Europeans in mainland America and is the oldest continuously-inhabited, European-established settlement in the continent. Attacks by indigenous peoples meant it had to be refounded several times. The municipality of Sucre, which includes Cumaná, had a population of 358,919 at the 2011 Census; the latest estimate (as at mid 2016) is 423,546. The city, located at the mouth of the Manzanares River on the Caribbean coast in the Northeast coast of Venezuela, is home to one", "title": "Cumaná" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.52, "text": "San Juan de los Morros San Juan de los Morros () is the capital of the Guárico state and capital of the Juan Germán Roscio municipality, and is a town located in central Venezuela. Guarico is the fourth largest state in the country in terms of area, but not in population, as it has a low population density. San Juan de los Morros used to be part of Aragua state, but it was exchanged during the 1930s to Guarico state, and the town was later elevated to become capital of the state, replacing the former capital Ortiz. Among the major", "title": "San Juan de los Morros" } ]

[ "Ancona" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.3, "text": "Marche-en-Famenne Marche-en-Famenne () is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Luxembourg. It is the unofficial capital of the Famenne region, sandwiched between the Condroz, former land of the Condrusi, to the north and the Ardennes to the south. The Marche-en-Famenne municipality includes the former municipalities (sections) of Aye, Grimbiémont, Hargimont, Hollogne, Humain, Lignières, Marloie, On, Roy, Verdenne, and Waha. In the early Middle Ages, Marche was just a little hamlet on the Marchette brook, one of the dependencies of the nearby Abbey of Stavelot. In the 12th century, this territory was made part of the County of", "title": "Marche-en-Famenne" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.61, "text": "Revolutionary troops entered the city and closed the convent. Today, with its schools, light industries, military complex, and tourist attractions, Marche is a vibrant regional centre. Marche-en-Famenne Marche-en-Famenne () is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Luxembourg. It is the unofficial capital of the Famenne region, sandwiched between the Condroz, former land of the Condrusi, to the north and the Ardennes to the south. The Marche-en-Famenne municipality includes the former municipalities (sections) of Aye, Grimbiémont, Hargimont, Hollogne, Humain, Lignières, Marloie, On, Roy, Verdenne, and Waha. In the early Middle Ages, Marche was just a little hamlet on", "title": "Marche-en-Famenne" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.55, "text": "Marché en Fer Marché en Fer \"\"or\"\" Marché de Fer () also known as the \"\"Marché Hyppolite\"\" and the \"\"Marché Vallières\"\" is a public market in Haiti’s capital, Port‑au‑Prince. It was damaged by fire in 2008 and destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but was restored. In February 2018 it burned again, with one of the two halls being destroyed. The \"\" is a metal edifice that was built in Paris for a railway station in Cairo. When that plan was canceled, Haitian president Florvil Hyppolite purchased it and had it brought to Haiti in 1891. The market consists of", "title": "Marché en Fer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.41, "text": "greater part of the modern \"\"département\"\" of Creuse, a considerable part of the northern Haute-Vienne, and a fragment of Indre, up to Saint-Benoît-du-Sault. Its area was about its capital was Charroux and later Guéret, and among its other principal towns were Dorat, Bellac and Confolens. Marche first appeared as a separate fief about the middle of the 10th century when William III, duke of Aquitaine, gave it to one of his vassals named Boso, who took the title of count. In the 12th century it passed to the family of Lusignan, sometime also counts of Angoulême counts of Limousin, until", "title": "March (territorial entity)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.16, "text": "to Balabac. In 1873, the capital of Palawan was changed from Taytay to Cuyo. The French anthropologist Alfred Marche traveled the Philippines and documented his research of many places. French Ambassador Pirre Revol in particular translated Marche’s account of the Calamianes, and Culion. Marche refers to Culion as the principal village of the Calamianes. The fact that a boat from Manila “touches Culion once a month” attests to the growing economy of the place at that time. Marche’s description of the place and people he met in the 1880s are important indicators of the ethnography of Calamianes since more than", "title": "Culion" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.12, "text": "authors, excavations there have brought to light remains of various buildings and several inscriptions. Modern Ostra lies on a hill over the Misa river valley, in a typical Italian country landscape. It is the most important town in the hinterland of Senigallia, only from the Adriatic coast. Close by is the city of Jesi (18 km), while Ancona, the capital of the Marche Region, is away. The nearest railway station is that of Senigallia, while the Raffaello Sanzio Airport (Ancona-Falconara) is away. At the heart of the town is Piazza dei Martiri (\"\"Martyrs' square\"\") the most important square in the", "title": "Ostra, Marche" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.89, "text": "and the same French corporation that manufactured the original roof tiles made the replacements. The restored market was reopened in 2011 by Bill Clinton, former President of the United States. On 13 February 2018, another fire, thought to have started in a rubbish container, destroyed one of the two halls. Marché en Fer Marché en Fer \"\"or\"\" Marché de Fer () also known as the \"\"Marché Hyppolite\"\" and the \"\"Marché Vallières\"\" is a public market in Haiti’s capital, Port‑au‑Prince. It was damaged by fire in 2008 and destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but was restored. In February 2018 it", "title": "Marché en Fer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.17, "text": "Bangangté Bangangté is a town and commune in Cameroon. It is the capital of the Ndé division of West Region. The town is primarily inhabited by the people of the Bamileke (Bamiléké) tribe. It is home to the Université des Montagnes, a small private university focusing on health and technology programs. Bus agencies to and from main cities in Cameroon such as Bafoussam, Douala and Yaoundé have buses that leave several times per day. There are two main markets in Bangangté: Marché A and B. Marché A is located in the center of the town and is open seven days", "title": "Bangangté" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.03, "text": "Marcher Coast 96.3 had been broadcasting to a small part of the area for some time from its Colwyn Bay studios. The station originally broadcast from studios at Parc Menai in Bangor, Gwynedd (later sharing facilities with Heart North Wales Coast) before co-locating to the studios of Heart North West and Wales (now Capital) in Wrexham. Although its official transmission area takes in most of the Isle of Anglesey and a large part of Gwynedd (as far south as Harlech), the location of its transmitter means the signal carries across Cardigan Bay and can be heard in parts of Pembrokeshire", "title": "Capital Cymru" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.88, "text": "Niamey Grand Market The Niamey Grand Market (fr:\"\"Grand marché de Niamey\"\") is the largest market and shopping center in Niamey, the capital and largest city in the West African state of Niger. The large market complex lies in the center of the city in a neighborhood named \"\"Grand Marché\"\" after it, east and south of the European style commercial and government center of the \"\"Plateau\"\" neighborhood. It was built within a colonial era park which divided the \"\"European\"\" and \"\"African\"\" sections of the city, south and west of the modern Stade Général Seyni Kountché and Niamey Grande Mosquée. The market", "title": "Niamey Grand Market" } ]

[ "Appenzell" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.47, "text": "used for agricultural purposes, while 22.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 10.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.7% is unproductive land. The district (equivalent to a municipality in other cantons) is the capital of the half canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. It also includes the Feuerschaugemeinde (fire-fighting municipality), Kirchgemeinde (parish) and Schulgemeinde (school district). The village of Appenzell is located in the center of the Sitter river valley on the eastern border of the district. It borders the districts of Rüte (north of the Sitter) and Schwende (south of the Sitter). Appenzell has a population () of", "title": "Appenzell District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.31, "text": "Appenzell (village) Appenzell is a village, a statistic town, but not a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in Switzerland. Appenzell has no municipal government of its own; rather, the different parts of Appenzell belong to and are governed by the districts (and municipalities) Appenzell, Schwende and Rüte. Because of that, for firefighting, energy and water, the village Appenzell has a special-purpose municipality, the Feuerschaugemeinde. In 1071 the village was referred to as \"\"Abbacella\"\". By 1223 this changed to \"\"Abbatiscella\"\", meaning the Abbot's cell. This refers to the abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall. The", "title": "Appenzell (village)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.61, "text": "a lawsuit in the Swiss Federal Court and won. A centuries-old law forbidding women from voting was changed in 1991, when Switzerland's federal court ordered the canton to grant women the right to vote. Most of the canton is pastoral, this despite being mountainous. The Säntis peak in the Appenzell Alps is one of the main attractions of the canton. There are three small mountain lakes in the canton: Seealpsee, Sämtisersee and Fälensee. Appenzell is the capital of this canton. The constitution was established in 1872. Citizens from the canton assemble each year on the last Sunday of April for", "title": "Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.03, "text": "official language of Appenzell is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. The buildings in the village core, the parish church, the 1563 town hall, the \"\"Salesis\"\" house, the ruins of Castle Clanx and the state archives with the administration building are listed as heritage sites of national significance. Appenzell (village) Appenzell is a village, a statistic town, but not a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in Switzerland. Appenzell has no municipal government of its own; rather, the different parts of", "title": "Appenzell (village)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.72, "text": "by a direct popular vote). The south or more mountainous portion of Appenzell forms the half-canton of Appenzell, \"\"Inner Rhoden\"\". It has a total area of (of which . are classed as \"\"productive,\"\" forests covering and glaciers ), and a total population of practically all German-speaking, and predominantly Catholic. Its political capital is Appenzell, which is also the largest village, while Weissbad (near it) and Gonten are the best-known goats' whey cure resorts. Embroidery and muslins are made in this half-canton, though wholly at home by the work-people. But it is very largely pastoral. Inner Rhoden is extremely conservative, and", "title": "Appenzell" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.47, "text": "covering and glaciers ), with a mainly German-speaking, Protestant population. Its political capital is Trogen, though the largest town is Herisau, while Teufen, and Heiden in the north-east corner is the most frequented of the many goats' whey cure resorts for which the entire canton is famous (Urnäsch and Gais are also in Ausser Rhoden). This half-canton is divided into three administrative districts, comprising twenty communes, and is mainly industrial, the manufacture of cotton goods, muslins, and embroidery being very flourishing. It sends one member (elected by the \"\"Landsgemeinde\"\") to the federal \"\"Ständerat\"\" and three to the federal \"\"Nationalrat\"\" (elected", "title": "Appenzell" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.25, "text": "Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden The canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden (; in English sometimes Appenzell Outer Rhodes) is a canton of Switzerland. The seat of the government and parliament is Herisau, judicial authorities are in Trogen. Appenzell Ausserrhoden is located in the north east of Switzerland, bordering the cantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell Innerrhoden. Settlement in Appenzell started in the 7th and the 8th century alongside the river Glatt. The monastery of St. Gallen was of great influence on the local population. In 907 Herisau is mentioned for the first time, the canton (Appenzell: \"\"abbatis cella\"\") is named first in", "title": "Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.19, "text": "Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden The canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (; in English sometimes Appenzell Inner-Rhodes) is the smallest canton of Switzerland by population and the second smallest by area, with canton of Basel-City being the smallest. It was the last Swiss canton to grant women the right to vote on local issues, in 1991. The name \"\"Appenzell\"\" () means \"\"cell (i.e. estate) of the abbot\"\". This refers to the Abbey of St. Gall, which exerted a great influence on the area. By the middle of the 11th century the abbots of St. Gall had established their power in the land", "title": "Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.97, "text": "of operations to operate a digital interlocking for the first time anywhere in the world in September 2018. The signal box was operated from a Siemens location in Wallisellen on a trial basis via a public data network. After the line has left the Innerrhoden capital of Appenzell—which is also served by the trains of the Gossau–Wasserauen railway of the original Appenzell Railway—it runs over the 296-meter-long imposing Sitter Viaduct to the Hirschberg loop, which offers a magnificent view of Appenzell and the Alpstein. Running next to the road, after passing over a watershed, the railway reaches the crossing station", "title": "Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen railway" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.77, "text": "Appenzell Castle Appenzell Castle () is a castle in the Appenzell District of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in Switzerland. It is one of a few 16th century stone buildings in Appenzell. It is part of the Swiss heritage site of national significance. The castle was built in 1563 as an elegant mansion the doctor Antoni Löw. Antoni was an enthusiastic supporter of the Protestant Reformation in Appenzell. In 1584 he was captured, judged and sentenced to death by the local Catholics for slandering a priest. After his death the castle was taken by the city and given to the", "title": "Appenzell Castle" } ]

[ "Sangrur" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.84, "text": "city, the capital of the state in 1776. He built a fort here in 1775. Later, Sangrur was chosen as the capital of Jind State by Raja Sangat Singh (reigned 1822 to 1834). The Raja of Jind is of the same family as the Maharaja of Patiala, being like him, descended from Mr. Phul. The Originator of the Phulkian Dynasty, Phul left six sons, of whom Tiloka was the eldest, and from him are descended the families of Jind and Nabha. From Rama, the second son, sprang the greatest of the Phulkian houses, that of Patiala besides Bhadaur, Kot Duna", "title": "Jind district" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.36, "text": "Sangrur district Sangrur district is in the state of Punjab in north India. Sangrur consists of the cities of Dhuri, Lehragaga, Malerkotla, Sangrur, and Sunam. Other cities are Ahmedgarh, Amargarh, Bhawanigarh, Dirba, Khanauri, Longowal and Moonak. There are 8 sub-divisions in sangrur district namely sangrur, malerkotla, dhuri, sunam, lehragaga, moonak, ahmedgarh and bhawanigarh. Earlier Barnala was part of Sangrur district, but now it is a separate district. According to the 2011 census Sangrur district had a population of 1,655,169 of which male and female were 878,029 and 777,140 respectively roughly equal to the nation of Guinea-Bissau or the US state", "title": "Sangrur district" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.22, "text": "included the territory occupied by the present district of Jind from the Afghan invader and governor Zain Khan in 1763 and made Jind city, the capital of the state in 1776. He made a fort here in 1775. Later, Sangrur was chosen as capital of Jind State by Raja Sangat Singh (reigned 1822 to 1834). After independence, Jind State was merged with the Indian union and the territory of the present district became part of Sangrur district of Patiala and East Punjab States Union on 15 July 1948. At the time of its creation of Haryana state on 1 November", "title": "Jind" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.84, "text": "town of Sangla, on the foot of Kinner-Kailash (House of Lord Shiva). Kamru was capital of the Bushahr principality. It is especially known for the tower-like fort at its highest point, which was built by Lord Badhrinath Ji thousands of year ago. According to a folklore fort there are about 36 crore (360,000,000) gods and goddess residing in the fort. Kamru, Himachal Pradesh Kamru is a village located in the Sangla Valley of Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India. It sits c. 2,700 m above sea level. The village is an ancient capital of the Bashahr principate. It is especially known", "title": "Kamru, Himachal Pradesh" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.52, "text": "early Sangam days. In the ancient and medieval times, the area was ruled by the Cheras, Gangas and Cholas. Karur was the capital of Cheras. The Pasupatheesvarar Temple sung by Thirugnana Sambhandar, in Karur was built by the Chola kings in the 7th century. Later the Nayakars followed by Tipu Sultan also ruled Karur. The British added Karur to their possessions after destroying the Karur Fort during their war against Tipu Sultan in 1783. There is a memorial at Rayanur near Karur for the warriors who lost their lives in the fight against the British in the Anglo-Mysore Wars. Post", "title": "Karur district" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23, "text": "Bahadurpur, Sangrur Bahadurpur is a village in the Sangrur District of the Indian state of Punjab. It is located at 4km from the holy site of Mastuana Sahib, 10km from Sangrur, 32 km from Barnala, on Sangrur-Barnala main road. It has a population of 8,367, according to the 2011 census. It is part of the Sunam assembly constituency and the Sangrur parliamentary seat. Its neighbouring villages are Duggan, Badrukhan, Bhaini Mehraj, Natt, Kunran, Badbar and Bhammabadi. The majority of the residents are Jatt (Sikh) of Khaira's Gotra. There is also majority of Muslims, Bania (mahajan), Brahmins, Chheemba), Tarkhan (Ramgarhia), Nai,", "title": "Bahadurpur, Sangrur" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.91, "text": "of Idaho. This gives it a ranking of 300st in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.3%. Sangrur has a sex ratio of 885 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 67.99%. Sangrur district is further sub-divided into 7 sub-divisions/tehsils - Dhuri, Lehragaga, Malerkotla, Moonak, Sangrur and Sunam, Dirba. Sangrur district Sangrur district is in the state of Punjab in north India. Sangrur consists of the cities of Dhuri, Lehragaga, Malerkotla, Sangrur, and Sunam. Other cities are Ahmedgarh, Amargarh,", "title": "Sangrur district" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.62, "text": "of Commerce operates there. A cooperative bank serves Bahadurpur, Duggan and Kunran villages. Bahadurpur, Sangrur Bahadurpur is a village in the Sangrur District of the Indian state of Punjab. It is located at 4km from the holy site of Mastuana Sahib, 10km from Sangrur, 32 km from Barnala, on Sangrur-Barnala main road. It has a population of 8,367, according to the 2011 census. It is part of the Sunam assembly constituency and the Sangrur parliamentary seat. Its neighbouring villages are Duggan, Badrukhan, Bhaini Mehraj, Natt, Kunran, Badbar and Bhammabadi. The majority of the residents are Jatt (Sikh) of Khaira's Gotra.", "title": "Bahadurpur, Sangrur" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.58, "text": "Badrukhan Badrukhan is a big village about 5 km from Sangrur, the district headquarters, on Sangrur-Barnala road in Punjab, India. The residents of five small villages, Vada Agwarh, Vichla Agwarh, Dalamwal, Dhaliwas and Thagan wali Patti, under the leadership of Pandit Badru, approached Great Jat ruler Maharaja Gajpat Singh, the Maharaja of Jind, for security from dacoits. Maharaja Gajpat Singh amalgamated these villages and named it Badrukhan. In 1763, when Gajpat Singh captured the town of Jind, Badrukhan was made the capital of Jind State. He also built a fort here. Badrukhan is believed to be the birthplace of Maharaja", "title": "Badrukhan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.55, "text": "Sanghar District Sanghar District ( : ) is one of the largest districts of Sindh province, Pakistan. It has an area of 9874 square kilometres. It is located in the centre of Sindh and is bounded to the east by India. The district capital, |Sanghar, is itself a small city roughly east-south-east of the city of Nawabshah and the same distance north of Mirpur Khas. Its primary industry is agriculture. The following cities are located in Sanghar District: Sanghar, Tando Adam, Jam Nawaz Ali, Shahdadpur, Shahpur Chakar, Sinjhoro, Jhol, among others. Sanghar District is also known as the district of", "title": "Sanghar District" } ]

[ "Kribi" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.06, "text": "border; or it was named for the book \"\"Oceana\"\", written by English author James Harrington in 1656. Oceana County is famous as the \"\"Asparagus Capital of the World\"\" for its high production of asparagus. The annual Asparagus Festival includes a parade and crowning of the Asparagus Queen. In the 1850s about 1400 Odawa were relocated here from Ionia County, Michigan by the federal government. The county economy was first built on the lumber trade, with logs floated downriver. It later was developed for agriculture. In the 21st century, it is known for its commodity crop of asparagus. According to the", "title": "Oceana County, Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.5, "text": "been razed in recent years to construct more parking lots, hotels, and condos. Ocean City has a long history of fishing, both commercial and recreational. The town bills itself as the \"\"White Marlin Capital of the World.\"\" During the summer numerous charter and private boats fish for billfish, tuna, wahoo, and other game fish. In early August, one of the largest fishing tournaments in the world, the White Marlin Open, is held. Prize money for the largest White Marlin, Blue Marlin, and Tuna can range over 1 million dollars. Ocean City is located at . According to the United States", "title": "Ocean City, Maryland" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.39, "text": "Samut Songkhram Samut Songkhram ( (Pronunciation)) is the capital of Samut Songkhram Province. The word \"\"samut\"\" originates from the Sanskrit word \"\"samudra\"\" meaning \"\"ocean\"\", and the word \"\"songkhram\"\" from the Sanskrit \"\"sangrama\"\" meaning \"\"war\"\". Hence the name of the province literally means \"\"war ocean\"\". Samut Songkhram is at the mouth of the Mae Klong River to the Gulf of Thailand. By means of canals (\"\"khlong\"\") the water of the river is spread through the province for irrigation. At the coast are many evaporation ponds for producing sea salt. In the Ayutthaya period the area of Samut Songkhram was known as", "title": "Samut Songkhram" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.3, "text": "franchise, with a test transmission informing listeners of the closure. Ocean Sound launched on 12 October 1986 from a new purpose-built broadcast unit, built in just a year, in a business park in Segensworth West, outside Fareham, Hampshire and near the M27 motorway, a strategic location to prevent bias towards the two major cities of Southampton and Portsmouth, as well as removing association with Radio Victory, who were Portsmouth biased, however, some staff were hired from Radio Victory, such as sales managers and a Head of News. Two services were launched, Ocean Sound (West), using 103.2 MHz FM and 1557", "title": "Capital South Coast" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.84, "text": "Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. The closest urban areas are Lismore and Tweed Heads. Ocean Shores has a local bus service five times per day, linking the greater Ocean Shores community, Brunswick Heads, Mullumbimby, Byron Bay and Ballina. Ocean Shores is located between two airports, Ballina to the south, which has daily flights to Sydney and Melbourne and Gold Coast to the north, which has daily services to most major Australian cities and a few international destinations. The closest closed railway station is at Mullumbimby, a 10-minute drive south. The train service travelled down the south east coast", "title": "Ocean Shores, New South Wales" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.73, "text": "for Winchester and the surrounding areas on 96.7 MHz FM, entitled Ocean Sound (North) - The Light FM, launched on 6 December 1987, The two original stations shared daytime output with specialist programmes for each station, such as a Saturday evening Isle of Wight programme with Jean-Paul Hansford on the West station on 103.2, while Guy Hornsby's Saturday Soul Club on East, with the North service having its own programmes initially between 6am to 2pm and then 5pm to 9pm also, but relayed West at other times. The new station's slogan was \"\"We're on your wavelength.\"\" In 1987, as part", "title": "Capital South Coast" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.55, "text": "Ocean Harbour Ocean Harbour is a deeply indented bay on the north coast of South Georgia which is entered west-northwest of Tijuca point. It was an active whaling station between 1909–1920. At one point, South Georgia was the whaling capital of the world. The names New Fortune Bay and Neufortuna Bay, probably for the whaling catcher \"\"Fortuna\"\" (owned by the Norwegian-Argentine whaling company Pesca), were used for this site in 1922 by Filchner, following the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12. In 1951–52 the island was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey who reported the site was known to whalers and sealers", "title": "Ocean Harbour" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.39, "text": "Hải Dương Hải Dương () is a city in Vietnam. It is the capital of Hải Dương, a highly developed and industrialized province located within the Hanoi Metropolitan Area, as well as the Red River Delta in Northern Vietnam. Its name is Sino-Vietnamese for \"\"ocean sun\"\" (海陽). The city is at the midpoint between the capital Hà Nội and major port Hải Phòng, and is part of the Northern Key Economic Zone. As of 2016, the city has a population of 403,893. Hai Duong city is bordered to the north-east by the Nam Sách District and Thanh Hà District. A", "title": "Hải Dương" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.22, "text": "Capital South Coast Capital South Coast is a regional radio station owned by operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network. It broadcasts to South Hampshire from studios in Segensworth, Fareham. Radio Victory launched as the first local commercial radio service in the South of England in 1975, transmitting to a small area around Portsmouth. The licence was re-advertised by the Independent Broadcasting Authority The extended licence, now to include Southampton and Winchester, was won by Ocean Sound Ltd. Radio Victory ceased operations in June 1986, a couple of weeks earlier than the expiry date of its", "title": "Capital South Coast" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.09, "text": "its breadth extends from housing insects such cockroaches to the large mammals like the elephants on an area of over 33 hectares . Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan is home to the only Oceanarium in Central Asia. Oceanarium An oceanarium can be either a marine mammal park, such as MarineLand, or a large-scale aquarium, such as the Lisbon Oceanarium, presenting an ocean habitat with marine animals, especially large ocean dwellers such as sharks. Marineland of Florida, one of the first theme parks in Florida, United States, started in 1938, claims to be \"\"the world's first oceanarium\"\" Marineland of Florida was", "title": "Oceanarium" } ]

[ "Néma", "Nema" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.03, "text": "Hodh Ech Chargui Region Hodh Ech Chargui (, \"\"Eastern Basin Region\"\") is a large region in eastern Mauritania, with an area of 182,700 km. Its capital is Néma, but the largest town, in Bassiknou Department, is Vassale at the extreme southeast of Mauritania, with 65,927 inhabitants at the 2013 census. The region borders the Mauritanian regions of Adrar, Tagant and Hodh El Gharbi to the west and Mali to the east and south. The Aoukar basin, which formerly gave name to a greater region, is located in the western part of Hodh Ech Chargui. As of 2013, the population of", "title": "Hodh Ech Chargui Region" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.97, "text": "elections for the local government are conducted every five years along with Senate and Parliamentary elections. On account of the political instability, the last elections were held in 2006. Hodh Ech Chargui is divided into seven departments, listed below with their area and populations at the 2013 Census.<census/> Hodh Ech Chargui Region Hodh Ech Chargui (, \"\"Eastern Basin Region\"\") is a large region in eastern Mauritania, with an area of 182,700 km. Its capital is Néma, but the largest town, in Bassiknou Department, is Vassale at the extreme southeast of Mauritania, with 65,927 inhabitants at the 2013 census. The region", "title": "Hodh Ech Chargui Region" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.92, "text": "Hodh El Gharbi Region Hodh El Gharbi (, \"\"Western Basin Region\"\") is a region in southern Mauritania, with an area of 53,400 square km. The population at the 2013 census was 294,109. Its capital is Aïoun (formerly called Ayoun el Atrous). The region borders the Mauritanian regions of Tagant to the north, Hodh Ech Chargui to the east and Assaba to the west. To the south in borders Mali, and a part of Malian territory protrudes into the region. The Aoukar basin, which formerly gave name to a greater region, is located in the northern and central part of Hodh", "title": "Hodh El Gharbi Region" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.2, "text": "was 6.60 per cent, net enrolment ratio of boys for secondary level was 7.70 per cent, and Total net enrolment ratio at secondary level was 7.00 per cent. The local administration is adopted from French local administration framework with a Ministry of Internal Control governing the local bodies. The original administration was held by Governors of each district, but after the municipal elections in 1994, the powers has been decentralized from the district bodies. Mauritania has been divided into 13 \"\"wilayas\"\" (regions), including the Nouakchott Capital District. The smallest administrative division in the country is the commune and the country", "title": "Hodh Ech Chargui Region" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.12, "text": "is bounded on the north and east sides by small mountain plateaus and provides many opportunities for hiking. al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) became active in the desert regions of Mauritania, including Hodh el Chargui, in the summer of 2008. The area is considered dangerous to Western foreigners. Néma Néma is a town in southeastern Mauritania, close to the border with Mali. It is located at around at the eastern end of the Aoukar. It is the capital of Hodh Ech Chargui Region and of the Néma Department. While the urban population of Nema is approximately 50–60,000, the surrounding", "title": "Néma" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.11, "text": "Néma Néma is a town in southeastern Mauritania, close to the border with Mali. It is located at around at the eastern end of the Aoukar. It is the capital of Hodh Ech Chargui Region and of the Néma Department. While the urban population of Nema is approximately 50–60,000, the surrounding rural sites served by the city make it closer to 200,000. Mauritanians value brousse, or country living, as a throwback to their nomadic roots. \"\"The Road of Hope,\"\" which stretches from the capital, Nouakchott, ends in Nema near the market quartier. There are ten quartiers, sections, of the city,", "title": "Néma" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.95, "text": "elections were held in 2006. Hodh El Gharbi Region is divided into four departments, listed below with their area and populations at the 2013 census. Hodh El Gharbi Region Hodh El Gharbi (, \"\"Western Basin Region\"\") is a region in southern Mauritania, with an area of 53,400 square km. The population at the 2013 census was 294,109. Its capital is Aïoun (formerly called Ayoun el Atrous). The region borders the Mauritanian regions of Tagant to the north, Hodh Ech Chargui to the east and Assaba to the west. To the south in borders Mali, and a part of Malian territory", "title": "Hodh El Gharbi Region" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.19, "text": "a few sedentary cultivators, who are located only in the Southern regions of the country. Research has indicated that the Saharan movement has resulted in reduction of rains in the region from the 1960s, when it received close to of rainfall. As of 2013, the population of the region was 430,668, compared to 363,071 in 2011. There were 47.71 per cent females and 52.29 per cent males. As of 2008, the rate of household confirming the existence of public telephone in their neighbourhood or village was 57.70, rate of households benefiting from electricity post in their neighbourhood was 1.99 per", "title": "Hodh Ech Chargui Region" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.66, "text": "the region was 430,668, compared to 363,071 in 2011. There were 47.71 per cent females and 52.29 per cent males. As of 2008, the activity rate was 61.50 and economic dependency ratio was 1.11. As of 2008, the literacy rate for people aged 15 years and over was 53.90. The local government is headed by an elected district representative, while the elections for the local government are conducted every five years. Due to the political instability, the last elections were held in 2006. Mauritania is mostly covered with desert, with only its western regions around the coast of Atlantic Ocean", "title": "Hodh Ech Chargui Region" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.53, "text": "has 216 of them. A group of communes form a \"\"moughataa\"\" (department) and the group of \"\"moughataa\"\" form a district. There are total of 53 \"\"moughataa\"\" for the 13 districts in the country. The executive power of the district is vested on a district chief, while it is on \"\"hakem\"\" for \"\"moughataa\"\". Out of the 216 communes, 53 classified as urban and rest 163 are rural. The communes are responsible for overseeing and coordinating development activities and are financed by the state. The Local Governments have their own legal jurisdiction, financial autonomy, an annual budget, staff, and an office. The", "title": "Hodh Ech Chargui Region" } ]

[ "Savannah", "Savannah, Georgia" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.95, "text": "Kutaisi Kutaisi (, ) is the legislative capital of Georgia, and its 3rd most populous city. Situated west of Tbilisi, on the Rioni River, it is the capital of the western region of Imereti. Historically one of the major cities of Georgia, it served as the capital of the Kingdom of Georgia in the Middle Ages, and later as the capital of the Kingdom of Imereti. The Parliament of Georgia moved to Kutaisi in 2012, in an effort to both acknowledge the status of the city, and to decentralise the Georgian government. Kutaisi was the capital of the ancient Kingdom", "title": "Kutaisi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.56, "text": "Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ), in some countries also still known by its pre-1936 international designation Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people. Founded in the 5th century AD by Vakhtang I of Iberia, since then Tbilisi served as the capital of various Georgian kingdoms and republics. Between 1801 and 1917, then part of the Russian Empire, Tbilisi was the seat of the Imperial Viceroy, governing both Southern and Northern Caucasus. Because of its location on the crossroads between", "title": "Tbilisi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.48, "text": "Georgia (country) Georgia (, ) is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital and largest city is Tbilisi. Georgia covers a territory of , and its 2017 population is about 3.718 million. The sovereign state of Georgia is a unitary semi-presidential republic, with the government elected through a representative democracy. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established", "title": "Georgia (country)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.27, "text": "Eastern Georgia (country) Eastern Georgia (, \"\"aghmosavlet' sak'art'velo\"\") is a geographic area encompassing the territory of the Caucasian nation of Georgia to the east and south of the Likhi and Meskheti Ranges, but excluding the Black Sea region of Adjara. Eastern Georgia includes the historic Georgian provinces of Samtskhe, Javakheti, Kartli with the national capital city of Tbilisi, Kakheti, Pshavi, Mtiuleti, Tusheti, Khevsureti, and Khevi. Current administrative regions (mkhare) of eastern Georgia are: Samtskhe-Javakheti, Shida Kartli, Kvemo Kartli, the city of Tbilisi, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, and Kakheti. The regions of Kartli and Kakheti, had been under Iranian suzerainty since 1555 following the", "title": "Eastern Georgia (country)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.16, "text": "Ozurgeti Ozurgeti ( ) is the capital of the western Georgian province of Guria. It was formerly known as Macharadze or Makharadze (named in honor of Filipp Makharadze). It is a regional center of tea and hazelnut processing. Ozurgeti was founded in the late Middle Ages, and is first mentioned by name in 1578 in the \"\"New Georgian Chronicles\"\" (ახალი ქართლის ცხოვრობა, akhali qartlis tskhovroba). It became the centre of Guria soon after, serving as an important centre for trade and the home of the rulers of the Principality of Guria. The later discovery of a hoard of 270 silver", "title": "Ozurgeti" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.97, "text": "Erivan). Georgia Governorate The Georgian Governorate () was one of the \"\"guberniyas\"\" of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Tiflis (Tbilisi). It was divided into uyezds of Gori, Dusheti (Its center was Tbilisi), Lori, Signakhi and Telavi. The Georgia governorate was established in 1801 following the Russian annexation of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti. In 1840 it was expanded to form the Georgia-Imeretia Governorate, incorporating the territory of the Imeretia Oblast (Its center was Kutaisi and was constituted from uzeyds of Kutaisi, Vakha, Rakvta (Raczyn during Russian rule), Sachkhere, Cheri and Bagdati) and Armenian Oblast (Its center", "title": "Georgia Governorate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.92, "text": "Samtskhe–Javakheti Samtskhe–Javakheti (, ), is a region (mkhare) in southern Georgia which includes the historical Georgian provinces of Meskheti, Javakheti and Tori. Akhaltsikhe is its capital. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, the South Caucasus natural gas pipeline, and the Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway pass through the region. Samtskhe–Javakheti is bordered by the regions of Adjara to the west, Guria and Imereti to the north, Shida Kartli and Kvemo Kartli to the north-east and to the east, and by Armenia and Turkey to the south and southwest. The area of the region is 6413 km squares and the population is of 160262 inhabitants. The", "title": "Samtskhe–Javakheti" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.84, "text": "Georgia Governorate The Georgian Governorate () was one of the \"\"guberniyas\"\" of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Tiflis (Tbilisi). It was divided into uyezds of Gori, Dusheti (Its center was Tbilisi), Lori, Signakhi and Telavi. The Georgia governorate was established in 1801 following the Russian annexation of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti. In 1840 it was expanded to form the Georgia-Imeretia Governorate, incorporating the territory of the Imeretia Oblast (Its center was Kutaisi and was constituted from uzeyds of Kutaisi, Vakha, Rakvta (Raczyn during Russian rule), Sachkhere, Cheri and Bagdati) and Armenian Oblast (Its center was", "title": "Georgia Governorate" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.81, "text": "Savannah, Georgia Savannah () is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia's fifth-largest city, with a 2017 estimated population of 146,444. The Savannah metropolitan area, Georgia's third largest, had an estimated population of", "title": "Savannah, Georgia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.77, "text": "as the nation's capital, is defined by the Article 10 in the Constitution of Georgia (1995) and the \"\"Law on Georgia's Capital – Tbilisi\"\" (20 February 1998). Tbilisi is governed by the Tbilisi City Assembly (Sakrebulo) and the Tbilisi City Hall (Meria). The City Assembly is elected once every four years. The mayor is elected once every four years by direct elections. The Mayor of Tbilisi is Kakha Kaladze and the Chairman of the Tbilisi city Assembly is Giorgi Alibegashvili. Administratively, the city is divided into raions (districts), which have their own units of central and local government with jurisdiction", "title": "Tbilisi" } ]

[ "Lamphun" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.8, "text": "Lamphun Lamphun (, ) is a town (\"\"thesaban mueang\"\") in northern Thailand, capital of Lamphun Province. It covers the whole \"\"tambon\"\" Nai Mueang of Mueang Lamphun district. As of 2006 it has a population of 14,030. Lamphun lies 665 km north of Bangkok and 19 km south of Chiang Mai. Lamphun was founded by Queen Chama Thevi as the capital of the Haripunchai Kingdom, the last and most northerly Mon kingdom in the area which now forms Thailand. Around 25 km south of Chiang Mai, it was constructed in the shape of a conch shell, following the Khuang River on", "title": "Lamphun" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.27, "text": "in the Ping River valley, between the Thanon Thong Chai Range on the west and the Khun Tan Range in the east. Lamphun Lamphun (, ) is a town (\"\"thesaban mueang\"\") in northern Thailand, capital of Lamphun Province. It covers the whole \"\"tambon\"\" Nai Mueang of Mueang Lamphun district. As of 2006 it has a population of 14,030. Lamphun lies 665 km north of Bangkok and 19 km south of Chiang Mai. Lamphun was founded by Queen Chama Thevi as the capital of the Haripunchai Kingdom, the last and most northerly Mon kingdom in the area which now forms Thailand.", "title": "Lamphun" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.81, "text": "Mueang Lamphun District Mueang Lamphun (; ) is the capital district (\"\"amphoe mueang\"\") of Lamphun Province, northern Thailand. Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise) Mae Tha and Pa Sang of Lamphun Province, San Pa Tong, Hang Dong, Saraphi of Chiang Mai Province, Ban Thi of Lamphun and Mae On of Chiang Mai. The main river of the district is the Ping River. The district is divided into 17 sub-districts (\"\"tambon\"\"), which are further subdivided into 158 villages (\"\"muban\"\"). The town (\"\"thesaban mueang\"\") Lamphun covers the whole \"\"tambon\"\" Nai Mueang. There are three more sub-district municipalities (\"\"thesaban tambon\"\"): Umong and", "title": "Mueang Lamphun District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.55, "text": "began building the fortress Wiang Kum Kam as his new capital. Lamphun is host to one of northern Thailand's most important temples, Wat Phra That Hariphunchai, featured on the reverse of the one-satang coin. The \"\"phra that\"\" in the title indicates the presence of a Buddha relic, in this case one of his hairs, which was interred in the chedi in 897, which is probably the founding date of the wat. The town is surrounded by lush countryside punctuated by rice fields and orchards of the popular fruit, longan, which is celebrated in a festival every August. The town is", "title": "Lamphun" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.67, "text": "Hariphunchai Hariphunchai or Haribhunjaya (from , \"\"Hariponhchey\"\", in turn from ) was a Mon kingdom in the north of present Thailand in the centuries before the Thais moved into the area. Its capital was at Lamphun, which at the time was also called Hariphunchai. In 1292 the city was besieged and captured by Mangrai of the Thai kingdom of Lan Na. According to the \"\"Camadevivamsa\"\" and \"\"Jinakalamali\"\" chronicles, the city was founded by a hermit named Suthep in 629 AD, and the Mon ruler of Lavo Kingdom (present-day Lopburi) sent his daughter Jamadevi to become its first queen. However, this", "title": "Hariphunchai" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.42, "text": "Hariphunchai\"\"): Hariphunchai Hariphunchai or Haribhunjaya (from , \"\"Hariponhchey\"\", in turn from ) was a Mon kingdom in the north of present Thailand in the centuries before the Thais moved into the area. Its capital was at Lamphun, which at the time was also called Hariphunchai. In 1292 the city was besieged and captured by Mangrai of the Thai kingdom of Lan Na. According to the \"\"Camadevivamsa\"\" and \"\"Jinakalamali\"\" chronicles, the city was founded by a hermit named Suthep in 629 AD, and the Mon ruler of Lavo Kingdom (present-day Lopburi) sent his daughter Jamadevi to become its first queen. However,", "title": "Hariphunchai" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.39, "text": "Rim Ping cover the complete same-named \"\"tambon\"\", and Ban Paen parts of \"\"tambon\"\" Ban Paen and Nong Nam. There are a further 12 tambon administrative organizations (TAO). Mueang Lamphun District Mueang Lamphun (; ) is the capital district (\"\"amphoe mueang\"\") of Lamphun Province, northern Thailand. Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise) Mae Tha and Pa Sang of Lamphun Province, San Pa Tong, Hang Dong, Saraphi of Chiang Mai Province, Ban Thi of Lamphun and Mae On of Chiang Mai. The main river of the district is the Ping River. The district is divided into 17 sub-districts (\"\"tambon\"\"), which are", "title": "Mueang Lamphun District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.08, "text": "Mueang Lampang District Mueang Lampang (; ) is the capital district (\"\"amphoe mueang\"\") of Lampang Province, northern Thailand. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise): Mueang Pan, Chae Hom, Mae Mo, Mae Tha, Ko Kha and Hang Chat of Lampang Province, Mae Tha of Lamphun Province, and Mae On of Chiang Mai Province. The Khun Tan Range rises in the west and the Phi Pan Nam Range in the east of the district. In 1917 the district was renamed from Mueang to Mueang Lampang. The district is divided into 19 sub-districts (\"\"tambon\"\"), which are further subdivided into 180 villages (\"\"muban\"\").", "title": "Mueang Lampang District" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.81, "text": "Lampang Lampang, also called Nakhon Lampang (, ) to differentiate from Lampang Province, is the third largest town in northern Thailand and capital of Lampang Province and the Lampang district. Traditional names for Lampang include Wiang Lakon and Khelang Nakhon. The city is a trading and transportation center. Lampang lies 601 km north of Bangkok and 101 km southeast of Chiang Mai. Lampang city is in the valley of the Wang River, bordered by the Khun Tan Range on the west and the Phi Pan Nam Range on the east. The river, a major tributary of the Chao Phraya, flows", "title": "Lampang" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.56, "text": "southeastern corner of Chiang Mai's city centre. According to the chronicles and archaeological evidence, the old city was built by King Mangrai around the latter part of the 13th century. The city was established as a new capital by the King after his victory over the Mon people's kingdom of Hariphunchai, modern Lamphun. Due to repeated flooding, a new capital, Chiang Mai, was built a few years later. Wiang Kum Kam flourished during the reign of the Mangrai dynasty until the late 16th century. The old city was then lost from history for many years after Chiang Mai was conquered", "title": "Wiang Kum Kam" } ]

[ "Krasnodar", "Yekaterinodar", "Katerynodar", "Maykop" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.27, "text": "Adyghe Autonomous Oblast Adyghe Autonomous Oblast () was an autonomous oblast within Krasnodar Krai, Soviet Union. It existed from 1922 to 1991. Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast was established within the Russian SFSR on July 27, 1922, on the territories of Kuban-Black Sea Oblast primarily settled by the Adyghe people. At that time, Krasnodar was the administrative center. It was renamed Adyghe (Cherkess) Autonomous Oblast on August 24, 1922, soon after its creation. On October 24, 1924, it became part of new North Caucasus Krai. It was renamed Adyghe Autonomous Oblast in July 1928. On January 10, 1934, the autonomous oblast", "title": "Adyghe Autonomous Oblast" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.09, "text": "became part of new Azov-Black Sea Krai, which was spun off North Caucasus Krai. The city of Maykop and surrounding areas were added to the Adyghe AO and Maykop designated the administrative center of the autonomous oblast in 1936. Adyghe AO became part of Krasnodar Krai when it was established on September 13, 1937. On April 28, 1962, the district of Tula, Krasnodar Krai, was added to the Adyghe AO and the autonomous region became its present form. On July 3, 1991, the autonomous oblast was elevated to the status of a republic under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation", "title": "Adyghe Autonomous Oblast" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.05, "text": "and renamed Republic of Adygea. Adyghe Autonomous Oblast Adyghe Autonomous Oblast () was an autonomous oblast within Krasnodar Krai, Soviet Union. It existed from 1922 to 1991. Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast was established within the Russian SFSR on July 27, 1922, on the territories of Kuban-Black Sea Oblast primarily settled by the Adyghe people. At that time, Krasnodar was the administrative center. It was renamed Adyghe (Cherkess) Autonomous Oblast on August 24, 1922, soon after its creation. On October 24, 1924, it became part of new North Caucasus Krai. It was renamed Adyghe Autonomous Oblast in July 1928. On January", "title": "Adyghe Autonomous Oblast" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.8, "text": "1922, on the territories of the Kuban-Black Sea Oblast, primarily settled by the Adyghe people. At that time, Krasnodar was the administrative center. It was renamed Adyghe (Cherkess) Autonomous Oblast on August 24, 1922, soon after its creation. In the first two years of its existence the autonomous oblast was a part of the Russian SFSR, but on October 17, 1924, it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the newly created North Caucasus Krai within the RSFSR. It was renamed Adyghe Autonomous Oblast (AO) in July 1928. On January 10, 1934, the autonomous oblast became part of the new Azov-Black", "title": "Adygea" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.05, "text": "Sea Krai, which was removed from North Caucasus Krai. Maykop was made the administrative center of the autonomous oblast in 1936. Adyghe AO became part of Krasnodar Krai when it was established on September 13, 1937. On July 3, 1991, the oblast was elevated to the status of a republic under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. The first President of the republic was Aslan Dzharimov, elected on 5 January 1992. From 2002 to 2007, Hazret Sovmen was President. He and most of the rest of the political elite in Adygea, are Adygeans. As a reaction to that, an organization", "title": "Adygea" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.48, "text": "in the Caucasus region. It forms part of the northern border between the Republic of Adygea and Krasnodar Krai. Other rivers include: The republic has no large lakes. However, the several large reservoirs include: The republic's major mountains and peaks range in height from , and include: The republic is rich in oil and natural gas. Other natural resources include gold, silver, tungsten, and iron. February 15, 2010, recorded the absolute maximum for the winter months—in the capital, the city of Maykop, the temperature was . The Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast was established within the Russian SFSR on July 27,", "title": "Adygea" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.41, "text": "Adygea The Republic of Adygea (; ; , \"\"Adygæ Respublik\"\"), also known as the Adyghe Republic, is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia. It is geographically located in the North Caucasus region of European Russia, and is part of the Southern Federal District. Adygea covers an area of , the fifth-smallest Russian federal subject by area, with its territory an enclave within Krasnodar Krai. Adygea has a population of 439,996 (2010 Census). Maykop is the capital and the largest city of Adygea, home to one-third of the republic's population. Adygea is one of Russia's ethnic republics, primarily representing the", "title": "Adygea" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.84, "text": "major higher education facilities in Adygea. Adygea The Republic of Adygea (; ; , \"\"Adygæ Respublik\"\"), also known as the Adyghe Republic, is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia. It is geographically located in the North Caucasus region of European Russia, and is part of the Southern Federal District. Adygea covers an area of , the fifth-smallest Russian federal subject by area, with its territory an enclave within Krasnodar Krai. Adygea has a population of 439,996 (2010 Census). Maykop is the capital and the largest city of Adygea, home to one-third of the republic's population. Adygea is one of", "title": "Adygea" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.77, "text": "Adygeysk Adygeysk (; , \"\"Adəgăqală\"\") is a town in the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located near Krasnodar Reservoir, northwest of Maykop, the capital of the republic. Population: It was previously known as \"\"Adygeysk(y)\"\" (until July 27, 1976),\"\"Teuchezhsk\"\" (until 1990). It was founded as the settlement of Adygeysky () in 1969 due to the construction of Krasnodar Reservoir. According to some other sources, the original name was \"\"Adygeysk\"\". The name alluded to the Adyghe people indigenous to the region. On July 27, 1976, it was granted town status and renamed Teuchezhsk (), for Adyghe poet Tsug Teuchezh. In 1990, the original", "title": "Adygeysk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.89, "text": "Udmurtia Udmurtia (; ), or the Udmurt Republic, is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) within the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Izhevsk. Population: 1,521,420 (2010 Census). On November 4, 1920, the Votyak Autonomous Oblast was formed. On January 1, 1932, it was renamed Udmurt Autonomous Oblast, which was then reorganized into the Udmurt ASSR on December 28, 1934. During World War II, many industrial factories were evacuated from Ukraine and western borderlands to Udmurtia. The republic is located to the west of the Ural Mountains and borders Kirov, Perm, Bashkortostan, and Tatarstan. Udmurtia is", "title": "Udmurtia" } ]

[ "Bellinzona", "Bellinzona TI" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.42, "text": "Bellinzona Bellinzona (; , , ) is the capital of the canton Ticino in Switzerland. The city is famous for its three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso Corbaro) that have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2000. The town lies east of the Ticino river, at the foot of the Alps. It stretches along the river valley, surrounded by the southern ranges of the Lepontine Alps to the east and west, and by the Lugano Prealps to the south. The toponym is first attested in 590 in Latin as \"\"Belitio\"\" or \"\"Bilitio\"\" (in the accusative, \"\"Bilitionem\"\"), by Gregory of Tours. The", "title": "Bellinzona" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.77, "text": "Bellinzona became the only and permanent capital. The 1870–1891 period saw a surge of political turbulence in Ticino, and the authorities needed the assistance of the federal government to restore order in several instances, in 1870, 1876, 1889 and 1890–1891. The current cantonal constitution dates from 1997. The previous constitution, heavily modified, was codified in 1830, nearly 20 years before the constitution of the Swiss Confederation. The canton of Ticino is in the south of Switzerland, almost entirely surrounded by Italy (to its west, south and much of its east). To the north are the cantons of Valais and Uri,", "title": "Canton of Ticino" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.25, "text": "Ticino in 1944 and housed first in the \"\"Castelgrande\"\" before being moved to the Sasso Corbaro in 1989. The room is panelled entirely in walnut and also includes the \"\"stüva\"\", stove which provided heating. The stove bears the crest of the Emma family (an eagle and a lion rampant). The museum also houses temporary exhibits. It is open from March until November. Bellinzona Bellinzona (; , , ) is the capital of the canton Ticino in Switzerland. The city is famous for its three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso Corbaro) that have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2000. The town", "title": "Bellinzona" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.03, "text": "of the Valais, which were merged into a single \"\"civitas Vallensis\"\" probably around 40 AD, and given Forum Claudii Vallensium (Martigny) as their capital. Parts of the modern Ticino belonged to the colony of Comum (Como), founded in the 1st century AD. On the local level, the basic administrative units were the \"\"vici\"\", replacing the Helvetic \"\"pagi\"\", or tribes, which were dissolved at the time of colonization. These villages enjoyed a certain autonomy and were governed by popularly elected magistrates (\"\"magistri\"\" or \"\"curatores\"\"). While the governmental system in the central and western part of Switzerland, as described above, is well", "title": "Switzerland in the Roman era" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.02, "text": "Faido Faido is the capital of the district of Leventina in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland. On 29 January 2006, Faido grew by incorporating the villages of Chiggiogna, Rossura, and Calonico. On 1 April 2012, Faido grew again when it incorporated the former municipalities of Anzonico, Calpiogna, Campello, Cavagnago, Chironico, Mairengo and Osco. It grew again on 10 April 2016 when Sobrio was absorbed into the municipality. The municipality is first documented in 1171 as \"\"Faedo\"\". In German it was previously known as \"\"Feit\"\" or \"\"Pfaid\"\". Crucial for the development of the municipality into a regional center", "title": "Faido" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.02, "text": "Monte Ceneri Pass, Biasca and finally over the Lukmanier Pass into Chur. Some researchers believe that Bellinzona may have been the capital of a county that included most of the valleys in Ticino. At around 774 the Frankish Kingdom (that would become the Carolingian Empire) gained control of the Ticino valley including Bellinzona. About two centuries later the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, seeking to restore the power of glory of ancient Rome and expand into Italy, opened the Lukmanier and St. Bernard passes. Control of Bellinzona was a key part of this expansion. The city was taken from Milan", "title": "Bellinzona" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.92, "text": "Leventina District The Leventina District is one of the eight districts of the largely Italian-speaking canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The capital of the district is Faido but the largest town is Airolo on the southern flank of the Gotthard Pass. Situated to the north of the canton, its territory covers the area of the Ticino River as far south as Biasca, in particular the Bedretto Valley and the Leventina Valley. Leventina is divided into four sub-districts, termed 'circles' (), and a total area of with a population of (as of ). Its capital is the municipality () of Faido.", "title": "Leventina District" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.44, "text": "Acquarossa, Switzerland Acquarossa is the capital of the district of Blenio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The municipality was created on 4 April 2004 by a merger of Castro, Corzoneso, Dongio, Largario, Leontica, Lottigna, Ponto Valentino and Prugiasco. The village Acquarossa was located in Lottigna. The name of the new community was selected from the one located at its centre: Aquarossa, a tourist resort. Castro is first mentioned in 1200 as \"\"Castri\"\". Corzoneso is first mentioned in 1210 as \"\"Cursonexe\"\". Dongio is first mentioned in 1188 as \"\"Deuci\"\". Largario is first mentioned in 1207 as \"\"Largario\"\". Leontica is", "title": "Acquarossa, Switzerland" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.38, "text": "Grand Council of Ticino The Grand Council of Ticino (Italian: \"\"Gran Consiglio di Ticino\"\") is the legislature for the Swiss canton of Ticino. The 90-member council is elected every four years by proportional representation in a single constituency comprising the citizens resident in the canton, and meets at the Ursoline Palace in the capital, Bellinzona. Members are called Deputies (\"\"deputati\"\"). Elections coincide with those of the canton's executive body, the Council of State. The last elections were on 19 April 2015. The President and two Vice-Presidents are selected by the members of the Grand Council, and not the electorate. Minutes", "title": "Grand Council of Ticino" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.17, "text": "Blenio District The Blenio District is a district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). The capital of the district is Acquarossa. The district has an area, , of . Of this area, or 3.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 1.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 39.7% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.6%. Out of the forested", "title": "Blenio District" } ]

[ "Sylvester", "Sylvester, Georgia" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.19, "text": "Worth County, Georgia Worth County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 21,679. The county seat is Sylvester. Worth County is included in the Albany, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is called the \"\"Peanut Capital\"\" because of its massive peanut industry. Worth County was created from Dooly and Irwin counties on December 20, 1853, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, becoming Georgia's 106th county. It was named for Major General William J. Worth of New York. In 1905, portions of Worth", "title": "Worth County, Georgia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.52, "text": "Capital of the World. The event is sponsored by the Sylvester/Worth Chamber of Commerce and ConAgra Foods, makers of Peter Pan peanut butter. Activities include one of the largest parades in the southeast and a beauty pageant with up to 100 contestants. Craftsmen from all over the state come to Sylvester to showcase their creations at the festival. Live entertainment and carnival attractions are usually on hand as well. The Worth County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. The district has 296 full-time teachers and over", "title": "Sylvester, Georgia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.2, "text": "Sylvester, Georgia Sylvester is the county seat of Worth County, Georgia, United States. The population was 5,990 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat and business center of Worth County and is claimed to be the \"\"Peanut Capital of the World\"\" due to its peanut production. Sylvester started as a \"\"beautiful nowhere\"\" in 1893 and was first called \"\"Isabella Station\"\". When the Brunswick and Albany Railroad came through southwest Georgia, the county seat was Isabella, which is located three miles north of the railroad. Slowly, however, the center of trade and commerce shifted south along the railroad.", "title": "Sylvester, Georgia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.17, "text": "4,354 students. Sylvester, Georgia Sylvester is the county seat of Worth County, Georgia, United States. The population was 5,990 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat and business center of Worth County and is claimed to be the \"\"Peanut Capital of the World\"\" due to its peanut production. Sylvester started as a \"\"beautiful nowhere\"\" in 1893 and was first called \"\"Isabella Station\"\". When the Brunswick and Albany Railroad came through southwest Georgia, the county seat was Isabella, which is located three miles north of the railroad. Slowly, however, the center of trade and commerce shifted south along", "title": "Sylvester, Georgia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.06, "text": "Worth County, Missouri Worth County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,171. It is the smallest county in the state in population and, excepting the independent city of St. Louis, the smallest in total area. Its county seat is Grant City. The county was organized February 8, 1861 and named for General William J. Worth, who served in the Mexican–American War. Worth County is the youngest county in the state. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of ,", "title": "Worth County, Missouri" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.55, "text": "of Representatives. Former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) received more votes, a total of 171, than any candidate from either party in Worth County during the 2008 presidential primary. Worth County, Missouri Worth County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,171. It is the smallest county in the state in population and, excepting the independent city of St. Louis, the smallest in total area. Its county seat is Grant City. The county was organized February 8, 1861 and named for General William J.", "title": "Worth County, Missouri" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.33, "text": "Worth County, Iowa Worth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,598. The county seat is in Northwood. The county was founded in 1851 and named for Major General William Jenkins Worth (1794–1849), an officer in both the Seminole War and the Mexican–American War. Worth County is part of the Mason City, IA Micropolitan Statistical Area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.5%) is water. It is the fourth-smallest county in Iowa by land area", "title": "Worth County, Iowa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.09, "text": "out the city in 1812, and officials incorporated it in 1816. Columbus was not Ohio’s original capital, but the state legislature chose to move the state government there after its location for a short time at Chillicothe and at Zanesville. Columbus was chosen as the site for the new capital because of its central location within the state and access by way of major transportation routes (primarily rivers) at that time. The legislature chose it as Ohio’s capital over a number of other competitors, including Franklinton, Dublin, Worthington, and Delaware. On May 5, 1802 a group of prospective settlers founded", "title": "Franklin County, Ohio" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.03, "text": "median income for a family was $46,791. Males had a median income of $35,829 versus $26,690 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,348. About 15.6% of families and 20.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.0% of those under age 18 and 16.7% of those age 65 or over. Worth County, Georgia Worth County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 21,679. The county seat is Sylvester. Worth County is included in the Albany, GA Metropolitan Statistical", "title": "Worth County, Georgia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.38, "text": "6.30% of families and 8.30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.60% of those under age 18 and 7.80% of those age 65 or over. The population ranking of the following table is based on the 2010 census of Worth County. † \"\"county seat\"\" Worth County, Iowa Worth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,598. The county seat is in Northwood. The county was founded in 1851 and named for Major General William Jenkins Worth (1794–1849), an officer in both the Seminole War and", "title": "Worth County, Iowa" } ]

[ "Kokshetau", "Kökshetaū" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.23, "text": "Akmola Region Akmola Region (; ) is a centrally located region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Kokshetau. The national capital, Astana, is enclosed by the region, but is politically separate from Akmola Region. The region's population is 715,000; Kokshetau's is 157,000. The area is 146,200 square kilometers. It and Karaganda Region are Kazakhstan's only two regions which don't touch the country's outer borders. Akmola Region borders North Kazakhstan Region in the north, Pavlodar Region in the east, Karagandy Region in the south, and Kostanay Region in the west. Some gold and coal mining occur in the area. Aqmola in Kazakh", "title": "Akmola Region" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.02, "text": "language means the white burial. Ethnic Kazakhs account for 53.4% of the population in the 2017 census, compared to 33.7% for Russians. The region is administratively divided into seventeen districts and the cities of Kokshetau and Stepnogorsk. Akmola Region Akmola Region (; ) is a centrally located region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Kokshetau. The national capital, Astana, is enclosed by the region, but is politically separate from Akmola Region. The region's population is 715,000; Kokshetau's is 157,000. The area is 146,200 square kilometers. It and Karaganda Region are Kazakhstan's only two regions which don't touch the country's outer borders.", "title": "Akmola Region" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.84, "text": "prikaz\"\" (), it served as a defensive fortification for the Siberian Cossacks. In 1832 the settlement was granted a town status and renamed \"\"Akmolinsk\"\" (). On 20 March 1961 the city was renamed \"\"Tselinograd\"\" () to mark the city's evolution as a cultural and administrative center of the Virgin Lands Campaign. In 1992 it was renamed \"\"Akmola\"\", the modified original name meaning \"\"white grave\"\". On 10 December 1997 Akmola replaced Almaty as the capital of Kazakhstan. On 6 May 1998 it was renamed \"\"Astana\"\", which means \"\"capital city\"\" in Kazakh. The settlement of \"\"Akmoly\"\", also known as \"\"Akmolinsky prikaz\"\", was", "title": "Astana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.48, "text": "Akkol Akkol (, \"\"Aqköl\"\"), formerly known as \"\"Alexeyevka\"\" (, until 1997), is a town in northern Kazakhstan. It is located north of the national capital Astana along the highway between Astana and the Burabay National Nature Park. The town is the administrative centre of Akkol District of Akmola Region. Most of the people are Kazakhs and Russians. There are smaller minorities of Ukrainians and Germans. The population is From its foundation in 1887 till 1997 it had borne the name \"\"Alexeyevka\"\". It sits on the western side of a lake of the same name. Thus, it is located between the", "title": "Akkol" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.67, "text": "airport, and several sports venues. In 1971, the Tselinniy Krai was abolished and Tselinograd became the centre of the oblast. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the consequent independence of Kazakhstan, the city's original form was restored in the modified form \"\"Akmola\"\". On 6 July 1994, the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan adopted the decree \"\"On the transfer of the capital of Kazakhstan\"\". After the capital of Kazakhstan was moved to Akmola on 10 December 1997, the city was consequently renamed Astana in 1998. On 10 June 1998, Astana was presented as the capital internationally. On 16 July 1999,", "title": "Astana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.47, "text": "Capital City Day (Kazakhstan) The Day of the Capital City of Kazakhstan is an official Public holiday in Kazakhstan. It was established in 2009 and is celebrated on July 6. It celebrates the Capital city of Kazakhstan, Astana. On July 6, 1994, the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan adopted a resolution to transfer the capital of Kazakhstan from Almaty to Akmola. On May 6, 1998, Akmola was renamed to Astana and gained status as the capital city. On July 18, 2008, the government approved a bill making Capital Day a state holiday. since 2009, the best brass bands of Kazakhstan and", "title": "Capital City Day (Kazakhstan)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.44, "text": "Akmol Akmol (formerly Malīnovka until 2007) () is a rural locality (selo) and the administrative center of Tselinograd District, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, roughly west of Astana. Population: As of 2012, it had a population of 5769 people. As of 2015, Zhanat Beisekeyev is the local \"\"akim\"\" (governor). The village is located on the bank of Lake Zhalanash, on the paved road which connects Astana and Korgalzhyn. Zhanazhol (5.4 km) and Rodionovka (5.7 km) are nearby. The closest railway station is in Astana. Akmol is east of the Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve, part of the UNESCO heritage site Saryarka — Steppe and", "title": "Akmol" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.14, "text": "Astana Astana (; Kazakh and ; ; ) is the capital city of Kazakhstan. It is located on the banks of the Ishim River in the north portion of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, though administered separately from the region as a city with special status. The 2017 official estimate reported a population of 1,029,556 within the city limits, making it the second-largest city in Kazakhstan, behind Almaty. Astana became the capital city of Kazakhstan in 1997, and since then has developed economically into one of the most modernized cities in Central Asia. Modern Astana is a planned city, like", "title": "Astana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.06, "text": "Akko, Nigeria Akko is a Local Government Area of Gombe State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the City of Kumo on the A345 highway south of the state capital Gombe(about 40 km approx). Kumo(headquarters) is a cosmopolitan community of more than 30 different tribes,ranging from renown Fulani and Hausa,to remote Jukun and Tulaa. Kumo also serves as the second largest commercial centre besides Gombe The town of Akko from which the LGA is named is west of Gombe at . The LGA has an area of 2,627 km² and a population of 337,853 at the 2006 census. The postal code", "title": "Akko, Nigeria" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.98, "text": "also a Roman Catholic parochial church (Our Lady of the Rosary), within the Archdiocese of Astana. Akmol Akmol (formerly Malīnovka until 2007) () is a rural locality (selo) and the administrative center of Tselinograd District, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, roughly west of Astana. Population: As of 2012, it had a population of 5769 people. As of 2015, Zhanat Beisekeyev is the local \"\"akim\"\" (governor). The village is located on the bank of Lake Zhalanash, on the paved road which connects Astana and Korgalzhyn. Zhanazhol (5.4 km) and Rodionovka (5.7 km) are nearby. The closest railway station is in Astana. Akmol is", "title": "Akmol" } ]

[ "Saanen" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.44, "text": "Saanen Saanen () is a municipality in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district. Saanen is first mentioned in 1228 as \"\"Gissinay\"\". In 1340 it was mentioned as \"\"Sanon\"\". During the Bronze Age there was a hill fort on the Cholis Grind near the modern village of Saanen. The region was occupied by the Gallo-Romans until the 10th or 11th century when the Alamanni began to drive them out. This migration created the modern language borders in Switzerland. During the Middle Ages several forts were built to guard the mule trails into", "title": "Saanen" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.55, "text": "for gymnasial and vocational education MBA (\"\"Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt MBA\"\"), administration for education (\"\"Erziehungsdirektion\"\"), canton of Berne, nor by the Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). It is an English language school and offers daily ski instruction in the Swiss Alps. JFK School has a student-teacher ratio of 3 to 1. Previously Gstaad International School had its Alpine Lodge Campus in Saanen. Saanen is twinned with: Saanen Saanen () is a municipality in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district. Saanen is first mentioned in 1228 as \"\"Gissinay\"\".", "title": "Saanen" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.28, "text": "clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 15.3% is pastures and 35.9% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 4.8% is unproductive vegetation and 3.5% is too rocky for vegetation. The municipality is located in the upper Saane valley. It consists of the economic center and district capital, the village of Saanen along with the villages of Gstaad, Abländschen, Bissen, Ebnit, Gruben, Grund, Kalberhöni, Saanen, Saanenmöser, Schönried, and Turbach. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is \"\"Gules a Crane rising Argent beaked and membered Or on a", "title": "Saanen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.64, "text": "Saanich, British Columbia The District of Saanich () is a district municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, within the Greater Victoria area. The population was 114,148 at the 2016 census, making it the most populous municipality in the Capital Regional District and Vancouver Island, and the eighth-most populous in the province. The district adopted its name after the Saanich First Nation, meaning \"\"emerging land\"\" or \"\"emerging people\"\". The District acts as a bedroom community immediately to the north of Victoria, British Columbia. With an area of , it is the largest municipality in Greater Victoria. The municipality contains a", "title": "Saanich, British Columbia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.39, "text": "rest of the district became part of the Canton of Oberland. When the Helvetic Republic collapsed in 1803, Saanen and its district became a district in the new Canton of Bern. In 1833, Saanen became a political municipality. In 1845 the Zweisimmen-Saanen road replaced the old mule trail and the town got postal service. Around 1900, tourism began to grow in Saanen and Gstaad and new hotels opened. The opening of the Montreux-Oberland Bernois rail road in 1905, made it easier for tourists to visit. During both World Wars, the tourism industry in Saanen suffered, but it has expanded since", "title": "Saanen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.3, "text": "Fribourg ' (; or ', ) or ' (also called \"\"Freiburg im Üechtland\"\" for disambiguation from Freiburg im Breisgau; ; ; or '; ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and the district La Sarine. It is located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss Plateau, and is a major economic, administrative and educational center on the cultural border between German and French Switzerland (Romandy). Its Old City, one of the best-maintained in Switzerland, sits on a small rocky hill above the valley of the Sarine. The region around Fribourg has been settled since", "title": "Fribourg" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.08, "text": "Central Saanich Central Saanich is a district municipality in Greater Victoria and a member municipality of the Capital Regional District. It is located on the Saanich Peninsula. The district began as a farming community, and many hobby farms, along with a handful of small working farms and vineyards, still exist. In recent decades, the area has seen increasing residential, commercial, and industrial development, especially around the neighbourhoods of Brentwood Bay and Saanichton, which are occasionally referred to as separate communities. The area's best-known tourist attractions are the Butchart Gardens, located in the Brentwood Bay area, and Island View Beach. The", "title": "Central Saanich" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.83, "text": "introduced the Protestant Reformation. The Bernese bailiff administered the districts of Gessenay (Saanen) and Pays-d'Enhaut until the great fire of 1575 which destroyed much of the town. The bailiff then moved to the former monastery of Mont Rouge. The district covered eleven separate \"\"Bäuerten\"\" or agricultural collectives or farming villages and the towns of Saanen and Gstaad. The main sources of income were seasonal alpine herding, forestry and providing warehousing and extra oxen for wagon trains coming over the mule trails. Saanen was the market town for the surrounding villages, with weekly and yearly markets in the town. There were", "title": "Saanen" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.55, "text": "Saanen district and parish. The villagers often acted against the interests of the counts. In 1340 the valley concluded a peace treaty with the Simmental, which provided for arbitration in disputes. They entered into another treaty in 1393 with the Valais. In 1401, Count Rudolph of Gruyère entered into a treaty with Bern which included Saanen. Two years later Saanen negotiated their own alliance with Bern. Due to the Bernese alliance, Saanen sent troops, under their own banner, to support the Bernese invasions of Aargau in 1415 and Valais in 1418. The military losses and taxes following the Old Zürich", "title": "Saanen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.39, "text": "Djanet Djanet () is an oasis city, and capital of Djanet District, in Illizi Province, southeast Algeria. It is located south of the provincial capital, Illizi. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 14,655, up from 9,699 in 1998, and an annual population growth rate of 4.3%. It is inhabited by the Kel Ajjer Tuareg people. The region of Djanet has been inhabited since Neolithic times. There were periods of ten thousand years at a time that the area was not desert. The flora and fauna were luxuriant as is seen in the numerous rock paintings of", "title": "Djanet" } ]

[ "Faulkton", "Faulkton, South Dakota" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.83, "text": "Faulk County, South Dakota Faulk County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,364. Its county seat is Faulkton. The county was founded in 1873 and organized in 1883. It is named for Andrew Jackson Faulk, the third Governor of Dakota Territory. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (2.4%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,640 people, 1,014 households, and 708 families residing in the county. The population density was 3", "title": "Faulk County, South Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.56, "text": "age 65 or over. The county is divided into twenty eight townships: Faulk County, South Dakota Faulk County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,364. Its county seat is Faulkton. The county was founded in 1873 and organized in 1883. It is named for Andrew Jackson Faulk, the third Governor of Dakota Territory. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (2.4%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,640 people, 1,014 households,", "title": "Faulk County, South Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.94, "text": "States District Court for Dakota Territory in 1873. When Governor Nehemiah Ordway attempted to remove the Dakota Territory capital from Yankton, Faulk worked to have Ordway dismissed. On April 19, 1877, Faulk participated in the meeting to adopt a statehood resolution; and in 1883, he attended the constitutional convention. Faulk continued to reside in Yankton, South Dakota until the time of his death. He died on September 5, 1898 in Yankton, South Dakota. Andrew Jackson Faulk is the namesake of Faulkton, South Dakota and Faulk County, South Dakota. Andrew Jackson Faulk Andrew Jackson Faulk (November 26, 1814 – September 5,", "title": "Andrew Jackson Faulk" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.91, "text": "Faulkton, South Dakota Faulkton is a city in and the county seat of Faulk County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 736 at the 2010 census. The city's nickname is \"\"The Carousel City\"\". Faulkton was platted in 1886. It was named for Andrew Jackson Faulk, the third Governor of Dakota Territory. The city was incorporated in 1886. Faulkton is located at (45.033209, -99.128067). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 736 people, 355 households, and 182 families residing in", "title": "Faulkton, South Dakota" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.42, "text": "Falavarjan Falavarjan (, also Romanized as Falāvarjān, Falāvar Jān, and Felāvarjān; also known as Pol-e Vargān, Pol-e Varqān, Pul-i-Vargān, and Mollāvarjān) is a city and capital of Falavarjan County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 37,740, in 9,097 families. The ancient name of this city was Barze which means the branch of a tree or cultivation. This name gradually changed to Varjan. During the Safavid period due to the construction of a bridge on the Zayandeh Rood (river), Varjan was renamed Polavarjan and thence to Falavarjan. The city is a part of Esfahan metropolitan area. For", "title": "Falavarjan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.33, "text": "Falavarjan County Falavarjan County () is a county in Isfahan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Falavarjan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 247,014. The county is subdivided into two districts: the Central District and Pir Bakran District. The county has eight cities: Falavarjan, Pir Bakran, Baharan Shahr, Kelishad va Sudarjan, Qahderijan, Abrisham, Zazeran, and Imanshahr. The most important historical structures in the county are in the Pirbakran Mausoleum, and the historical mosque of the village of Oshtorjan (now the city of Imanshahr). The Islamic Azad University of Falavarjan was founded in Falavarjan County, 1984.", "title": "Falavarjan County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.25, "text": "its public transit system, the city is served by Falavarjan County Municipalities Mass Transit Organization bus network. Islamic Azad University of Falavarjan Islamic Azad University of Falavarjan has been founded in 1984. Falavarjan Falavarjan (, also Romanized as Falāvarjān, Falāvar Jān, and Felāvarjān; also known as Pol-e Vargān, Pol-e Varqān, Pul-i-Vargān, and Mollāvarjān) is a city and capital of Falavarjan County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 37,740, in 9,097 families. The ancient name of this city was Barze which means the branch of a tree or cultivation. This name gradually changed to Varjan. During the", "title": "Falavarjan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.09, "text": "Kodok Kodok or Kothok (), formerly known as Fashoda, is a town in the north-eastern South Sudanese state of Western Nile. Kodok is the capital of Shilluk country, formally known as the Shilluk Kingdom. Shilluk has been an independent kingdom for more than sixteen centuries. Fashoda is known as the place where the British and French nearly went to war in 1898. According to Shilluk belief, religion, tradition and constitution, Fashoda serves as the mediating city for the Shilluk King. It is a place where ceremonies and the coronation of each new Shilluk King takes place. For over 500 years,", "title": "Kodok" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.97, "text": "The main route passing through the county is Zobahan Freeway, connecting population centres to Isfahan. Falavarjan County has its own Transit Bus system named Falavarjan County Municipalities Mass Transit Organization, running 7 routes connecting the county's cities to Isfahan and one route to Khomeynishahr. Falavarjan County Falavarjan County () is a county in Isfahan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Falavarjan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 247,014. The county is subdivided into two districts: the Central District and Pir Bakran District. The county has eight cities: Falavarjan, Pir Bakran, Baharan Shahr, Kelishad va Sudarjan,", "title": "Falavarjan County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.94, "text": "Faulconer County Faulconer County is a fictional county in the state of Virginia, a setting in the Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell set during the American Civil War. Faulconer County is the historical home of the Faulconer family, who in 1861 are headed by Washington Faulconer, his wife Miriam and their children Adam Faulconer and Anna, who is engaged to Ethan Ridley. The Faulconers are of English extraction and have their own coat of arms. The main settlements in the county are Faulconer Court House and Roskill. Faulconer Court House is the centre of the Faulconer's lives, it is here", "title": "Faulconer County" } ]

[ "Gaborone", "Gabs" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.66, "text": "Gaborone Gaborone (; English ) is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 231,626 based on the 2011 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Gaborone City, nicknamed Gabs, is situated between Kgale and Oodi Hills, near the confluence Notwane River and Segoditshane River in the south-eastern corner of Botswana, and from the South African border. The city is served by the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport. It is an administrative district in its own right, but is the capital of the surrounding", "title": "Gaborone" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.16, "text": "capital of Pretoria in the east and to Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, in the north. A railway runs north and south from the neighbouring town of Mafikeng. The city is served by Mmabatho International Airport, handling flights to and from Johannesburg. Mmabatho Mmabatho (Setswana for \"\"Mother of the People\"\") is the former capital of the North-West Province of South Africa. In the apartheid era, it was the capital of the former \"\"Bantustan\"\" of Bophuthatswana. Following the end of apartheid in 1994, Bophuthatswana was integrated into the newly established North-West Province and Mmabatho was proclaimed the provincial capital. However, Mmabatho", "title": "Mmabatho" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.92, "text": "Rhodes planned the Jameson Raid. The city changed its name from Gaberones to Gaborone in 1969. In 1965, the capital of the Bechuanaland Protectorate moved from Mafeking to Gaberones. When Botswana gained its independence, Lobatse was the first choice as the nation's capital. However, Lobatse was deemed too limited, and instead, a new capital city would be created next to Gaberones. The city was chosen because of its proximity to a fresh water source, its proximity to the railway to Pretoria, its central location among the central tribes, and its lack of association with those surrounding tribes. The city was", "title": "Gaborone" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.81, "text": "were killed. The majority of vehicle accident casualties involved pedestrians, and most traffic accidents occur between 16:00 and 18:00. Gaborone has been twinned with three cities and one province: Gaborone Gaborone (; English ) is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 231,626 based on the 2011 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Gaborone City, nicknamed Gabs, is situated between Kgale and Oodi Hills, near the confluence Notwane River and Segoditshane River in the south-eastern corner of Botswana, and from the South", "title": "Gaborone" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.62, "text": "South-East District (Botswana) South-East is one of the districts of Botswana. The capital city of Botswana, Gaborone, is surrounded by this district. The administrative capital for the South-East district is the village of Ramotswa. In the southeast, South-East borders the North West Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders Kgatleng in northeast, Kweneng in northwest, Southern in southwest. As of 2011, the total population of the district was 85,014 compared to 60,623 in 2001. The growth rate of population during the decade was 3.44. The total number of workers constituted 21,810 with 11,927 males and 9,883 females, with a majority", "title": "South-East District (Botswana)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.14, "text": "Maun, Botswana Maun is the fifth largest town in Botswana. As of 2011, it had a population of 55,784. Maun is the \"\"tourism capital\"\" of Botswana and the administrative centre of Ngamiland district. Francistown and Maun there are linked by the A3 highway. It is also the headquarters of numerous safari and air-charter operations who run trips into the Okavango Delta. Although officially still a village, Maun has developed rapidly from a rural frontier town and has spread along the Thamalakane River. It now has shopping centres, hotels and lodges as well as car hire, although it retains a rural", "title": "Maun, Botswana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.11, "text": "The total number of workers constituted 51,187 with 29,043 males and 22,141 females. Southern District (Botswana) Southern is one of the districts of Botswana. The capital of Southern district (Ngwaketse district) is Kanye, home to the Bangwaketse, one of the largest growing villages in Botswana. The Southern district (Ngwaketse district), is home to Botswana’s second largest beef farmers where there are large privately owned ranges, and several government run beef ranges which provide agricultural support to the local farmers. Maize and sorghum, Botswana’s staple crop, are also raised in the area. Southern district is where the third diamond mine of", "title": "Southern District (Botswana)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.09, "text": "Capital Bank (Botswana) Capital Bank Limited, commonly known as Capital Bank, is a commercial bank in Botswana. It is owned by First Merchant Bank of Malawi, and others, including Botswana nationals. In that respect, it is one of the few commercial banks in Botswana, in which nationals of Botswana own a stake. The bank began operations in 2008, following the issuance of its banking license by the Bank of Botswana, the national banking regulator. Capital Bank introduced Internet banking in 2009 and Visa Debit Cards in 2010. Among the shareholders of Capital Bank are First Merchant Bank of Malawi (FMB),", "title": "Capital Bank (Botswana)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.05, "text": "Francistown Francistown is the second largest city in Botswana, with a population of about 100,079 and 150,800 inhabitants for its agglomeration at the 2011 census. and often described as the \"\"Capital of the North.\"\" It is located in eastern Botswana, about north-northeast from the capital, Gaborone. Francistown is located at the confluence of the Tati and Inchwe rivers, and near the Shashe River (tributary to the Limpopo) and 90 kilometres from the international border with Zimbabwe. Francistown was the centre of southern Africa's first gold rush and is still surrounded by old and abandoned mines. The City of Francistown is", "title": "Francistown" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.02, "text": "Southern District (Botswana) Southern is one of the districts of Botswana. The capital of Southern district (Ngwaketse district) is Kanye, home to the Bangwaketse, one of the largest growing villages in Botswana. The Southern district (Ngwaketse district), is home to Botswana’s second largest beef farmers where there are large privately owned ranges, and several government run beef ranges which provide agricultural support to the local farmers. Maize and sorghum, Botswana’s staple crop, are also raised in the area. Southern district is where the third diamond mine of Botswana was found (the Jwaneng diamond mine), which buoys Botswana’s economic state of", "title": "Southern District (Botswana)" } ]

[ "Makeni" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.89, "text": "Northern Province, Zambia Northern Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces. It covers approximately one sixth of Zambia in land area. The provincial capital is Kasama. The province is made up of 8 districts, namely Kasama (the provincial capital), Chilubi, Kaputa, Luwingu, Mbala, Mporokoso, Mpulungu and Mungwi. Currently, only Kasama and Mbala have attained municipal council status, while the rest are still district councils. It is widely considered to be the heartland of the Bemba, one of the largest tribes in Zambia. Since this article was published the new Muchinga Province has taken the Eastern districts of Northern Province and", "title": "Northern Province, Zambia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.33, "text": "Northern Province, Rwanda Northern Province (; ) is one of Rwanda's five provinces. It was created in early January 2006 as part of a government decentralization program that re-organized the country's local government structures. Northern Province comprises most of the former provinces of Ruhengeri and Byumba, along with northern portions of Kigali Rural. It is divided into the districts of Burera, Gicumbi, Gakenke, Musanze, and Rulindo. The capital city of Northern Province is Musanze. The province's official languages are English, French and Kinyarwanda. The governor, appointed by presidential decree, is currently Hon. Gatabazi Jean Marie Vianney. The preceding governors of", "title": "Northern Province, Rwanda" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.28, "text": "Northern province were Claude Musabyimana, Bosenibamwe Aimée, Boniface Rucagu, formerly governor of Ruhengeri Province. Northern Province, Rwanda Northern Province (; ) is one of Rwanda's five provinces. It was created in early January 2006 as part of a government decentralization program that re-organized the country's local government structures. Northern Province comprises most of the former provinces of Ruhengeri and Byumba, along with northern portions of Kigali Rural. It is divided into the districts of Burera, Gicumbi, Gakenke, Musanze, and Rulindo. The capital city of Northern Province is Musanze. The province's official languages are English, French and Kinyarwanda. The governor, appointed", "title": "Northern Province, Rwanda" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.17, "text": "Oro Province Oro Province, formerly (and officially still) Northern Province, is a coastal province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Popondetta. The province covers 22,800 km, and has 176,206 inhabitants (2011 census). The province shares land borders with Morobe Province to the northwest, Central Province to the west and south, and Milne Bay Province to the southeast. The province is located within the Papuan Peninsula. Oro is the only province in which the Anglican Church is the major religious denomination. Oil palm is the principal primary industry. William Clarke College also funds people in that area. The northern", "title": "Oro Province" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.05, "text": "Northern Province, Sri Lanka The Northern Province ( \"\"Vaṭa Mākāṇam\"\"; \"\"Uturu Paḷāta\"\") is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but did not have any legal status until 1987 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka established provincial councils. Between 1988 and 2006 the province was temporarily merged with the Eastern Province to form the North Eastern Province. The capital of the province is Jaffna. The majority of the Sri Lankan Civil War was played out in this province. Parts", "title": "Northern Province, Sri Lanka" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "12 per cent as of 2008. The province had 40 doctors as of 2005. There were 331 Malaria incidence for every 1,000 people in the province as of 2005 and there were 6,958 AIDS death as of 2010. Northern Province, Zambia Northern Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces. It covers approximately one sixth of Zambia in land area. The provincial capital is Kasama. The province is made up of 8 districts, namely Kasama (the provincial capital), Chilubi, Kaputa, Luwingu, Mbala, Mporokoso, Mpulungu and Mungwi. Currently, only Kasama and Mbala have attained municipal council status, while the rest are still", "title": "Northern Province, Zambia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.09, "text": "Africa. The Province of Zaria is home to the City of Kaduna, an autonomous capital city that serves as the nation's capital and home to its national institutions. Groundnut and cotton industries in the province of Kano provide the main source of revenue for Northern Nigeria. Tin mining in the Province of Plateau, Steel mining in the Province of Benue and other metal industries in the Province of Sokoto build up the diverse mining industry of the Country. Cement industries in Sokoto and Bauchi and leather processing industries in Kano constitute the main manufacturing sector. Northern Nigeria is an ethnically", "title": "Northern Region, Nigeria" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.97, "text": "Northern Cape The Northern Cape (; ; ) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, an international park shared with Botswana. It also includes the Augrabies Falls and the diamond mining regions in Kimberley and Alexander Bay. The Namaqualand region in the west is famous for its Namaqualand daisies. The southern towns of De Aar and Colesberg, in the Great Karoo, are major transport nodes between Johannesburg,", "title": "Northern Cape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.97, "text": "North Eastern Province (Kenya) The North Eastern Province () is one of the former provinces in Kenya. It has a land area of 127,358.5 km², with its capital at Garissa. Previously known as the Northern Frontier District (NFD), the territory was carved out of the Jubaland region of present-day southern Somalia during the colonial period. It is and has historically been exclusively inhabited by ethnic Somalis. The Northern Frontier District came into being in 1925, when it was carved out of the Jubaland region in present-day southern Somalia. At the time under British colonial administration, the northern half of Jubaland", "title": "North Eastern Province (Kenya)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.86, "text": "province and each district is represented by a Member of the National Parliament. There is one provincial electorate and each district is an open electorate. Oro Province Oro Province, formerly (and officially still) Northern Province, is a coastal province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Popondetta. The province covers 22,800 km, and has 176,206 inhabitants (2011 census). The province shares land borders with Morobe Province to the northwest, Central Province to the west and south, and Milne Bay Province to the southeast. The province is located within the Papuan Peninsula. Oro is the only province in which the", "title": "Oro Province" } ]

[ "Ulan-Ude", "Verkhneudinsk" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.45, "text": "October 1920 Verkhneudinsk was the capital of the Far Eastern Republic (Дальневосточная Республика), sometimes called Chita Republic. It was a nominally independent state that existed from April 1920 to November 1922 in the easternmost part of the Russian Far East. On 27 July 1934, the city was renamed Ulan-Ude. Ulan-Ude is the capital of the republic. Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the city of republic significance of Ulan-Ude—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the city of republic significance of Ulan-Ude is incorporated as Ulan-Ude Urban", "title": "Ulan-Ude" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.73, "text": "Krai of Russia (the former Transbaikal and Amur oblasts and Primorsky krai). Its capital was established at Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude), but in October 1920 it was moved to Chita. After the fall of Vladivostok on 25 October 1922, the civil war was declared over. Three weeks later, on 15 November 1922, the Far Eastern Republic was merged with the RSFSR. The Far Eastern Republic was established in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War. During the Civil War local authorities generally controlled the towns and cities of the Russian Far East, cooperating to a greater or lesser extent with the", "title": "Far Eastern Republic" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.81, "text": "Far Eastern Krai Far Eastern Krai or Far Eastern Territory was an administrative subdivision of the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union during 1926–1938. Its capital was Khabarovsk. The term may also informally refer to Russian Far East. After the abolition of the buffer state of Far Eastern Republic in 1922 the Far Eastern Oblast was established with capital Chita (since 1924 the capital was Khabarovsk), which included the lands of FER and Amurskaya, Transbaikalskaya, Kamchatskaya, Priamurskaya, Primorskaya (with northern part of Sakhalin island) guberniyas (provinces). It also had right of way by the Chinese Eastern Railway. Geographically, it was", "title": "Far Eastern Krai" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.77, "text": "Bolsheviks of Vladivostok use this situation for supporting the idea of making Vladivostok the capital of Far Eastern Republic. This situation was favourable for Semenov, because Maritime Territory Popular Council negotiated with Semenov's government as with equal side. On August 13, 1920, Political Bureau of Central Committee of RCP(b) approved \"\"The Short Thesises about the Far Eastern Republic\"\". After reading them representatives of Vladivostok in Verkhneudinsk signed a preliminary agreement with the government of Far Eastern Republic, recognizing Verkhneudinsk as its capital. On August 24, 1920, on Khadabulak railway station Grigory Semyonov and representatives of Maritime Territory Popular Council signed", "title": "Zemstvo of Maritime Territory" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.61, "text": "war with Japan. Initially, its capital was Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude), but from October 1920 it was Chita. On 15 November 1922, after the war ended and the Japanese withdrew from Vladivostok, the Far Eastern Republic was annexed by Soviet Russia. In 1920 the RSFSR by agreement with the communists, social revolutionists and social democrats formed a three-party coalition government called the Far Eastern Republic (F.E.R.). The Chairman of the F.E.R. was Alexander Krasnochekoff. In September 1920 this government ordered its Central Postal Administration to collect all stocks of the remaining Tsarist postage stamps from all post offices in the area", "title": "Postage stamps and postal history of the Far Eastern Republic" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "had been expelled from his base of operations in Chita. With Semenov out of the picture, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic moved to that city. On 11 November 1920 a provisional national assembly for the Far East met in Vladivostok. The gathering recognized the government at Chita and set 9 January 1921 as the date for new elections for the Constituent Assembly of the Far Eastern Republic. A new constitution closely resembling the United States Constitution was written and approved on 27 April 1921. However, right-wing forces rejected the idea of a fledgling democratic republic. On 26 May", "title": "Far Eastern Republic" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.88, "text": "of Western Transbaikal Region proclaimed in Verkhneudinsk the creation of Far Eastern Republic. \"\"Declaration of creation an independent Far Eastern Republic\"\" set a purpose of uniting the whole Russian Far East. Therefore there became two pretenders for the position of its capital: Vladivostok and Verkhneudinsk. Amur Oblast with its pro-Soviet government - recognized Verkhneudinsk, Russia Eastern Outskirts had to negotiate with Vladivostok. Grigory Semyonov - head of Russia Eastern Outskirts - and N.P.Pumpianskij - representative of Maritime Territory government - met at Manzhouli railway station, but couldn't agree about the unification. Directions of Siberian Revolution Committee weren't too strict, and", "title": "Zemstvo of Maritime Territory" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.73, "text": "community after demands on their merchants. The intervention ended in the wake of the collapse of the White Army and regime in 1919; all Allied forces except the Japanese withdrew by the end of 1920. In April 1920, the city came under the formal governance of the Far Eastern Republic, a Soviet-backed buffer state between the Soviets and Japan. Vladivostok then became the capital of the Japanese-backed Provisional Priamurye Government, created after a White Army coup in the city in May 1921. The withdrawal of Japanese forces in October 1922 spelled the end of the enclave, with Ieronim Uborevich's Red", "title": "Vladivostok" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.94, "text": "Pyotr Beketov in 1653. People began to move into and develop the area in order to strengthen Russia's border with China and Mongolia, extract mineral resources, and build the Trans-Siberian Railway. In 1920, Chita became the capital of the Far East Republic, which merged with Russia in November 1922, a month before the Soviet Union was constituted. The oblast was rich in ferrous, non-ferrous, rare, and precious metals, coal, charcoal, and mineral waters. Russia's estimated reserves of ores with a high uranium content are 145,400 tons. Most of these deposits are located in the former Chita Oblast, near Krasnokamensk, site", "title": "Chita Oblast" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.84, "text": "Far Eastern Republic The Far Eastern Republic (), sometimes called the Chita Republic, was a nominally independent state that existed from April 1920 to November 1922 in the easternmost part of the Russian Far East. Although nominally independent, it was largely controlled by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and its main purpose was to be a buffer state between the RSFSR and the territories occupied by Japan during the Russian Civil War. Its first president was Alexander Krasnoshchyokov. The Far Eastern Republic occupied the territory of modern Zabaykalsky Krai, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky", "title": "Far Eastern Republic" } ]

[ "Sarajevo", "City of Sarajevo" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.88, "text": "emblem. Although the constitution names Sarajevo as the capital of Republika Srpska, the northwestern city of Banja Luka is the headquarters of most of the institutions of government, including the parliament, and is therefore the \"\"de facto\"\" capital. After the war, Republika Srpska retained its army, but in August 2005, the parliament consented to transfer control of Army of Republika Srpska to a state-level ministry and abolish the entity's defense ministry and army by 1 January 2006. These reforms were required by NATO as a precondition of Bosnia and Herzegovina's admission to the Partnership for Peace programme. Bosnia and Herzegovina", "title": "Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.66, "text": "Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( or ; abbreviated B&H; Bosnian and Serbian: \"\"Bosna i Hercegovina\"\" (BiH) / Боснa и Херцеговина (БиХ), Croatian: \"\"Bosna i Hercegovina\"\" (BiH), ), sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina, and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe in the Balkan Peninsula. Sarajevo is the capital and largest city. Bosnia and Herzegovina is an almost landlocked country – it has a narrow coast at the Adriatic Sea, about long surrounding the town of Neum. It is bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south; Serbia to the east; and Montenegro to the southeast,", "title": "Bosnia and Herzegovina" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.5, "text": "Sarajevo Sarajevo (; , ; \"\"see \"\") is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area, including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities, is home to 555,210 inhabitants. Nestled within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of the Balkans. Sarajevo is the political, social and cultural center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a prominent center of culture in the Balkans, with its region-wide influence in entertainment, media, fashion, and the", "title": "Sarajevo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.44, "text": "riots and record rainfall that caused historic flooding. Sarajevo is the capital of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its sub-entity, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of the Sarajevo Canton. It is also the \"\"de jure\"\" capital of another entity, Republika Srpska. Each of these levels of government has its parliament or council, as well as judicial courts, in the city. All national institutions and foreign embassies are in Sarajevo. Sarajevo is home to the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Constitutional", "title": "Sarajevo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.3, "text": "the Pannonian Plain stretching into neighboring Croatia and Serbia. The country has only of coastline, around the town of Neum in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton. Although the city is surrounded by Croatian peninsulas, by international law, Bosnia and Herzegovina has a right of passage to the outer sea. Sarajevo is the capital and largest city. Other major cities are Banja Luka and Bihać in the northwest region known as Bosanska Krajina, Bijeljina and Tuzla in the northeast, Zenica in the central part of Bosnia and Mostar, the largest city in Herzegovina. There are seven major rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Phytogeographically,", "title": "Bosnia and Herzegovina" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.92, "text": "September. Giro di Sarajevo is also run in the city with over 2,200 cyclists taking part in 2015. In 2019, Sarajevo and East Sarajevo will host the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival (EYOWF). Sarajevo Sarajevo (; , ; \"\"see \"\") is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area, including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities, is home to 555,210 inhabitants. Nestled within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart", "title": "Sarajevo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.75, "text": "Banja Luka Banja Luka (; ) or Banjaluka (), is the second largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the de facto capital of the Republika Srpska entity. Traditionally, it has been the centre of the Bosanska Krajina region, located in the northwestern part of the country. According to the 2013 census, Banja Luka has 185,042 inhabitants. It is home of the University of Banja Luka as well as numerous state and entity institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city lies on the river Vrbas and is well known in the countries of the former Yugoslavia for being full of", "title": "Banja Luka" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.56, "text": "Republika Srpska Republika Srpska (; , ; literally \"\"Serb Republic\"\") is one of two constitutional and legal entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The entities are largely autonomous. Its \"\"de jure\"\" capital city is Sarajevo, but the \"\"de facto\"\" capital and administrative centre is Banja Luka. The territory of what is Republika Srpska was first inhabited by several Illyrian and Celtic civilizations during the Neolithic age. After centuries of Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian rule, it became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 following World War I, which was", "title": "Republika Srpska" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.53, "text": "Sarajevo Canton The Sarajevo Canton, officially the Canton of Sarajevo (, , ) is one of 10 cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its cantonal capital is Sarajevo, also the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Canton represents the metro area of the country's capital city, Sarajevo together with the City of East Sarajevo. It contains 97% of the city's population, but a much smaller percentage of the official land area. The majority of the population is Bosniak (83,8%). The history of Sarajevo dates back to Neolithic times, when the Butmir culture made", "title": "Sarajevo Canton" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.47, "text": "the capital city. Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina In Bosnia and Herzegovina the smallest administrative unit is the municipality (\"\"\"\"opština\"\"/општина\"\" or \"\"\"\"općina\"\"/опћина\"\" in the official languages and scripts of the country). Prior to the 1992–95 Bosnian War there were 109 municipalities in what was then Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ten of these formed the area of the capital Sarajevo. After the war the number of municipalities was increased to 143, grouped in the following way: In addition, Brčko District does not belong to either entity and is governed as a condominium of both FBiH and RS entities. The", "title": "Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina" } ]

[ "Dubai" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.02, "text": "Emirate of Dubai The Emirate of Dubai (; pr. ) is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates. The capital of the emirate is the eponymous city, Dubai. It is located in the Arabian Desert on the coast of the Persian Gulf. It is bordered to the south by the emirate of Abu Dhabi, to the northeast by the emirate of Sharjah, to the southeast by the country of Oman, to the west by the emirate of Ajman, and to the north by the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. In December 1971, the emirates united to form", "title": "Emirate of Dubai" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.75, "text": "Dubai Dubai ( ; \"\"\"\", ) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country. Dubai is a global city and business hub of the Middle East. It is also a major global transport hub for passengers and cargo. Oil revenue helped accelerate the development of the city, which was already a major mercantile hub, but Dubai's oil reserves are limited and production levels are low: today, less than", "title": "Dubai" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.27, "text": "Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (, ; \"\"\"\" ) is the capital and the second most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (the most populous being Dubai), and also capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAE's seven emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. The city of Abu Dhabi has an estimated population of 1.8 million in 2016. Abu Dhabi houses federal government offices, is the seat of the United Arab Emirates Government, home to the Abu Dhabi Emiri Family and the President of", "title": "Abu Dhabi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.16, "text": "Sharjah Sharjah (; \"\"\"\"; Gulf Arabic: \"\"aš-šārja\"\") is the third largest and third most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. It is located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula. Sharjah is the capital of the emirate of Sharjah. Sharjah shares legal, political, military and economic functions with the other emirates of the UAE within a federal framework, although each emirate has jurisdiction over some functions such as civil law enforcement and provision and upkeep of local facilities. Sharjah has been ruled by the Al Qasimi dynasty", "title": "Sharjah" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.14, "text": "Tourist attractions in Dubai Dubai ( ; \"\"\"\", ) is the most populous city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the second largest emirate by territorial size after the capital, Abu Dhabi. It is located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf and is one of the seven emirates that make up the country. Abu Dhabi and Dubai are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature. The city of Dubai is located on the emirate's northern coastline and heads up the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Dubai's", "title": "Tourist attractions in Dubai" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.66, "text": "bank in the emirate and the second largest lender in the federation. NBAD has the largest market capitalization among UAE banks. The government has put in efforts to diversify the economy and invest into other areas such as the service and tourism industry. The capital city has seen various construction projects and the opening of shopping malls. The opening of the Emirates Palace marked the opening of the most expensive hotel ever built. The annual Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is a Formula One motor race held in the capital city, which further attracts tourists. Apart from the capital city, the", "title": "Emirate of Abu Dhabi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.44, "text": "Fujairah City Fujairah City () is the capital of the emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, located on the Gulf of Oman (part of the Indian Ocean). In 2016, the city had a population of 97,226, a significant number (43%) compared to 225,360 in the entire emirate. Fujairah City is the main business and commercial centre for the emirate, with tall office buildings (e.g., Fujairah Tower) lining Hamad Bin Abdulla Road, the main route into the city. The city's location provides direct access to the Indian Ocean for the United Arab Emirates, avoiding use of the Persian Gulf,", "title": "Fujairah City" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.25, "text": "Emirate of Abu Dhabi The Emirate of Abu Dhabi (, , or ; , ), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is the largest emirate by area (), accounting for approximately 87 percent of the total land area of the federation. Abu Dhabi also has the largest population of the seven emirates. In June 2011, it was estimated to be 2,120,700 people, of which, 439,100 people (less than 21%) were Emirati citizens, which has risen to 2.3 million in 2012. Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the emirate, after which it is", "title": "Emirate of Abu Dhabi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.14, "text": "Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The freeways connecting Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai form a geographic triangle in the country, each city being roughly from the other two. Al-Ain was where Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder of the United Arab Emirates, spent much of his life, at least since 1927, before becoming the Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in 1966. Though it is often held that he was born in Abu Dhabi, some hold the view that he was born in Al-Ain. Al Ain is located approximately east of the capital Abu Dhabi, and about south", "title": "Al Ain" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.09, "text": "of Australia are Adelaide; Brisbane; Hobart; Melbourne; Perth; and Sydney. In Australia, the term \"\"capital cities\"\" is regularly used to refer to the aforementioned state capitals plus the federal capital Canberra and Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory. Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates overall. In unitary states which consist of multiple constituent nations, such as the United Kingdom or the Kingdom of Denmark, each will usually have its own capital city. Unlike in federations, there is usually not a separate national capital, but rather the capital city", "title": "Capital city" } ]

[ "Garoowe" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.84, "text": "Dangorayo Dangorayo is a town in the northeastern Nugal region of Somalia. It is the capital of the Dangorayo District. The broader Dangorayo District has a total population of 20,331 residents. Dangorayo has a number of academic institutions. According to the Puntland Ministry of Education, there are 13 primary schools in the Dangorayo District. Among these are Kalyaxed, Hanad, Qundhed and Garmal. Secondary schools in the area include Taageer. In March 2015, the Ministry of Labour, Youth and Sports in conjunction with the European Union and World Vision launched the Nugal Empowerment for Better Livelihood Project in the Dangorayo, Garowe,", "title": "Dangorayo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.69, "text": "integral part of the Majeerteen Sultanate, ruled by Boqor Osman Mahamud, cousin of Sultan Yusuf Ali Kenadid of the Sultanate of Hobyo. The city would later be incorporated into Italian Somaliland during the colonial period. Following independence, Garowe was made a district center of Bosaso. The city would subsequently be reassigned in the early 1970s as the regional capital of an area consisting of Las Anod and Eyl. Straddling the Nugal Valley, this new administrative division would be named Nugal. Following the outbreak of the civil war in 1991, a homegrown constitutional conference was held in Garowe in 1998 over", "title": "Garoowe" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.08, "text": "Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa (; , formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, or \"\"Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.\"\"), colloquially referred to as Téguz, is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its twin sister, Comayagüela. Claimed on 29 September 1578 by the Spaniards, Tegucigalpa became the country's capital on October 30, 1880 under President Marco Aurelio Soto. The current Constitution of Honduras, enacted in 1982, names the sister cities of Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela as a Central District to serve as the permanent national capital, under articles 8 and 295. After a failed attempt to create a Central American republic in 1821, Honduras", "title": "Tegucigalpa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.92, "text": "Nugal Hall Nugal Hall is an heritage-listed Gothic Revival style former residence, convalescent hospital and embassy and now residence located at 16-18 Milford Street, in the Sydney suburb of Randwick in the City of Randwick local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Mortimer Lewis (east section) and Oswald H. Lewis (west section) and built during 1853. The property is privately owned. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 and on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate. Pre-1780s the local Aboriginal people in the area used", "title": "Nugal Hall" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.61, "text": "up the Department of Francisco Morazán. Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa (; , formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, or \"\"Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.\"\"), colloquially referred to as Téguz, is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its twin sister, Comayagüela. Claimed on 29 September 1578 by the Spaniards, Tegucigalpa became the country's capital on October 30, 1880 under President Marco Aurelio Soto. The current Constitution of Honduras, enacted in 1982, names the sister cities of Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela as a Central District to serve as the permanent national capital, under articles 8 and 295. After a failed attempt to create a", "title": "Tegucigalpa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.47, "text": "Eyl, Godobjiran and Burtinle districts of Puntland. The three-year initiative is valued at $3 million EUR, and is part of the New Deal Compact for Somalia. It aims buttress the regional economic sector through business support, training and non-formal education programs, community awareness workshops, and mentoring and networking drives. Dangorayo Dangorayo is a town in the northeastern Nugal region of Somalia. It is the capital of the Dangorayo District. The broader Dangorayo District has a total population of 20,331 residents. Dangorayo has a number of academic institutions. According to the Puntland Ministry of Education, there are 13 primary schools in", "title": "Dangorayo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.39, "text": "Kigali Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre. The city has been Rwanda's economic, cultural, and transport hub since it became capital at independence in 1962. The city hosts the main residence and offices of the President of Rwanda and government ministries. The city is within the province of Kigali City, which was enlarged in January 2006, as part of local government reorganisation in the country. Kigali's city limits cover the whole province; it is consolidated. The city's urban area covers about 70% of the municipal boundaries. The earliest inhabitants", "title": "Kigali" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.38, "text": "Tegal (city) Tegal is a large city in the northwest part of Central Java Province of Indonesia. It is situated on the north coast (or \"\"pesisir\"\") of Central Java, about from Semarang, the capital of the province. It had a population of 239,599 at the 2010 Census, but the latest official estimate (as at 2014) is 242,539. Its built-up (\"\"or metro\"\") area made of Tegal Municipality and 12 districts spread on Tegal and Bremes regencies was home to 1,366,858 inhabitants as of 2010 census. It is administratively separate from Tegal Regency, which borders it to the south and east; Brebes", "title": "Tegal (city)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.23, "text": "by that time. Kigali Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre. The city has been Rwanda's economic, cultural, and transport hub since it became capital at independence in 1962. The city hosts the main residence and offices of the President of Rwanda and government ministries. The city is within the province of Kigali City, which was enlarged in January 2006, as part of local government reorganisation in the country. Kigali's city limits cover the whole province; it is consolidated. The city's urban area covers about 70% of the municipal boundaries.", "title": "Kigali" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.22, "text": "where increasing high rise development has deprived the area of much of its architectural history. The house sits well in its grounds and is visually important locally. Nugal Hall was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Nugal Hall Nugal Hall is an heritage-listed Gothic Revival style former residence, convalescent hospital and embassy and now residence located at 16-18 Milford Street, in the Sydney suburb of Randwick in the City of Randwick local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Mortimer Lewis (east section) and Oswald H. Lewis (west section)", "title": "Nugal Hall" } ]

[ "Guarenas" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.41, "text": "Capital Plaza Capital Plaza is a building complex with five high-rise buildings in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Capital Plaza is located directly on the Corniche of Abu Dhabi and includes three residential towers, an office tower and a hotel tower. The property was developed by Reisco; the facility management of the building complex has been carried out by Dussmann Middle East GmbH, a subsidiary of the German Dussmann Group. There are 247 apartments (towers A, B, C) in the building. The hotel tower houses the 283-room Sofitel Abu Dhabi Corniche, which opened in March 2012. The base of the", "title": "Capital Plaza" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.73, "text": "Praça dos Três Poderes Praça dos Três Poderes (; \"\"Three Powers Plaza\"\") is a plaza in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. The name is derived from the presence of the three governmental powers around the plaza: the Executive, represented by the Palácio do Planalto (presidential office); the Legislative represented by the Congresso Nacional (National Congress); and the Judiciary, represented by the Supremo Tribunal Federal (Supreme Federal Court). The plaza was designed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer as a place where the three powers would meet harmoniously, it has now become a tourist attraction of Brasília. The plaza is home", "title": "Praça dos Três Poderes" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.72, "text": "building complex includes the hotel lobby, restaurants and a few shops. The office tower includes the Middle East's first double-deck elevator with a destination control system. Capital Plaza Capital Plaza is a building complex with five high-rise buildings in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Capital Plaza is located directly on the Corniche of Abu Dhabi and includes three residential towers, an office tower and a hotel tower. The property was developed by Reisco; the facility management of the building complex has been carried out by Dussmann Middle East GmbH, a subsidiary of the German Dussmann Group. There are 247 apartments", "title": "Capital Plaza" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.16, "text": "Plaza de Cagancha Plaza de Cagancha, or Plaza Cagancha, also known as Plaza Libertad, is a square of the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. It is located on Montevideo's main avenue, 18 de Julio Avenue, in the \"\"barrio\"\" of Centro. In 1829, four years after the declaration of Independence, it was decided to pull down the fortifications of the Ciudad Vieja and extend the city to form the \"\"Ciudad Nueva\"\". The plans for some additional 160 city blocks and included a new square, which in 1840 took on the name Plaza de Cagancha, after the homonymous battle of 1839, when General Rivera", "title": "Plaza de Cagancha" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "Plaza de la República (Buenos Aires) Plaza de la República (\"\"Republic Square\"\") is a city square in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. It is located in the San Nicolás quarter, at the intersection of the city's three main arteries: Ninth of July Avenue, Corrientes Avenue, and \"\"Diagonal Norte\"\". It derives its name and associations from a church once sited on the square, San Nicolás de Bari (demolished in the 1930s for the creation of 9th of July Avenue), where the country's national flag was hoisted for the first time. The plaza is the site of the Obelisk of Buenos Aires,", "title": "Plaza de la República (Buenos Aires)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.02, "text": "Plaza de Armas (Santiago) The Plaza de Armas is the main square of Santiago, the capital of Chile. It is the centerpiece of the initial layout of Santiago, which has a square grid pattern. This urban design was accomplished by Pedro de Gamboa, which was appointed by Pedro de Valdivia in 1541. Surrounding the square are some historic buildings, including the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago, Central Post Office Building, Palacio de la Real Audiencia de Santiago, and the building that serves as the seat of local government for Santiago, which was formerly occupied by the Cabildo of the city before", "title": "Plaza de Armas (Santiago)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.94, "text": "Bacolod Public Plaza The Bacolod Public Plaza, officially the Plaza del 6 de Noviembre, named after the day of the Spanish surrender of Negros Island to the Negros revolutionaries, is one of the notable landmarks of Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental, Philippines. It is located in the heart of the downtown area, near the old city hall and across from the San Sebastian Cathedral. The plaza is a trapezoidal park with a belt of trees around the periphery and a gazebo at the center. Scattered within the trees are four circular fountains. When Bacolod was declared as the", "title": "Bacolod Public Plaza" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.81, "text": "Plaza Municipality Plaza is one of the 21 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Miranda and, according to a 2016 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 238,750. The city of Guarenas is the administrative centre of the Plaza Municipality. The city of Guarenas was established in 1621 as Nuestra Señora de Copacabana de los Guarenas. On February 27, 1989, a morning protest in this city over the recent nationwide hike in bus fares, spread to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, which resulted in several days of rioting", "title": "Plaza Municipality" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.81, "text": "Plaza Municipality Plaza is one of the 21 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Miranda and, according to a 2016 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 238,750. The city of Guarenas is the administrative centre of the Plaza Municipality. The city of Guarenas was established in 1621 as Nuestra Señora de Copacabana de los Guarenas. On February 27, 1989, a morning protest in this city over the recent nationwide hike in bus fares, spread to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, which resulted in several days of rioting", "title": "Plaza Municipality" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.78, "text": "Royal Plaza (Thailand) The Royal Plaza, or formally Dusit Palace Plaza (; ), and also known among Thais as Equestrian Statue Plaza (; ), is an important public square in the palace and government quarter of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. It is located in front of Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall in Dusit Palace, Dusit District, Bangkok, which was the former reception hall of the palace where King Chulalongkorn (Rama V; r. 1868–1910) once lived, and was later used as the first parliament building. At the center of the plaza is the Equestrian statue of King Chulalongkorn, the \"\"Great beloved", "title": "Royal Plaza (Thailand)" } ]

[ "Leeuwarden", "Ljouwert", "Liwwadden", "Luwt", "Leewadden" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.16, "text": "Friesland Friesland (; official, ), also historically known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the northern part of the country. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of Flevoland, northeast of North Holland, and south of the Wadden Sea. In 2015, the province had a population of 646,092 and a total area of . The capital and seat of the provincial government is the city of Leeuwarden (West Frisian: \"\"Ljouwert\"\"), a city with 91,817 inhabitants. Since 2017, Arno Brok is the King's Commissioner in the province. A coalition of the Labour", "title": "Friesland" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.7, "text": "Leeuwarden Leeuwarden (, ), Stadsfries: \"\"Liwwadden\"\") is a city and municipality in Friesland in the Netherlands. It is the provincial capital and seat of the States of Friesland. The municipality has a population of 122,293. The region has been continuously inhabited since the 10th century. It came to be known as Leeuwarden in the early 9th century AD and was granted city privileges in 1435. It is the main economic hub of Friesland, situated in a green and water-rich environment. Leeuwarden is a former royal residence and has a historic city center, many historically relevant buildings, and a large shopping", "title": "Leeuwarden" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.48, "text": "was completely destroyed in the Night of Broken Glass, and at least 63 Jever Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Jever Jever (; the pronunciation is often heard from non-locals) is the capital of the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony, Germany. The name Jever is usually associated with a major brand of beer which is produced there. The city is also a popular holiday resort. Jever was granted city status in 1536. Unofficially Jever is sometimes referred to as Marienstadt (Maria city) in reference to Maria of Jever, the last independent ruler of the city. The inhabitants of Jever", "title": "Jever" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.12, "text": "center with squares and restaurants. Leeuwarden was awarded the title European Capital of Culture for 2018. The Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Tour), an ice skating tour passing the eleven cities of Friesland, started and finished in Leeuwarden. The following towns and villages within the municipality have populations in excess of 1,000 people: Leeuwarden, Stiens, Grou, Goutum, Wergea, Jirnsum, Reduzum, and Wirdum. The municipality is governed by the mayor and a coalition of the Labour Party, Christian Democratic Appeal, and GreenLeft. The name \"\"Leeuwarden\"\" (or older variants of it) first came into use for , the most important of the three villages", "title": "Leeuwarden" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.09, "text": "the following municipalities: Major cities include Hoorn (which was the capital of West-Friesland) and Alkmaar. The traditional dialect of the region is the West Frisian dialect of Hollandic Dutch. The contemporary region is similar in size and location to the historical district (\"\"gouw\"\") of Westflinge which itself was a part of a much larger historical region of West Friesland. West Friesland (region) West Friesland (also West Frisia; West-Frisian: \"\"West-Fryslân\"\") is a contemporary region in the Northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The River Vlie (also called Fli), is an extension of the IJssel branch of the", "title": "West Friesland (region)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.62, "text": "Franeker Franeker (; ) is one of the eleven historical cities of Friesland and capital of the municipality of Waadhoeke. It is located north of the Van Harinxmakanaal and about 20 km west of Leeuwarden. As of 1 January 2014, it had 12,781 inhabitants. The Eise Eisinga Planetarium, established in 1781, is located in the city. Franeker was founded around 800 as a Carolingian stronghold. The name probably derives from \"\"Froon-acker\"\", meaning \"\"country of the king\"\"; the oldest street in the city is still called Froonacker. Beginning around the 11th century, Franeker developed into the administrative center Westergoa. Franeker received", "title": "Franeker" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.22, "text": "Jever Jever (; the pronunciation is often heard from non-locals) is the capital of the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony, Germany. The name Jever is usually associated with a major brand of beer which is produced there. The city is also a popular holiday resort. Jever was granted city status in 1536. Unofficially Jever is sometimes referred to as Marienstadt (Maria city) in reference to Maria of Jever, the last independent ruler of the city. The inhabitants of Jever are named Jeveraner. Archaeological findings in the vicinity of Jever suggest that the area has been inhabited since the neolithic", "title": "Jever" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.06, "text": "Groningen (capital of the province of the same name), and so people from Groningen could also be admitted to the Admiralty's positions (e.g. Admiral Rudolf Coenders), in return for its providing ships. The Frisian Admiralty was thus founded within a confederal context on 15 August 1597. The Frisian Admiralty was initially housed in the old \"\"raadhuis\"\" (town hall) on the corner of Hoogstraat on the Lange Oosterstraat in the city of Dokkum. This building had been bought in 1589 by captain Tjaerd Tjebbes for the sum of 900 gold guilders. The Admiralty also took up residence in the \"\"Blauhuis\"\", an", "title": "Admiralty of Friesland" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.75, "text": "Friesland (district) Friesland is a district (\"\"Landkreis\"\") in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southeast and clockwise) the districts of Wesermarsch, Ammerland, Leer and Wittmund, and by the North Sea. The city of Wilhelmshaven is enclosed by—but not part of—the district. The Frisian region was ruled by local chieftains until the 15th century; see East Frisia for details. In 1438 in the northern part of today's Landkreis Friesland the Lordship of Jever was founded. East Frisia was from then on regarded as a hostile territory, and lots of skirmishes between Jever and East Frisia took place during", "title": "Friesland (district)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.39, "text": "administrative centre in the municipality is Buitenpost. Achtkarspelen Achtkarspelen () is a municipality in Friesland in the northern Netherlands. The name \"\"Achtkarspelen\"\", literally meaning \"\"eight parishes\"\", is derived from the original eight parishes within the \"\"grietenij\"\", namely: Augustinusga, Buitenpost (the capital), Drogeham, De Kooten, Kortwoude, Lutkepost, Surhuizum and Twijzel. Achtkarspelen held a separate status within Friesland for many years. In the Middle Ages Achtkarspelen fell under the Bishopric of Münster, meanwhile the rest of Friesland was a part of the Bishopric of Utrecht. The \"\"grietenij\"\" Achtkarspelen became a municipality in 1851 as a result of the Municipality Act of Minister", "title": "Achtkarspelen" } ]

[ "Salt Lake City", "Salt Lake", "SLC", "Salt Lake City, Utah" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.19, "text": "Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city is the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,153,340 (2014 estimate). Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a population of", "title": "Salt Lake City" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "until the first capitol building was constructed. One of the first official acts of the assembly was to designate a capital city for the territory. On October 4, 1851, Millard County and its capital of Fillmore were created in the empty Pavant Valley for this purpose. The area was named for then current president Millard Fillmore. Its centralized location in the territory made it seem an ideal place for Utah's capital city. Construction started on Utah's first capitol building, known as the Utah Territorial Statehouse, the next year. The building was designed by LDS Church Architect Truman O. Angell, and", "title": "Utah State Capitol" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.92, "text": "Lake City was designated Utah's capital, and the statehouse in Fillmore was abandoned. Several buildings in Salt Lake City then served as temporary homes for the state legislature and offices for state officers, including the previously used Council House, and beginning in 1866, the Salt Lake City Council Hall. As time passed, those smaller buildings became inadequate, so several local leaders and businessmen began to call for a new permanent capitol building. Several of these people requested that Salt Lake City donate about of land, specifically an area known as Arsenal Hill, just north of the intersection of State and", "title": "Utah State Capitol" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.81, "text": "as pieces of modern Wyoming and Colorado. It was created with the Compromise of 1850, and Fillmore, named after President Millard Fillmore, was designated the capital. The territory was given the name Utah after the Ute tribe of Native Americans. Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital in 1856. Disputes between the Mormon inhabitants and the U.S. government intensified due to the practice of plural marriage, or polygamy, among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Mormons were still pushing for the establishment of a State of Deseret with the new borders of the", "title": "Utah" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.8, "text": "Utah State Capitol The Utah State Capitol is the house of government for the U.S. state of Utah. The building houses the chambers and offices of the Utah State Legislature, the offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, the State Auditor and their staffs. The capitol is the main building of the Utah State Capitol Complex, which is located on Capitol Hill, overlooking downtown Salt Lake City. The Neoclassical revival, Corinthian style building was designed by architect Richard K.A. Kletting, and built between 1912 and 1916. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.", "title": "Utah State Capitol" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.78, "text": "Territory was organized by the U.S. Congress instead. Following the creation of the territory, it was decided to move Utah's capital city to Fillmore, Utah (because of its centralized location). In Fillmore, the territorial government began construction of the Utah Territorial Statehouse, yet the Council House continued to be used for official business until the statehouse was at least partially completed. During the first legislative session held in Fillmore, legislators complained about the lack of housing and adequate facilities in that city, so Salt Lake City was again designated Utah's capital. Once the capital returned to Salt Lake City, the", "title": "Council House (Salt Lake City)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.7, "text": "the capital of the provisional State of Deseret because of its central location. When the Congress of the United States turned down their petition for statehood and created the Utah Territory instead, Fillmore was designated as its territorial capital. The original statehouse building plans called for four wings connected by a Moorish dome at the center, but only the south wing was completed. U.S. President Millard Fillmore had helped secure the first $20,000 for construction, but could not help the territory secure additional funding after he lost the next election. (Both Fillmore and the county in which it sits, Millard", "title": "Utah Territorial Statehouse" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.67, "text": "now Utah, and portions of Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico and California. The name of Deseret was favored by the LDS leader Brigham Young as a symbol of industry and was derived from a reference in the Book of Mormon. The petition was rejected by Congress and Utah did not become a state until 1896. In 1850, the Utah Territory was created with the Compromise of 1850, and Fillmore (named after President Fillmore) was designated the capital. In 1856, Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital. The first group of pioneers brought African slaves with", "title": "History of Utah" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.48, "text": "closed to motor vehicles on odd-numbered days, while bicycles are prohibited on even-numbered days and holidays. Bicycles are allowed every day for the rest of the year. Salt Lake City has several sister cities/towns, including: Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city is the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,153,340 (2014 estimate). Salt Lake City is further situated within a", "title": "Salt Lake City" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.44, "text": "Fillmore, Utah Fillmore is a city in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,253 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Millard County. It is named for the thirteenth US President Millard Fillmore. Fillmore was the capital of the Utah Territory from 1851 to 1856. The original Utah Territorial Statehouse building still stands. Fillmore, located near the geographic center of the territory, was originally built as the capital of Utah Territory. The Utah Territorial Legislature approved a plan to locate the capital in the Pahvant Valley. On October 28, 1851, Utah governor Brigham Young chose", "title": "Fillmore, Utah" } ]

[ "Florence", "Firenze", "Florence, Italy", "Florence, Tuscany", "Florencia", "Florentia", "Florenz", "Firenca", "Florencie", "Fiuränza", "Florentzia", "Firense", "Firenz", "Firenzi", "Rome", "The Eternal City", "Roma", "Rome Italy", "Turin", "Torino", "Turin, Italy" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.28, "text": "of one constituent nation will also be the capital of the state overall, such as London, which is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. Similarly, each of the autonomous communities of Spain and regions of Italy has a capital city, such as Seville or Naples, while Madrid is the capital of the Community of Madrid and the Kingdom of Spain as a whole and Rome is the capital of Italy and the region of Lazio. In the Federal Republic of Germany, each of its constituent states (or \"\"Länder\"\" - plural of \"\"Land\"\") has its own capital city, such", "title": "Capital city" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.89, "text": "formally became the capital of the kingdom. Pope Pius IX, a longtime rival of Italian kings, considered himself a \"\"prisoner\"\" of the Vatican and refused to cooperate with the royal administration. Only in 1929 the Roman Pope accepted the unified Italy with Rome as capital. In the decades following unification, Italy started to create colonies in Africa, and under Benito Mussolini's fascism conquered Ethiopia founding in 1936 the Italian Empire. World War I completed the process of Italian unification, with the annexation of Trieste, Istria, Trentino-Alto Adige and Zara. The Italians grew to 45 millions in 1940 and the land,", "title": "Italians" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.36, "text": "Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire) The Kingdom of Italy (Latin: \"\"Regnum Italiae\"\" or \"\"Regnum Italicum\"\", Italian: \"\"Regno d'Italia\"\") was one of the constituent kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire, along with the kingdoms of Germany, Bohemia, and Burgundy. It comprised northern and central Italy, but excluded the Republic of Venice. Its original capital was Pavia until the 11th century. In 773, Charlemagne, the King of the Franks, crossed the Alps to invade the Kingdom of the Lombards, which encompassed all of Italy except the Duchy of Rome and some Byzantine possessions in the south. In June 774, the kingdom", "title": "Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.08, "text": "reunited as the Kingdom of Italy, with a temporary capital at Florence. In 1861, Rome was declared capital of Italy even though it was still under the Pope's control. During the 1860s, the last vestiges of the Papal States were under French protection, thanks to the foreign policy of Napoleon III. It was only when this was lifted in 1870, owing to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, that Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a breach near Porta Pia. Afterwards, Pope Pius IX declared himself as prisoner in the Vatican, and in 1871 the", "title": "Rome" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.98, "text": "unified Kingdom of Italy was declared and in March 1861, the first Italian parliament, which met in Turin, the old capital of Piedmont, declared Rome the capital of the new Kingdom. However, the Italian government could not take possession of the city because a French garrison in Rome protected Pope Pius IX. The opportunity for the Kingdom of Italy to eliminate the Papal States came in 1870; the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in July prompted Napoleon III to recall his garrison from Rome and the collapse of the Second French Empire at the Battle of Sedan deprived Rome of", "title": "Papal States" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.88, "text": "the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, created in 1861, and the current Italian Republic, created in 1946. Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian nationalist and patriot, promoted the notion of the \"\"Third Rome\"\" during the Risorgimento. He said, \"\"After the Rome of the emperors, after the Rome of the Popes, there will come the Rome of the people\"\", addressing Italian unification and the establishment of Rome as the capital. After the unification of Italy into the Kingdom of Italy, the state was referred to as the Third Rome by Italian figures. After the unification, Mazzini spoke of the need of Italy as", "title": "Third Rome" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.86, "text": "Italian state. Though the Kingdom had no physical connection to Rome (seen by all as the natural capital of Italy, but still capital of the Papal States), the Kingdom had successfully challenged Austria in the Second Italian War of Independence, liberating Lombardy-Venetia from Austrian rule. The Kingdom also had established important alliances which helped it improve the possibility of Italian unification, such as with the United Kingdom and France in the Crimean War. Sardinia was dependent on French protection and in 1860 Sardinia was forced to cede territory to France to maintain relations, including Garibaldi's birthplace, Nizza. Cavour moved to", "title": "Kingdom of Italy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.69, "text": "Rome was declared Capital of the Kingdom of Italy. However, the Italian Government could not take its seat in Rome because a French garrison (which had overthrown the Roman Republic), maintained there by Napoleon III of France, commanded by general Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, was defending Pope Pius IX. Following the signing of the September Convention, the seat of government was moved from Turin to Florence in 1865. The Pope remained totally opposed to the designs on Rome of Italian nationalism. Beginning in December 1869, the First Vatican Council was held in the city. Some historians have argued", "title": "Roman Question" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.67, "text": "city of Rome. The following year, the capital was moved from Florence to Rome. For the next 59 years after 1870, the Church denied the legitimacy of the Italian King's dominion in Rome, which it claimed rightfully belonged to the Papal States. In 1929, the dispute was settled by the Lateran Treaty, in which the King recognized Vatican City as an independent state and paid a large sum of money to compensate the Church for the loss of the Papal States. Liberal governments generally followed a policy of limiting the role of the Roman Catholic Church and its clergy as", "title": "Kingdom of Italy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.34, "text": "modern \"\"Casteddu\"\", the salt from its lagoons, and, from the hinterland, wheat from the Campidano plain and silver and other ores from the Iglesiente mines. Cagliari was the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1324 to 1848, when Turin became the formal capital of the kingdom (which in 1861 became the Kingdom of Italy). Today the city is a regional cultural, educational, political and artistic centre, known for its diverse Art Nouveau architecture and several monuments. It is also Sardinia's economic and industrial hub, having one of the biggest ports in the Mediterranean Sea, an international airport, and the", "title": "Cagliari" } ]

[ "Yanjing", "Ji" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.88, "text": "Yanjing Yanjing (Chinese: 燕京, also known as Youzhou 幽州, Ji 薊 or Fanyang 范陽 for administrative purposes) was an ancient city and capital of the State of Yan in northern China. It was located in modern Beijing. Yanjing was founded by State of Yan, whose rulers made it their capital city. After the conquest of Yan by the State of Qin, the city was made the capital of Guangyang commandery (). During the Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 BCE), the city was renamed Fanyang as the capital of Yuyang commandery (漁陽郡). It was the administrative center of Youzhou at the time", "title": "Yanjing" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.56, "text": "11th century BC, Yan's capital was based in what is now Liulihe Township, Fangshan District, Beijing, where a large walled settlement and over 200 tombs of nobility have been unearthed. Among the most significant artifacts from the Liulihe Site is a bronze ding with inscriptions that recount the journey of the eldest son of the Duke of Yan, who delivered offerings to the King of Zhou in present-day Xi'an and was awarded a position in the king's court. In the 3rd century BCE, the Yellow River followed a more northerly course than the present day. It emptied into the Bohai", "title": "Yan (state)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.83, "text": "Zhou Dynasty in 1045 B.C., he conferred titles of nobility to vassal rulers in his domain. Among those receiving titles were the rulers of the States of Ji and Yan, two states located in modern-day Beijing Municipality. The capital of Yan at Liulihe has been established with considerable certainty through archaeological evidence at Liulihe. The capital of Ji, is believed to be located further north, near modern-day Guang'anmen in Xicheng District. The artifiacts unearthed Liulihe demonstrate the Yan capital's wealth and political importance during the Western Zhou Dynasty dating back to at least the 11th century B.C. During the subsequent", "title": "Western Zhou Yan State Capital Museum" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.8, "text": "Yan (state) Yan (; Old Chinese pronunciation: \"\"*\"\") was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Its capital was Ji (later known as Yanjing and now Beijing). During the Warring States period, the court was also moved to another capital at Xiadu at times. The history of Yan began in the Western Zhou in the early first millennium BC. After the authority of the Zhou king declined during the Spring and Autumn period in the 8th century BC, Yan survived and became one of the strongest states in China. During the Warring States period from the 5th to 3rd", "title": "Yan (state)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.61, "text": "the Jin. After the Mongols took the city, it was renamed Yanjing. After the Mongols razed it, a new city called Dadu was built adjacent to the former Jin capital which was the capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368). Yanjing Yanjing (Chinese: 燕京, also known as Youzhou 幽州, Ji 薊 or Fanyang 范陽 for administrative purposes) was an ancient city and capital of the State of Yan in northern China. It was located in modern Beijing. Yanjing was founded by State of Yan, whose rulers made it their capital city. After the conquest of Yan by the State of Qin,", "title": "Yanjing" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.59, "text": "Xia capital in 1227. The city was maintained by the successive Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), as well as the Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the city became part of the newly created Republic of China. In December 1936, at the start of the Second United Front, Yan'an was taken over by the Chinese Communists. They had arrived in the area in October 1935 after making the famous Long March from Jiangxi. When Edgar Snow went there in 1936, it was under Kuomintang control and a Red army siege had recently been lifted. Unknown to", "title": "Yan'an" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.31, "text": "the Warring States period (476 – 221). The rulers of the Yan built several capitals and moved their seat of power in response to threats from the nomadic tribes from the north and neighboring kingdoms from the south. Ji was referred to historians as Shangdu (上都) or the \"\"Upper Capital.\"\" Other Yan capitals include: (1) the Liulihe Site in southern Fangshan District of Beijing, which served as the Yan capital prior to Yan’s conquest of Ji, (2) Linyi (临易) in present-day Rongcheng and Xiong Counties of Hebei Province to which the seat of Yan moved in 690s, (3) the ancient", "title": "Jicheng (Beijing)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.2, "text": "Yanqing, Beijing Yanqing (simplified Chinese: 延庆; traditional Chinese: 延慶; pinyin: Yánqìng) is a city about 75 km north-west of central Beijing, the capital city of China. The area around the city is the Yanqing District, one of the 16 districts of Beijing. It has good communication to the capital, by railway and road, through Badaling. Yanqing is one of three sites for games of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The urban area is closely surrounded by farms. The total population of this town-farm area, including 90,000 in the urban area, is about 190,000. The urban area is bisected east-west by the", "title": "Yanqing, Beijing" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.2, "text": "Sea at a point south of Tianjin in what is now Hebei as opposed to its modern end in Shandong. Some time during the 7th century BCE in the late Western Zhou or early Eastern Zhou, Yan absorbed the State of Ji, a smaller kingdom to the north and moved its capital to that of Ji in modern-day Xicheng District, Beijing. Yan stretched from the Yellow River to the Yalu River and from the mountains of Shanxi to the Liaodong Peninsula. As the most northeastern of all the Chinese states during this time period, Yan faced incursions from steppe nomads", "title": "Yan (state)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.09, "text": "Battle of Yan'an After World War II, Hu Zongnan battled the Communist Party of China and in the early stage of the struggle, was once successful in the Battle of Yan'an taking Yan'an, the capital of the communist base in Shaanxi. Yan'an became the capital of Red China after the Xian Incident in 1936. It became famous in this role during the Sino-Japanese War and through World War II, until its capture in 1947. (Before taking over Yenan, Mao had been based at Bao'an.) In 1947, there was only token Red resistance, as most Reds had already fled in advance", "title": "Battle of Yan'an" } ]

[ "Kavala" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.69, "text": "Kavala (regional unit) Kavala () is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its capital is the city of Kavala. Kavala regional unit is the easternmost within the geographical region of Macedonia. The Pangaio mountains, reaching 1,957 m are situated in the west. The neighbouring regional units are Serres to the west, Drama to the north and Xanthi to the east. The river Nestos flows along the eastern border. Arable lands are located along the coastline, in the north and in the east. The regional unit has a predominantly Mediterranean climate. The", "title": "Kavala (regional unit)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.44, "text": "Kavala Kavala (, \"\"Kavála\"\" ) is a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala regional unit. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the Egnatia motorway, a one-and-a-half-hour drive to Thessaloniki ( west) and a forty-minute drive to Drama ( north) and Xanthi ( east). In Antiquity the name of the city was Neapolis ('new city', like many Greek colonies). During the Middle Ages, it was renamed Christoupolis ('city of Christ'). The etymology of the modern name of the city is disputed. Some", "title": "Kavala" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.73, "text": "city issued its own postage stamps; at first stamps of France overprinted with \"\"Cavalle\"\" and a value in piasters, then in 1902 the French designs inscribed \"\"CAVALLE\"\". Bibliography Kavala Kavala (, \"\"Kavála\"\" ) is a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala regional unit. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the Egnatia motorway, a one-and-a-half-hour drive to Thessaloniki ( west) and a forty-minute drive to Drama ( north) and Xanthi ( east). In Antiquity the name of the city was Neapolis ('new", "title": "Kavala" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.33, "text": "Nea Peramos, Kavala Nea Peramos (), is a town located 17 kilometres from Kavala, the capital of the regional unit of Kavala, Greece. Its population at the 2011 census was 3,532. Since 1998, according to the Law of Kapodistrias, seven villages (Nea Peramos, Nea Iraklitsa, Agios Andreas, Eleftheres, Elaiochori, Myrtofyto, Folea) joined in a new municipality which was called Municipality of Eleftheres. The central administration authority resided in Nea Peramos, which is the largest of the villages listed above. The first Mayor of the Community of Eleftheres was Iraklis Karaberidis. At the 2011 Kallikratis reform, the municipality of Eleftheres became", "title": "Nea Peramos, Kavala" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.95, "text": "Xanthi (regional unit) Xanthi (, ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace. The capital is Xanthi. Together with the regional units Rhodope and Evros, it forms the geographical region of Western Thrace. Xanthi borders the Bulgarian provinces of Smolyan and Kardzhali to the north, and the Aegean Sea to the south. The regional unit of Kavala lies to the west, Drama to the northwest and Rhodope to the east. The Rhodope Mountains cover the northern part of the regional unit. The highest point is \"\"Koula\"\", at 1,827m.", "title": "Xanthi (regional unit)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.92, "text": "of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, he was appointed Director of the National Intelligence Service, the first civilian to hold that post. Thasos, the capital, is now informally known as Limenas, or \"\"the port\"\". It is served by a ferry route to and from Keramoti a port close to Kavala International Airport, and has the shortest possible crossing to the island. Scala Prinos 20 km south of Thassos town is served by a ferry route to and from Kavala. Thasos is a separate regional unit of the East Macedonia and Thrace region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. As", "title": "Thasos" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.92, "text": "regional unit Kavala is subdivided into three municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox): As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the former Kavala Prefecture () was transformed into a regional unit within the East Macedonia and Thrace region. The prefecture also included the island of Thasos, which became a separate regional unit. At the same time, the municipalities were reorganised, according to the table below. Thasos was and remained one municipality. \"\"Note:\"\" Provinces no longer hold any legal status in Greece. Kavala (regional unit) Kavala () is one of the regional units of", "title": "Kavala (regional unit)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.83, "text": "and weight of the five now abolished prefectures, Drama, Evros, Kavala, Rhodope and Xanthi. In this special case, the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace also succeeds the intermediate structure of the two super-prefectures of Drama-Kavala-Xanthi and of Rhodope-Evros into which the five prefectures had been grouped since 1994. Capital of the region is Komotini, which by population is the fourth largest city, following Alexandroupoli, Kavala and Xanthi. The region is divided into the Macedonian regional units of Drama, Kavala and Thasos and the Thracian regional units of Xanthi, Rhodope and Evros, which coincide with the territory of the former", "title": "Eastern Macedonia and Thrace" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.72, "text": "- Serres - Drama - Kavala), Greek National Road 14 (Drama - Xanthi) and Greek National Road 57 (Drama - Kato Nevrokopi - Bulgaria). The Thessaloniki–Alexandroupoli railway passes through Drama and Paranesti. Drama (regional unit) Drama () is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its capital is the town of Drama. The regional unit is the northernmost within the geographical region of Macedonia and the westernmost in the administrative region of East Macedonia and Thrace. The northern border with Bulgaria is formed by the Rhodope Mountains. The northern", "title": "Drama (regional unit)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.73, "text": "the two former municipalities, which became municipal units: The municipality has an area of . The population of the new municipality is 70,501 (2011). The seat of the municipality is in Kavala. Some of the most important communities inside new municipality are: Kavala is built amphitheatrically, with most residents enjoying superb views of the coast and sea. Some of the regions inside Kavala are: Kavala is twinned with: The province of Kavala () was one of the provinces of the Kavala Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality Kavala, and part of the municipal unit Eleftheroupoli. It", "title": "Kavala" } ]

[ "Florac" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.12, "text": "Arrondissement of Florac The arrondissement of Florac is an arrondissement of France in the Lozère department in the Occitanie région. Its INSEE code is 481 and its capital city is Florac-Trois-Rivières. It is the smallest and southernmost of the two arrondissements of the department, with an area of . It has a population of 13,276 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km². There is only a town with more than 1,000 inhabitants, and it is the subprefecture, Florac-Trois-Rivières, with 2,130 inhabitants. When the Lozère department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Florac was part of that original department.", "title": "Arrondissement of Florac" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.17, "text": "The arrondissement of Florac is surrounded by the arrondissement of Mende to the north, by the Gard department to the east and south, and by the Aveyron department to the west. The cantons of the arrondissement of Florac are: The arrondissement of Florac has 38 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes): Arrondissement of Florac The arrondissement of Florac is an arrondissement of France in the Lozère department in the Occitanie région. Its INSEE code is 481 and its capital city is Florac-Trois-Rivières. It is the smallest and southernmost of the two arrondissements of the department, with an area of", "title": "Arrondissement of Florac" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.67, "text": "original department. The \"\"arrondissement\"\" covers the northern part of the department and is bordered to the north by the Auvergne region (the Cantal department to the northwest and the Haute-Loire department to the northeast), to the east by the Ardeche department (Rhône-Alpes region), to the south by the arrondissement of Florac and to the west by the Aveyron department (Midi-Pyrénées region). The cantons of the arrondissement of Mende are: The \"\"arrondissement\"\" of Mende has 120 \"\"communes\"\"; they are (with their INSEE codes): Arrondissement of Mende The arrondissement of Mende is an arrondissement of France in the Lozère department in the", "title": "Arrondissement of Mende" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.59, "text": "Florac Florac is a former commune of the Lozère department in southern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Florac-Trois-Rivières. Raymond of Anduze held the barony of Florac and is recorded as using the castle there in the 13th century. In 1363 local-born Pope Urban V lent the town 300 florins for the construction of ramparts. Such defences were not at all unusual and offered desirable security and protection for the townspeople. These medieval city walls finally came down in 1629 after the Edict of Alès which, despite allowing some concessions for Huguenots, insisted", "title": "Florac" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.64, "text": "of unemployment in France, which may be attributed to the enforced long-standing tradition whereby young people emigrate to cities such as Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier when they reach working age. Lozère is a rural department, with relatively little land taken up by roads and buildings. Overall the land use is divided as follows: Lozère is the least populated French department. It has a population, in 2012, of 76,889, for a population density of inhabitants/km. The \"\"arrondissement\"\" of Mende, with 63,613 inhabitants, is by far the largest. The other arrondissement, Florac, has 13,276 inhabitants. The only important town is Mende with 11,908", "title": "Lozère" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.55, "text": "Château de Florac The Château de Florac is a castle, originally built in the 13th century and then rebuilt in the 17th century, located in the French town of Florac, in Lozère, in south-central France. It originally belonged to the Barony of Anduze and passed through a number of feudal families. The castle was entirely rebuilt in 1652 after the Wars of Religion. During the French Revolution, the castle was turned into a \"\"salt loft\"\" for storing salt. It was then used as a prison in the 19th century. Since 1976, the castle has been the headquarters of the Cévennes", "title": "Château de Florac" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.39, "text": "simple geometric transom glass. Against the West end wall (North side) is a very fine statue of Christ. There are two fonts: one is neoclassical black and grey marble; the second looks more like polished limestone and is standing incongruously on what looks like the base to a no-longer-existing column, very probably belonging to the former structure. A good deal of military action has taken place in and around Florac. Before 1629 the town retained a defensive wall, and the castle was used by the Barons of Anduze in the 13th century. Florac is twinned with: Florac Florac is a", "title": "Florac" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 18.97, "text": "Baille, place Castellane, rue Louis-Maurel, rue Edmond-Rostand, rue Docteur-Jean-Fiolle, rue Stanislas-Torrents, rue Bossuet, rue Breteuil, rue Saint-Jacques, boulevard Notre-Dame until place de la Corderie. It is also composed of a part of the 8th municipal arrondissement situated north of an imaginary line between the end of the impasses du Roc-Fleuri, Tertian and des Colonies, rue de la Turbine (excluded), rue du Lycée-Périer, traverse Périer, boulevard Périer, rue Paradis, rue de Cluny, rue du Chalet, rue Florac, rue Daumier, avenue du Prado and rue Borde. Canton of Marseille-Vauban Canton of Marseille-Vauban is a former canton located within the commune of Marseille", "title": "Canton of Marseille-Vauban" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 18.55, "text": "National Park, who restored it. The ground and first floors house an exhibition on the National Park (landscape, flora, fauna and activities connected with the park). The information centre has details of hiking, guided tours, accommodation and \"\"écomusées\"\" (open-air museums) in the park. List of castles in France Château de Florac The Château de Florac is a castle, originally built in the 13th century and then rebuilt in the 17th century, located in the French town of Florac, in Lozère, in south-central France. It originally belonged to the Barony of Anduze and passed through a number of feudal families. The", "title": "Château de Florac" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.53, "text": "Greybull Capital. The iron industry at the Sogerail site in Nilvange/Knutange nr. Hayange (Moselle department, Lorraine, France) dates to c.1892 with the establishment of the \"\"Usine Saint Jacques\"\" by the de Wendels. By the late 20th century the works had become part of Usinor-Sacilor it its long products division in the Sollac subsidiary. Under Usinor-Sacilor steel was supplied to the plant from the nearby Florange steelworks, and earlier from the Unimétal plant in Gandrange (sold to Ispat). In the 1990s Usinor-Sacilor sought to divest its long products division. In 1999 Sogerail, then employing c. 500 persons was acquired from Usinor", "title": "Sogerail" } ]

[ "Damascus", "Sham city", "Jasmine city" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.42, "text": "Damascus Damascus (; ' , ) is the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic; it is also the country's largest city, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city. It is colloquially known in Syria as \"\"ash-Sham\"\" ( ') and titled the \"\"City of Jasmine\"\" ( \"\"\"\"). In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world. The city has an estimated population of 1,711,000 . Located in south-western Syria, Damascus is the center of a large", "title": "Damascus" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.19, "text": "or \"\"manatiq\"\" (sing. \"\"mintaqah\"\"), which are further divided into sub-districts, or \"\"nawahi\"\" (sing. \"\"nahiya\"\"). The capital Damascus is the second largest city in Syria, and the metropolitan area is a governorate on its own. Aleppo (population 2,301,570) in northern Syria is the largest city. Latakia along with Tartus are Syria's main ports on the Mediterranean Sea. The area includes about 185,180 square kilometers of deserts, plains, and mountains. It is divided into a coastal zone—with a narrow, double mountain belt enclosing a depression in the west—and a much larger eastern plateau. The climate is predominantly dry; about three-fifths of the", "title": "Geography of Syria" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.84, "text": "Deir ez-Zor Deir ez-Zor ( \"\"Dayr az-Zūr\"\"; Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܙܥܘܪܬܐ \"\"Dayrāʾ Zəʿōrtāʾ\"\") is the largest city in eastern Syria and the seventh largest in the country. Located to the northeast of the capital Damascus on the shores of the Euphrates River, Deir ez-Zor is the capital of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 211,857 people. Among Syrians and neighbouring regions, Ad-Deir is used for short to indicate Deir ez Zor. In Syriac, Zeʿūrta (ܙܥܘܪܬܐ) means \"\"little\"\"; hence, \"\"Dīrā Zeʿūrta\"\" means \"\"\"\"small habitation\"\"\"\". The current name, which has been extended to the surrounding region,", "title": "Deir ez-Zor" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.55, "text": "Homs Homs (; / ALA-LC: \"\"Ḥimṣ\"\" ), previously known as Emesa or Emisa (Greek: Ἔμεσα \"\"Emesa\"\"), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is above sea level and is located north of Damascus. Located on the Orontes River, Homs is also the central link between the interior cities and the Mediterranean coast. Before the Syrian civil war, Homs was a major industrial centre, and with a population of at least 652,609 people in 2004, it was the third largest city in Syria after Aleppo to the north and the capital Damascus to the", "title": "Homs" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.39, "text": "Apamea, Syria Apamea (, \"\"Apameia\"\"; , \"\"Afamia\"\"), on the right bank of the Orontes River, was an ancient Greek and Roman city. It was the capital of Apamene under the Macedonians, became the capital and Metropolitan Archbishopric of late Roman province Syria Secunda, again in the crusader time and since the 20th century a quadruple Catholic titular see. Amongst the impressive ancient remains, the site includes the Great Colonnade which ran for nearly making it among the longest in the Roman world and the Roman Theatre, one of the largest surviving theatres of the Roman Empire with an estimated seating", "title": "Apamea, Syria" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.31, "text": "was chosen as capital for the new nation of Syria. Gouraud sensed this sentiment and tried to manipulate it by making Aleppo the capital of a large and wealthier state with which it would have been hard for Damascus to compete. The State of Aleppo as drawn by France contained most of the fertile area of Syria—namely it contained the fertile country of Aleppo in addition to the entire fertile basin of river Euphrates. The state also had access to sea via the autonomous Sanjak of Alexandretta. On the other hand, Damascus, which is basically an oasis on the fringes", "title": "State of Aleppo" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.25, "text": "Aleppo Aleppo (; / ALA-LC: \"\"\"\", ) is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 4.6 million in 2010, Aleppo was the largest Syrian city before the Syrian Civil War; however, now Aleppo is probably the second-largest city in Syria after the capital Damascus. Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it may have been inhabited since the 6th millennium BC. Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of the old city of Aleppo, show that the area", "title": "Aleppo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.2, "text": "Latakia Latakia ( '; ), also spelled Lattakia or Latakiyah, is the principal port city of Syria, as well as the capital of the Latakia Governorate. Historically, it has also been known as Laodicea in Syria or Laodicea ad Mare. In addition to serving as a port, the city is a manufacturing center for surrounding agricultural towns and villages. According to the 2004 official census, the population of the city is 383,786, Its population greatly increased as a result of the ongoing Syrian Civil War due to the influx of refugees from rebel and terrorist held areas. It is the", "title": "Latakia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.97, "text": "being capital of the al-Qusayr District, it is also the administrative center of the al-Qusayr \"\"nahiyah\"\" (\"\"subdistrict\"\") which consisted of 60 localities with a collective population of 107,470 in 2004. Al-Qusayr is the closest modern-day city to the ancient walled hilltop city of Qadesh (now the ruins known as \"\"Tell Nebi Mend\"\", (ca. 1766 ft)) named for the idol worshipped by the ancients at the time and which sits north and above the plain east of the river where historians place the largest known chariot vs. chariot battle in antiquity, the Battle of Qadash, May 1274 BC between the forces", "title": "Al-Qusayr, Syria" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.77, "text": "Al-Mukharram Al-Mukharram (), also known as Mukharram al-Fawqani (; also spelled Makhem Fuqani or \"\"Mkhurem Fouqani\"\") is a small city in central Syria, capital of the al-Mukharram District, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located northeast of Homs. In 1838 al-Mukharram was classified as a \"\"khirba\"\" (\"\"ruined\"\" or \"\"abandoned\"\" village\"\") in the District of Salamiyah. The general region of the desert plains east of Homs and Hama was repopulated during the late 19th century by local Bedouins and by Ismaili and Alawite peasants from the areas west of Homs and Hama, as well as Circassians. The modern town was of", "title": "Al-Mukharram" } ]

[ "Conakry" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.41, "text": "Conakry Conakry (Sosso: \"\"Kɔnakiri\"\") is the capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973 Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the Îles de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula. The current population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at 2 million, accounting for one sixth of the entire population of the country. Conakry was originally settled on the small Tombo Island and later", "title": "Conakry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.31, "text": "Bissau Bissau is the capital city of the African Republic of Guinea-Bissau. In 2015, Bissau had a population of 492,004. Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's largest city, major port, and its administrative and military centre. The city was founded in 1687 by Portugal as a fortified port and trading center. In 1942 it became the capital of Portuguese Guinea. After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973, the capital of the \"\"de facto\"\" independent territories was declared to be Madina do Boe. Bissau remained as", "title": "Bissau" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.91, "text": "Nzérékoré Region at . The Republic of Guinea covers of West Africa, about 10 degrees north of the equator. Guinea is divided into four natural regions with distinct human, geographic, and climatic characteristics: Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures. Conakry is Guinea's capital, largest city, and economic centre. Nzérékoré, located in the Guinée forestière region in Southern Guinea, is the second largest city. Other major cities in the country with a population above 100,000 include Kankan, Kindia, Labe, Guéckédou, Boke, Mamou and Kissidougou. The wildlife of Guinea is very diverse due to the wide", "title": "Guinea" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.89, "text": "National Capital District (Papua New Guinea) The National Capital District of Papua New Guinea is the incorporated area around Port Moresby, which is the capital of Papua New Guinea. Although it is surrounded by Central Province, where Port Moresby is also the capital, it is technically not a part of that province. It covers an area of 240 km² and has a population of 364,125 (2011 census). It is represented by three open MPs and an NCD-wide representative in the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea who acts as Governor of the National Capital District; however, these MPs do not", "title": "National Capital District (Papua New Guinea)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.83, "text": "the capital of the Portuguese-occupied regions, and the \"\"de jure\"\" capital of all of Portuguese Guinea. When Portugal recognized the independence of Guinea-Bissau and decolonised in 1974 due to the military coup of April 25 in Lisbon, the two territories merged and Bissau became the capital of the new independent state. Bissau was the scene of intense fighting during the beginning and end of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War in 1998 and 1999. Bissau is located at 11°52' North, 15°36' West (11.86667, -15.60) , on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean. The land surrounding Bissau is extremely low-lying, and", "title": "Bissau" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.83, "text": "Moussa Dadis Camara, who as of December 31, 2008 was the acting president of the country. Koure, Guinea Kouré is a small town on the outskirts of Conakry, and within the administrative remit of the capital city of Guinea, the Capital Region (\"\"Capitale d'Etat-Zone Speciale de Conakry\"\" or \"\"CEZSC\"\"). Two other smaller towns in Guinea share this name: Koure, near the border of Mali north of the Niger River headwaters in the Kankan Region, and Koure in the Lola Prefecture of the Nzérékoré Region of Guinea's far east, along the border with Liberia. This last village, in an area inhabited", "title": "Koure, Guinea" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.66, "text": "Postage stamps and postal history of Guinea This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Guinea. The Republic of Guinea (Fr: \"\"République de Guinée\"\") is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. Conakry is the capital, the seat of the national government, and the largest city. Guinea forms a crescent by curving from its western border on the Atlantic Ocean toward the east and the south. Its northern border is shared with Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mali, the southern one with Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire. The Niger River arises in Guinea and", "title": "Postage stamps and postal history of Guinea" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.48, "text": "during the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–1999), including the Guinea-Bissau Presidential Palace and the Bissau French Cultural Centre (now rebuilt), and the city centre is still underdeveloped. Bissau is twinned with: Bissau Bissau is the capital city of the African Republic of Guinea-Bissau. In 2015, Bissau had a population of 492,004. Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's largest city, major port, and its administrative and military centre. The city was founded in 1687 by Portugal as a fortified port and trading center. In 1942 it became the capital of Portuguese Guinea. After", "title": "Bissau" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.41, "text": "Koure, Guinea Kouré is a small town on the outskirts of Conakry, and within the administrative remit of the capital city of Guinea, the Capital Region (\"\"Capitale d'Etat-Zone Speciale de Conakry\"\" or \"\"CEZSC\"\"). Two other smaller towns in Guinea share this name: Koure, near the border of Mali north of the Niger River headwaters in the Kankan Region, and Koure in the Lola Prefecture of the Nzérékoré Region of Guinea's far east, along the border with Liberia. This last village, in an area inhabited by the Kapele people, has recently gained attention as the birthplace of the Guinean army officer,", "title": "Koure, Guinea" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.33, "text": "Liberian capital, Monrovia. The opposition coalition withdrew from the electoral process in mid-February, mainly due to President Conde's insistence on using a suspicious South African firm Waymark Infotech to draw up the registered voter list. In late February 2013, political violence erupted in Guinea after protesters took to the streets to voice their concerns over the transparency of the upcoming May 2013 elections. The demonstrations were fueled by the opposition coalition’s decision to step down from the electoral process in protest at the lack of transparency in the preparations for elections. Nine people were killed during the protests, while around", "title": "History of Guinea" } ]

[ "South Tarawa" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.17, "text": "Betio Betio is the largest township of Kiribati's capital city, South Tarawa, and the country's main port. The settlement is located on a separate islet at the extreme southwest of the atoll. Betio Post Office opened on 5 April 1957 and closed in 1964. Since the 1970s, the islet has become a major centre of economic activity in Kiribati, and a causeway to Bairiki was constructed in the early 1980s, leading to an increase in human contact with the island. Due to changing currents resulting from the construction of the causeway Bikeman Island, northeast of Betio, has been submerged since", "title": "Betio" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.08, "text": "South Tarawa South Tarawa (in Gilbertese \"\"Tarawa Teinainano\"\") is the capital and hub of the Republic of Kiribati and home to approximately half of Kiribati's population. The South Tarawa population centre consists of all the small islets from Betio in the west to Bonriki and Tanaea in the east, connected by the South Tarawa main road, with a population of 50,182 . South Tarawa is home to most of the government, commercial and education facilities in Kiribati including the Port and the High Court at Betio, the State House, Government Ministries and foreign High Commissions in Bairiki, a University of", "title": "South Tarawa" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.94, "text": "Bairiki Bairiki is one of the largest towns in South Tarawa of Kiribati. The State House, the National Stadium, the High Commissions of Australia and New Zealand as well as the embassy of Taiwan, and most of the Government Ministries are based in Bairiki. Bairiki is administered by the Teinainano Urban Council or TUC. As at the 2010 Census the population of Bairiki was 3,524. Bairiki was sometimes considered the capital of Kiribati because at one time both the Parliament and the Presidency (and main administrative offices) were located there. However Parliament moved to Ambo in 2000, and the various", "title": "Bairiki" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.72, "text": "three administrative subdivisions: South Tarawa hosts the capital of the Republic of Kiribati. The House of Assembly is in Ambo, and the State House is in Bairiki. The offices of the various ministries of the government range from Betio at the south-west extreme to Nawerewere (at the near-centre of North Tarawa in an easterly island in its chain). Settlements on North Tarawa include Marenanuka and Taborio, which has Immaculate Heart College, a Catholic school. Four resident diplomatic missions exist: the Embassies of Taiwan and Cuba and the High Commissions of Australia and New Zealand. In Kiribati mythology, Tarawa was the", "title": "Tarawa" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.31, "text": "meridian. This brings the Line Islands into the same day as the Kiribati Islands. Kiribati's easternmost islands, the southern Line Islands, south of Hawaii, have the most advanced time on Earth: hours. Kiribati became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979. The capital and now most populated area, South Tarawa, consists of a number of islets, connected by a series of causeways. These comprise about half the area of Tarawa Atoll. Kiribati is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the IMF and the World Bank, and became a full member of the United Nations in 1999. The name \"\"Kiribati\"\"", "title": "Kiribati" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.19, "text": "a range of accommodation available for visitors and for those working short term in South Tarawa. Details are available from Tourism Kiribati. South Tarawa South Tarawa (in Gilbertese \"\"Tarawa Teinainano\"\") is the capital and hub of the Republic of Kiribati and home to approximately half of Kiribati's population. The South Tarawa population centre consists of all the small islets from Betio in the west to Bonriki and Tanaea in the east, connected by the South Tarawa main road, with a population of 50,182 . South Tarawa is home to most of the government, commercial and education facilities in Kiribati including", "title": "South Tarawa" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.92, "text": "Tarawa Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Republic of Kiribati, in the central Pacific Ocean. It comprises North Tarawa, which has much in common with other, more remote islands of the Gilberts group; and South Tarawa, which is home to 56,284 people – half of the country's total population. The atoll is best known by outsiders as the site of the Battle of Tarawa during World War II. Tarawa has a large lagoon, in total area, and a wide reef. Although naturally abundant in fish and shellfish of all kinds, marine resources are being strained by the", "title": "Tarawa" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.5, "text": "Islands) Tarawa was governed as one island, under a king, until Colonial times. The colonial administrative centre of Kiribati was originally located at Taratai in North Tarawa (where the last king used to live). The administrative centre was later moved to South Tarawa, which remains the capital of Kiribati to this day. The decision to locate the Government on South Tarawa led to many changes; the lifestyle on South Tarawa is now almost urban, while lifestyles on North Tarawa remain based in traditional, subsistence culture. In the early 1970s, a boat constructed at Taratai village was sailed to Fiji using", "title": "North Tarawa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.48, "text": "one of the least suitable places for agriculture in the world. Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Line Islands is the world's largest atoll. Based on a 1995 realignment of the International Date Line, the Line Islands were the first area to enter into a new year, including year 2000. For that reason, Caroline Island has been renamed Millennium Island. The majority of Kiribati, including the capital, is not first, for example New Zealand (UTC+13 in January) has an earlier new year. According to the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (previously South Pacific Regional Environment Programme), two small uninhabited Kiribati islets, Tebua", "title": "Kiribati" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.05, "text": "and the various design elements outlined in black. The new flag was hoisted during the independence day celebrations in the capital, Tarawa, on 12 July 1979. The flag bears a very slight resemblance to the flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, as well as to the flag of British Columbia, the Flag of the Isle of Wight, the flag of the Company of Scotland, and the flag of the city of Bath, Maine. Flag of Kiribati The flag of Kiribati is red in the upper half with a gold frigatebird (\"\"Fregata minor\"\", in Gilbertese: \"\"te eitei\"\") flying over a", "title": "Flag of Kiribati" } ]

[ "Victoria", "Victoria, Labuan", "Labuan Port" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.97, "text": "Labuan Labuan (Jawi: لابوان), officially the Federal Territory of Labuan (Malay: \"\"Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan\"\", Jawi: ولايه ڤرسكوتوان لابوان), is a federal territory of Malaysia. It is made up of the eponymous Labuan Island and six smaller islands, and is located off the coast of the state of Sabah in East Malaysia. Labuan's capital is Victoria and is best known as an offshore financial centre offering international financial and business services via Labuan IBFC since 1990 as well as being an offshore support hub for deepwater oil and gas activities in the region. It is also a tourist destination for people", "title": "Labuan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.72, "text": "Victoria, Labuan Victoria () or Victoria Town () is the capital of the Federal Territory of Labuan in Malaysia, an island group off the north coast of Borneo. It is in the southeast corner of Labuan and its Malay name, \"\"Bandar Labuan\"\" is more commonly used by the locals than Victoria. The town is an urban district within the wider city limits of Victoria which includes Labuan Port, a sheltered deep-water harbour which is an important trans-shipment point for Brunei Darussalam, northern Sarawak and western Sabah. Since the 15th century, the town area including other parts of Labuan were under", "title": "Victoria, Labuan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.09, "text": "Federal Territories (Malaysia) The Federal Territories () in Malaysia comprise three territories: Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan, governed directly by the federal government of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital of Malaysia, Putrajaya is the administrative capital, and Labuan is an offshore international financial centre. Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya are enclaves in the state of Selangor, while Labuan is an island off the coast of Sabah. The territories fall under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for the Federal Territories, which was formed under Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration on 27 March 2006. The first Minister for the Federal", "title": "Federal Territories (Malaysia)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.91, "text": "founded on the main island. Other economic resources include edible bird's nest, pearl, sago and camphor. The British hoped that the island's capital would grow into a city to rival Singapore and Hong Kong, but the dream was never realised. In particular the decline of coal production caused most investors to withdrew their investment. As a replacement, coconut, rubber and sago production became the main resources of the Labuan economy. Under the administration of North Borneo, its revenue was $20,000 in 1889, increasing to $56,000 in 1902. Imports in 1902 were $1,948,742, while exports reached $1,198,945. The island had a", "title": "Crown Colony of Labuan" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.91, "text": "Victoria, Labuan features a tropical rainforest climate (Af), which is true for virtually all of Malaysia due to its close proximity near the equator, with constantly high temperatures and abundant rainfall over the course of the year. Like all cities and town with this climate, there is no dry season and the temperature in the city averages 26.9 °C, while the average annual rainfall is 2207 mm. Victoria currently has one sister city: Victoria, Labuan Victoria () or Victoria Town () is the capital of the Federal Territory of Labuan in Malaysia, an island group off the north coast of", "title": "Victoria, Labuan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.84, "text": "each federal territory has its own flag. Federal Territories (Malaysia) The Federal Territories () in Malaysia comprise three territories: Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan, governed directly by the federal government of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital of Malaysia, Putrajaya is the administrative capital, and Labuan is an offshore international financial centre. Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya are enclaves in the state of Selangor, while Labuan is an island off the coast of Sabah. The territories fall under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for the Federal Territories, which was formed under Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration on 27 March", "title": "Federal Territories (Malaysia)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.84, "text": "West Manggarai Regency West Manggarai Regency () is one of the eight regencies which divide the island of Flores, located in the province of East Nusa Tenggara (\"\"Nusa Tenggara Timur\"\") in Indonesia. The regency's capital is the town of Labuan Bajo. The regency includes the western portion of Flores island (\"\"Pulau Flores\"\") and several small islands around it, including the two largest islands, Komodo (\"\"Pulau Komodo\"\") and Rinca (\"\"Pulau Rinca\"\") as well as others such as Seraya Besar (\"\"Pulau Seraya Besar\"\"), Seraya Kecil (\"\"Pulau Seraya Kecil\"\"), Bidadari (\"\"Pulau Bidadari\"\") and Longgos (\"\"Pulau Longgos\"\"). The total area of West Manggarai Regency", "title": "West Manggarai Regency" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.25, "text": "capital), Putrajaya (federal government administrative centre) and Labuan (international offshore financial centre). In India, the term Union Territory is used for the seven territories governed directly by the federal national government with its own Chief minister and Governor. They include — Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Lakshadweep and Puducherry. Of these Delhi and Puducherry possess partial state hoods with their own elected chief ministers. In Pakistan, the term Federal Territory is used for the five zones and 12 union councils of Islamabad governed directly by the state government as Islamabad Capital Territory.", "title": "Federal district" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.19, "text": "Labuan on 10 September 1945. After the war on the edge of bankruptcy, the British North Borneo Company returned to administer Jesselton but was unable to finance the huge costs of reconstruction. They gave control of North Borneo to the British Crown on 18 July 1946. The new colonial government elected to rebuild Jesselton as the capital of North Borneo instead of Sandakan, which had also been destroyed by the war. The Crown Colony administration designed a plan, later known as the \"\"Colonial Office Reconstruction and Development Plan for North Borneo: 1948–1955”, to rebuild North Borneo. This plan provided £6,051,939", "title": "Kota Kinabalu" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.16, "text": "the current member of parliament of Labuan will be appointed to become chairman of Labuan Corporation. The island is represented in the lower house of parliament by MP Roszman Datuk Haji Isli and in the upper house by Senator Yunus Kurus. Below is the list of administrator of Labuan Corporation from 2001 to current date: The Federal Territory is administratively subdivided into the capital Bandar Labuan (formerly \"\"Victoria\"\") and 27 \"\"kampung\"\" (administrative villages), and which are ruled by appointed \"\"Ketua Kampung\"\" (headmen): Security is the responsibility of the federal government, with naval patrol vessels, a garrison and an air detachment", "title": "Labuan" } ]

[ "Blois" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.92, "text": "largest of the French departments in terms of area. The line of the river Loire traverses the land, ensuring easy communication between its own capital, Blois, and the vibrant cultural and commercial centres of Tours to the west and the fringes of the Seine-Paris basin at Orléans to the east. Its main rivers are the Loire, on which its prefecture (capital) Blois is situated, the Loir and the Cher. The inhabitants of the department are called the \"\"Loir-et-Chériens\"\". Loir-et-Cher has an important number of historic châteaux, including the following: Loir-et-Cher Loir-et-Cher () is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire", "title": "Loir-et-Cher" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.77, "text": "Loir-et-Cher Loir-et-Cher () is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region, France. Its name is originated from two rivers which cross it, the Loir on the North and the Cher on the South. Its prefecture is Blois. The INSEE and La Poste gave it the number 41. The department of Loir-et-Cher covers a territory which had a substantial population during the prehistoric period. However it was not until the Middle Ages that local inhabitants built various castles and other fortifications to enable them to withstand a series of invasions of Normans, Bourguignons, the English and others. The economy is", "title": "Loir-et-Cher" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.2, "text": "Blois Blois () is a city and the capital of Loir-et-Cher department in central France, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire between Orléans and Tours. Though of ancient origin, Blois is first distinctly mentioned by Gregory of Tours in the 6th century, and the city gained some notability in the 9th century, when it became the seat of a powerful countship known as \"\"Blesum castrum\"\". In 1171, Blois was the site of a blood libel against its Jewish community that led to 31 Jews (by some accounts 40) being burned to death. Their martyrdom also contributed to", "title": "Blois" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.86, "text": "ancient Druidic religion. A holy place in the \"\"Forest of the Carnutes\"\" used to host the annual Druidic assembly. In the north of the department another pre-Roman people, the little-known Durocasses, had their capital at Dreux. Eure-et-Loir comprises the main part of the region of Beauce, politically it belongs to the current region of Centre-Val de Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Essonne, Yvelines, Eure, Orne, and Sarthe. The inhabitants of the department are called \"\"Euréliens\"\". The Eure-et-Loir is a department of agricultural tradition (Beauce), but also at the forefront in three economic sectors : The", "title": "Eure-et-Loir" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.55, "text": "by the Loire, it shows an image of balance and diversity. In 1989, American-based animators Andreas Deja, Glen Keane, and Tom Sito, and draftsmen Jean Gillmore, Thom Enriquez, and Hans Bacher launched an expedition to the chateau to do their research for the animated adaptation of \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\". Loir-et-Cher is a part of the modern region of Centre-Val de Loire. Adjacent departments are Eure-et-Loir to the north, Loiret to the north-east, Cher to the south-east, Indre to the south, Indre-et-Loire to the south-west, and Sarthe to the west. The department comprises 6,314 km, which makes it the 31st", "title": "Loir-et-Cher" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.52, "text": "Indre-et-Loire and the Sarthe. Due to its surface area of 6 343 km², it is on the 31st national place in the size’s domain. It has a privileged geographical situation because it is in the center of the Centre region and near the Paris basin. An axe lively and dynamic, brings Blois closer (the department’s administrative center) of the both tall urban conglomerations near it: Orleans and Tours. Located on the boundaries of the Perche, the Beauce, the Sologne and the Touraine, it finds its territorial identity in the diversity of its geography and its landscapes. Cut in its middle", "title": "Loir-et-Cher" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.27, "text": "Chambord, Loir-et-Cher Chambord is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France. It is best known as the location of the Château de Chambord, one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinct French Renaissance architecture. The château forms a parallelogram flanked at the angles by round towers and enclosing a square block of buildings, the façade of which forms the centre of the main front. The profusion of turrets, pinnacles, and dormer windows which decorates the roof of this, the chief portion of the château, constitutes the main feature of the exterior, while", "title": "Chambord, Loir-et-Cher" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.22, "text": "inventor Denis Papin and the historian Augustin Thierry come from over here. Others well-known people attached also to this department, like François the First, Gaston d’Orleans, the Marshall Maunoury, and the abbot Gregoire. (Bishop of Blois elected at the Constituante) In the artistic domain, there is the compositor Antoine Boesset (1587-1643), musician in the Louis XII de France’s court, who was the head of the Music of the King’s Bedroom from 1623 to 1643. The Loir-et-Cher’s department is a part of the Centre Region. It is adjacent of these departments : the Eure-et-Loir, the Loiret, the Cher, the Indre, the", "title": "Loir-et-Cher" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.09, "text": "constitution’s advisory board made a report in which he wanted to attribute one of the 80 departments to Blois. However, some cities and canton capitals disagreed, such as Tours and Orleans. Inside of the department, Montrichard turns to Amboise and Tours, Saint-Aignan wants to turn to the Berry and Salbris to Vierzon. Finally, Orleans gives Blois an important part of the Sologne except Beaugency and Tours doesn’t give Amboise. The department is founded 4 March 1790, in accordance with the law of 22 December 1789. It is constituted of some old provinces of the Orleanais and of the Touraine along", "title": "Loir-et-Cher" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.98, "text": "Couture-sur-Loir Couture-sur-Loir is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France. It is situated in the northwest of the Loir-et-Cher department, to the west of Vendôme. It lies mainly on the left bank of the Loir River. Couture is in the canton of Montoire-sur-le-Loir, which corresponds to the historic Bas-Vendômois district. Adjacent to the village centre (with a crossroad street pattern) or \"\"bourg\"\" are two parallel settlements, Le Poirier and more distinctly Le Pin. The main industry (apart from farming and tourism) is gravel extraction; excavated areas have been adapted for water sports. A number of inhabitants are employed", "title": "Couture-sur-Loir" } ]

[ "Ennis" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.84, "text": "was routinely susceptible to flooding, but the flood defence system put an end to the event in Parnell Street and the Mill Road areas, although in November 2009 other parts of the town experienced severe flooding. A new pedestrian bridge, Harmony Row Bridge, was built over the river Fergus in June 2009. Clare became a county under the rule of Elizabeth I and Ennis was chosen as its capital by the Earls of Thomond because of its central location and great influence. Ennis received a grant to hold fairs and markets in 1610 and some years later a Charter for", "title": "Ennis" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23, "text": "and the county of the city of Limerick after the dissolution of the monasteries in the mid-16th century. It was assigned to County Clare after the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, part of the judicial county of Galway (Drummaan, Inishcaltra North and Mountshannon electoral divisions) was transferred to county Clare. This area contains the village of Mountshannon on the north-western shore of Lough Derg. The county seat is at Ennis, which also serves as a major regional hub for County Clare. Among its emergency services, it contains the Ennis Regional Hospital, the HQ", "title": "County Clare" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.34, "text": "County Clare County Clare () is a county in Ireland, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the West by the Atlantic Ocean. There is debate whether it should be historically considered a part of Connacht. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,817 at the 2016 census. The county town and largest settlement is Ennis. Clare is north-west of the River Shannon covering a total area of . Clare is the 7th largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties in area and the 19th largest in terms of population. It", "title": "County Clare" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.98, "text": "Saint Molua, or Lua, on an island in the Shannon 1 km below the present Killaloe Bridge which later moved onto the mainland. In the tenth century it was base for Brian Boru as it controlled the strategic crossing of the Shannon above Limerick, where the Vikings were in control. Brian Boru had his palace, Kincora (Ceann Coradh), on the high ground where the current Catholic church stands. Therefore, between 1002 and 1014, when he was the High King, Killaloe was effectively the capital of all Ireland. 2 km north of the town, his fort, Beal Boruma, stood on the", "title": "Killaloe, County Clare" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.83, "text": "what would later become County Limerick and County Tipperary. Under pressure from the Butlers, Thomond was now not too different to what would become County Clare, protected by the River Shannon. Donnchadh moved his capital to Clonroad. The Normans advance continued during the reign of Conchobhar na Suidaine Ó Briain, as Henry III \"\"granted\"\" lands to Robert de Muscregos and John Fitzgeoffrey. Of the two de Muscregos was most active, constructing Clare Castle and Bunratty Castle with a colony. The precedent for Thomond was very dangerous as, should much more land have been taken, the realm would have no longer", "title": "Thomond" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.69, "text": "Clare County, Michigan Clare County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 30,926. The county seat is Harrison. The county was created by the Michigan Legislature from part of Michilimackinac County in 1840, named Kaykakee County. It was renamed Clare County in 1843 after County Clare in Ireland. The county was administered by a succession of other Michigan counties prior to the organization of county government in 1871. Farwell was the first county seat; in 1877 the county seat was moved to Harrison. According to the US Census", "title": "Clare County, Michigan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.48, "text": "Clares Clares is a small village in the Guadalajara province, incorporated since 1969 in the Maranchón municipality, belonging to the Señorio de Molina-Alto Tajo region in the autonomous community of Castilla - La Mancha (Spain). Clares is in the north of the Guadalajara province, 108 km from the provincial capital. The population, as of 1 January 2008, was 20. The annual average temperature is 8-10 °C, and the average temperature of the hottest month in the summer is less than 25 °C. The total annual amount of precipitation is about 500 mm, with two peaks in spring and autumn. Clares´", "title": "Clares" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.14, "text": "were an amalgamation of the club with local rivals Doora-Barefield. They competed together from 1944-1956 and 1994-1996 when there were not enough players available for two separate senior football teams. When combined with their predecessor the Ennis Dalcassians, Éire Óg are the most successful club in Clare at senior level. A combined total of 33 county titles have been won by the capital town, 15 Senior Hurling titles (1990) and 18 Senior Football titles (2006). The club was formed at the end of February 1952. The historic first meeting took place in a house in Steele's Terrace, now occupied by", "title": "Éire Óg, Inis GAA" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.14, "text": "Clare, County Westmeath Clare (Irish-derived place name, Clárach meaning 'A Level Place'.) is a townland in Killare, Rathconrath, County Westmeath, Ireland. Clare is bounded on the north by Clonickilroe and Clonnamanagh townlands, on the west by Ballinlig Lower and Clonybane townlands, on the south by Ballinaspick townland and on the east by Dungaghy, Rackavra, Rathskeagh Upper and Taghnafearagh townlands. Its chief geographical features are Clare Hill which reaches a height of 433 feet, small streams, forestry plantations and dug wells. Clare is traversed by the local L1240 road, minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 854 acres. The", "title": "Clare, County Westmeath" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.94, "text": "Clare, New York Clare is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 105 at the 2010 census. The Town of Clare is in the south-central part of the county and is south of the Village of Canton, the county seat. The Town of Clare, formed in 1880 from part of the Town of Peirrepont, was the last town formed in the county. Madam De Stael, a French author, at one time invested in the town lands, on the advice of her friend Gouverneur Morris, while it was still part of Pierrepont. A history in", "title": "Clare, New York" } ]

[ "Yalutorovsk" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.67, "text": "Yalutorovsky District Yalutorovsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Tyumen Oblast, Russia. Within the framework of municipal divisions, it is incorporated as Yalutorovsky Municipal District. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Yalutorovsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 14,461 (2010 Census); Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yalutorovsky District is one of the twenty-two in the oblast. The town of Yalutorovsk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as an administrative", "title": "Yalutorovsky District" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.55, "text": "unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Yalutorovsky Municipal District. The Town of Yalutorovsk is incorporated separately from the district as Yalutorovsk Urban Okrug. Yalutorovsky District Yalutorovsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Tyumen Oblast, Russia. Within the framework of municipal divisions, it is incorporated as Yalutorovsky Municipal District. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Yalutorovsk (which is not administratively a part of the district).", "title": "Yalutorovsky District" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.44, "text": "Yablonovsky, Republic of Adygea Yablonovsky (; ), informally called Yablonovka (), is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Takhtamukaysky District of the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kuban River across Krasnodar in Krasnodar Krai, northwest of Maykop, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 26,171. Yablonovsky is connected with Krasnodar in Krasnodar Krai by means of bridges across the Kuban River. In October 2009, President Aslan Tkhakushinov named Yablonovsky the prime candidate for being granted town status due to its being the largest urban locality in Adygea", "title": "Yablonovsky, Republic of Adygea" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.22, "text": "is 2751 km2 (about 0.003% of Tyumen Oblast). The district is bordered on the north by Tyumensky District and Yalutorovsky District, on the east by Uporovsky District, on the south and west by Shatrovsky District of Kurgan Oblast, and on the northwest by Tugulymsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast. The area has been inhabited since prehistoric times, with the oldest artifacts dated to the Mesolithic (7th-8th century BCE). In fact, a notable feature of the area is the extensive series of archaeological sites that run through the Iset River area. Over 500 archaeological sites, representing Stone, Bronze and Iron Age settlements,", "title": "Isetsky District" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.17, "text": "Yadrin Yadrin (; \"\"Jetĕrne\"\") is a town and the administrative center of Yadrinsky District of the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Sura River, southwest of Cheboksary, the capital of the republic. Population: It was founded in 1590 as a fortified settlement and was granted town status in 1781. Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yadrin serves as the administrative center of Yadrinsky District. As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Yadrinsky District as Yadrinskoye Urban Settlement. As a municipal division, this administrative unit also has urban settlement status and is a part of Yadrinsky", "title": "Yadrin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.08, "text": "Yashnobod Yashnobod (former Hamza) is one of 11 districts (\"\"tuman\"\") of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The district was established in 1968 with name Khamza district. It is an eastern district, and borders with the \"\"tuman\"\" of Mirzo Ulugbek, Yunusabad, Mirobod and Bektemir, as well as with Tashkent Province. Out of 365 streets, the main ones are Istiklol Street, Taraqqiyot Street, Fargona Yuli Street, Tashkent Ring Road, Zharkurgan Street, Yashnobod and Akhangaran Highway. The district has the Uzbekistan line metro station Mashinasozlar and Do‘stlik, which is the largest freight railway station in Tashkent (Product code 722400). In the end of", "title": "Yashnobod" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.08, "text": "August 2014, the district was renamed to \"\"Yashnobod\"\". Yashnobod Yashnobod (former Hamza) is one of 11 districts (\"\"tuman\"\") of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The district was established in 1968 with name Khamza district. It is an eastern district, and borders with the \"\"tuman\"\" of Mirzo Ulugbek, Yunusabad, Mirobod and Bektemir, as well as with Tashkent Province. Out of 365 streets, the main ones are Istiklol Street, Taraqqiyot Street, Fargona Yuli Street, Tashkent Ring Road, Zharkurgan Street, Yashnobod and Akhangaran Highway. The district has the Uzbekistan line metro station Mashinasozlar and Do‘stlik, which is the largest freight railway station in", "title": "Yashnobod" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.06, "text": "It is in the basin of the Iset River, which meanders from west to east through the middle of the district. The Iset meets the south-north flowing Tobol River about 20km east of the district. The administrative center is the town of Isetskoye, which is in the middle of the district at the intersection of a north-south highway (\"\"Tyumen-Kurgan\"\") and a west-east highway (\"\"Yekaterinburg-Shadrinsk-Isetskoye-Yalutorovsk\"\"). Isetsky District is 40 km south of the city of Tyumen, 260 km east of the city of Yekaterinburg, and 1,650 km east of Moscow. The area measures 60 km (north-south), 60 km (west-east); total area", "title": "Isetsky District" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.84, "text": "west by Grayvoronsky District, on the north by Rakityansky District, and on the east by Yakovlevsky District and Belgorodsky District. The administrative center of the district is the town of Borisovka, Belgorod Oblast. The district is west of the city of Belgorod, and is north of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The terrain is hilly plain averaging above sea level; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland. The major river through the district is the Vorskla River, which flows east to west through the district, with grey soils to the north of the river and", "title": "Borisovsky District" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.69, "text": "the Kotorosl embankment; and Peter and Paul's Cathedral, a Protestant-style Orthodox church. North of the center there is a small industrial region, which is home to the tire factory, the engine plant, as well as many other smaller factories. Further north on the Western bank lies Dzerzhinsky City District, named after \"\"Iron\"\" Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka, the Soviet secret police. Dzerzhinsky City District's core microdistrict is Bragino, named after a small village that was eventually consumed by Yaroslavl's post-war expansion. Bragino is the largest area in Yaroslavl in terms of population, but like Frunzensky City District, it is", "title": "Yaroslavl" } ]

[ "Greymouth" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.77, "text": "West Coast Division (Gambia) West Coast Region, originally the Western Division, was one of the five administrative divisions of the Gambia. Its capital was Brikama. It was subsequently reorganised as the Brikama Local Government Area (LGA), without any change in the area covered. Per 2013 census, the region had a population of 699,704 with a population density of 397. The total number of households was 45,396 as of 2003. As of 2003, the total area of the region is 1764.3 km. The infant mortality rate was 71 for every thousand births and the under-five mortality was 93 per every thousand", "title": "West Coast Division (Gambia)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.56, "text": "Census, the estimated population of the Census Bureau's Pacific Region was approximately 47.8 million – about 15.3% of U.S. population. The largest city on the west coast of the United States is Los Angeles. Major cities and metropolitan areas on the West Coast include (from north to south): However, of these aforementioned cities and metropolitan areas, only Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, and San Diego are directly on the open Pacific Ocean. The history of the West Coast begins with the arrival of the earliest known humans of the Americas, Paleo-Indians, crossing the Bering Strait from Eurasia into North", "title": "West Coast of the United States" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.48, "text": "West Coast Division West Coast Division () is an administrative division of Sabah, Malaysia. It occupies the northwest portion of Sabah. With an area of 7,588 square kilometres, it occupies 10.3% of Sabah's territory. It also has approximately 30% of Sabah's total population, with the main indigenous inhabitants comprising the Bajau, Bruneian Malay, Dusun, Illanun, Kadazan and Kedayan, as well with a significant numbers of Chinese. The division is divided into the districts of Ranau, Kota Belud, Tuaran, Penampang, Papar, and the state capital Kota Kinabalu. The main towns are as in the names of the districts, plus other towns", "title": "West Coast Division" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.47, "text": "West Coast Council West Coast Council is a local government body in Tasmania, covering much of the western region of the state. West Coast is classified as a rural local government area and has a population of 4,149, the major towns and localities of the region include Strahan, Rosebery, Queenstown and the principal town of Zeehan. The West Coast has a rich mining and railway heritage as well as a historic convict settlement. It is the largest of the 29 Tasmanian councils by area, and the second least densely populated, after the Central Highlands. It takes in the West Coast", "title": "West Coast Council" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.44, "text": "Westland Province The Westland Province was a province of New Zealand from 1873 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. The capital was Hokitika. The area was part of Canterbury Province when the provinces were created in 1853. By 1868, triggered by the population growth associated with the West Coast Gold Rush, the West Coast region was separated from Canterbury Province with the formation of the County of Westland. The boundary to Canterbury was defined as the crest of the Southern Alps. This county was not a true province, as it had all the administrative powers of a provincial", "title": "Westland Province" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.34, "text": "Kelantan on October 30, 2007 and the following day in Kuantan, the state capital of Pahang. During the launch, the Prime Minister announced a RM 6 billion allocation as part of public investment in this development corridor. The investment is primarily in high-impact projects that will serve as catalysts for the socio-economic development of the region, which occupies almost half of Peninsular Malaysia, and lagged the West Coast states it in terms of income and investments. Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who succeeded Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2008, continued the Malaysian leadership's commitment to corridor development, incorporating it into his", "title": "East Coast Economic Region" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.34, "text": "West Coast, New Zealand The West Coast () is a region of New Zealand on the west coast of the South Island that is administered by the West Coast Regional Council. It comprises the territorial authorities of Buller District, Grey District and Westland District. The principal towns are Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika. The region is one of the more remote and most sparsely populated areas of the country. The name \"\"Westland\"\" is used by some New Zealanders to refer to the whole of the West Coast, including Grey District, Buller District and Fiordland, and can also refer to the short-lived", "title": "West Coast, New Zealand" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.22, "text": "including Putatan, Inanam, Telipok, Tamparuli, and Kinarut. Kota Kinabalu Harbour is the main sea ports in the state's capital with an estimate size of 1,440 kilometres long coast. It serves as the gateway for water transport in Sabah. It handles and handles 4,031,000 freight tonne annually. The Kota Kinabalu International Airport serves as the main gateway into the state by air. West Coast Division is subdivided into the following administrative districts: The present divisions of Sabah is largely inherited from the division of the North Borneo Chartered Company. Following the acquisition of North Borneo under the royal charter issued in", "title": "West Coast Division" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.2, "text": "capital of the West is Pontianak on the west coast, about from the border, and the capital of the East is Samarinda on the south coast, some from the border. There were no roads in the border area other than some in the west, and no road existed linking West and East Kalimantan. The lack, on both sides of the border, of roads and tracks suitable for vehicles meant that movement was limited to foot tracks mostly unmarked on any map, as well as water and air movement. There were many large rivers on both sides of the border, and", "title": "Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.19, "text": "the financial capital of the west coast as many banks and businesses set up in the neighborhood. The west coast's first and only skyscrapers, were built in the area along Market Street. The neighborhood was completely destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire (although miraculously, the area's skyscrapers survived). By 1910, the area was largely rebuilt with low-rise, masonry-clad buildings ranging from six to twelve stories in height. During the late 1920s, several Neo-Gothic high rises, reaching three to four hundred feet in height, were constructed, including the Standard Oil Building, Russ Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, Shell Building, and the Pacific", "title": "Financial District, San Francisco" } ]

[ "Kigali" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.64, "text": "by that time. Kigali Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre. The city has been Rwanda's economic, cultural, and transport hub since it became capital at independence in 1962. The city hosts the main residence and offices of the President of Rwanda and government ministries. The city is within the province of Kigali City, which was enlarged in January 2006, as part of local government reorganisation in the country. Kigali's city limits cover the whole province; it is consolidated. The city's urban area covers about 70% of the municipal boundaries.", "title": "Kigali" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.59, "text": "Kigali Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre. The city has been Rwanda's economic, cultural, and transport hub since it became capital at independence in 1962. The city hosts the main residence and offices of the President of Rwanda and government ministries. The city is within the province of Kigali City, which was enlarged in January 2006, as part of local government reorganisation in the country. Kigali's city limits cover the whole province; it is consolidated. The city's urban area covers about 70% of the municipal boundaries. The earliest inhabitants", "title": "Kigali" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.55, "text": "a few degrees south of the equator and is landlocked. The capital, Kigali, is located near the centre of Rwanda. The watershed between the major Congo and Nile drainage basins runs from north to south through Rwanda, with around 80 percent of the country's area draining into the Nile and 20 percent into the Congo via the Rusizi River. The country's longest river is the Nyabarongo, which rises in the south-west, flows north, east, and southeast before merging with the Akanyaru to form the Akagera; the Akagera then flows due north along the eastern border with Tanzania. The Nyabarongo-Akagera eventually", "title": "Geography of Rwanda" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.33, "text": "Ruhengeri Ruhengeri is a city and capital of Musanze District in the Northern Province of Rwanda. Some sources now refer to the city itself as Musanze, after the district in which it lies. This has to do with the adopted policy of renaming Rwanda cities, which was done to eliminate terrible memories of the past and to install new administrational infrastructure in the country. Ruhengeri (Musanze) lies near the twin lakes of Lake Burera and Lake Ruhondo and is the gateway city to Volcanoes National Park and the famous mountain gorillas in the north-western part of the country. Ruhengeri's proximity", "title": "Ruhengeri" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.83, "text": "Butare Butare () is a city (population: 77,000 as of August 2002) in the Southern Province of Rwanda and capital of Huye district. It was the capital of the former Butare Province, Rwanda, that was dissolved on January 1, 2006. It was established in the 1920s as Astrida and served as the colonial capital of Rwanda. From 2006, some sources refer to the city as \"\"Huye\"\", after the surrounding district, but most Rwandans continue to use the name \"\"Butare\"\". It has a campus of the University of Rwanda, the Ruhande Arboretum, and a cathedral. It is also home to the", "title": "Butare" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.61, "text": "of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda and the largest city in that country. The coordinates of the town are:1° 4' 20.00\"\"S, 30° 27' 0.00\"\"E (Latitude:-1.072223; Longitude:30.450000). Kagitumba is one of the major border crossing points between Rwanda and Uganda; the other being Gatuna. Currently, plans are underway to integrate customs and immigration clearance procedures between the two countries, to create a one-stop clearance mechanism in both directions. When formalised, the new process will dramatically cut down waiting times for both human and commercial traffic between the two East African Community member countries. The exact population of Kagitumba, Rwanda is not", "title": "Kagitumba" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.53, "text": "Rwamagana Rwamagana is a city and capital of both Rwamagana district and the Eastern Province of Rwanda Rwamagana lies approximately from Kigali, on the newly renovated road leading east towards Tanzania. There was formerly a large amount of traffic running through the centre, particularly freight to and from Tanzania, but with the recent creation of a bypass, the centre of the city is now quieter. The city lies mainly along two roads, the main east-west route, and a spur leading off to the south. The main market and the Banque de Kigali are on this spur, while the city's two", "title": "Rwamagana" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.48, "text": "to the Volcanoes National Park has made it a popular tourist destination with several restaurants and hotels mainly aimed at visitors to the national park. Ruhengeri Ruhengeri is a city and capital of Musanze District in the Northern Province of Rwanda. Some sources now refer to the city itself as Musanze, after the district in which it lies. This has to do with the adopted policy of renaming Rwanda cities, which was done to eliminate terrible memories of the past and to install new administrational infrastructure in the country. Ruhengeri (Musanze) lies near the twin lakes of Lake Burera and", "title": "Ruhengeri" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.31, "text": "served by Butare Airport, a small civilian airport, administered by the Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority. Butare Butare () is a city (population: 77,000 as of August 2002) in the Southern Province of Rwanda and capital of Huye district. It was the capital of the former Butare Province, Rwanda, that was dissolved on January 1, 2006. It was established in the 1920s as Astrida and served as the colonial capital of Rwanda. From 2006, some sources refer to the city as \"\"Huye\"\", after the surrounding district, but most Rwandans continue to use the name \"\"Butare\"\". It has a campus of the", "title": "Butare" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.28, "text": "Rusizi District Rusizi is a district (\"\"akarere\"\") in Western Province, Rwanda. Its capital is Cyangugu, the major city of the Rwandan south-west and the district contains large parts of the former Cyangugu Province. The district lies at the southern end of Lake Kivu, where it empties into the Rusizi River (after which the district is named). Rusizi's capital, Cyangugu, is one of the three major Rwandan lake ports of Lake Kivu (along with Kibuye and Gisenyi) and it contiguous with the much larger Congolese city of Bukavu. The district also contains the western half of Nyungwe Forest, a popular tourist", "title": "Rusizi District" } ]

[ "Cockburn Town" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.73, "text": "executive and the legislature. Military defence is the responsibility of the United Kingdom. The capital of the Turks and Caicos Islands is Cockburn Town on Grand Turk. The islands were under Jamaican jurisdiction until 1962, when they assumed the status of a crown colony. The governor of the Bahamas oversaw affairs from 1965 to 1973. With Bahamian independence, the islands received a separate governor in 1973. Although independence was agreed upon for 1982, the policy was reversed and the islands are presently a British overseas territory. The islands adopted a constitution on August 30, 1976, which is Constitution Day, the", "title": "Politics of the Turks and Caicos Islands" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.12, "text": "the Dominican Republic) and the other Antilles archipelago islands. Cockburn Town, the capital since 1766, is situated on Grand Turk Island about east-southeast of Miami, United States. The islands have a total land area of . The first recorded European sighting of the islands now known as the Turks and Caicos occurred in 1512. In the subsequent centuries, the islands were claimed by several European powers with the British Empire eventually gaining control. For many years the islands were governed indirectly through Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. When the Bahamas gained independence in 1973, the islands received their own governor,", "title": "Turks and Caicos Islands" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.03, "text": "Suffrage is universal for those over 18 years of age. English is the official language. Grand Turk is the administrative and political capital of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Cockburn Town has been the seat of government since 1766. The Turks and Caicos Islands participates in the Caribbean Development Bank, is an associate in CARICOM, member of the Universal Postal Union and maintains an Interpol sub-bureau. Defence is the responsibility of the United Kingdom. The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization includes the territory on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Under the new Constitution that came into", "title": "Turks and Caicos Islands" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.44, "text": "wash upon the shores of Grand Turk. \"\"Her Majesty's Prison\"\" on Pond Street was built in the 1830s and remained in operation until 1994. In addition to the main cell block and offices for prison officials, it hosts a bell tower and its own museum. Cockburn Town Cockburn Town ( ) is the capital city of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Cockburn Town is located on the largest island in the Turks Islands archipelago, Grand Turk Island. Historic 18th and 19th century Bermudian architecture line Duke and Front Streets in the town. The town is known for its long, narrow", "title": "Cockburn Town" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.41, "text": "Turks and Caicos National Museum The Turks and Caicos National Museum is the national museum of the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is located in Guinep House on Front Street to the north of Cockburn Town on Grand Turk Island, which is also the capital of the archipelago. Established in the 1980s and opened in 1991, the museum is publicly funded as a nonprofit trust. It exhibits pre-historic Lucayan culture and records the history of the islands of the colonial era and the slave trade, all related to the sea. An arboretum is adjacent to the museum. The museum is", "title": "Turks and Caicos National Museum" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.08, "text": "Cockburn Town Cockburn Town ( ) is the capital city of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Cockburn Town is located on the largest island in the Turks Islands archipelago, Grand Turk Island. Historic 18th and 19th century Bermudian architecture line Duke and Front Streets in the town. The town is known for its long, narrow streets and old street lamps. The closest anchorage to Cockburn Town is Hawk's Nest Anchorage, which, though sheltered, should only be entered in good light because of reefs near the entrance. The seat of government ever since 1766, Cockburn Town was the first permanent settlement", "title": "Cockburn Town" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.55, "text": "United Kingdom suspended the Turks and Caicos Islands' self-government following allegations of ministerial corruption. Home rule was restored in the islands after the November 2012 elections. Long before Christopher Columbus first set foot on the capital island of Grand Turk during his discovery voyage of the new world in 1492, the islands of the Turks and Caicos were inhabited by Taino and Lucayan peoples. These original settlers left a rich heritage of seafaring, salt raking and farming, which still lingers on today. Words such as \"\"canoe\"\", Caribbean and \"\"caicos\"\" are derived from the Arawak language. Even the name of the", "title": "History of the Turks and Caicos Islands" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.06, "text": "island are stated to have blood links to the people, particularly of African origin, who perished in the shipwrecks. Some of the historical finds recovered under this project are exhibits in the museum. The exhibits of the Trouvadore Shipwreck project (the Molasses Reef Wreck) is under further exploration. Turks and Caicos National Museum The Turks and Caicos National Museum is the national museum of the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is located in Guinep House on Front Street to the north of Cockburn Town on Grand Turk Island, which is also the capital of the archipelago. Established in the 1980s", "title": "Turks and Caicos National Museum" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.02, "text": "main village. It is also the district capital and the home of the island’s various government offices, its utility companies and its high school. There are a number of old plantation areas situated along the King’s Road between Bottle Creek and the causeway to Middle Caicos. Located between the protected snorkeling area of Three Mary Cays and Horsestable Beach, Whitby is a small seaside village on North Caicos' Northern shore. This inland village is one of the oldest towns in the Turks and Caicos. It is known for being the centre of the archipelago’s farming community. Kew is also the", "title": "North Caicos" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.64, "text": "the neighbouring island of Middle Caicos gave the first assistance to the crew and Africans, and notified authorities on Grand Turk Island, the political capital of the Turks and Caicos. The authorities dispatched British soldiers to secure the crew and bring all the survivors back to Grand Turk whilst a decision was made on the Africans' future. Residents from Middle Caicos had disarmed the Spanish crew before the arrival of Lt. Fitzgerald with his men; he arrested them without need for force. On Grand Turk, the ship's crew were placed under armed guard; they were eventually taken to Nassau where", "title": "Trouvadore" } ]

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[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.84, "text": "Chișinău Chișinău (; ), also known as Kishinev (), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial center, and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bâc. According to the results of the 2014 census, the city proper had a population of 532,513, while the number of population in the Municipality of Chișinău (which includes the city itself and other nearby communities) was 662,836. Chișinău is the most economically prosperous locality in Moldova and its largest transportation hub. The origin of the city's name is", "title": "Chișinău" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.41, "text": "Moldova Moldova (, ), officially the Republic of Moldova (), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The capital city is Chișinău. Most of the Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania, but Russian rule", "title": "Moldova" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.06, "text": "Basarabeasca Basarabeasca (, Moldovan Cyrillic and Russian: Басарабяска; Bulgarian: Бесарабка, \"\"Besarabka\"\") is a city in Moldova. It is the capital of Basarabeasca District. The city, formerly an urban-type settlement, is located on the border with Ukraine. It is 94 km to the south of the national capital Chişinău, 25 km from Cimislia, and 25 km from Comrat. The river Cogilnic flows through the city from northwest to southeast, continuing on to the Black Sea. The main populated areas are in the lowlands. These are effectively divided into several areas, such as Romanovka and Flemynda. A Jewish settlement at the site", "title": "Basarabeasca" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.81, "text": "capital Chișinău, in the centre of the country, Tiraspol (in the eastern region of Transnistria), Bălți (in the north) and Bender (in the south-east). Comrat is the administrative centre of Gagauzia. Moldova has a climate which is moderately continental; its proximity to the Black Sea leads to the climate being mildly cold in the autumn and winter and relatively cool in the spring and summer. The summers are warm and long, with temperatures averaging about and the winters are relatively mild and dry, with January temperatures averaging . Annual rainfall, which ranges from around in the north to in the", "title": "Moldova" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.59, "text": "Tiraspol Tiraspol ( ; ) is internationally recognised as the second largest city in Moldova, but is effectively the capital and administrative centre of the unrecognised Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria). The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River. Tiraspol is a regional hub of light industry, such as furniture and electrical goods production. The modern city of Tiraspol was founded by the Russian generalissimo Alexander Suvorov in 1792, although the area had been inhabited for thousands of years by varying ethnic groups. The city celebrates its anniversary every year on October 14. The toponym consists of", "title": "Tiraspol" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.45, "text": "the Stephen the Great Monument, by the sculptor Alexandru Plămădeală, was opened. After the establishment of the Soviet Union in December 1922, the Soviet government moved in 1924 to establish the Moldavian Autonomous Oblast on the lands to the east of the Dniester River in the Ukrainian SSR. The capital of the oblast was Balta, situated in present-day Ukraine. Seven months later, the oblast was upgraded to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian ASSR or MASSR), even though its population was only 30% ethnic Romanian. The capital remained at Balta until 1929, when it was moved to Tiraspol. In", "title": "History of Moldova" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.28, "text": "a legal part of the Republic of Moldova. Only the partially recognised states of South Ossetia, Artsakh, and Abkhazia have recognised Transnistria as a sovereign entity after it declared independence from Moldova in 1990 with Tiraspol as its declared capital. Between 1929 and 1940, Tiraspol functioned as the capital of the Moldavian ASSR, an autonomous republic which existed from 1924 to 1940 within the Ukrainian SSR . Although exercising no direct control over the territory of Transnistria, the Moldovan government passed the \"\"Law on Basic Provisions of the Special Legal Status of Localities from the Left Bank of the Dniester\"\"", "title": "Transnistria" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.19, "text": "Bălți Bălți (; , , , , , , ) is a city in Moldova. It is the second largest city in terms of population, area and economic importance, after Chișinău. The city is one of the five Moldovan municipalities. Sometimes also called \"\"the northern capital\"\", it is a major industrial, cultural and commercial centre and transportation hub in the north of the country. It is situated north of the capital Chișinău, and is located on the river Răut, a tributary of the Dniester, on a hilly landscape in the Bălți steppe. The word \"\"\"\"bălți\"\"\"\" (pl. of Romanian sing. \"\"\"\"baltă\"\"\"\")", "title": "Bălți" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.14, "text": "Rezina Rezina is a city in Moldova and the capital of Rezina District. Three villages are administered by the city: Boşerniţa, Ciorna and Stohnaia. In the northeastern part of Moldova, as far as 98 km from Chişinău, the town of Rezina is situated on three successive terraces formed by the picturesque right bank of the Dniester. The lowest terrace (along the Dniester) houses the older town, the second one (on the hill slope) contains buildings constructed in the 1950-60s, while the upper terrace is the seat of the new town constructed in the 1970-90s. The town is 3 km from", "title": "Rezina" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.11, "text": "Moldova. After the Soviet occupation of the two territories in 1940, potential reunification claims were offset by the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. At the establishment of the Moldaivan ASSR, Chișinău was named its capital, a role which it continued to play after the formation of the Moldavian SSR in 1940. The recognition of Moldovans as a separate ethnicity, distinct from Romanians, remains today a controversial subject. On one side, the Moldovan Parliament adopted in 2003 \"\"The Concept on National Policy of the Republic of Moldova\"\", which states that Moldovans and Romanians are two distinct peoples and speak two different languages,", "title": "Ethnogenesis" } ]