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Golden City or The Golden City could refer to:


Places

Colloquial names
  • Troy, also known as the "gilded city", best known for being the focus of the Trojan War
  • Chrysopolis, an ancient Greek city, the name of which means literally Golden City in Greek. Nowadays, Üsküdar part of Istanbul
  • Prague, the capital of Czech Republic, commonly referred to as Zlatá Praha (Golden Prague in Czech)
  • Ballarat and Bendigo two cities in Victoria, Australia are both nicknamed "Golden City" due to the wealth of their gold production during the Victorian Gold rush
  • Jerusalem is often referred to as the city of gold, particularly in song.
  • Mainz, the German city at the banks of the River Rhine, earned its name of Golden Mainz during its peak of power in the Middle Ages
Fictional places

Other

See also