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Jalalabad
a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul)
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Batna
a town in north central Algeria
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Djanet
a desert town in southeastern Algeria
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Hippo Regius
an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
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Reggane
a town in central Algeria
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Timgad
an ancient town founded by the Romans; noted for extensive and well-preserved ruins
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Timimoun
a town in central Algeria in the Atlas Mountains
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Nogales
a town in northern Mexico on the border of Arizona
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Santa Maria del Tule
a town in southeastern Mexico near Oaxaca; site of Ahuehuete, a giant Montezuma cypress
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Pilsen
a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated
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Austerlitz
a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805
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Viborg
a town of Denmark in north central Jutland
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Hamelin
a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper
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Hohenlinden
a town in Bavaria (near Munich)
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Massawa
a port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea
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Maarianhamina
a town that is the chief port of the Aland islands
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Cnossos
an ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC
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Actium
an ancient town on a promontory in western Greece
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Plataea
a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC
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Stagirus
an ancient town of Greece where Aristotle was born
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Accho
a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
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Nazareth
a historic town in northern Israel that is mentioned in the Gospels as the home of Joseph and Mary
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Bethlehem Ephrathah
a small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River; early home of David and regarded as the place where Jesus was born
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Anzio
a town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Allies established a beachhead at Anzio in World War II
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Tivoli
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
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Agrigento
a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples
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Nanaimo
a town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island to the west of Vancouver
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Churchill
a Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain
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Yellowknife
a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake
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Kingston
a town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River
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Sault Sainte Marie
a town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan
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Dawson
a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike
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Wagga Wagga
a town on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales; agricultural trading center
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Wagram
a town in northeastern Austria
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Aalst
a town in central Belgium
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Waterloo
a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat
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Bath
a town in southwestern England on the River Avon; famous for its hot springs and Roman remains
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Blackpool
a resort town in Lancashire in northwestern England on the Irish Sea; famous for its tower
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Stratford-upon-Avon
a town in central England on the River Avon; birthplace (and burial place) of William Shakespeare
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Sunderland
a port and industrial city in northeastern England
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Hastings
a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place
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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
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Naseby
a village in western Northamptonshire
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Bangor
a town in southeastern Northern Ireland
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Tara
a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century
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Ayr
a port in southwestern Scotland
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Aberdare
a mining town in southern Wales
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Bangor
a university town in northwestern Wales on the Menai Strait
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Nag Hammadi
a town in Upper Egypt
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Saqqarah
a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids
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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
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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
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Chablis
a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines
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Chartres
a town in northern France that is noted for its Gothic Cathedral
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Cherbourg
a port town in northwestern France on the English Channel; site of a naval base
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Dunkerque
a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II
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Valenciennes
a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industry
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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
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Vienne
a town in south central France where is 1311-1313 the Roman Catholic Church held one of its councils
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Thule
a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there
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Monte Carlo
a town and popular resort in the principality of Monaco; famous for its gambling casino
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El Aaium
a town in Morocco near the Atlantic coast
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Cusco
a town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire
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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
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Lubavitch
a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century
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Interlaken
a popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland
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Abydos
an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander
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Antakiya
a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity
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Chalcedon
a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon
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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)
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Decatur
a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River
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Gadsden
an industrial town in north central Alabama
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Selma
a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters
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Tuscaloosa
a university town in west central Alabama
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Tuskegee
a town in eastern Alabama
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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
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Sitka
a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906
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Skagway
a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush
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Flagstaff
a town in north central Arizona; site of an important observatory
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Nogales
a town in Arizona on the Mexican border opposite Nogales, Mexico
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Prescott
a town in central Arizona
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Yuma
a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border
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Fayetteville
a university town in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozarks
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Fort Smith
a town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border
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Hot Springs
a town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springs
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Jonesboro
a town in northeast Arkansas
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Pine Bluff
a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River
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Texarkana
a town in southwest Arkansas on the Texas border adjacent to Texarkana, Texas
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Barstow
a town in southeastern California
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Eureka
a town in northwest California on an arm of the Pacific Ocean
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Monterey
a town in western California to the south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay
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Palo Alto
a university town in California
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Redding
a town in north central California on the Sacramento River
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San Mateo
a town in California to the south of San Francisco
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San Pablo
a town in western California to the north of Oakland on an arm of San Francisco Bay
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Santa Barbara
a town in southwestern California on the Pacific Ocean
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Santa Cruz
a town in western California on Monterey Bay; a tourist center
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Boulder
a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town
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Farmington
a residential town in central Connecticut
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New London
a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century
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Daytona Beach
a resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast; hard white beaches have been used for automobile speed trials
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Fort Myers
a town in southwest Florida
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Gainesville
a university town in north central Florida
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Key West
a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico
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Melbourne
a resort town in east central Florida
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Palm Beach
a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast
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Panama City
a resort and fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida
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Pensacola
a town in extreme northwest Florida
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Sarasota
a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico
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West Palm Beach
a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach; founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach
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Albany
a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans
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Athens
a university town in northeast Georgia
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Brunswick
a town in southeast Georgia near the Atlantic coast; a port of entry
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Oxford
a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner
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Valdosta
a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border
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Vidalia
a town in central Georgia; the origin of Vidalia onions
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Hilo
a town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii
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Coeur d'Alene
a town in the northern panhandle of Idaho; popular resort area
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Idaho Falls
a town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River
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Lewiston
a town in northwestern Idaho
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Nampa
a town in southwestern Idaho
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Pocatello
a university town in southeastern Idaho
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Sun Valley
a winter sports resort in south central Idaho
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Twin Falls
a town on the Snake River in south central Idaho near the Twin Falls
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Cairo
a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
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Carbondale
a town in southern Illinois
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Champaign
a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
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East Saint Louis
a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis
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Moline
a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River
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Rock Island
a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War
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Urbana
a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign
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Bloomington
a university town in south central Indiana
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Lafayette
a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River
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Muncie
a town in east central Indiana
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Council Bluffs
a town in southwest Iowa on the Missouri River across from Omaha
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Clinton
a town in east central Iowa
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Dubuque
a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River
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Mason City
a town in north central Iowa
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Ottumwa
a town in southeast Iowa
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Dodge City
a town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River; formerly a rowdy cow town
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Abilene
a town in central Kansas to the west of Topeka; home of Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Hays
a town in central Kansas
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Lawrence
a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
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Salina
a town in central Kansas
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Bowling Green
a town in southern Kentucky
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Owensboro
a town in northwestern Kentucky on the Ohio River; a tobacco market
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Paducah
a town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River
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Alexandria
a town in Louisiana on the Red River
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Lafayette
a town in south central Louisiana; settled by Acadians
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Monroe
a town in north central Louisiana
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Morgan City
a town in southeast Louisiana to the south of Baton Rouge
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Bangor
a town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River
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Brunswick
a university town in southwestern Maine
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Lewiston
a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland
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Orono
a university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor
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Aberdeen
a town in northeastern Maryland
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Frederick
a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore
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Hagerstown
a town in northern Maryland
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Concord
town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
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Gloucester
a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries
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Lexington
town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
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Medford
town in northeastern Massachusetts; residential suburb of Boston
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Pittsfield
a town in western Massachusetts
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Plymouth
a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620
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Williamstown
a town in northwestern Massachusetts
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Alpena
a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron
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Houghton
a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula
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Jackson
a town in south central Michigan
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Kalamazoo
a town in southwest Michigan
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Marquette
a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan
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Monroe
a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie
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Saginaw
a town in east central Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron
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Traverse City
a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan
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Bemidji
a town in northern Minnesota
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Hibbing
a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range
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Mankato
a town in southern Minnesota
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Rochester
a town in southeast Minnesota
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Saint Cloud
a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries
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Virginia
a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range
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Biloxi
an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico
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Columbus
a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama
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Greenville
a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg
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Hattiesburg
a town in southeast Mississippi
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Meridian
a town in eastern Mississippi
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Natchez
a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River
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Tupelo
a town in northeast Mississippi
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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
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Cape Girardeau
a town in southeast Missouri
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Columbia
a university town in central Missouri
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Hannibal
a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain
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Poplar Bluff
a town in southeast Missouri
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Saint Joseph
a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express
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Sedalia
a town in east central Missouri
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Bozeman
a town in southwestern Montana; gateway to Yellowstone National Park
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Butte
a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
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Great Falls
a town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power
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Missoula
a university town in western Montana
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Grand Island
a town in south central Nebraska
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North Platte
a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River
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Portsmouth
a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean
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Morristown
a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters
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New Brunswick
a university town in central New Jersey
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Princeton
a university town in central New Jersey
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Carlsbad
a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits
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Farmington
a town in northwestern New Mexico
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Gallup
a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border
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Las Cruces
a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande
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Los Alamos
a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced
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Roswell
a town in southeast New Mexico
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Silver City
a town in southwestern New Mexico
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Taos
an artist colony in northern New Mexico
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Cooperstown
a small town in east central New York; site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
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Ithaca
a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga
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Elmont
a town on Long Island in New York; site of Belmont Park
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Kingston
a town on the Hudson River in New York
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Newburgh
a town on the Hudson River in New York; in 1782 and 1783 it was George Washington's headquarters
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Saratoga Springs
a town in eastern New York State famed for its spa and its horse racing
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Watertown
a town in northern New York
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Asheville
a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte
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Chapel Hill
a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina
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Fayetteville
a town in south central North Carolina
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Goldsboro
a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina
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Wilmington
a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River
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Athens
a town in southeast Ohio
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Mansfield
a town in north central Ohio
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Bartlesville
a town in northeastern Oklahoma
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Enid
a town in north central Oklahoma
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Lawton
a town in southwest Oklahoma
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McAlester
a town in southeastern Oklahoma
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Muskogee
a town in eastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas River
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Bend
a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range
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Klamath Falls
a town in southern Oregon near the California border
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Medford
a town in southwestern Oregon; a summer resort
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Altoona
a town in central Pennsylvania
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Bethlehem
a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production
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Gettysburg
a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
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Hershey
an industrial town to the east of Harrisburg
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Florence
a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center
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Greenville
a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont
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Aberdeen
a town in northeastern South Dakota
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Rapid City
a town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills
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Columbia
a town in west central Tennessee
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Jackson
a town in western Tennessee
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Johnson City
a town in northeastern Tennessee
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Bryan
a town of east central Texas
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Del Rio
a town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande to the west of San Antonio
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Galveston
a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island
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Lufkin
a town in eastern Texas
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McAllen
a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande
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Midland
a town in west central Texas
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Paris
a town in northeastern Texas
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San Angelo
a town in west central Texas; formerly a notorious frontier town
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Sherman
a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border
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Texarkana
a town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas
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Tyler
a town in northeast Texas
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Victoria
a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio
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Ogden
a town in northern Utah settled by Mormons
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Bennington
a town in southwestern Vermont
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Brattleboro
a town in southeastern Vermont on the Connecticut River
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Rutland
a town in central Vermont
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Blacksburg
a university town in southwestern Virginia (west of Roanoke) in the Allegheny Mountains
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Fredericksburg
a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River
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Petersburg
a town in southeastern Virginia (south of Richmond); scene of heavy fighting during the American Civil War
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Aberdeen
a town in western Washington
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Bellingham
a town in northwestern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border
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Kennewick
a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River
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Vancouver
a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon
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Walla Walla
a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border
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Yakima
a town in south central Washington
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Fayetteville
a town in central West Virginia on the New River
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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
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Appleton
a town in eastern Wisconsin
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Eau Claire
a town in west central Wisconsin
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La Crosse
a town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River
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Superior
a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth
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Watertown
a town in southeastern Wisconsin
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Wausau
a town in north central Wisconsin
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Jackson
a town in western Wyoming
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Lander
a town in central Wyoming
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Laramie
a university town in southeast Wyoming
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Rock Springs
a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border