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Following the city’s re-establishment as Norway’s capital in 1814, Christiania grew substantially, particularly during world war years. During this time, the waterfront was expanded to...Read more

Initially occupied by indigenous Indian empires and later by Portuguese colonial powers, the Seven Islands of Bombay were gifted to England as part of a...Read more

Immediately south of Copenhagen, Kalvebod comprises much of the western half of Amager island. An area of reclaimed seabed, Kalvebod was originally dammed and drained...Read more

A port since the 5th century AD, Jakarta was claimed as a colony of the Dutch between 1610 and 1942, a period in which the...Read more

Formerly surrounded by water on all sides, Victoria Island, Lagos state’s financial centre and most expensive residen- tial district, became merged with the Lekki Peninsula...Read more

The Netherlands has a long and well documented history of land reclamation projects dating back to the Middle Ages. Farmers in the 11th century settled...Read more

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Amsterdam emerged as a major centre of international trade and the seat of a pow- erful new merchant class...Read more

Formerly located outside of the city of London, the town of North Woolwich once existed in low lying marshlands along the Thames River. Following 1844...Read more

Formerly an open expanse of Biscayne Bay, the stretch of water between mainland Miami and Miami Beach was linked in 1913 by a 4 km...Read more

Originally one of the most productive wetlands of the Great Lakes, the marshes at the mouth of the Don River were rap- idly degraded by...Read more