Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Noun
S: (n) Athens, Athinai, capital of Greece, Greek capital (the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)) "in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city"
S: (n) Anzio (a town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Allies established a beachhead at Anzio in World War II)
S: (n) Tivoli, Tibur (a town twenty miles to the east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name); a summer resort during the Roman empire; noted for its waterfalls)
S: (n) Agrigento, Acragas (a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples)
S: (n) Nanaimo (a town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island to the west of Vancouver)
S: (n) Churchill (a Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain)
S: (n) Yellowknife (a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake)
S: (n) Kingston (a town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River)
S: (n) Sunderland (a port and industrial city in northeastern England)
S: (n) Hastings (a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place)
S: (n) Canterbury (a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church)
S: (n) Naseby (a village in western Northamptonshire)
S: (n) Bangor (a town in southeastern Northern Ireland)
S: (n) Tara (a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century)
S: (n) Avignon (a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River; the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism)
S: (n) Calais (a town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands until it was recaptured by the French king Henry II in 1558)
S: (n) Chablis (a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines)
S: (n) Chartres (a town in northern France that is noted for its Gothic Cathedral)
S: (n) Cherbourg (a port town in northwestern France on the English Channel; site of a naval base)
S: (n) Dunkirk, Dunkerque (a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II)
S: (n) Valenciennes (a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industry)
S: (n) Vichy (a town in central France (south of Paris) noted for hot mineral springs; was capital of the unoccupied part of France during World War II)
S: (n) Vienne (a town in south central France where is 1311-1313 the Roman Catholic Church held one of its councils)
S: (n) Thule (a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there)
S: (n) Monte Carlo (a town and popular resort in the principality of Monaco; famous for its gambling casino)
S: (n) Cuzco, Cusco (a town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire)
S: (n) Dhahran (an oil town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the Persian Gulf; in June 1996 terrorists bombed an apartment complex in Dhahran killing 19 United States soldiers and wounding more than 300 people)
S: (n) Lubavitch (a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century)
S: (n) Interlaken (a popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland)
S: (n) Abydos (an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander)
S: (n) Antioch, Antakya, Antakiya (a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity)
S: (n) Chalcedon, Kadikoy (a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon)
S: (n) Entebbe (a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers))
S: (n) Decatur (a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River)
S: (n) Gadsden (an industrial town in north central Alabama)
S: (n) Selma (a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters)
S: (n) Nome (a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century)
S: (n) Sitka (a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906)
S: (n) Skagway (a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush)
S: (n) Flagstaff (a town in north central Arizona; site of an important observatory)
S: (n) Nogales (a town in Arizona on the Mexican border opposite Nogales, Mexico)
S: (n) Vicksburg (a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves)
S: (n) Saint Joseph, St. Joseph (a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express)
S: (n) Harpers Ferry, Harper's Ferry (a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there)
S: (n) municipality (an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government)
S: (n) city, metropolis, urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts) "Ancient Troy was a great city"
S: (n) town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city) "they drive through town on their way to work"