Mystery City: Europe

[Yellowlab 11]

                              Mystery City:  Europe

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Introduction
        Welcome to Mystery City:  Europe, the successor to The_Dalai_Llama's Mystery City:  World games.  For more World cities, please visit Mystery City:  World.  Mystery City:  Europe will focus only on European cities and those visible on the map, which can be viewed above.

Rules and Tips
The rules of Mystery City:  Europe are as follows:
1.  My say is final; feel free to PM me if there is a disputed call.
2.  Only 2 guesses per post.
3.  You may guess again any time I post.  Otherwise, a 12-hour post rule is in effect.
4.  Guessing may consist of a city or country or both.  A wrong city in a guess does not negate a correct country, but a wrong country does negate a correct city.  You do not need to state the country once it has been confirmed.
5.  No city requests, please.

Point Scale
The point scale in Mystery City:  Europe is as follows:

Easy  <>  Country:  1 point  <>  City:  4 points  <> <>  Examples:  Barcelona, Vienna, Hamburg

Medium  <>  Country:  2 points  <>  City:  8 points  <>  Examples:  Rouen, Split, Taranto

Difficult  <>  Country:  4 points  <>  City:  16 points    <>  Examples:  Albi, Kielce, Emmen

Mystery Cities
1.  Klaipeda, Lithuania <> raindog ( 10 )
2.  La Coru

[Yellowlab 11]

Let's get started with:

 

Mystery City 1:

 

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Where am I?

[Superstar 69]

Greece or Italy?

[raindog 4]

According to your rule #10 I went to the local police and they said I should just give it a go.

Klaipeda in Lithuania (well, I never heard of it before either)

[orishavit 1]

Turkey? Cyprus?

[K_m_H 0]

hmm.. reminds me of Gothenburg, Sweden but i think it's wrong because there are some things that are not right about the city in the pic

[burwellian 16]

The Hague or Rotterdam in The Netherlands

(It's flat and a port...)

[simwario 95]

The Netherlands or Norway?

[erka 0]

I'll guess Kaliningrad, Russia or Liepaja, Latvia

[Yellowlab 11]

Congratulations, raindog.  Mystery City #1 is Klaipeda, Lithuania.  Let's find out more!

 

Klaipeda (formerly called Memel) is a city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.  The city is a shipping and fishing center.  Klaipeda was founded in the 600s and destroyed in 1252 by the Teutons, who built a fortress there called Memelburg.  In 1629 the city was captured by the Swedish; they were forced out in 1635 by the Prussians, who controlled the city until 1919.  In 1923 Memel was passed to Lithuania and renamed Klaipeda.  Today the city is home to around 300,000 people.

 

Scoring

raindog <> +10

 

That brings us to

 

Mystery City 2

 

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Where am I?

[raindog 4]

Well, let me say that it was a lucky guess (or lucky google).
I hope I can continue my lucky streak, so here comes:

This second city is perhaps Kiew in Russia Ukraine.

[K_m_H 0]

Is it in Bulgaria

[simwario 95]

Dnipropetrowsk, Ukraine or Plock, Poland?

[burwellian 16]

Marseille, France or Riga (Latvia?)

[erka 0]

Odessa or Sevastopol, Ukraine

[raindog 4]

Maybe you are in Vienna, Austria?

[Yellowlab 11]

I will say this:

 

Clue 1

Nobody has guessed the right country as of this post.

 

A note:  I will be out of town until Saturday, July 24.  So guess away!

[simwario 95]

Maybe in Budapest, Hungary?

[spetan 2]

Can it be Barcelona, Spain?

[mies 0]

La Coru

[axelvan 0]

Greece or Italy?

[hello_SC4 1]

Biarritz, France, or maybe Malaga, Spain?

[Yellowlab 11]

 

Congratulations, spetan.  Right country; the city is in Spain.  Congratulations, mies.  Mystery City #3 is La Coru

[erka 0]

Izmir, Turkey (Although this city geographically belongs to Asia)

[Yellowlab 11]

Congratulations, erka.  Right country, right city - Mystery City #3 is Izmir, Turkey.

 

Izmir, formerly Smyrna, is a city on the western coast of Turkey on the Aegean Sea.  The city is over five thousand years old.  Izmir was once the capital of the region of Ionia in the 7th century BCE and was a key city in the Persian Empire later on.  The city is the birthplace of the poet Homer.  Herodotus, a famous historian, holds that the city was founded by the Aeolians but later captured by the Ionians.  For thousands of years Izmir was one of the Mediterranean's most important cities, up until 1922 when most of the city was destroyed in a massive fire.  Izmir never fully recovered.  The city was also one of the world's most cosmopolitan, but the Turk-Greek war of 1919-1922 and harsh taxation on certain ethnic groups in the 1940s has harmed this.  Today, Izmir is Turkey's third-largest city, after Istanbul and Ankara, and encloses famous names such as Ephesus and Permagon in its borders.

 

Note:  Any city in a country that is at least partially in Europe is viable.  This game might even have Vladivostok as an MC.

 

Scoring

erka <> +10

 

Leaving Izmir, we're now headed for...

 

Mystery City 4

 

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Where am I?

[raindog 4]

seems they drive on the wrong side of the road here, so I guess the UK, with Ireland as a close second.

Vladivostok and cities in Europe. Hmmmm. That don't compute for me.

[erka 0]

No idea, so let's guess Nottingham

Vladivostok in Europe.. that really makes no sense. But well, who cares, it's just a game!

[simwario 95]

I say it's Birmingham, England

[hello_SC4 1]

umm.. maybe Belfast, Northern Ireland or Cork, Ireland?

[Fairlane500 8]

I dunno, they look like they could be one-way streets to me, so I will guess Mechelen (Malines), Belgium or Roosendaal, Netherlands.