Rome
Rome, Italy
Rome
9th - 6th century BC in India: Jain teaching abolishes it.1102 Trade in slaves and serfdom ruled illegal in London.However, it was France as a country that first outlawed slavery when in1315 Louis X, king of France, published a decree proclaiming that "France" signified freedom and that any slave setting foot on the French ground should be freed.
Naples, Italy, in September, 1943. But when speaking of WWII many people refer to the "European mainland" af is Italy were not a part of it, and as though the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944 marked the appearance of Allied and American forces in "mainland Europe". Paris was captured around August 25, 1944. Before Paris a number of smaller French cities were liberated, and a great many towns, and hundreds of villages. Rome had been captured on June 4, 1944, but that tremendous news, of the first of the Axis capitals to fall, was the top headline for exactly one day, and was then overshadowed by the landings in Normandy June 6.
Rome
Rome, Italy
Rome was the first European Capital in the Italian campaign and Paris was the first Capital freed in the Normandy Invasion Campaign. I don't think the Germans ever managed to really get Moscow.
Rome
Rome, ItalyIt was the first Axis capital occupied by the Allies, but Italy had already surrendered in September, 1943, and the Germans had taken over.
Rome, Italy was the first capital city liberated by the Allies in World War II. Italy was originally on the Nazi side, but they surrendered on 8 Sept 1943 and the Germans took over control of Italy. Rome was liberated by the Allies on 4 June 1944. So Rome was technically the last capital to become occupied, and the first to be freed. It would have been the first Axis capital to fall to the Allies, except that the majority of Italian forces had by then changed allegiances and were fighting for the Allies.
France was freed from Nazi Control in July 1944.
Monrovia, Liberia.
the Netherlands was the last country to be freed on May 5th 1945.
In 1480 Ivan III freed Russia from Tartar control and proclaimed Moscow capital. 1703 Peter the Great came to power and moved the capital to St Petersberg. Moscow remained the first capital and Tsars continued to be crowned there. 1917 marked the begining of the end for the Russian Monarchy, when Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed during the Bolshevic Revolution. 1922 Moscow becomes the capital of the newly created U.S.S.R[United Soviet Socialist Repulic].
When Otto I freed the Pope from the control of the Romans, he was named Holy Roman Emperor.
pope Gregory VII