Pristina

City · c. 2008 CE · in Europe

Capital of Kosovo (2008–today).

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• Ngerulmud (2006 CE): Capital of Palau (2006–today).
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• Koror (c. 1996 CE): Capital of Palau (1996–2006).
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• Ljubljana (c. 1992 CE): Capital of Republic of Slovenia (1992–today).
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Around the same time and place

• 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.
• Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989 CE): On 9 November 1989 East Germany opened its border crossings, and crowds began tearing down the Berlin Wall. It symbolised the end of the Cold War.
• World Wide Web opens to the public (1991 CE): Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, developed at CERN, was made publicly available on the internet in 1991; CERN placed the software in the public domain in 1993, and the web spread rapidly worldwide.
• Arab Spring (2010–2012 CE): A wave of protests and uprisings that spread from Tunisia across the Arab world, toppling rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and leading to civil wars in Syria and Libya.
• Construction of the Berlin Wall (1961 CE): East Germany sealed off West Berlin with barbed wire and then a concrete wall from 13 August 1961 to stop emigration to the West. The wall became the symbol of the Cold War.
• Chernobyl disaster (1986 CE): A reactor explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine in April 1986 spread radioactive contamination across Europe. It is the worst nuclear accident in history.
• World Wide Web (1989 CE): Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web at CERN near Geneva in 1989 and built the first web server and browser in 1990.
• Yugoslav Wars (1991–2001 CE): A series of ethnic conflicts and wars of independence during the breakup of Yugoslavia, in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and North Macedonia, that killed about 130,000 people.

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