Which is the only city that is located on two continents at the same time? It is Istanbul, The largest city of Turkey, in the northwest part of the country. Founded c. 660 B.C. as Byzantium, it was renamed Constantinople in A.D. 330 by Constantine the Great, who made it the capital of the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire. It is one more the most popular and attractive cities in Turkey. But it is... 

You thought it was somewhere in Europe, didn’t you? Maybe, you’re right. But not only there. On each continent there’s a city called Rome (or Roma). Here they are: Europe – Roma, Italy (Roma is Rome in Italian)(also, Sweden and Romania) North America – Roma, Texas South America – Roma, Ecuador Australia – Roma, Queensland Asia – Roma, an island in Indonesia Africa... 

Not as we know them today. Many scientists figure Earth began as one huge continent – dry as a bone. Water was delivered in comets, the thinking goes, and the oceans developed. Much more recently, all the world’s landmasses were huddled into one supercontinent called Pangaea. It began to break up about 225 million years ago, eventually fragmenting into the continents as we know them today.  Read More →