Ljubljana

City · c. 1992 CE · in Europe

Capital of Republic of Slovenia (1992–today).

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• Auschwitz concentration camp (1940–1945 CE): The largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, built in occupied Poland. About 1.1 million people, the great majority of them Jews, were murdered there before its liberation in January 1945.
• D-Day (Normandy landings) (1944 CE): On 6 June 1944 Allied forces landed on five beaches in Normandy, the largest seaborne invasion in history. It opened the Western Front and led to the liberation of France.
• Cold War (1947–1991 CE): The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies, fought through an arms race, proxy wars and the space race rather than direct war. Divided Berlin was its emblem; it ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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