Who ruled it?
Every city has many masters
Pick a city to see every state, empire and people that held it, traced through each of our historical maps.
220 cities
A
- Aachen16 rulers
- Accra10 rulers
- Addis Ababa9 rulers
- Aksum9 rulers
- Aleppo23 rulers
- Alexandria14 rulers
- Algiers22 rulers
- Almaty14 rulers
- Amarna14 rulers
- Amsterdam13 rulers
- Anchorage10 rulers
- Ankara17 rulers
- Antakya23 rulers
- Antananarivo9 rulers
- Anuradhapura11 rulers
- Anyang18 rulers
- Assur20 rulers
- Athens14 rulers
- Auckland6 rulers
- Ayutthaya11 rulers
B
- Babylon21 rulers
- Baghdad20 rulers
- Baku20 rulers
- Balkh18 rulers
- Bangkok12 rulers
- Barcelona17 rulers
- Beijing19 rulers
- Beirut23 rulers
- Belgrade14 rulers
- Berlin15 rulers
- Bogotá6 rulers
- Boston9 rulers
- Bratislava17 rulers
- Brussels16 rulers
- Bucharest12 rulers
- Budapest14 rulers
- Buenos Aires6 rulers
- Bukhara22 rulers
- Byblos23 rulers
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G
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I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
- Saint Petersburg14 rulers
- Salvador7 rulers
- Samarkand22 rulers
- San Antonio8 rulers
- San Francisco9 rulers
- Santiago6 rulers
- Sarajevo19 rulers
- Seoul14 rulers
- Seville20 rulers
- Shanghai18 rulers
- Sidon23 rulers
- Singapore10 rulers
- Skopje16 rulers
- Sofia15 rulers
- Sparta13 rulers
- Stockholm9 rulers
- Strasbourg14 rulers
- Susa21 rulers
- Sydney6 rulers
- Syracuse19 rulers